Hi
I can't wait to see your masks when they are done! Post piccies! I have nearly finished my hats....luckily the weather here has been unseasonally warm the last week or so and I have managed to get them dry quite quickly by leaving them in the sun! Only the pumpkins left to finish now.
I don't normally have a problem getting hold of real pumpkins. They do sell them in our supermarkets although they are normally quite expensive considering the size of them (normally quite tiny!) but my Mums best friends Husband works at a local farm and every year he manages to get us some really huge ones (Cinderella Pumkin size) for a very reasonable cost. It is also easier getting them from the farm as you can drive the car straight there and load them straight into the boot/trunk! Last year we had 25 of them and what made them really unusual was, we had particualry bad weather in the months leading up to Halloween, and they did not ripen as they should have, so they were a mixture of green and orange. The farmer said that he was having trouble selling the odd coloured ones so we could have as many as we wanted. We had such fun carving them! I have a couple of pictures somewhere...I will post them on here so you can see. After our party, a local childrens home where my Brother in Law works had them for their party too....so they really were worth all the effort. Loads of people got to enjoy them!
