I finished them! Here is one of the crochet fingerless mitts I was working on. I tried to take a picture of both of them on, but my blue rope bracelet on my left arm didn't let the crochet go over it, so it looked odd and like it was trying to come off of my hand.
I told you before about how my mom got a bunch of pumpkins for free. Here is a small gallery of the decorative ones she found and I fell in love with. I know they won't last forever, so if I share them here, we can enjoy them forever.
I got lots of odd looks from the guys working on the neighbor's house while doing this. I'm okay with that. I got an odd look from one of them before when I wanted to leave my house and asked them to move the toilet tanks they had sitting in the path of my driveway. I could live without the guy smoking on their front porch as much.
I didn't want there to be a ton of pictures, like when I did the Luray Caverns thing, so I played with
gif maker to condense things a little. I set them to change every seven seconds so you would have enough time to look at each one.
This is my favorite one. It looks like an elegant swan. Everything about it is awesome, the dark steam to the wide ridges.
I like this one because of all the fun colors. It is like someone was painting it and just dipped its little bottom in some green paint. They then added some white lines to make it more exciting, or even wiped away the paint to reveal the white below.
Watermelon pumpkin! Okay, so it is a watermelon gourde. It mixes both summer and fall.
The sun kept going in and out, so that is why most of these were so bright. I like this one because it looks like someone got bored when painting it. The bumps are also pretty cute on it.
The mini pumpkins are just super classic. There is only one picture of them, so that is why it isn't moving.
They look like every picture of pumpkins you see, but they are easy to lift and you can put them everywhere in the house. They are also nice to give a display or centerpiece a few different sizes and textures.
There is something about the white mini pumpkins. They have the nice shape of the orange small pumpkins, but more unique. There is something almost fake looking about them. This poor little guy had a moldy spot on his side, so I only got one good pic.
From the state of a few of these I feel like today is going to be filled with a lot of pumpkin roasting. Luckily I got a good tip on how to get it done:
First, I cut the big pumpkin in half, then baked them 1 at a time in a 375
degree oven for 25 to 35 minutes.
When the pumpkin cooled down a bit, it was easy to cut into big chunks and
placed into a baking sheet for 15 to 20 minutes in the oven preheated at 500
degrees. The skin almost just peeled off.
This also means I bunch of pumpkin seeds for me to snack on! I love those little guys.
I substituted white onion for the leek it called for since I needed it for something I am making later today. It also got a little foil hat because the top was starting to go bad and I didn't think it was a good idea to put it back on in the shape it was in.
Here is the end result. It took only about one and a half cups of broth to fill it. I baked it for about an hour and a half. It was soooooo good. The Parmesan at the end made it perfect.
I will be honest and will admit that I ate it before it was cool enough to not burn my mouth and I was really tempted to bake the other one on the spot.