Marthalloween
Earlier this year Martha Stewart's boyfriend went into space, and Martha went to Kazakhstan to send him off (with some duck breast confit. Seriously). People magazine ran photos from the trip and among these was one of Martha, standing in front of the launch pad, wearing a fur hat-- the very portrait of mind-blowing charisma, self assurance, and joie de vivre. And I ripped out the page, promptly made it into my laptop wallpaper, and filed it away in an Ikea faux-leather box for later use.
Initially I thought I was going to carve one of the pumpkin ideas from Martha's magazine, but then on Friday I said to myself, "No. I'm going to carve Martha." Hat included. Which I did. Right now Martha is having viewers submit their pumpkins to her message board; on the past few shows she's been showing some of her favorites. I just uploaded my carving to her website, and if she were to make me one of her favorites, I think I would have to change the answer I just gave for "your biggest accomplishment since high school" on my reunion questionnaire.
The pumpkin in the daytime:
The pumpkin at night (turns out I am not very skilled at digital photography in the dark):
The inspiration:
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Posted by: kim | October 14, 2007 at 09:19 PM
Genius!
Posted by: scott Tepper | October 14, 2007 at 10:00 PM
How can she not love it?
Posted by: Gwenda | October 15, 2007 at 11:17 AM
Damn if you haven't been wasting your talents, lady.
Making words work together all nice like? Forget that. You've got a knack with a knife.
Posted by: Joey | October 16, 2007 at 01:26 AM
omg how awesome is this!!!1!!
Posted by: anon | October 21, 2007 at 07:49 PM
That's the coolest thing I've ever seen on a pumpkin.
Posted by: liz | October 25, 2007 at 04:41 PM
This pumpkin is made of awesome, I am so impressed. Last year I tried to do a carving of Jack Bauer's head, but I totally failed. I hope Martha features your pumpkin!
Posted by: Beth | October 26, 2007 at 10:00 AM