Cuttin' up stuff

The best thing about Halloween: carving jack-o-lanterns. There's a great potential for creativity. I've seen great works of art reproduced on pumpkins. A couple years ago my sister carved the face of Amédée-David, the Marquis de Pastoret, as painted by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. I, however, favor a more classic jack-o-lantern style:



The actual day of Halloween, however, can disappoint. This year, after carving five pumkpins, putting out decorations, and waiting with a big bowl of candy and popcorn balls, our house got one trick-or-treater. So it went out without a bang.

Luckily we have some other holidays left on the calendar. Snowflakes might be premature, but making them out of paper is my other favorite activity involving putting holes in things: