As every year I give myself the license to carve a Halloween Jack O’Lantern pumpkin and sneak it in among the DIY videos. Here in Galicia this is a holiday that seems to be recovered, but we call it Samaín. In addition to entertaining us for a while, it is worth carving one of these lanterns as a Halloween decoration. Making one Jack O’Lantern can be more or less complicated, but anything we can make with the pumpkin will always look great with a candle in the inside and will decorate the garden or terrace at night for a few days.
This year I didn’t get so complicated and used some old objects I found in the workshop to decorate the pumpkin: a large plumbing nut and a plastic one from a washing machine to make the eyes of Jack, a spark plug as a nose and the remains of the rusty nails from the last pallet I dismantled as teeth.
You can see that with very little work a Halloween pumpkin becomes a Jack O’Lantern that always look great. And to finish the decoration I put it inside a very ugly cage for Halloween decoration that I made in a previous post. The pumpkin looks a bit small inside the cage, though, so I made a simple swing for it with an old board cutout and a few pieces of wire.
As you can see in the pictures and as you will see in the video, I have two Halloween pumpkins, and one of them has just the holes in the face of Jack. Those holes match the decorative pieces I put on the other Halloween pumpkin, as I didn’t realize I had the camera fogged up during the video shoot. So, I had to record a new video carving the Jack O’Lantern pumpkin, and that is why I had to take all the decorations off the rounder pumpkin and put it to the other one.