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[moominmolly]

N: "Mommy's pumpkin has a YEEF on it!"

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[amare]

Shoeses!

[moominmolly]

I am totally anxiously awaiting "feets".

[moominmolly]

:) Thank you! I'd never tried that pumpkin-shading thing before. It's pretty fun! The leaf was anotherjen's idea, and I'm really happy with it.

[gravitrue]

how did you do that?

[moominmolly]

Well, anotherjen gave me the idea of tracing a leaf, and her dad had woodworking tools which made planing off a layer of pumpkin rind pretty easy. It definitely helped that I had sliced the outline with a sharp knife, which made my outlines clean.

[moominmolly]

Hmm. The rind on this pumpkin was maybe, say, an inch thick? And I took off about a quarter of an inch for the bulk of the leaf. The big veins are cut all the way through, and the smaller ones are sliced through about 3/4 of the way. I could have taken away a lot more and had a brighter leaf, that's for sure, but I was cautious about it breaking from all the veins I wanted to put in, and this definitely seemed to be enough.

Also, and this is a little gross, I put baby oil on the cut surface to keep it from getting brown.

[cuthalion]

That's a pretty fantastic leaf! Great job!

[moominmolly]

High pumpkin praise, from you!

[moominmolly]

Thank you! And, naw, I traced it, and I even copied the original leaf's veins.