How To Carve A Pumpkin

by Jeremy Schoemaker on October 25, 2008 · 94 comments

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{ 94 comments… read them below or add one }

1 River Girl October 25, 2008 at 11:52 pm

Juliet is adorable!

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2 shoemoney October 25, 2008 at 11:55 pm

thanks!

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3 Sam October 26, 2008 at 12:10 am

Good Stuff. Good Family Man!

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4 Find a Job Now! October 28, 2008 at 3:20 pm

Thanks for that. I was hosting a halloween party and needed to know this info. Cool

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5 Tushar Dhoot October 26, 2008 at 11:00 am

River Girl took the words right out of my mouth!

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6 BloggingBanks October 27, 2008 at 2:40 pm

Hahaha that’s funny!

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7 Stanley Tang October 26, 2008 at 7:16 am

“What shirt are you wearing?”

“Shoemoney”

“Nice plug”

LOL

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8 Moneybites October 27, 2008 at 7:13 am

Ha ha, yeah, exactly.. that’s funny..

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9 blackysky October 26, 2008 at 2:43 pm

that’s a priceless moment for any kids … she will be happy to review that in the next 10 years :)

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10 Ben Pei November 1, 2008 at 4:45 am

Yeah can’t agree more!

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11 Ganesh November 8, 2008 at 9:43 pm

Yeah. That was indeed a priceless moment! It was a very good family moment. :)

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12 Peter Davis October 26, 2008 at 12:02 am

Very cute!

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13 Verizon Ringtones October 27, 2008 at 12:13 am

Yes very cute. What a great dad you are Shoe

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14 Carlos Bermudez October 26, 2008 at 12:03 am

haha that’s awesome man.

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15 Patrick October 26, 2008 at 12:10 am

That is one of the coolest videos you’ve made. I like that part where you all in a sudden, just randomly ask her what shirt she is wearing…. and she says “Shoemoney”, haha. Very well done, man.

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16 Dick October 26, 2008 at 5:36 am

I agree, this is an excellent video. I liked it.

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17 VaBeachKevin October 26, 2008 at 12:12 am

Very cute video. Kudos on the Mahalo-esque title. Also the video is not working for me in FF or Chrome. Had to fire up IE to watch it.

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18 shoemoney October 26, 2008 at 12:14 am

works fine on firefox here never heard anyone complain before….

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19 Chetan October 26, 2008 at 12:33 am

FF version?
It loads perfectly here!

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20 QuickPWN October 26, 2008 at 12:46 am

I’m using Firefox 3.1 Beta and it’s working fine for me.

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21 Zurpit October 26, 2008 at 1:03 pm

It works fine for me too, Im using the latest ff

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22 Tushar Dhoot October 26, 2008 at 11:03 am

Working perfectly on FF here too.

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23 River Girl October 26, 2008 at 8:53 pm

Firefox on Mac works fine.

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24 Carlos Bermudez October 26, 2008 at 12:17 am

When you gonna hook a brotha up with one of those shoemoney shirts?

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25 Jeremy Schoemaker October 26, 2008 at 12:59 am

hey brother ill hook you up for 5$ http://www.shoemoney.com/store/

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26 QuickPWN October 26, 2008 at 1:05 am

That’s a sweet deal! I’ll sell you my Shoemoney shirt for $2 (you must pay shipping) if I ever win a shirt again. ;)

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27 Önder October 26, 2008 at 5:14 pm

i just seen the store now. thats great but there is no shipping out of
USA. thats bad:(

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28 Gary R. Hess October 26, 2008 at 12:27 am

Cool video :)

Last year I bought a carving set (It was a little plastic one for about $4). It worked pretty good. But of course, with only one use per year I lost every piece.

I ended up carving a nightmare before christmas one that turned out really well. I took pictures, but of course they were lost as well!

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29 teamray October 26, 2008 at 12:36 am

cool moment

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30 Kriz G. October 26, 2008 at 12:37 am

So nice seeing you having quality time. Your daughter is so adorable =)
God bless your family

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31 Chetan October 26, 2008 at 12:41 am

Does Juliet have a habit of keeping her fingers in her mouth for long time? If yes, try to make her quit it as it affects the teeth.
Gaps between the teeth would be seen later if she has the habit.

Btw she’s too cute :D

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32 Dick October 26, 2008 at 5:37 am

Yes. Juliet has a charming child.

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33 QuickPWN October 26, 2008 at 12:46 am

Nice, perfect job of carving that Pumpkin Jeremy. You have Juliet advertising Shoemoney on her shirt too or is that part of her halloween costume? You must get a lot of visitors because of that. :D

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34 domainpubber October 26, 2008 at 12:53 am

Shoe, that’s one BIG knife. We’re carving ours tomorrow but we’ll be using the Pumpkin Masters kit! I don’t want to lose any fingers as it would slow my QWERTY typing way down … LOL

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35 Dan October 26, 2008 at 12:53 am

Cute Video!

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36 purposeinc October 26, 2008 at 1:34 am

Way fun to see the kid. Good job on getting her to do the Shoemoney plug! The eerie glowing eyes at the end were kind of scary and I had to turn the lights on after that!

dk

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37 Daniel October 26, 2008 at 3:11 am

Are those CutCo knives you are using? Those suckers are sharp!

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38 ritchie October 26, 2008 at 3:26 am

Awesome video! Pumpkin carving is not yet that big in Europe, but it’s getting increasingly popular. Now I finally know how to do it right… and Juliet is so great, congrats on your fam.

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39 Carl - BeABetterBlogger.com October 26, 2008 at 3:53 am

“What kind of T-Shirt do you have on?”
“A ShoeMoney One”
“Nice Plug”

Good stuff! Haha :)

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40 Arfan October 26, 2008 at 4:39 am

She is Adorable especially both father and daughter wearing the Shoe Money Logo T-Shirt. However the Pumpkin could have been carved better lol, anyways its all good

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41 jackie sheeler October 26, 2008 at 5:06 am

makes me wanna go out and get a pumpkin to carve up myself!

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42 Static October 26, 2008 at 6:00 am

Fun times! :) Juliet’s water bottle looks pretty cool.

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43 Danny Cooper October 26, 2008 at 6:14 am

The video won’t load for me, using Google Chrome, but from the comments I’m guessing it’s good!

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44 Garry Conn October 26, 2008 at 6:27 am

Hey Jeremy,

Super cool video man. My daughter is two years old and we will be doing the pumpkin carving tomorrow, but before doing so I’ll let her watch Juliet in this video. It’s funny too because my wife and I have been talking to her about pumpkins for a few weeks now. Very awesome video, I absolutely love watching videos with the family. John Chow has done a few too and I enjoyed that as well.

@ Danny

I am using Google Chrome and had no trouble watching the video. I don’t think your problem is browser related.

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45 zool October 26, 2008 at 6:32 am

Whoa.. A cute daughter you have…

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46 Dymphnaboholt October 26, 2008 at 7:49 am

Very cute video. Time to great cracking with that Canon HD that i purchased earlier this year.

Hopefully the production standards will be just as good as yours Shoe!

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47 BusinessX October 26, 2008 at 8:21 am

Pumpkin in the dark shot would be great with some Halloween or Friday the Thirteenth theme music in the background.

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48 Greg Ellison October 26, 2008 at 8:22 am

very cool video. Watch out with those sharp knives. They will get you everytime.

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49 Derek October 26, 2008 at 8:47 am

Is it just me or was there a slight edit there, the part where your wife said “Honey..Honey”.. The part where she said I think you need to be getting the hell away from the kid with the knives buddy. LMAO

A classic for sure :)

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50 Tyler Cruz October 26, 2008 at 8:49 am

Juliet is cute, and a master of the ABC’s.

If I could make a request though it’d be to see a video of your dog sometime, the one jumping on the sofa early on in the video (I love dogs).

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51 Debo Hobo October 26, 2008 at 8:51 am

Yikes! Such the disciplinarian…..

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52 Debo Hobo October 26, 2008 at 8:53 am

And she is so adorably cute….

I thought for sure when you finally revealed the pumpkin’s face that it would be the Shoemoney logo.

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53 Önder October 26, 2008 at 9:41 am

little sweet girl, very nice.

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54 Sillimanster October 26, 2008 at 9:44 am

Nice video!

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55 David October 26, 2008 at 9:59 am

I love how one second she’s giving a plug and then next is you telling her you are going to throw the pumpkin away. Life is tough.

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56 Christine October 26, 2008 at 11:01 am

So cute!!!!!!!!!

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57 40DollarCell.com October 26, 2008 at 11:17 am

Tell me you didn’t carve a the Shoemoney “S” logo into a pumpkin and put it on the front porch. We know you did, so let’s see a photo of it.

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58 kalimah October 26, 2008 at 11:33 am

What an adorable video. I carved a pumpkin– once!! It wasn’t a good experience. I did it for a chemistry experiment with my students but after seeing your video, I am inspired to try again with my family. I am a tropical girl so it takes me a while to get into Fall and Winter rituals…
enjoy your holiday.

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59 Sohan October 26, 2008 at 11:34 am

Good stuff.

How many kids you got?

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60 Önder October 26, 2008 at 11:42 am

if i am not wrong he has got 2 girls. and one of them is baby now.

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61 coderbari October 26, 2008 at 12:39 pm

The little girl is so cute! I saw carved pumpkin on TV,but never knew how to make it. Thanks for showing the process.

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62 Alex October 26, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Might be doing this tomorrow, great idea :D

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63 Zurpit October 26, 2008 at 12:57 pm

Great video, pumpkin carving is always a fun thing to do

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64 Lupe October 26, 2008 at 12:57 pm

Hah sorry but I lol’d when you cut yourself

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65 Takumi86 October 26, 2008 at 1:01 pm

Nice video and its really enjoyable to carve that thing but watch your hand next time schoe or you’ll get your hand more carved, lol i kid i kid

Happy Hallowen btw

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66 Dr. House October 26, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Hey Shoe, you have really cool daughter :)
Also you can carve a pumpkin quite well. Funny video :)

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67 Zac Johnson October 26, 2008 at 1:27 pm

Nice video. “No jumping!”… let’s see how much traffic it pulls into your blog next halloween for people searching how to carve pumpkins!

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68 Ben Adkins October 26, 2008 at 1:59 pm

I love carving pumpkins! Its right behind giving out candy on my favorite Halloween activities list.

We take a day off at the health blog and do hand out candy.
No one likes “talking health” on Halloween….myself included

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69 Bryn Youngblut October 26, 2008 at 2:18 pm

Haha cute kid.

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70 Chris Jacobson October 26, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Cute daughter, Shoe.

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71 Zurpit October 26, 2008 at 2:58 pm

She’s cute!

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72 mrkbsm October 26, 2008 at 4:20 pm

Cute video Shoe – carved up pumpkins here with my daughters last week. My youngest enjoyed putting the goo back into the first pumpkin while I carved the 2nd one :) Good stuff!

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73 Steven-Sanders October 26, 2008 at 4:52 pm

My little girl and I carved pumpkins yesterday. I’ll be posting a picture of one of them on my blog later this evening.

I carved the RSS symbol into one of them. :)

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74 QuickPWN October 26, 2008 at 5:05 pm

By the way, smart move Jeremy. Halloween is coming soon and a lot of people will be searching this up in Google! :)

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75 Zurpit October 29, 2008 at 9:21 pm

yea Im sure during this time the term haloween is searched alot

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76 Downloadic October 26, 2008 at 5:53 pm

Nice video, by the way, I wish you hadnt hurt your hand :)

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77 Greenman October 26, 2008 at 6:51 pm

Lovely girl! :P

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78 QuickPWN October 26, 2008 at 7:04 pm

i love carving pumpkins too :P

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79 Tushar Dhoot October 26, 2008 at 7:45 pm

I also wanted to thank you for the free shirt ShoeMoney. It’s really great as an incentive for someone who has been commenting on your blog avidly for months.

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80 Garala October 26, 2008 at 10:02 pm

Not a good job carving the pumpkin there Shoe, just joking. :)

Cute kid and nice video.

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81 tom October 27, 2008 at 12:02 am

what video player do you use to play your .swfs? I like the look of it.

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82 tom October 27, 2008 at 12:03 am

It’s late, that made no sense. What .swf video player do you use to play your .flv files?

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83 Moneybites October 27, 2008 at 7:13 am

Ouch, are you okay after that cut?

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84 Jaseem Umer October 27, 2008 at 7:33 am

Great vid, Schoe. YOur girl is really cute.

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85 Tracy Robinson October 27, 2008 at 8:14 am

Suggestion, after seeing you cut yourself, add pumpkin carving to list of worst ideas…

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86 Suray October 27, 2008 at 10:44 am

Hi Jeremy, you have a lovely girl there, I wanna say hello to Juliet :D

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87 Mircea October 27, 2008 at 2:41 pm

Your daughter is very very cute :) But I don’t understand how will this pay for my bills!

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88 Adam October 27, 2008 at 11:33 pm

Shoe, next time try a drywall handsaw. They work really well. I was able to carve the mouth on this in about 2 minutes with one.

http://photos-171.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v352/180/14/31400171/n31400171_32614297_3154.jpg

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89 Goran Website October 28, 2008 at 2:18 am

Now that’s a very adorable little girl you have there Shoe. You’ve just inspired me to be a daddy, man. So do you still go out trick or treat-ing in halloween?

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90 the work at home network October 28, 2008 at 7:31 pm

pumpkin carving is cool, you can add a candle in the middle or something else for an effect but be careful with this…

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91 MMO gold October 29, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Awwww… How cute. Its always nice seeing a father and daughter spending time together.

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92 Michael October 29, 2008 at 6:58 pm

Two year olds are SOOOooo…Kewl. She’s a doll shoe…

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93 Artur Sonnenhohl October 31, 2008 at 6:50 am

Shes so beautiful, congratz!

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94 Ben Pei November 22, 2008 at 7:58 pm

Lol a unique how-to video indeed..

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