Pumpkin Carving Part 2: Young Adult Themed Patterns

UPDATE September 19, 2015: Want to learn how to carve pumpkins like these? I’m creating a set of step-by-step video tutorials. Check out Carve Awesome Pumpkins for more info!

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Welcome to week 2 of my Pumpkin Carving series. Last week, I shared tips for carving great pumpkins. This week, I’m sharing some pumpkin carving patterns based on young adult book covers and characters.

But First — TWO Contests!

Win a pumpkin carved with your choice of book cover! Contest ends October 15, 2012.

If you came here from Novel Novice to enter for the Paper Towns pumpkin or Divergent pumpkin, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post!

Pumpkins I’ve Carved

: Beautiful Creatures Pattern by me

: Paper Towns pattern by Kate Hart

: Divergent pattern by Kate Hart

FREE Pumpkin Patterns

A friend asked about a pumpkin carving pattern featuring the Beautiful Creatures series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. I couldn’t find one, so I made one myself. The lettering on the book is beautiful! You can see a pumpkin carved with it a above. I’m offering the pattern FREE from my blog. Enjoy!

I found a great collection of patterns on Kate Hart’s blog. She has a total of 20 book cover patterns available for FREE. Some of the patterns include:

Divergent

Hush Hush

Anna and the French Kiss

Hourglass

I think that Anna and the French Kiss pumpkin is calling my name… 😉

Vampire Diaries Pumpkin Carving Patterns

I’m updating this blog post to add these new Vampire Diaries patterns from Ultimate Pumpkin Stencils:

I’ve wanted a Damon pumpkin for a while now. It’s definitely on my carving list!

Check Out This Carving Master!

Alex the Pumpkin Geek is a professional pumpkin carver. He does some really awesome work — both in the carving and in the creation of the patterns. If you’re interested in having Alex carve you a pumpkin, you can contact him through his website.

: Lord of the Rings Gollum

: The Vampire Diaries Stefan and Elena

: The Vampire Diaries Damon and Elena

: Lord of the Rings Gandolf

Next Week?

Part 3 of my Pumpkin Carving series will feature Twilight pumpkins. Check back next Sunday!

September 30, 2012September 18, 2015christiespeich 27 Comments

Friday Finds: Through To You by Emily Hainsworth (September 28, 2012)

FRIDAY FINDS is hosted by Should Be Reading and showcases the books you ‘found’ and added to your To Be Read (TBR) list… whether you found them online, or in a bookstore, or in the library — wherever! (they aren’t necessarily books you purchased).

Only one book this week! I’m FastDrafting — no time to look for more books to add to my list. But don’t worry, my list is 199 books long…I’ve got plenty to read!

Through To You by Emily Hainsworth
Links: Goodreads | Amazon
Why I Added It:Parallel worlds = cool

Goodreads Summary:

Camden Pike has been grief-stricken since his girlfriend, Viv, died. Viv was the last good thing in his life: helping him rebuild his identity after a career-ending football injury, picking up the pieces when his home life shattered, and healing his pain long after the meds wore off. And now, he’d give anything for one more glimpse of her. But when Cam makes a visit to the site of Viv’s deadly car accident, he sees some kind of apparition. And it isn’t Viv.

The apparition’s name is Nina, and she’s not a ghost. She’s a girl from a parallel world, and in this world, Viv is still alive. Cam can’t believe his wildest dreams have come true. All he can focus on is getting his girlfriend back, no matter the cost. But things are different in this other world: Viv and Cam have both made very different choices, things between them have changed in unexpected ways, and Viv isn’t the same girl he remembers. Nina is keeping some dangerous secrets, too, and the window between the worlds is shrinking every day. As Cam comes to terms with who this Viv has become and the part Nina played in his parallel story, he’s forced to choose—stay with Viv or let her go—before the window closes between them once and for all.

September 28, 2012September 21, 2012christiespeich Leave a comment

Road Trip Wednesday: Best Book of September

Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway’s contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question that begs to be answered.

This Week’s Topic

What was the best book you read in September?

My Answer

I love a good forbidden love story!

Inbetween by Tara Fuller

Since the car crash that took her father’s life three years ago, Emma’s life has been a freaky — and unending — lesson in caution. Surviving “accidents” has taken priority over being a normal seventeen-year-old, so Emma spends her days taking pictures of life instead of living it. Falling in love with a boy was never part of the plan. Falling for a reaper who makes her chest ache and her head spin? Not an option.

It’s not easy being dead, especially for a reaper in love with a girl fate has put on his list not once, but twice. Finn’s fellow reapers give him hell about spending time with Emma, but Finn couldn’t let her die before, and he’s not about to let her die now. He will protect the girl he loves from the evil he accidentally unleashed, even if it means sacrificing the only thing he has left…his soul.

September 26, 2012September 29, 2012christiespeich 10 Comments

2012 Fall Into Reading Challenge

2012 Fall Into Reading Katrina, at Callapidder Days, is once again hosting the awesome Fall Into Reading challenge. The idea is to choose a list of books you want to read between the start of Fall (September 22nd) and the start of Winter (December 21st). And then read them!

Waaaay back in January, I set a goal to read 50 books in 2012. At the time, it felt like a goal that would require quite a bit of stretching to reach. Well, here I am on September 22 and I only have to finish 8 more books to complete my goal.

So that’s my goal for Fall Into Reading : 8 books.

That’s the easy part. The hard part is choosing which 8 books!

Here’s a tentative list, in no certain order, pulled from my to-be-read list. Honestly, I’ll be really surprised if these end up being the 8 books I read. But it’s a start!