Tiny jack-o-lanterns carved in seed-pods

Master haunt modeller Ray Keim sez, "After a little bit of experimentation and a lot of patience, I figured out how to carve Putka Pods [ed: small, pumpkin-like dried seeds] into extremely tiny jack-o-lanterns!"

Putka Pod Possibilities! (Thanks, Ray!)

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Little John | #1 | 09:40 on Sat, Nov. 7 | Reply

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Ha, FreakCitySF: I just reported your comment because it looked like pure spam, advertizing an MP3 player in a thread about carved seeds.

Now I think you meant to add it to the next post What MP3 player should I buy?.

Sorry about that!

Antinous / Moderator | #2 | 09:42 on Sat, Nov. 7 | Reply

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Nano-lanterns.

diamondbach | #3 | 11:51 on Sat, Nov. 7 | Reply

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very cute indeed. sure would like to have a couple for my iguana

Dewi Morgan | #4 | 12:53 on Sat, Nov. 7 | Reply

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Requires flickering, flame-coloured LED inside.

Mitch | #5 | 15:51 on Sat, Nov. 7 | Reply

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The seeds from pickled amla have good potential for that. They already look like little pumpkin coaches.

Mitch | #6 | 15:55 on Sat, Nov. 7 | Reply

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Ha ha, check out the video results from a google search for "putka".

diamondbach | #7 | 23:51 on Sat, Nov. 7 | Reply

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ooo-oh-so-cute

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