pumpkin carving challenge 2019.

(screaming)

(spooky music)

(cackling)

- I think this is number what, three, four?

- Four? - Yeah, I think it's four.

- I think four. - The fourth year running.

- You can see all of our previous pumpkin carving challenges

in the cards above or the description below,

wherever I decide to put them.

This year, however, is incredibly super special

'cause we're doing an association

with Stand up to Cancer during their

Fortnight of Fundraising, which is very hard to say.

- It's why we're wearing - Fundraising Fortnight.

- And actually the Stand up to Cancer colors

are actually quite Halloween-themed,

orange, black, white.

- I mean, this is cream because I'm a glutton for punishment

and like to live dangerously while doing my crafting.

Now you can get involved in Stand up to Cancer fundraising

by either donating using our special link

which will be down in the description below,

or have your own challenge, and you can find out

more information about that

on the Stand up to Cancer website

for it will also be in the description.

- Amazing.

- Now this year, we've decided on a special theme.

Are you ready, drum roll please.

(hands drum on table)

- Pumpkin roll. - What?

- Pumpkin roll.

Pumpkin, - Yeah, it's alright.

- Pumpkin percussion.

- Pumpkin percussion, please.

- Pumpkin percussion please.

- Pumpkin percussion, don't say that quickly.

Pumpkin percussion please.

(drum roll)

Magic!

- That's our theme.

- That's the theme, oh sorry, I, we'd kind of

like gone so far from that.

- Yeah, I mean also your pumpkin percussion

was also magic, but no.

Magic is the theme, so we've got to come up

with magic-themed-related--

- Are you all right darling?

- Things. - Can't speak very well today.

- I'm not doing well, clearly.

I'm very tired, all right?

I woke up with a migraine, I've taken lots

of migraine medication, it's a thing.

- You're doing well, you're doing well.

- Thank you.

- We've only got like three liters of Coke so far for me.

(laughs)

That's not even an exaggeration.

- All right, wife.

I think first what we need to do

is chop open these bad boys,

start scooping out, and then we're gonna do our designs.

- Scooping out the pumpkin's insides

is always like the, like the gooey--

- That's true Halloween.

- Yeah, like--

- Oh wait, I'm just gonna remove my wedding ring.

- Oh yeah, good idea.

- Because it's damn hard getting pumpkin

out of diamonds, all right?

(chime)

Okay, and we also bought a new special tool from Waitrose.

So I say Waitrose because I believe in trusting you,

Waitrose, and if you let me down,

I'm gonna be really, really sad.

But apparently it's a Halloween pumpkin scoop, right,

it should be therefore way easier

than just using a spoon.

- Well, it's got serrated edges, so.

- Look at it, okay.

- And a scary pumpkin face.

- Aww, it's quite adorable, it's hardly scary.

Okay, let's begin.

(spooky music)

(record scratch)

- Do you want me to sharpen the knives first?

(laughs)

- Right, breaking proceedings, Claudia's going

to sharpen the knives.

(knife sharpening sound)

(spooky music)

- All right, so what are you gonna carve?

- Well, since it's magical, I thought

that I would go with some kind of cauldron,

bubbling cauldron.

- Oh, like a witch's magic pot?

- Yes, also as we have learned from the last three videos

of pumpkin carving, I'm not great at timekeeping.

- No, you're gonna do something simple this time,

aren't you? - Mm-hmm.

- Not so elaborate, and decorative.

Normally what you see in a video is just like

Jessica's only like just started and she's carving it

for the next like 12 hours off-camera.

(laughs)

That was an evil laugh.

(laughs)

- Well, do you want to know what I'm going to carve?

- Yes I do.

- I'm going to carve a feather.

- Uh-huh?

- And you might think why, well you know why.

- I know.

- But you might not know why,

and it's, I'm thinking more because of

going along the lines of Stand up to Cancer.

- Sure.

- Because I lost my mum to cancer in 2012

and I've got quite a nice, magical story.

- Yes you do.

- Associated with the day she died,

which was, we let some, they were actually pigeons,

but they were a mixture of white and gray,

so they weren't like white doves but you know,

the idea was that, and we released them

from her bedroom, just a few minutes after she passed

and it was meant to be about sending your,

- Your, your-- - Spirit.

- Yeah, sending her spirit off and also

your last prayers with those birds,

and one of the birds dropped a feather

and it was completely pure white,

and I thought that was really lovely

and I kept that and I have it framed

and I'm gonna carve that across here,

because every time I see a feather now,

especially if it's a single white feather

along sort of when I'm walking along

or out with the dogs, I just feel like it's my mum

sort of just saying hi there, how are you doing?

- And in fact the day that we moved into our new house,

we found a white feather in the garden.

- Yeah, and I was like it's a blessing,

and yeah, so I think you know, magic can happen

in real life, too, even in your darkest hours of life.

So this little pumpkin will bring a little bit of light

from the feather.

- Right, pick up a pen.

(clock ticks)

(fast forwarding)

- I've drawn my outline.

- Oh, so you have.

Beautiful.

- Now we've got our--

- Friendly Kellgren-Fozard torture kit.

- These ones here are actually my woodcarving

and Lino carving tools.

These ones are particularly good.

Actually, they look a bit rusty,

I think we didn't give them a proper cleaning

from last time.

- Ha-hah.

- You're still drawing yours.

This is what I mean about her carrying on

for like 12 hours afterwards.

(dog coughs)

That was the dog.

(laughs)

(spooky music)

- [Narrator] Six hours later.

- Hello, welcome, I mean welcome to myself, I'm back.

I mean, you should say welcome.

- Welcome back?

- Yeah, thank you.

Good to be here.

- You're welcome, okay.

- So as you can tell I left because Jessica

was taking too long to finish hers.

- I would just like to say before we reveal

the official pumpkins of 2019,

I'm not as proud of myself this year

as I have been other years.

- Oh, why is that?

- I spent less time on it 'cause you made me,

so I don't think it's as creative.

- I think it still looks really good.

- Really? - Yeah.

- Are you just saying that because you're married to me

and therefore really supportive?

Okay, before we reveal.

Pumpkin percussion, please.

(drums on pumpkin)

- Really bad, sorry.

- Do you wanna go again? - Yeah.

- Pumpkin percussion again.

(drums on pumpkin)

- Whoo! - That was better, ready?

- And ta-da!

- Okay, there we go.

Here's a beautiful feather. - Oh, thank you.

- Gorgeous detailing here, absolutely lovely,

you can really see that you put lots of thought into it,

your whole heart and soul.

- Well--

- Some effort. - I have drawn--

- I wasn't being sarcastic.

- I have drawn feathers quite a lot,

I've got one tattooed on me that I drew.

- That she drew.

- I didn't tattoo it on myself, but, no.

(laughs)

- Jesus, how would you?

- I don't know, a few people have.

- Yeah, but how would you tattoo,

because it's right here, like that wouldn't be easy.

- Yeah, so I had, and also I did a stone carving

of a feather-- - Of a feather also.

- I'm a bit feather-obsessed.

- There's a lot of feather iconography in the house.

- So?

- Although-- - You like those.

- Now that she told you the story, you understand why.

- Yeah, I always liked feathers anyway,

I think a lot of people like feathers,

I mean, you know, they represent

a lot of things, don't they?

- I like bows.

Not as meaningful, but, I like them.

I did a cauldron.

- You did, it's very nice.

I think it's actually really good,

I think you're being too hard on yourself.

- Aww, thanks.

It's all right.

- It's all in the display of do they actually

show the design off well once they've got

tea lights inside?

- Let's light them up and then we'll find out.

And please, let us know down below in the comments

which one you prefer.

(spooky music)

(blows)

If you would also like to get involved in raising money

for Stand up to Cancer as part of Cancer Research UK,

you can do so by clicking on the links

down in the description to download

your very own fundraising packs.

You can also donate using my very special link

which will be in the top line of the description,

so it is nice and easy.

Thanks for watching!

- Bye!

(wind blows)