”This is Fine” Pumpkin

You know that meme: the dog calmly sipping coffee in a burning room, saying, “This is fine.”

Meet the fall version: the fire-y This is Fine Pumpkin.

Because sometimes, carving an overly cheerful pumpkin while juggling school strikes, cold season, and a schedule full of chaos feels oddly therapeutic.

Land Acknowledgement

This land has welcomed First Nations from across Turtle Island, and settlers and visitors from around the world. Alberta lands are part of Treaties 4, 6, 7, 8 and 10, and the homeland of the Métis.

Alberta Mamas respects and celebrates the sovereignty, lands, histories, languages, knowledge systems and cultures of all Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit nations. We are striving to better listen, understand, and learn from the Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing.

We are all Treaty people.

We’ve been pretty creative with our pumpkins since the kids were little. We are no where close to amazing, but usually have some of the fancier pumpkins in the neighbourhood at least.

Stuck in yet another year of “ugh” we were inspired to do something for the adults with one of our pumpkins this year.

We are all getting through this together. Things are going to be okay.

Go make another pumpkin spice cocktail and get carving!

Click the image below to open it in a new window to print.

It isn’t a fancy template, and my instructions are very simple. I wish I were more helpful, but it’s 100% amateur hour over here on pumpkin night!

Tape your template onto the pumpkin. Our experience has been that it’s easiest to carve directly through the paper. (Bonus: you can still donate the pumpkin to an animal rescue since you haven’t marked it up with ink!)

• White parts stay pumpkin.
• Black parts get cut out.
• Red parts have the skin scraped away so they glow.

I recommend getting a good set of pumpkin carving tools.

Crank up those haunting tunes and have some dirty Halloween fun!