Oh get out of town

by Meg on October 31, 2007

Will you please check out this "Chipmumpkin" inspired by this guy.


chipmumpkin!, originally uploaded by chewandchewandchew.

And of course, all lit up…


chipmumpkin lit up, originally uploaded by chewandchewandchew.

Christal R., Tewtelly Topical!

{ 51 comments }

1 Jacki14 10.31.07 at 1:04 am

A fitting tribute to a cute photo!

2 AliceTanzer 10.31.07 at 1:04 am

Chipmunkin! Cute! I keep wanting to say Chimpmunkin, but that would be very different, I think.

3 Jacki14 10.31.07 at 1:04 am

Wow. I’ve never been bleen before!

4 Rumi 10.31.07 at 1:12 am

GENIUS!

Pure. Friggin’. Genius.

Blessed Samhain and Happy Halloween to all!

5 Nicolo 10.31.07 at 1:15 am

We bow before your magnificent chipmupumpkin. Especially the little round earses…

6 oaklandcat 10.31.07 at 1:18 am

AWESOME! I’m tewtally impressed.

7 pinkwerewolff 10.31.07 at 1:20 am

*does not want to know how long that took…*

8 Shannon 10.31.07 at 1:20 am

I am bow to the awesomeness that is this adorable pumpkin. Great job!!! I love carving them but no one but me ever sees them :( !

9 lurkingsmirk 10.31.07 at 1:27 am

This is the coolest pumpkin idea ever.

First because it references a cute cute chipmunk pic.

Second because it takes technical skillz!

10 Annie 10.31.07 at 1:38 am

Cool Mad Punkin Carvin SKILZ.
And Cuuuuute.

11 Marianne 10.31.07 at 1:41 am

oh hell yes!!!

12 pookiepuff 10.31.07 at 1:54 am

OMG! That is so awesome! I want to make a chipmumpkin too! I loved the original inspirational photo when I first saw it and I looove this too!

13 Mia 10.31.07 at 1:55 am

Oh my god! This carver did so well! I just carved my first pumpkin since I was verrrry little :) My boyfriend and I completed a nice basic one and we’re as proud.
This one just takes the cake! It’s very beautiful when lit up. I was whining a few posts back that I wanted to see a cute pumpkin picture.

14 jessie 10.31.07 at 2:13 am

Amazing. simply amazing. Props to the carver. I have the chipmunk on my desktop now, and I may have to change it for tomorrow to this! Well done – amazing patience!

15 cathleen 10.31.07 at 2:28 am

that was awesome.

16 R. Moore 10.31.07 at 2:32 am

Sweet!

We have four pumpkins this year, and I was just about to look up the Dalek one:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/how_to_build_a_16.html

Now I know what TWO of my pumpkins will be!

17 butter 10.31.07 at 2:58 am

Holy crap, that is beyond redonk. O.O

18 Lerrinus 10.31.07 at 3:33 am

*applause*

Nicely done! :-)

19 Kar 10.31.07 at 3:34 am

That’s absolutely brilliant!! Even down to the stripes on the back!

20 J. Bo 10.31.07 at 3:36 am

As long as it’s NOT a squirrel… that’s all I have to say.

21 clifford 10.31.07 at 4:06 am

Fantastic, excellent work.

Thanks for posting!

(oh, and TEWTELLY CUUTE!)

22 Andrea|Nash 10.31.07 at 4:26 am

Niiiice!

23 Subhangi 10.31.07 at 4:55 am

Wow! Good job!

24 Hon Glad 10.31.07 at 6:47 am

Thats some skillfull carving.
R.Moore…The Dalek one is redonkulous. I didn’t know you chaps in the colonies were into Dr Who. I watched it as a child, in goo.d old black and white 405 lines The productions were El Cheapo and it was not much better than a sink plunger and a egg whisk.

25 darkshines 10.31.07 at 9:57 am

Merry Samhain folks! Blessed be!

26 gooeyctr 10.31.07 at 10:13 am

The history of the original photomontage made me sniffle, and this homage just lays me flat. Oodles of love to all followers of CO!

27 Mrs.Fonebone 10.31.07 at 11:34 am

Dang, when I first saw that it made me think of the old Squirrel Nut Zippers candy logo! Sweet!

28 just me 10.31.07 at 11:42 am

I’m not sure which I love more… the crazy skilled carving, or the genius name “Chipmumkin”.

29 Kate 10.31.07 at 12:24 pm

I wish my pumpkins looked that cool this year (or any year)! What a great job.

On a side note, last year a chipmunk ate my pumpkins. They all had little chip’ chew marks.

30 zeldapie 10.31.07 at 12:55 pm

Oh wow. I LURVE this!
I knew right away what the carving resembled!
Man, my Jack o’lanterns always end up as simple, smiling faces — this is a work of art!

31 jen 10.31.07 at 12:58 pm

wow. that is really awesome. excellent job!

32 Yitzysmommie 10.31.07 at 1:07 pm

OOOO, most excellent Mcchipumpkinpants. I bow to your skills.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN, ALL! Remeber to keep your fur people safe tonight.

33 Pheas 10.31.07 at 1:09 pm

Same to you, darkshines!

34 thatgirlshines 10.31.07 at 1:30 pm

doesn’t it make it you feel good, overseer of all that is cute in this land, to know that you helped to inspire a temporary piece of art?

35 luvinmalssomuch 10.31.07 at 1:56 pm

Very cool!

36 liz 10.31.07 at 2:02 pm

standing ovation.
Best chipmunkpumpkin evvva!

37 astrogrrrl 10.31.07 at 2:08 pm

that is amazing. it looks so beautiful lit up too! I absolutely adore this :)

38 Manda 10.31.07 at 2:25 pm

How, oh how did he/she do the leetle hand holding the flower? Such SKILLZ!! HOW, Dangit?! Beautiful perfection! I’m carving mine later…a Lumpkin Bumpkin Pumpkin :-)

39 Kiragirl 10.31.07 at 4:12 pm

EXCELLENT! Happy Chipoween!!!!

40 Aurora 10.31.07 at 4:19 pm

Truly excellent! Super super cute!

41 Jane 10.31.07 at 5:27 pm

Nice job! Totally cute and you are amazingly talented.

42 Catsquatch 10.31.07 at 5:30 pm

That is awesome. I had not seen the original pic before, so I thought the link was going to take me to the artists website, but then the original pic came up and I was amazed at how wonderfully the pumpkin was carved to look so much like that pic.
Very nice work.

43 Catsquatch 10.31.07 at 5:33 pm

Rats, I forgot the other thing I wanted to say, sorry about the two posts, Im not quite all here yet….

When its lit up it looks like the chipmunk is sitting in a hollow log.
Perfect background.

44 Kiragirl 10.31.07 at 6:05 pm

Catsquatch,
are you here yet? LOL

45 berthaslave 10.31.07 at 6:07 pm

WOW!!!

Of course, it’s not so hilarious when you consider all of the chipmunks who have lost their lives choking on punkin seeds.

46 John 10.31.07 at 6:21 pm

YAY! This has made my day!

47 leah b. 10.31.07 at 7:47 pm

that is totally amazing wonderful job.
I wish that I could do that but it would not look anything like it was suppose to ……

48 Christal 10.31.07 at 9:03 pm

Thanks everyone! It wasn’t that difficult to carve. I just photoshopped the original picture, traced it onto the pumpkin, and carved away. I had trouble with the stem and flower, so i dyed the flower part purple with food coloring and shoved an actual stem through his hand. I’m glad you all liked it! I think it’s getting cuter as it decomposes…

49 Mary (the first) 10.31.07 at 10:43 pm

Really cool! I like the way the opening swirls around to make a little platform for the ‘munk. Very snazzy!!

50 Mish 11.01.07 at 6:10 am

“that guy” is currently my screen saver. Great pumpkin!

51 Carly 11.01.07 at 3:22 pm

wow – martha meets C.O. Very impressive!

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