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When looking directly at your carved pumpkin, it is definitely cooler if the center of the pumpkin is left solid enough to hide the burning candle behind it. Ever see a pumpkin with a giant nose and you find yourself staring directly into the candle? Leave some uncarved space in the middle-center of your pumpkin that will block the direct candlelight. Let the light pour through more indirect openings. You are probably going to make a mess so have extra newspapers to lie down and carve outside if you can. Have a bowl ready to hold all the pumpkin guts you will have to scoop out of the pumpk...
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