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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Autistic (Late/Self Realised) Writer and artist living in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland Community library volunteer Trans Rights Matter Black Lives Matter Author of The Casa Martyrs https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CG2PQCP9 https://linktr.ee/motiblackart

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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Halloween Month to you all!

I'm Moti and I'm a pumpkin carver, so I'll be posting lots of photos of my carved pumpkins this month.

Below is my favourite ever carve: 'Low Light' on The Isle of May.

Please check out my pumpkin images on my RedBubble shop!

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A pumpkin carving with a lighthouse carved into it

A photo of a lighthouse carved into a pumpkin with brighter lighting

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Lilly Lockwood 🔥Pre-Order Broken Bells!🔔 @voicesofvalhoon.bsky.social · 9h

Some of the paperbacks I ordered to sell in my direct store were damaged and while the book is still perfectly readable I can’t in good conscience sell them at full price. So good news for you! If you want to snatch up a paperback of SoBB for just $10+shipping look no further!

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The spine of one of the damaged book showing that it’s been bent

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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 8h

I use RedBubble, but get very few sales there, and some of the products I've bought have been a bit poor quality (and many have been excellent, and the customer service always will send out replacements with no issue). Thinking of trying out printify, but it looks complicated to use.

Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 9h

Aw, thank you!

Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you!

Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 14h

Today's pumpkin carving share is from 2019!

#PumpkinCarving

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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 1d

He is precise/very good! And useful when you hurt your back crouching over a carve for 3 days!

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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure they will love it!

Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 1d

You have a very talented daughter!

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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 1d

I did hope other people would get into it, but I ended up out on a limb. It's lovely that it's a family thing for you!

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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. I love 360 carves, but it's so much work. I also am starting to wind down carving. It's too much for my eyes and body these days. After this year, I'll just do a couple for fun each year, but no more. (Also - amazing carve!)

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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! Those are impressive! I just buy foul smelling ones from supermarkets. They're okay, but never great. I tried a pumpkin patch once, but they were exactly the same, just three times the price.

Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite ones to carve are home grown - but for the last 3 years, I've not had much luck in the garden.

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Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 1d

Mostly I just scrape the pumpkins down to just over 1cm thick then carve from the front.

Moti Black 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @motiblackart.bsky.social · 1d

I am always surprised why fewer people carve like this! Then I start telling people how easy it is, except for the part where I can be carving for 12 hours solid and still not be finished... Then I understand! But it's worth the effort! You pumpkins are very effective.