Merry Christmas 2014

Fruit carving centerpiece for National Rifle Association's women shooting event.

Fruit carving centerpiece for World Class Distribution's event.

Carved watermelon for family get together party.

Roses

25th anniversary watermelon carving

Patriotic theme carving fruit bowl

This is how I transform it. It looks simple but really is time consuming. This one took more a good hours to finish. I used food coloring to color the flag. Using food coloring with the skin of watermelon can be tricky. It can easily leak and be absorbed by different color. You need to do it slow and sturdy.

Western style carved watermelon fruit bowl.

First birthday carved watermelon fruit bowl.

My carved fruit centerpiece for a wedding.

Another Luau theme carving for birthday.

Watermelon wedding centerpiece

Fruit carving for 63rd anniversary.

Thank you carving.

I donated this carving to auction for Terry Brosch's fundraiser. Terry has been suffering from muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, and scoliosis. His family's trying to raise funds to get him a van so that he can go out of the house after being stuck there for years.

Freddie Mercury

I've never carved a human image on a watermelon. This was my first attempt and I wanted to carve one of the best signers of all time, Freddie Mercury.

Luau theme carving.

This was my first attempt to carve a Hawaiian Luau theme. I wanted to add flowers that are famous in Hawaii so I decided to carve hibiscus flowers. Hibiscus flowers are the Hawaiian state flower and they have such a unique look that I instantly fell in love with them. It took a little thought and a couple of failed attempts, but I was happy with the end result. Lastly, I added pineapple in the fruit bowl to make it a more tropical theme.The honey dew melon was another one I did for fun. I love the texture because you can get really crisp and elegant lines.

4th of July carving

This is a 4th of July carving in which I used food coloring. I first carved out the eagle's head. I didn't carve very deep because I wanted to experiment using food coloring. Once I got the basic shape I shaved off most of the dark green skin so the color would show up better. 

I then put a flag pattern around the outside of the eagle. Once I was happy with the design I started to add food coloring. It was a bit difficult to color on the watermelon because the texture and the moisture of the fruit caused the color to spread. The color kept leaking from one part to the others. I was pretty happy with the overall result, but I need to figure out how to stop the color from spreading.

Birthday watermelon fruit bowl for one year old kid.

This was an order that I did for the birthday party of a one-year old girl. In order to make it colorful I painted on food coloring. Elmo turned out very vibrant as did the balloons. I used blueberries for the eyes and a sliced carrot for the nose. To hold them in place I used toothpicks.

I cut around the balloons to make them stand out. Unfortunately, you can't see it in these photos, but I used a small flower shaped cookie cutter to add a touch of fun to the watermelon slices in the bowl.

 Happy Birthday Reagan!!

Birthday fruit bowl

The middle of these flowers had many overlapping petals that got smaller and deeper towards of the center of the flower. It was important to carve the middle of the flowers deep so you would get a hint of red right in the center.

This fruit bowl was filled with watermelon balls, strawberries and blueberries.

Heart shaped watermelon for Anniversary

Carving for the dance club at Galileo.

Birthday Fruit bowl