Meet the Carvers enthusiasts will no doubt remember that both Sybil and Tom -- our inaugural entries this year -- got profiled last year as well. But, we have some new faces working the knives, too. Making her debut in the Meet the Carvers series is Christina Ruiz.

BB: Tell us something non-pumpkin related about yourself.

CR: Environment is everything.

BB: Very...Jean-Paul Sartre. What kind of carvings are you working on for Blaze 2008?

CR: Fairies, fishes, and faces.

BB: Can you sum up Blaze in three words?
CR: One...Two...Pumpkin!

BB: Can you offer some advice for the casual carver?
CR: Don't drink and carve.

BB: Ah, so that's why my carvings always end in disaster. OK, what's the best music to listen to while carving?
CR: Ratatat.

BB: Love the electronica. Got a pumpkin haiku to share?
CR: Pumpkins on my mind
Scooping, carving out their guts
Pumpkins have no souls.

BB: Yes! I didn't have to ask in the form of a haiku why you didn't have one! OK. What's your favorite thing about Halloween?
CR: Getting to dress up as a gypsy.

BB: Pumpkin pie...a la mode, no a la mode, or no way?
CR: After seeing thousands of pumpkins rot...no way!

BB: If pumpkins could talk, what would they say?
CR: My face is rotting!

BB: If you weren't spending October carving pumpkins, what would you be doing?
CR: Growing vegetables.

BB: Thank you, Christina!