Well, fall has arrived and the apples are coming along nicely. There’s still about a month left to go, and the apples are just starting to press up against the box interior. We made 3 different size boxes, with interiors of 2.25, 2.5 and 2.75". I think I should have made them all .5" smaller on the inside. We’ll see how much bigger the apples get.
I noticed one has what looks like bugs squished between the apple and the box; not sure what they are.
Excited to see how they look when removed. One more month!
Looks like caterpillar poop to me! 
Is it shellac?
The black spots? 
Mehbee…
Ahhhh, now I remember. 
Today was pickin’ day. Overall it was a good first attempt, but the boxes were probably on the large side. The best one was 2.25" cubed interior; next year we’ll try again and drop it down to 2" to see if we can get a little more cubic fill. Text embossed nicely. One of the boxes cracked, and it was a real pain to remove the closure pins due to the pressure!
Wonderful results! The embossing is great!
So fun. Looks like 2" might be the trick next year!
Excellent experiment!
I’m sure next year will be better based on this year.
Fantastic! (And I didn’t realize you had embossing in there.) 
What a cool project this was! And an exercise in patience.
Not just embossing, but NASA Manned Space Flight’s rule number 1 
I’m cheering the apple on for cracking that acrylic housing. That’s impressive!
Those came out awesome. I made one to try on my neighbors tree, but the box seemed way to big and never got around to making a smaller one…
What kind of apples are those?
Because if you happen to use McIntosh apples you might end up with something like this:
Years ago, i saw an old picture of a farmer who had grown pumpkins in a mold that looked like a human head, with pretty great results. I recently saw an article about a guy in california who is revisiting the idea with Frankenstein-shaped ones, and they turned out fantastic.
Next year, square Halloween apples! Love the embossing… I’ve never seen that before.
where can i find the SVG file?? I don’t have fusion
