{"id":1160,"date":"2008-10-07T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T11:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2008-09-30T14:11:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T18:11:40","slug":"making-pickled-punks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Making Pickled Punks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/pickledpunk-80x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pickled Punk\" title=\"Pickled Punk\" width=\"80\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The I Make Projects site, whose tagline is &#8220;A good project is made better when its parts have been misused, and the result is hideous&#8221; (a sentiment I can heartily get behind), has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/imakeprojects.com\/Projects\/halloween-jars\/\">tutorial<\/a> on making <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pickled_punks\">pickled punks<\/a> and other monstrosities.  <I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re good at working with Sculpey or polymer clay, check out Uncialle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/~uncialle\/alihauntpage.html\">alien specimen<\/a> page for ideas on creating miniature beasties to bottle.<\/p>\n<p>For additional inspiration, there&#8217;s Aranamuerta&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/aranamuerta.com\/2008\/01\/29\/witches-kitchen\">Witch Kitchen<\/a> tutorial which shows how to slick up jars and bottles and includes some great suggestions for potion ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>And for some unbelievably gorgeous labels, take a look at the Love Manor Halloween haunt&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/lovemanor\/\">Flickr photostream<\/a>.  <I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/spookystyle\/\">Spooky is as Spooky Does<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n<p>I love this kind of project because the method could hardly be simpler&#8211;stick a plastic thing in a jar&#8211;and the impact is all in the presentation.  Thinking up imaginative labels and choosing the appropriate prop is loads of fun.  A collection of jars would be an arresting decorative accessory for a cubicle or living room.  It&#8217;d also be fun to send small (plastic) specimen jars as invitations to a Mad Scientist-themed party; just write the party details on the bottle&#8217;s label.<\/p>\n<p>Go forth, and pickle some punks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The I Make Projects site, whose tagline is &#8220;A good project is made better when its parts have been misused, and the result is hideous&#8221; (a sentiment I can heartily get behind), has a nice tutorial on making pickled punks and other monstrosities. (via BoingBoing) If you&#8217;re good at working with Sculpey or polymer clay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}