{"id":12064,"date":"2011-09-12T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=12064"},"modified":"2011-08-25T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T14:19:03","slug":"snake-wreath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=12064","title":{"rendered":"Snake Wreath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/snakewreath-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Snake Wreath\" title=\"Snake Wreath\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The intrepid pdq recently pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandinroad.com\/martha-stewart-animated-snake-wreath\/halloween-haven\/martha-stewart-for-grandin-road\/374058\">this<\/a> splendid wreath of snakes from Grandin Road, made especially fabulous by being motion-sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t care about the motion aspect, you can make a similar wreath at a fraction of the cost.  Grapevine wreaths are widely available at craft stores or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.save-on-crafts.com\/wrgr.html\">online<\/a>, and if you have access to grapevines you can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rCLhhy0k7a8\">make your own<\/a>.  Rubber snakes are common novelties, especially around Halloween, so you should be able to find them at party or craft suppliers or at online retailers like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orientaltrading.com\/realistic-snakes-a2-39_9600-12-1.fltr?Ntt=snakes\">Oriental Trading<\/a>.  Put the two together, and you&#8217;ve got yourself a wreath.<\/p>\n<p>The wreath at the Grandin Road site appears to be black, so you can spray-paint the wreath or leave it natural as desired.  If the snakes are particularly lurid colors, you can spray-paint them black or various shades of tan and brown (make sure you use paint that won&#8217;t deteriorate the rubber).  You can also get artsy and add detailing with metallic paint, hot-glue rhinestones into their eyes (or down their backs), or twine them with ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>The snakes can be attached with hot glue, but a good way to fasten them more securely is to impale them on a bit of floral wire: Run a couple inches of wire inside the snake, secure the entry point with a dot of hot glue, then bend out the rest of the wire and wrap it around the vines in the wreath.  Finish with a big ribbon bow or a few black silk roses.<\/p>\n<p>You could also expand beyond snakes and use rubber insects, fake eyeballs, or any other weird novelty item that strikes your fancy.  Putting it up at Halloween is entirely optional; I see no reason why it couldn&#8217;t be left up year &#8217;round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intrepid pdq recently pointed me to this splendid wreath of snakes from Grandin Road, made especially fabulous by being motion-sensitive. If you don&#8217;t care about the motion aspect, you can make a similar wreath at a fraction of the cost. Grapevine wreaths are widely available at craft stores or online, and if you have [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064","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=12064"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12077,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions\/12077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}