{"id":1345,"date":"2008-10-30T07:21:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T11:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2008-10-30T07:59:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T11:59:41","slug":"pumpkin-diorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Diorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/diorama-111x150.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween Diorama\" title=\"Halloween Diorama\" width=\"111\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Now that Halloween is at hand, Funkins and other fake pumpkins should be on clearance at your local craft store.  Go get one and turn it into a diorama like this one, from Craftster user Miz.Persnicket.  She&#8217;s got a whole little graveyard inside, complete with lurking rats and tap-dancing skeletons.<\/p>\n<p>She doesn&#8217;t give any directions, but from her supplies list it appears that she cut a hole in the pumpkin using a dremel tool (you could also use a little jigsaw), then painted the inside and the cut edge.  The gravestones appear to be the little foam jobs you see as table decorations (they&#8217;re also available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orientaltrading.com\/ui\/browse\/processRequest.do?demandPrefix=12&#038;sku=25\/6724&#038;mode=Searching&#038;erec=7&#038;Ipp=16&#038;No=16&#038;D=tombstones&#038;Ntt=tombstones&#038;Ntk=all&#038;Dx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&#038;Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&#038;N=0&#038;requestURI=processProductsCatalog&#038;sd=Tabletop+Cemetery+Kit\">Oriental Trading<\/a>), and the grass is reindeer moss.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s all kinds of stuff you could do with a pumpkin as a frame: A Macbeth-type blasted heath with bubbling cauldron, a mad scientist&#8217;s laboratory, a cave full of bats, a dubious-looking gingerbread house&#8230;you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d be fun to do a whole series of these, each with a different scene inside, and make a big tabletop display.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftster.org\/forum\/index.php?topic=267732.0\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Halloween is at hand, Funkins and other fake pumpkins should be on clearance at your local craft store. Go get one and turn it into a diorama like this one, from Craftster user Miz.Persnicket. She&#8217;s got a whole little graveyard inside, complete with lurking rats and tap-dancing skeletons. She doesn&#8217;t give any directions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittens","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","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=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}