{"id":15477,"date":"2012-07-19T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15477"},"modified":"2012-07-12T10:54:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T15:54:16","slug":"diy-tin-altar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15477","title":{"rendered":"DIY &#8220;Tin&#8221; Altar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/tinaltar-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tin Altar\" title=\"Tin Altar\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Metal folk-art <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicho\">nichos<\/a> are a common part of Dia de Los Muertos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/ent\/dead\/altar\/\">shrines<\/a> for the dead, and usually display either religious icons or photographs of the deceased person being honored.<\/p>\n<p>Crafting for Cheapskates has a dynamite <a href=\"http:\/\/craftingforcheapskates.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/tin-altar.html\">tutorial<\/a> for making &#8220;tin&#8221; nichos out of disposable aluminum baking pans.  The instructions are super-easy, with lots of suggestions for optional embellishment, plus work-arounds for those of a less-artistic bent.<\/p>\n<p>Nichos are often on the colorful-shading-into-garish side, so in addition to the paint\/nail polish the tutorial suggests you could also glue on sequins, fake jewels, or bits of metallic fabric trim.<\/p>\n<p>These are cheap and easy enough that you could experiment with a range of shapes and decorations, and they&#8217;d make an interesting group craft too: Invite some friends over for dinner and altar-making.  It&#8217;d also be a good project for kids; you could cut the basic shapes in advance and let them etch lines and dots with something blunt-ish like a ballpoint pen.  (Particularly with kids, the intent doesn&#8217;t have to be &#8220;honoring a dead thing&#8221; so much as &#8220;paying homage to something you love.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Set them up in a shrine, hang them on your wall, or mass them on an end table.  You could even make small ones and use them as holiday ornaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metal folk-art nichos are a common part of Dia de Los Muertos shrines for the dead, and usually display either religious icons or photographs of the deceased person being honored. Crafting for Cheapskates has a dynamite tutorial for making &#8220;tin&#8221; nichos out of disposable aluminum baking pans. The instructions are super-easy, with lots of suggestions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15477","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=15477"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15498,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15477\/revisions\/15498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}