{"id":17,"date":"2007-07-10T08:26:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-07-10T08:33:49","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T15:33:49","slug":"tormented-picture-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Tormented Picture Frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another easy project, requiring little more than a cheap picture frame and some paint.  It doesn&#8217;t even require much manual dexterity, which is good, because I don&#8217;t have much.<\/p>\n<p><B>Materials:<\/B><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>A wooden picture frame.  It really should be wood, because you&#8217;re going to inflict mayhem upon it with nails and\/or screws.  Other materials will split or break or, for all I know, explode.  Wood, please.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Some matte black spray paint, otherwise known as the Duct Tape of the Goths.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Various sizes of nails, wood screws, or other fastening devices that look sort of spiky and Torquemada-inspiring.  Those little tiny <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C-clamp\">C clamps<\/a> might be nice.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Acrylic paint in a contrasting color.  Use blood-red to suggest, duh, blood, or maybe choose a nice bile yellow or pea-soup green.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Paint sealant (optional).<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><B>Technique:<\/B><br \/>\n<OL><br \/>\n<LI>Decide whether you want the nails\/screws\/implements of destruction to remain their natural metal color or if you want them to be black too.  If the former, paint the frame black now and skip Step 3.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Pound nails and screw um, screws haphazardly into the frame, leaving them sticking out partway.  Attach whatever other hardware suits your fancy.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>If everything&#8217;s supposed to be black, now&#8217;s the time to spray everything.  Let dry thoroughly.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Spatter on the acrylic paint.  An easy way to do this is to dip a brush in the paint and then flick it over the frame.  Let dry.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>If desired, spray with a sealant.  Let dry.<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/OL><br \/>\nInsert your favorite photo of Pinhead (or, y&#8217;know, any other photo) and display with pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another easy project, requiring little more than a cheap picture frame and some paint. It doesn&#8217;t even require much manual dexterity, which is good, because I don&#8217;t have much. Materials: A wooden picture frame. It really should be wood, because you&#8217;re going to inflict mayhem upon it with nails and\/or screws. Other materials will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things","category-doom-it-yourself","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","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=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}