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It figures I’d see these too late to use them as holiday ornaments, but they’re attractive enough to leave up year-round.<\/p>\nIt figures I’d see these too late to use them as holiday ornaments, but they’re attractive enough to leave up year-round.<\/p>\n
Artist gnarledbranch made these<\/a> gorgeous ornaments using papier-mache apples. I love the little skulls atop each stem.<\/p>\n You can make papier-mache apples or other fruit easily enough; or you can find premade ones in craft stores or online<\/a>. You could also use wooden<\/a> or plastic<\/a> apples, although with the latter you’d want to make sure that the paint you used would stick.<\/p>\n I like the matte, dark colors used to paint the apples. The skulls could be painted using a stencil if you aren’t ambitious enough to try them freehand. The skulls on the stems appear to be little plastic novelties similar to these<\/a>, but you could also use skull-shaped beads (a quick google turns up loads of them; I like these<\/a>) or make your own from polymer clay.<\/p>\n The material used for the hangers appears to be fairly stiff; possibly something like thin cardboard. You could also use a pretty ribbon, or rough twine for a more rustic look. It could be attached with a dab of hot glue or, if you’re using a heavier wooden apple, a small nail or staple. You could also omit the hanger entirely and just pile these in a bowl, but I have to say that a tree covered with “cursed fruit” would be extremely striking.<\/p>\n Incidentally, be sure to check out the rest of the artist’s Flickr stream<\/a>, particularly the gorgeous jewelry boxes<\/a> that he paints.<\/p>\n (Hat tip to Cat)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It figures I’d see these too late to use them as holiday ornaments, but they’re attractive enough to leave up year-round. Artist gnarledbranch made these gorgeous ornaments using papier-mache apples. I love the little skulls atop each stem. You can make papier-mache apples or other fruit easily enough; or you can find premade ones in […]<\/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-17140","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\/17140","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=17140"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17159,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17140\/revisions\/17159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}