{"id":20451,"date":"2014-03-20T06:37:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T11:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20451"},"modified":"2014-03-09T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T18:35:12","slug":"diy-steampunk-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=20451","title":{"rendered":"DIY Steampunk Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/medal12-142x150.jpg\" alt=\"Medals\" width=\"142\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>A lot of steampunk costumes have a military bent, making a chestful of medals de rigeur.  They&#8217;re a popular DIY item, so tutorials are abundant, but most of the ones I&#8217;ve seen either start with a premade ribbon (which limits your decorative options) or require you to go through <em>way<\/em> too many steps to achieve the desired effect.  I&#8217;ve done a (hopefully simpler) take on the technique.  I gothed things up a bit with my choice of pendants, so you can wear these and sneer, &#8220;That&#8217;s <em>Admiral<\/em> Frankenstein to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These go together really fast, so after you fill your uniform with them, you can make extras for personalized party favors or just to award randomly to friends and co-workers (&#8220;For meritorious service in clearing the copier jam, I present you this medal of honor&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>All the gory details are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?page_id=21243\">right here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of steampunk costumes have a military bent, making a chestful of medals de rigeur. They&#8217;re a popular DIY item, so tutorials are abundant, but most of the ones I&#8217;ve seen either start with a premade ribbon (which limits your decorative options) or require you to go through way too many steps to achieve [&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-20451","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\/20451","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=20451"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21251,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions\/21251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}