{"id":21106,"date":"2014-03-06T05:33:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T10:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=21106"},"modified":"2014-03-02T17:46:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T22:46:15","slug":"altoid-tin-dioramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=21106","title":{"rendered":"Altoid Tin Dioramas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/altoid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/altoid-116x150.jpg\" alt=\"Altoid 221B\" width=\"116\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><\/a>Terribly Messy Maker Nichola &#8220;Knickertwist&#8221; Battilana decided to express her love of Sherlock Holmes by re-creating 221B Baker Street inside an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pixiehill.com\/2014\/01\/221b-baker-street.html\">Altoid Tin<\/a> (she&#8217;s since made several additional versions, shown <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pixiehill.com\/2014\/02\/221b-baker-street-redux-update.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I think these are simply adorable; I love the notion of a whole little world that you can carry in your pocket.  It&#8217;s like dollhouses taken to the next level of twee.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m apparently really late to the party in being surprised by Altoid-tin art, however: Nichola has done other awesome designs like this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pixiehill.com\/2012\/10\/halloweeny-altoid-tin.html\">Halloween vignette<\/a>, and googling &#8220;altoid tin diorama&#8221; turns up a ridiculous number of amazing designs.<\/p>\n<p>Artfully Musing did a <a href=\"http:\/\/artfullymusing.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/mini-apothecary-in-altoids-tin-book.html\">Mini Apothecary<\/a>.  Miss Lorna Rose did a neat <a href=\"http:\/\/misslornarose.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/10\/tacky-dads-are-cool\/\">Nosferatu<\/a> version.  The Uniconoclast does neat <a href=\"http:\/\/uniconoclast.com\/tag\/altered-altoid-tin\/\">Halloween ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sabrina of Split Coast Stampers made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splitcoaststampers.com\/forums\/20341659-post143.html\">creepy Halloween tin<\/a>.  Jabauer did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splitcoaststampers.com\/forums\/20335617-post122.html\">zombie-themed one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Doran combines the tins with carefully-cut paper to create <a href=\"http:\/\/fadedandblurred.com\/blog\/the-miniature-worlds-of-jim-doran\/\">a whole series<\/a> of &#8220;miniature worlds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you like Altoids anyway, you suddenly have a whole new reason to buy them.  The dioramas would make really interesting party favors.  You can create personalized scenes for all of your friends.  And after you&#8217;ve gifted everybody you know with a teensy diorama, you can squeeze out a few more tins with an Altoid Advent calendar like the <a href=\"http:\/\/overthecrescentmoon.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/completed-calendar-very-photo-heavy.html\">steampunk version<\/a> done by Over the Crescent Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terribly Messy Maker Nichola &#8220;Knickertwist&#8221; Battilana decided to express her love of Sherlock Holmes by re-creating 221B Baker Street inside an Altoid Tin (she&#8217;s since made several additional versions, shown here). I think these are simply adorable; I love the notion of a whole little world that you can carry in your pocket. It&#8217;s like [&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-21106","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\/21106","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=21106"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21167,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions\/21167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}