{"id":23534,"date":"2015-02-17T05:43:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T10:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23534"},"modified":"2015-02-10T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T22:54:13","slug":"constellation-jack-o-lanterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23534","title":{"rendered":"Constellation Jack-o&#8217;-Lanterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/constellationjacks-150x128.jpg\" alt=\"Constellation Pumpkins\" width=\"150\" height=\"128\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>If you bought any craft pumpkins on clearance after Halloween last year, here&#8217;s the perfect project.  If you didn&#8217;t, well&#8230;that was silly of you.  Keep this in mind for next Halloween.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themerrythought.com\/\">The Merrythought<\/a> did a neat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designsponge.com\/2014\/10\/diy-constellation-pumpkin-by-the-merrythought.html\">tutorial for Design*Sponge<\/a> for carving constellations in Jack-o&#8217;-Lanterns.  I love how restrained and elegant they look.<\/p>\n<p>Their method uses real pumpkins, but there&#8217;s no reason why you couldn&#8217;t do the same thing with craft foam pumpkins like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;field-keywords=funkin\" rel=\"nofollow\">Funkins<\/a>.  As they suggest, you could do one or more small pumpkins with one constellation each, or carve several constellations into a larger pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p>They suggest spray-painting the pumpkins black, and that&#8217;s certainly the most dramatic presentation (it has the added benefit of making the &#8220;stars&#8221; look like they&#8217;re hanging in midair when the lights are out); you could also paint them white and use purple or blue lights for better contrast.<\/p>\n<p>Drilling holes and etching straight lines is refreshingly easy, so even those of us without any pumpkin-carving mojo should be able to play along.  It&#8217;d be fun to do the zodiac constellations of family members, or a set of them associated with a particular myth (such as Orion and his dogs, Canis Major and Canis Minor).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you bought any craft pumpkins on clearance after Halloween last year, here&#8217;s the perfect project. If you didn&#8217;t, well&#8230;that was silly of you. Keep this in mind for next Halloween. The Merrythought did a neat tutorial for Design*Sponge for carving constellations in Jack-o&#8217;-Lanterns. I love how restrained and elegant they look. Their method uses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23534","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=23534"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24108,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23534\/revisions\/24108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}