{"id":2673,"date":"2009-03-03T07:44:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T11:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2009-03-02T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T00:02:45","slug":"diy-cemetery-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2673","title":{"rendered":"DIY Cemetery Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/keeba-109x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tombstone\" title=\"Tombstone\" width=\"109\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Extruded foam insulation is wonderful stuff: Very cheap, easy to find, and easy to sculpt.  The fabulous Keeba has put together an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/hedstorm.net\/HAUNT\/instructions\/tombstones\/index.html\">tutorial<\/a> on making prop tombstones from the stuff, but it&#8217;s also the perfect medium for making smaller signs and plaques.<\/p>\n<p>For example, these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mostlydead.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1\">cemetery plaques<\/a> from Mostly Dead are a nice accent piece, but a very similar item could be handmade using insulating foam for a fraction of the price.  You could make mini tombstones as desktop nameplates, plaques for personalized door hangings, or an interestingly morbid wedding gift bearing the bride and groom&#8217;s birthdates with room left in for&#8230;other dates.<\/p>\n<p>Pay careful attention to the various methods described for sculpting the &#8220;stones:&#8221; If you&#8217;re more comfortable with a Dremel tool, use that.  If you&#8217;re happier using a woodburning set, that&#8217;s also an option.  If you&#8217;re on a budget and don&#8217;t have either tool, just use an Xacto knife and be really careful.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to make a &#8220;Wicked Stepmother&#8221; sign for my cube using this method.  I like to brag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extruded foam insulation is wonderful stuff: Very cheap, easy to find, and easy to sculpt. The fabulous Keeba has put together an excellent tutorial on making prop tombstones from the stuff, but it&#8217;s also the perfect medium for making smaller signs and plaques. For example, these cemetery plaques from Mostly Dead are a nice accent [&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-2673","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\/2673","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=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}