{"id":2931,"date":"2009-04-08T07:29:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T11:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2009-10-07T10:33:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T14:33:31","slug":"fake-decorative-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2931","title":{"rendered":"Fake Decorative Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/candle-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Candle\" title=\"Candle\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The marvelously talented Dave Lowe, who has a job that requires him to do things like find a storage location for <a href=\"http:\/\/davelowe.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/conundrum.html\">ten gallons of slime<\/a>, recently posted about a little throwaway detail he noticed at Disneyland: <a href=\"http:\/\/davelowe.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/disneyland-design-tricks.html\">Prop candles<\/a> made from wood and hot glue.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many props which are far beyond my meagre abilities, this is something that isn&#8217;t hard to do.  I&#8217;ve posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?page_id=4647\">tutorial<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to try it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fun and easy way to add a lot of drama to interior decor.  Wooden candles are less fragile and much longer-lasting than real ones, you can paint them to match your room, and you can make them look as drippy and gothic as you want.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got a bare corner that you don&#8217;t know what to do with, a big candelabra filled with spooky-looking candles might be just the thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marvelously talented Dave Lowe, who has a job that requires him to do things like find a storage location for ten gallons of slime, recently posted about a little throwaway detail he noticed at Disneyland: Prop candles made from wood and hot glue. Unlike many props which are far beyond my meagre abilities, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","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=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}