{"id":4060,"date":"2009-08-06T07:26:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T11:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2009-08-06T08:28:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T12:28:03","slug":"skull-placecard-holders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4060","title":{"rendered":"Skull Placecard Holders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/placeholders-150x83.png\" alt=\"Placeholders\" title=\"Placeholders\" width=\"150\" height=\"83\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/badderhomesandgardens.blogspot.com\/\">Badder Homes and Gardens<\/a> recently linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barneys.com\/24K%20Gold%20Skull%20Place%20Card%20Holders\/00452512001691,default,pd.html\">these<\/a> gold-plated skull placecard holders, priced at a mere $195 per pair.<\/p>\n<p>This is a particularly headdesk-worthy item, because miniature plastic skulls and gold spray paint are cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Anatomical used to carry a very inexpensive version with articulated jaws, but it&#8217;s not in their current catalog.  They do offer a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anatomical.com\/product.asp_Q_pn_E_WCPSB\">somewhat more expensive version<\/a> which comes complete with a little model brain, and their &#8220;Mr. Thrifty&#8221; skulls are widely available from other vendors (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paleeye.com\/product_info.php?name=Mr.%20Thrifty%20Skull&#038;products_id=51\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceartandmore.com\/browseproducts\/Mr.-Thrifty-Plastic-Skull.html\">here<\/a>).  Skeleton Store is also offering this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeletonstore.com\/bag-of-9-miniature-skulls-86\">bag of miniature skulls<\/a>, but I can&#8217;t tell from the photo whether the jaws are hinged or not.<\/p>\n<p>Spritz &#8217;em with a little spray paint (make sure you get the kind that sticks to plastic), cover them with glitter, or tart them up however else you see fit.  Write your guests&#8217; names on little squares of cardstock (or use some of the fancy punch-out cards that fit in a computer printer), and you&#8217;re all set.  For the $200 that the gold-plated skulls cost you could outfit a whole dinner party and you wouldn&#8217;t have to worry about guests pocketing the holders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Badder Homes and Gardens recently linked to these gold-plated skull placecard holders, priced at a mere $195 per pair. This is a particularly headdesk-worthy item, because miniature plastic skulls and gold spray paint are cheap. Anatomical used to carry a very inexpensive version with articulated jaws, but it&#8217;s not in their current catalog. They do [&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-4060","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\/4060","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=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}