{"id":6670,"date":"2010-04-28T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T11:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6670"},"modified":"2010-04-26T10:25:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T14:25:23","slug":"sinister-saint-novena-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6670","title":{"rendered":"“Sinister Saint” Novena Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Novena\"Dave Lowe recently did a series<\/a> of “Sinister Saint” cartoons on Para Abnormal, highlighting saints who are the patrons of things like gravediggers and swordsmiths. He decided to turn a couple of them into novena candles for Halloween props, and posted a how-to<\/a> on his blog.<\/p>\n

He’s got the “candle-ready” images he used available for download, but the same method could be used for the image of your choice. Adding stained-glass effects to a picture is fairly easy in Photoshop (this<\/a> is one method, but there are lots of other tutorials available for the googling), and if you have access to a color printer it’d be easy to turn out lots of these pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

These might make interesting favors for parties or weddings: Browse through the Big List o\u2019Saints<\/a>* to find appropriate patrons,*** fancy up their icons in Photoshop (bonus: Old-time saints tended to get sainted by dint of being gruesomely martyred, so the artwork depicting them frequently looks like something Clive Barker dreamed up), print, glue, and done!<\/p>\n

I’m a big fan of projects that look like they took much more time and skill than they actually did, and this is something that even the most thumb-fingered amongst us should be able to accomplish pretty easily.
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\n*Not its real title.**<\/p>\n

**Although, frankly, given that there\u2019s patron saint of knife-grinders and a saint you\u2019re supposed to pray to for in-law problems, it\u2019s hard to think of it by anything grander.<\/p>\n

***Incidentally, the patron saint of the Internet is St. Isidore<\/a>. Despite having lived around 600 AD, when broadband really wasn\u2019t widely available, he was nominated as the patron of computers, computer techs, and the Internet in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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