{"id":3806,"date":"2011-10-27T21:17:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T02:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frykitty.com\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2011-10-27T21:17:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T02:17:27","slug":"a-month-of-spookdays-jarring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=3806","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Spookdays: Jarring"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been wanting to make some jar lanterns since I saw Ghoul Friday’s tutorial<\/a>. Mostly, I followed it. Okay, I followed it a little. What I wanted was something I could stuff a string of LED lights into, and have vague shapes show through. You’ll see five jars in the work-in-progress. The last one is taking a little longer, and didn’t make it into the final shots.<\/p>\n

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Since I didn’t have any interesting jars sitting around to recycle, I spent a few quid* at Dollar Tree. I brought home not only the jars, but some creepy crawlers and skulls to put inside.<\/p>\n

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I coated the inside with diluted Elmer’s glue. One coat plain, then another with some paint. The black paint didn’t mix in well, so I ended up with chunks, which I thought was pretty cool. The jars now looked like dirty chocolate-milk glasses. That was fine, but I wanted more.<\/p>\n

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I wondered what would happen if I poured a little Pearl Ex<\/a> into the mostly-dry jars and shook it around. Ooh, mama like. Of course that left them impossibly messy inside, so I sprayed the heck out of them with matte sealer.<\/p>\n

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Next, going back to the tutorial, I used paint to blacken the top of the jars. The cotton balls came off in the paint a bit, giving it more yummy texture.<\/p>\n

For one of the large jars, I darkened some cheesecloth and tied it on with orange twine, then did a little more painting. I first stuffed that jar with orange lights and skulls. The second large jar turned out to be a bit opaque, so I took some creepies and put them right up against the glass, again stuffing it with a string of lights. I removed the rubber seal around the lid so there was room to sneak the cord and controller out the back of the jar.<\/p>\n

Even though I’d prepped the lids, I decided to leave them off the little jars. They got LED candles, and something creepy against the glass.<\/p>\n

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This was great fun, and I’m chuffed with the results. I think these are creepy enough to make the Spousal Unit shiver and give me that “I tolerate this because I love you” look. He gives me that look a lot this time of year.<\/p>\n

* I have no real idea what a quid is. It just sounded good.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wanting to make some jar lanterns since I saw Ghoul Friday’s tutorial. Mostly, I followed it. Okay, I followed it a little. What I wanted was something I could stuff a string of LED lights into, and have vague shapes show through. You’ll see five jars in the work-in-progress. The last one is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays","category-spooky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}