{"id":5195,"date":"2014-10-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2014-10-03T09:35:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:35:23","slug":"a-month-of-spookdays-pumpkin-diorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=5195","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Spookdays: Pumpkin Diorama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are a ton of pumpkin dioramas out there.\u00a0 I’ve been wanting to try one with my spare craft pumpkins, and finally got around to it.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the bare pumpkin. I refuse to pay full price on these. I suspect this came from Target for a few dollars. The actual Funkins that craft stores sell are crazy expensive.<\/p>\n

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Rough cut on the opening. I plan to use the cut out piece as a base, tilting it toward the front to create a “stage.” I later regretted this–it ended up crowding the pumpkin and obscuring things. I tell you this so you also do not think this is a good idea.<\/p>\n

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I wanted the background paint job to look like twilight. Sorta worked. First us of my new airbrush.<\/p>\n

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Next, I hot knifed the opening to add scrolls. I like this bit a lot.<\/p>\n

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Yes, it happens I have a Dremel bit that is exactly the right size for string lights to fit snugly. A purple string will light the sky.<\/p>\n

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Long time followers may remember these tiny tombstones<\/a> from a few years ago. I love these things, and wanted to give them a starring role.<\/p>\n

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I cut squares to fit the tombstones’ supports so they could be more solid before gluing, and so they could be positioned slanted back a ways.\u00a0 After I had those spots planned, I drilled small holes in front of each stone, plus more for the upcoming tree, for orange string lights.<\/p>\n

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Winding armature wire together to make a spooky tree.<\/p>\n

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Wrapped the tree in washi tape. It’s wonderfully flexible, so I can bend it way down to put things in the pumpkin, then pose it in place. It will also be wired with some orange lights.\u00a0 In hindsight, I wish I had wrapped the tree in something brighter, as it kind of disappears in the final piece.<\/p>\n

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Some final touches on the pumpkin; the edges of the opening get gold paint.<\/p>\n

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The outside gets an almost-dry rub of gold paint on a paper towel.<\/p>\n

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Stones and tree are in place. Orange lights are wired. Now to cut up a Halloween garland from last year and glue it down as ground cover. After this, both hands were too busy to take a photo as I maneuvered the stage into place.<\/p>\n

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Sky gets wired. I should have done this first, because I decided to drop most of the string down inside the pumpkin, behind and under the stage.<\/p>\n

What I learned: Don’t crowd the field.<\/p>\n

Raffle<\/a> status: way too delicate to ship; however, I would be pleased to remove the mini tombstones and send them off.<\/p>\n

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Light ’em up!<\/p>\n

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There are a ton of pumpkin dioramas out there.\u00a0 I’ve been wanting to try one with my spare craft pumpkins, and finally got around to it. Here’s the bare pumpkin. I refuse to pay full price on these. I suspect this came from Target for a few dollars. The actual Funkins that craft stores sell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays","category-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195","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=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}