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It looked a bit empty in the far corner of the living room. But I fixed that...
A few years ago, I painted some plaques of the houses of Hogwarts. I traced the pattern, then
cut the pieces, primed the plaques, then hand painted the images to them. One is of course...
Three guesses what the other one is... and the first two don't count.
These were both on the wall, over the couch. But the addition of another prop
has made me re-arrange things a bit. The prop was just going to be a skeleton, until I had the bright idea to transform him
into a dead pirate. Okay, a "LONG DEAD" pirate. So I had to relocate these plaques to the corner, off to the right, to accomidate
a billowing pirate flag.
The two plaques now share a bare corner with the "H-P" for Harry Potter.
It filled up the space and worked out quite well.
Now, when I don't feel like being "Wolfie" on Halloween, I have a second costume.
A Pirate, (of all things.) So I had a lot of accessories that went with the costume. Jewelry, a flag, a REAL swoard. The usual...
Here, Richard & I mounted a small plastic desk fan to the wall, (the black
thing that sort of looks like circles.) The fan blows at the flag, and it causes the flag to "wave". You might not be able
to pick up on the movement, but you can see that the flag (in the images below,) has a different set of ripples as the breeze
billows the fabric.
This is the prop that made me change things around a bit. It has a Shakespearian
wig, A purple/lavender scarf, a Santa Clause costume belt, assorted necklaces and a medallion, a swoard, (drawn and held aloft,)
wrist bracelets, a sash, and a ripped up and seemingly rotten shirt that glows with UV.
Here's the prop with a bit of UV thrown in.
The skeleton is made out of latex, and according to Richard, it's about 8 years
old. So it has lost it's shape, here & there. The ribcage was kind of "flattened, the jaw was also mis-formed, various
bones were no longer "round" but flattened, (one arm was steached waaaaay too long.
Richard says the arm fell off the box it was laying on, and it streached out
as it lay baking in the attic. But for the most part, it was still useable. I just had to try and hide the damage that was
done to it.
I just used some fishing line to hold up the arm and the swoard, and various
other skeletal elements, to get it into some sort of "viewable" position.
Richard was standing on the floor, or sitting on the couch, or in the recliner,
so I can position the skeleton so that it's features would actually be seen from different vantage points around the room.
Here's a picture of Richard, as we play with our powerball.
I made a make-shift shade for a screw-in flourecent UV lamp.
This was made from a soup can, by using a sharp razor knife and removing about
a third of the side of a Cambell's Soup Can. (Chunkey Chicken Noodle to be exact.)
used two sheetrock/wallboard screws to mount it to the ceiling and used
pins to hold the cord for temporary use.
The end that positions the socket was covered with a clear yogurt cup, cut a
circle out of the center with a razor knife.
A bit of tweeking had to go on here, as the blacklight had a slot around the
casing. The edge of the inner hole of the yogurt cup lid, fits with a snap, into the slot.
I still have to paint it an off-white to blend into the ceiling a bit more. But
since all the lighting is going to be re-arranged in a few days, this project may have been unneccissary.
Time will tell. I'll probably figure out a new place for it anyway.
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