{"id":15958,"date":"2020-09-18T21:37:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T04:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=15958"},"modified":"2020-09-18T21:37:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T04:37:54","slug":"a-lava-lamp-and-a-bulletin-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=15958","title":{"rendered":"A lava lamp and a bulletin board"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a while, I’ve been searching for a 1:12 scale lava lamp to put in Sam & Max’s office. <\/p>\n

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I found several options that could work, if only they were still available. American Girl used to have a line of 1:12 AG Mini furniture and accessories that included a lava lamp that lit up<\/a>. I also came across a necklace from Hot Topic<\/a>, a cell phone charm<\/a> made by Mathmos (which also sells life-sized lava lamps), and a super pricey charm from Juicy Couture<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I’d almost given up when I decided to try “lava lamp toy” on eBay and landed on this hideous thing.<\/p>\n

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This is a 6″ action figure, which makes him 1:12 scale. The lava lamp is a little large — it’s 2″ tall (the equivalent of 24″) and a standard lava lamp is only 16.3″ tall. But after searching high and low, I didn’t think I’d find anything better. And the lava’s even the right color!<\/p>\n

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But the base and cap were not the right color. I used my Molotow Liquid Chrome marker<\/a> to color the black parts silver. This is the best silver pen ever — it really looks like metal.<\/p>\n

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Next I tackled the bulletin board.<\/p>\n

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I cut four pieces of picture frame trim with mitered corners. The cork is a sheet of cork scrapbook “paper” from Michaels. (It’s pure cork, no paper backing, but I found it in the paper section.)<\/p>\n

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The cork is flimsy so I also cut out a piece of thin cardboard to add support. I stained the frame pieces with my Minwax Golden Oak stain pen.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the assembled bulletin board.<\/p>\n

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One of the items on the bulletin board is a blue prize ribbon. I followed a YouTube tutorial<\/a> for making Breyer horse ribbons. <\/p>\n

This is 1\/8″ ribbon. When I tried to cut a ribbon piece for the circle in the center, it frayed, so instead I used a hole punch on a piece of textured scrapbook paper and colored it blue with a marker. I spread a small amount of fray check on the cut ends of the ribbon tails to prevent unraveling.<\/p>\n

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The rest of the bulletin board stuff was extracted from the game textures using Telltale Explorer<\/a>. I’d planned to pin these in using brads as thumbtacks, but the cork was too thin for that so I glued them instead.<\/p>\n

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I glued the ends of a piece of thread to the back, and also reinforced them with tape.<\/p>\n

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Then I poked a hole in the wall using the pilot hole tool (easy to do, since the walls are foam core), glued in a mini nail, and hung it up.<\/p>\n

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For a while, I’ve been searching for a 1:12 scale lava lamp to put in Sam & Max’s office. I found several options that could work, if only they were still available. American Girl used to have a line of 1:12 AG Mini furniture and accessories that included a lava lamp that lit up. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[90,26,91],"class_list":["post-15958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-freelance-police-office","tag-roomboxes","tag-sam-max","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15958"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15989,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958\/revisions\/15989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}