{"id":3222,"date":"2013-12-19T10:23:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T15:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weareheavyduty.com\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2013-12-19T10:23:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T15:23:01","slug":"christmas-card-2013-house-diorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2013\/christmas-card-2013-house-diorama\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Card 2013 \u2013 House Diorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1095\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Christmas Card 2013 - House Diorama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/imheavyduty\/11451056346\/in\/set-72157606486469996\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1095\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1095\" alt=\"Christmas Card 2013 - House Diorama\" src=\"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/assets\/christmas-card-diorama-640.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christmas Card 2013 &#8211; House Diorama (Click it to see it bigger at Flickr.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2012 we couldn&#8217;t get a card done in time. Our dog had just died and Paris was away at college. The motivation and planning didn&#8217;t come together. But this year we&#8217;re back! Mary had the idea of a diorama and we decided to make one of our house decorated for Christmas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Roof &#8211; We cut up some extra shingles from the new roof we got this year.<\/li>\n<li>Bricks &#8211; We took photos of the different bricks, printed them life size, and cut them up.<\/li>\n<li>Windows &#8211; Mary cut out the windows and trim, using colors similar to the house. We tried to keep the whole thing slightly cartoonish and handmade-looking.<\/li>\n<li>Bushes &#8211; Those are made of leaves from the actual holly bushes we have. Dangerous work hot gluing those together!<\/li>\n<li>Christmas tree &#8211; My grandmother made that ceramic tree a long time ago.<\/li>\n<li>Wreath and &#8220;lights&#8221; &#8211; Mary strung up some beads to make lights and made the wreath from green pipe cleaners.<\/li>\n<li>Gravel &#8211; Straight from the driveway. Not exactly correct but a lot easier than making grass and a sidewalk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, each family member made his or her &#8220;self.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We started with a piece of foam core cut out for the house and glued the bricks and other parts to it. Then we backed with a piece of drywall also cut to the shape. Then put the whole thing on a large square of drywall so we could light it from behind and have the Christmas tree &#8220;inside.&#8221; We put pieces of colored paper behind the windows to create the appearance of rooms. The photos below show the set up.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, these cards end up being a lot more work than we expect. But I don&#8217;t regret one minute spent working with my family to make something for ourselves, and other family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>(<a title=\"Previous Christmas Cards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weareheavyduty.com\/tag\/christmas-card\/\" target=\"_blank\">Previous Christmas Cards<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1096\" alt=\"christmas-card-diorama-photo3\" src=\"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/assets\/christmas-card-diorama-photo3.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1098\" alt=\"christmas-card-diorama-photo2\" src=\"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/assets\/christmas-card-diorama-photo2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012 we couldn&#8217;t get a card done in time. Our dog had just died and Paris was away at college. The motivation and planning didn&#8217;t come together. But this year we&#8217;re back! Mary had the idea of a diorama and we decided to make one of our house decorated for Christmas. Roof &#8211; We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,36,349,350,353],"tags":[47,368,376],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handmade","category-mars","category-mary","category-paris","category-tracy","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-card","tag-diorama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}