{"id":24711,"date":"2014-10-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=24711"},"modified":"2014-10-08T09:43:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T16:43:50","slug":"what-do-you-do-you-get-the-best-looking-ouija-board-ive-ever-seen-and-put-it-in-the-middle-of-our-living-room-explain-that-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/what-do-you-do-you-get-the-best-looking-ouija-board-ive-ever-seen-and-put-it-in-the-middle-of-our-living-room-explain-that-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you do? You get the best looking ouija board I&#8217;ve ever seen and put it in the middle of our living room&#8211;explain that to me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/crow-skull-planchette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24821\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/crow-skull-planchette.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/crow-skull-planchette.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/crow-skull-planchette-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/crow-skull-planchette-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/crow-skull-planchette-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/crow-skull-planchette-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, when you want something done right (or at least, large), you have to do it yourself. I had an Ouija board out at my last Halloween party, but it was plastic-y, cheap, and not the eye-catching spooky centerpiece that I was looking for. If I was going to turn my house into a proper Goth Downton Abbey in October, I&#8217;d need something grander.<\/p>\n<p>Something grander started with a big hunk of plywood at Home Depot. I took the measurements of my coffee table and had them cut the board to those dimensions. (I ended up having to wander through the store for a while looking for an employee, and as the piece of plywood was so large, it looked like I was using a clever disguise to hunt wascally wabbits.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/giant-plywood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24831\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/giant-plywood.jpg\" alt=\"giant plywood\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/giant-plywood.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/giant-plywood-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/giant-plywood-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/giant-plywood-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/giant-plywood-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home-depot-camouflage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24841\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home-depot-camouflage.jpg\" alt=\"home depot camouflage\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home-depot-camouflage.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home-depot-camouflage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home-depot-camouflage-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home-depot-camouflage-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/home-depot-camouflage-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once that sucker was cut to the proper size, I brought it home and used a woodburning tool on all of the edges so they wouldn&#8217;t be so bright&#8211;I wanted them dark enough to almost visually blend with the coffee table in dim lighting. I could have accomplished this aim in any number of ways other than woodburning: stain, paint, marker, blood of the innocent&#8230;I just chose the method that tickled my pickle at the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/workbench.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24871\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/workbench.jpg\" alt=\"workbench\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/workbench.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/workbench-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/workbench-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/workbench-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/workbench-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the edges were to my liking, I put a couple of thin coats of Restor-A-Finish on top to bring out the grain and darken the wood a bit. I chose Restor-A-Finish for a couple of reasons: one, I had it on hand already so it was effectively free, and two, Restor-A-Finish has only a small amount of stain in it so I didn&#8217;t have to worry about accidentally making the wood so dark that it would compete with the lettering on top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/stained.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24861\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/stained.jpg\" alt=\"stained\" width=\"680\" height=\"907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/stained.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/stained-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/stained-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/stained-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/stained-200x266.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As usual, it&#8217;s at this point in the process where I got so involved that I stopped taking pictures, because I always forget about maybe blogging the project later in the heat of the moment. But it&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s that much to it, either. I wanted the board to have a creepy woodsy theme, so I used very thinned-out black acrylic paint to wash on a couple of trees on either side of the board. Thinned out acrylic soaks into the wood much like watercolor and by layering it, I was able to get the overall effect I was looking for. I found a free font I liked on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dafont.com\/wild-wood.font\" target=\"_blank\">dafont<\/a> and printed it out huge. Using that as a guide, I eyeballed it and penciled a larger approximation of each letter onto the board. When I was satisfied with placement, I then used a sharpie to fill them in. I went with sharpie over paint for the ease of crisp lines, a generally matte texture, not having to worry about chipping, and keeping the lettering area smooth. I have zero intention of ever using it as a functional board (I don&#8217;t believe in it and even if I did, it&#8217;s too dang big), but I wanted it to look as though it could be used as one, and letters with any amount of raising would keep the planchette from moving smoothly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/planchette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24881\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/planchette.jpg\" alt=\"planchette\" width=\"680\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/planchette.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/planchette-150x149.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/planchette-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/planchette-400x399.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/planchette-200x199.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/planchette-57x57.jpg 57w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/planchette-72x72.jpg 72w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/planchette-114x114.jpg 114w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/planchette-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/planchette-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the planchette, I decided that instead of the standard heart-shaped piece of wood, I wanted something that looked sort of like a crow skull. To make it, I used a cheap monocle I&#8217;d bought as a photo booth prop for the wedding and sculpted the skull shape using apoxie sculpt around it. I love apoxie sculpt&#8211;you mix equal parts of the putty thoroughly and you have 1-3 hours working time to get it shaped it exactly as you&#8217;d like, after which it cures hard and waterproof, able to be painted, sanded, drilled, and pretty much anything else you can imagine. I find it superior to sculpey and the like because it doesn&#8217;t need to be baked to cure and I&#8217;ve found it to be less fragile as well. The only downsides are the shorter working time and higher cost per ounce, but I&#8217;m still using the one pound pack I bought in 2010, and I&#8217;ve found that if I don&#8217;t finish a small sculpting project within a couple of hours, I won&#8217;t ever finish it, so the shorter working time actually works for me in that it keeps my butt glued to the seat and focused on what I&#8217;m doing. Once the apoxie sculpt finished curing, I painted it with some acrylic paint.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ouija-board-and-candles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24851\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ouija-board-and-candles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ouija-board-and-candles.jpg 680w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ouija-board-and-candles-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ouija-board-and-candles-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ouija-board-and-candles-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ouija-board-and-candles-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spooky, no? If I was going to do it over, I&#8217;d use a larger magnifying glass lens instead of a monocle, and I may yet do so, if only because the magnified area is so relatively small compared to the size of the letters. But for under $12 (basically, the cost of the wood, since I had all of the other materials on hand), I definitely have something that&#8217;s much more dramatic and eye-catching than the cardboard board game!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, when you want something done right (or at least, large), you have to do it yourself. I had an Ouija board out at my last Halloween party, but it was plastic-y, cheap, and not the eye-catching spooky centerpiece that I was looking for. 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