#shadowboxes

[demonbittenshinigami]

Trying out making shadow boxes for the first time!!! Wanted to make a tribute towards one of my favorite games, Sally Face!!!

[evil-is-relative]

What's a shadowbox?

A shadowbox is kinda like a mini shelf meets a picture frame. People put momentos and stuff in them. I want to put a little diorama. Here are some examples.

This one is available on etsy!

This one is used as a protective display case.

There are lots of uses.

I think this one is paperart. It's a Dark Souls themed one for sale here.

[beautifulbizarremagazine]

@dariaaksenovaart’s Narrative ShadowBoxes are just MAGICAL! This one's called "Fairytale Bliss" and we're in LOVE! (pen and ink on hand cut, suspended, layered paper) . . . #beautifulbizarremagazine #contemporaryart #shadowboxes #fairytales #mixedmedia

[buildingshitwithcrab]

Something I’ve meant to get pictures of for a while: an endless sea of shadowboxes. There are honestly two more, to the right of the green one, but my Regulator clock is blocking the bigger one at the moment and it’s only holding a few 80s plastic stampers, and the small one has my previously-pictured mini rollerskate collection.

The second-pictured shadowbox and the blocked one look almost identical, and both have been in my family for literally as long as I can remember. All of the others were thrifted, one way or another.

The first pic is the biggest outlier of things that weren’t thrifted: the Li’l Me Valerie doll (barely visible, on the far left,) the Grand Champions mini horses, everything MLP, the Hello Kitty Squinkies, most of the Shopkins jars, and the polymer clay cat (which I made.) The trucks have all been found at the Goodwill outlet. My dad had a long career as a semi driver, my mom was his that-was-her-job-too driving partner for a while, one of my old jobs was sorting paperwork & receipts for trucker reimbursement and I still have all the truck trading cards they’d send in for the sorters, and it’s just something I never lose a satellite interest in. If I find another shadowbox or rack for the jars, that one will probably be taken over by more trucks, eventually. I’m at least trying to keep it to vintage metal ones, or models with something that moves or opens. That helps trim numbers more than you’d think. I like the late 70s/early 80s semis best, anyhow.

The second pic is an ode to me being a sucker. I’m not expressly a fan of Garfield, Snoopy, Smurfs, nor Frozen, but I absolutely am a fan of 80s stuff, 80s Happy Meal toys, and ice & crystal castles. Everything visible here, except for the shadowbox, itself, was thrifted. Even the Barbie legs, sticking out of the box to the right. My family used to have a 90% complete collection of those gumball machine football helmets, but god only knows what happened to them all, between moves. All that remains is the Bengals helmet, from before it was redesigned to the stripes, and if we were going to keep one specifically, that would be the one. And now this Broncos one, that came out of a grab bag. I really have no interest in Denver, but 9-year-old me liked the Broncos because horse, so it’s weirdly the helmet 80s-me would’ve wanted the most to find.

The log cabin is effing adorable, and looked so much better just after letting it soak in a wipe-down of furniture oil. I think it’s meant as a display for some line of gift shop figurines, but I can’t remember what the back labels says and I’m not taking it down to find out. I’ve had the Avon flower girl since like ‘83, I made the clam, and I think the green bird came from Target, years ago. The puffball things are souvenirs of the USAF’s 40th anniversary in 1987, which is appropriate since the Air Force museum lives in the same town that I do. The best bits are the connected line of bunnies, which my friend @evil-robot-cat sent me for Christmas, and the don’t-ask-me-how matching line of chickens that I found a couple months later at the outlet. Not something I ever expected to have a sort-of pair of, but it makes me happy that I do.

The green shadowbox used to be pink, and is probably as old as my white ones. I’ve never seen another hexagon yet. It’s hard to describe how tiny some of this stuff is, but the green thing in the lower left is a 30′ tape measure, and the yellow hotrod car is a Micro Machine. E.T. is not a full two inches tall. The Miss Piggy used to be a keychain fob, and was a prize from the now-gone Americana amusement park in southwest Ohio. She’s always has red hair. I’m not sure why. The white box to her left is supposed to be for kids to take home a tooth lost at the dentist’s (no tooth included, luckily.) Tiny, tiny shit.

The last shadowbox is just tiny, thrifted dinosaurs. The pink frame is 1″x2″. I don’t collect every dinosaur I come across at the outlet, but the tiny and/or oddly painted ones seem to need a home the most, and find their way into the box.

[mabgravesart]

Here’s a little miniature Museum tip: I make all my shadow boxes and most of my frames myself. The shadow boxes consist of 9 pieces, and each layer (top sides and bottom) are glued separately. Once they are dry, I glue all the layers together (with wood glue) but they are too delicate to clamp - even with low-weight clamps- so I wind it all gently but firmly with thread to hold everything together till it dries. I use makeshift thread-clamping on a lot of stuff and it’s super handy 💕 #mabsminiaturemuseum #process #miniaturetips #mabgraves #dollhouseminiatures #shadowboxes

[lootd]

[michiscribbles]

All set up at #fandays at the #torontoconventioncrntre #comevisit #shadowboxes #totoro #christmasshopping #christmasgifts #haku #gift #wallart #anime #ghibli #convention #torontoart

[missmichmesch]

Finally started on my home office/practice room tonight. I needed to do something that would stop my mind from racing, as anxiety from the shitstorm that has been my life lately has been consuming me. Between my personal shit, and most of all the moving houses stuff and taking over my old room I grew up in and turning it into something new - I think I had been putting it off because of my grief over how much was changing all at once. Trying to remind myself that change is good. So, here's a start. The piano will be in here along with a couch at some point too, but this is all that's done for now. It's not much, but I think it's very "me." ... #anxiety #grief #change #homeoffice #practiceroom #vanity #psomedals #ganeshatapestry #ganesha #tapestry #shadowboxes #songofuriontah #desk #jingles #changeisgood #childhoodhome #creativemess #redecoration (at Salisbury, Nassau County, New York)