{"id":2250,"date":"2012-08-13T20:29:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T04:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2012-08-13T20:29:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T04:29:05","slug":"thomas-the-tank-engine-wagon-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/thomas-the-tank-engine-wagon-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas the Tank Engine Wagon Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had Penelope’s ‘friends’ birthday party yesterday, Sunday. Saturday afternoon we started converting our cloth fold up wagon to a Thomas Engine for fun.<\/p>\n

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First we cobbled Thomas together out of cardboard, Make-Do and hot glue. Then I cut it in half, moved some parts around, and cobbled it together again – if only I’d started with a proper design sketch the whole thing would have required less cobbling, and actually held together!<\/p>\n

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I let Penelope help me with the base coat, and then it was dinner time. I’d hoped to finish him *before* the morning of the party, but I still had some time after dinner! I knew most of the next morning would have to go to the final version of our Shrinky Dink Solar Oven.<\/p>\n

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After the girls were in bed (and Penelope wouldn’t be wanting to help) I got Thomas mostly painted. Up past my bed time, and I still wasn’t happy with his face, but he was clearly recognizable. Even if most of his squares weren’t square. If I’d planned ahead of time I wouldn’t have had to use three different types of paint and some colored masking tape, washable black kids paint isn’t exactly black, but perfectionism had been relinquished back when I had to cut Thomas in half and majorly re-engineer his proportions the first time.<\/p>\n

The next morning I finished up his paint job, fixing his eyes, filling in his number and adding some black bits. I tried to get it done before Penelope woke up, but she caught me! Given that Thomas was in the middle of our living room I managed to convince her that she was only allowed paint if she was inside Thomas, so she decorated the inside of the drivers compartment. With sparkly blue paint. <\/p>\n

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When it was time for the party Jesse dressed up as Sir Topham Hatt (luckily he happens to possess a top hat, tail coat and yellow vest… Now whenever he dresses up I’m going to have a hard time not needling him about posing as Sir Topham hatt.) and he and the train were a big success. It did of course fall apart, not enough time for proper structural engineering! Now I can’t decide whether to fix it up again or let it pass into the night.<\/p>\n

Do you make silly things for your children’s birthday parties?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had Penelope’s ‘friends’ birthday party yesterday, Sunday. Saturday afternoon we started converting our cloth fold up wagon to a Thomas Engine for fun. First we cobbled Thomas together out of cardboard, Make-Do and hot glue. Then I cut it in half, moved some parts around, and cobbled it together again – if only I’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[168,79,21,169],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crafty","tag-birthday","tag-cardboard","tag-paint","tag-train","has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0721.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmXcv-Ai","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}