World of Warcraft lantern or Chronology of a gift

The Build (part 2)

After prolonged brainstorming about the matting I ended up in a "Мad as a hatter" state. That did help solving the problem though – I simply slapped a paper tissue to each pane. The paint you see is very sticky. Very. Indeed once dried you can’t get it off without excessive scrubbing and since it’s on the inside… well, you get the point. As a matter of fact it turned out better then the initial matting.

The next thing I focused my attention to was the creation of some openings on both the top and bottom parts of the lantern. I started with the top one. There I had to make two for the speakers. Which I mounted with liberal amounts of hot glue.

Then I concentrated on the lower part, which too needed only two openings. One for the SD card that is the only source of storing and transferring music for the player (All right, so I’m lying, there is an USB connectivity too, but for a wall mounted lantern a few meters of cable to the computer isn’t an option. Right?) and second one for the cable bundle on which the control buttons are attached (I’ll get to that).

Then I painted the speakers. Satisfied with the result I decided to write something like an Elven blessing. In a language I don’t know.

Two weeks should be enough I thought.

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Sometimes I’m an incorrigible optimist, sometimes. Elven language and writing is serious stuff. But I managed to come across enough guides on how to use Elven letters to write in English. True, that’s compromising, but the clock was ticking. "And may the light erernal bless this home protecting it forever more" it sounds good and it’s so beautiful.

So I get to mount the MP3 player. It seamed easy enough... Not! The difficulty was in the fact that the player was facing with its buttons to the bottom, so I had to make a bypass lines for them, with which to extend in a separate body the buttons by the above mentioned cable bundle. But first I had to choose what exactly would that body be. After some poking through Google (mostly with the words "Elvish" and "Elven") I found something that caught my eye. Of course it was redrawn in CorelDRAW and sent to the laser.

My, my! Where did the bloody week fly of to? Now I had only 5 days.

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