Inside Out Pen Stand – A Personalised Gift


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Today was Ashu Sir’s birthday. Happy Birthday Sir!!! He is one of my dance instructor at Hadippa Dance Academy.

You all know my love for personalized gifts, right? So I came up with a few ideas to make something for him. I finalized on two ideas. But due to Ganesh Visarjan, all the shops that sold the first thing were closed when I went to buy it. So, I decided to go with my second idea. Yup! I bought the materials to make this gift just yesterday, finished making it in 12 hours flat. :P

During our conversations sometimes, he had mentioned the movie, “Inside Out” a couple of times. So I thought that since he loved the movie so much, why not to make something with the theme of this movie. I wanted to add all the main characters of the movie into what I was going to create.

The hard part was deciding what to make. I came up with a few of the choices: An amigurumi, a pillow or a pen stand. I liked the pen stand idea as he constantly uses it. I thought it would be a nice and funny gift with characters like Joy, Disgust, Sadness, Fear & Anger. Even feelings like disgust, sadness, fear and anger looks cute especially when they are cartoons, right? :)

I couldn’t find a pen stand with five sides to paint all these five characters. So I made it from scratch using a hard board, paper and other stuff. This is the first time, I made a project with wood. Yay!!! to learning new skills. I will write a tutorial on how to make a pen stand later on and add it in my shop. So even you can make it on your own if you wish.

I hand painted each character using acrylic colors and some sparkling, shiny colors. I love how the sparkling colors make each character pop and stand apart from each other.

This is how Joy looks with her face up:

inside-out-joy

I made her upside down just like in the movie poster. This is how the pen stand looks like with Joy side.:

inside-out-pen-stand

Now meet Anger:

inside-out-anger

Coming up next is Fear:

inside-out-fear

The picture won’t be complete without Sadness. So, here she goes:

inside-out-sadness

And last, but not the least, Disgust. I love the way she carries herself. Ooh! such an attitude:

inside-out-disgust

I felt that the bottom  of this stand looked quite empty. So, I also added a Yin-Yang symbol on the bottom. The idea struck me that the core happy memories was golden and the core sad memories was blue. So I added it into the Yin-Yang symbol symbolizing that happiness is incomplete without sadness and vice-versa.

This is how it looks:

yin-yang-symbol

The inside of this pentagon shaped pen stand looks pretty basic:

pentagon-shaped-pen-stand

 

Some more pictures of the stand:

anger

fear

sadness

disgust

I great enjoyed making this gift for Ashu Sir. I hope it brings smiles and happiness to him and others when they see it. :)

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