OK, I'm not big on excessive pin mods, but I do like the look of a tornado behind Dorothy's house in WOZ. But, is this Frugal Modder going to pay $50 or $100 for a little plastic tornado? Heck no! So here's how I made my WOZnado using a couple of things that were laying around the house. It was basically free, takes about 10-5 minutes (or less).
All you need is about 3 feet of flexible wire (I used 14 AWG white wire from standard house wiring conduit) and some clear plastic food wrap. Simply wind the wire in an expanding tornado-like coil shape. The bottom windings should be narrow (I used needlenose pliers to start) and then you can shape by hand as you go up. I left about 1/4" of the wire sticking down before starting the horizontal circle windings. Then take a few feet of food wrap, fold/bunch it to form a strip around an inch wide, and wind it in a spiral around the wire, bottom to top. Fold the last part of the food wrap over the top rim of the tornado, and that's it! You can shape the tornado even after you wind it up becaus ethe wrap and wire are both flexible.
I stuck a bit of putty on the bottom of the WOZnado and stuck the end of the wire into one of the 2 holes in the clear plastic behind Dorothy's house. Easy-peasy!
Here's what it looks like. 
(I might refine the wrap technique a bit, but it basically looks nice IMO. Can't beat it for price and required effort!)
Gardner, MA
But it just took a few minutes, cost me nothing, and it does look cool. (I think I can improve on the wrapping texture.) And maybe stick a few items on the tornado. One easy way is to go to a costume jewelry shop and get some toy post earrings, stick them thru the plastic....
Old Colwyn
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