{"id":249,"date":"2011-05-29T18:55:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T02:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2011-10-24T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T15:11:07","slug":"craft-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Craft Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The girls and I spent a couple of hours making fun crafts on Saturday morning.  It was a welcomed diversion from all of the stressful things going on lately.  First we tried making tissue paper flowers, and we all failed miserably.  My tissue paper was gift-grade, not craft-grade.  It ripped easily and clearly wasn&#8217;t made to withstand the yanking and folding we were doing to it!  So then I thought it might work for paper lanterns, and we tackled that idea easily.  I used to make them with students years ago, but haven&#8217;t done it in a while.  The girls were amazed that I could just whip up a paper lantern in only a couple of minutes ;)  I never told them I&#8217;d probably helped make hundreds of them with students over the years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/2011\/May2011\/Crafts\/CraftSaturday1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/2011\/May2011\/Crafts\/CraftSaturday2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/2011\/May2011\/Crafts\/CraftSaturday3.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I left them hanging in the tree overnight and it rained last night, and one of them took a little bit of a hit with the water damage&#8230; we stapled it back together and Ainsley didn&#8217;t seem too upset, so now they&#8217;re inside hanging from the ceiling :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The girls and I spent a couple of hours making fun crafts on Saturday morning. It was a welcomed diversion from all of the stressful things going on lately. First we tried making tissue paper flowers, and we all failed&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/?p=249\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rang;&rang;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snippetsfromsuburbia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}