{"id":2058,"date":"2008-04-18T08:51:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T13:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2008-04-18T08:51:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T13:51:23","slug":"practically-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/04\/practically-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Practically Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16 months ago the Upstate Mosses welcomed their first girl after a succession of four boys. This meant the house had to restocked with cute pink clothes, ribbons, earrings barrettes and all things girly. It was a necessity. (Now this part is really a post that should have been written a year ago, and if it was, I apologize.) I desperately, desperately wanted <a href=\"http:\/\/robeez.com\/Robeez-Sandal-pink-Robeez-baby-shoes\/product.aspx?ProductID=549&#038;deptid=224&#038;PriceCat=2&#038;Lang=EN-US\">pink Robeez sandals<\/a> for my baby girl. But $27? I could not justify it. Too much. I started combing the Internet for patterns. That was when I stumbled on <a href=\"http:\/\/makethemyourself.com\/sandal.html\">Make Them Yourself.<\/a> The site owner, Misty, has tons of patterns for practical baby items (not just shoes). Although &#8220;practical&#8221; might be in the eye of the beholder if you call having tons of homemade baby shoes with various colors and styles practical I fell into a trap when I was able to buy a box of suede scraps of various shades of pink for $2 on eBay. Score<br \/>\nYesterday, I made these as a gift for a family friend:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dani72\/2420876537\/\" title=\"Baby shoes I made for a gift by momuvaif, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3074\/2420876537_41eb2b841a_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" alt=\"Baby shoes I made for a gift\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI think next time I should stuff the shoes with cotton or something before I take a picture of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 months ago the Upstate Mosses welcomed their first girl after a succession of four boys. This meant the house had to restocked with cute pink clothes, ribbons, earrings barrettes and all things girly. It was a necessity. (Now this part is really a post that should have been written a year ago, and if&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/04\/practically-fun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Practically Fun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}