{"id":1001,"date":"2011-09-15T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gingiber.com\/happiness-is-homemade-2\/"},"modified":"2011-09-15T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T11:35:00","slug":"happiness-is-homemade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"Happiness is Homemade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JrQ9ILpcYDI\/TnC7TuSlhzI\/AAAAAAAADiY\/iTFboSAhfMM\/s1600\/il_fullxfull.238978147.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JrQ9ILpcYDI\/TnC7TuSlhzI\/AAAAAAAADiY\/iTFboSAhfMM\/s640\/il_fullxfull.238978147.jpg\" width=\"522\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/72878564\/happiness-is-homemade-print?utm_source=papernstitch&#038;utm_medium=api&#038;utm_campaign=api\">Happiness is Homemade<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/people\/smalltalkstudio\/favorites?ref=pr_faveitems_more\">SmallTalk<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Hello! Hello! How are you today?&#8221; This is a song that my Violet sings everyday. That girl loves to make up words to songs. And paint. and cook breakfast with her mommy. Do I have a little handmade maven waiting in the wings? Perhaps \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I love homemade. Children&#8217;s clothing made from vintage sheets. Quilts, like the darling yellow one that Nathan&#8217;s grandmother made for him when he was a baby. Baking and taking time to create a cake from scratch. I often feel like the investment of time that goes into creating a handmade gift is a gift in and of itself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As I have been preparing for Lucy&#8217;s arrival, I have been trying as hard as I can to fill the girls&#8217; room with items that I have made for her and Violet. Handmade pillows and curtains. A thrifty little headboard. Doodles and mobiles and handmade bedding. I hope that someday they realize that making things for people is how I show love.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And I love my girls so.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Tell me, do you love to give and receive homemade items?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness is Homemade by SmallTalk &#8220;Hello! Hello! How are you today?&#8221; This is a song that my Violet sings everyday. That girl loves to make up words to songs. And paint. and cook breakfast with her mommy. Do I have a little handmade maven waiting in the wings? Perhaps \ud83d\ude42 I love homemade. Children&#8217;s clothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemade","category-smalltalk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}