{"id":1166,"date":"2009-09-09T22:32:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T03:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2009-09-09T22:32:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T03:32:56","slug":"oh-dear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"oh dear."},"content":{"rendered":"

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i seem to have found a fun new crafty skill.\u00c2\u00a0 as i was putting together a storytime kit for this fall all about monsters (which i put together almost every year–it’s my favorite!) i realized that we really didn’t have any good “hand stamps” for monsters.\u00c2\u00a0 i figured there would be tons of monster stamps available, especially so “near” halloween (note to local merchants:\u00c2\u00a0 august is not really all that close to halloween).\u00c2\u00a0 but alas, after visiting several stores, i had discovered no monster stamps.\u00c2\u00a0 zero.\u00c2\u00a0 the closest i could come was some ghosts and maybe a frankenstein, but no silly, goofy, kid-friendly monsters.<\/p>\n

suddenly, i remembered this fabulous video<\/a> i’d seen online recently.\u00c2\u00a0 i’d been so inspired by her artwork and by her stamp carving.\u00c2\u00a0 she makes it look so easy!\u00c2\u00a0 so, i bought a “stamp-carving kit” and set out to make my own darn monster stamp.\u00c2\u00a0 and you know what?\u00c2\u00a0 it really was pretty easy!\u00c2\u00a0 (shhhhh…. don’t tell…)\u00c2\u00a0 the hardest part was creating the wood blocks to glue to the back for stability.\u00c2\u00a0 i may need to make a few more… i’ve been doodling monsters during meetings…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i seem to have found a fun new crafty skill.\u00c2\u00a0 as i was putting together a storytime kit for this fall all about monsters (which i put together almost every year–it’s my favorite!) i realized that we really didn’t have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-stuff","category-library-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}