{"id":2072,"date":"2012-04-13T00:28:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T05:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2012-04-13T00:28:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T05:28:30","slug":"a-quick-facelift-for-my-lowly-kitchen-floor-mat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=2072","title":{"rendered":"a quick facelift for my lowly kitchen floor mat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"my kitchen mat was starting to look a little sad.\u00c2\u00a0 (sorry.\u00c2\u00a0 i keep completely failing to take “before” pictures, so you’ll just have to believe me when i tell you that it was stained, the fabric on top was pilling and since it’s not launderable and i wasn’t going to scrub it every time i dropped food on it, it was just going to get worse.\u00c2\u00a0 it originally looked something like this<\/a>, but with a different design on the top.)\u00c2\u00a0 so the other day, when i was out shopping, i found these vinyl placemats<\/a> which vaguely remind me of this lovely line of things i can’t afford <\/a>and they were on sale.\u00c2\u00a0 i decided to attempt a mash-up.\u00c2\u00a0 i figured i couldn’t make my kitchen mat look much worse!\u00c2\u00a0 after consulting the “this to that<\/a>” website (brilliant resource, by the way, if you ever need to glue something to something else) i chose sobo glue.\u00c2\u00a0 i slathered it onto my mat (taking extra care to get the very edges of the mat), then placed one of the placemats on top of the glue and left it alone for about an hour.\u00c2\u00a0 seemed secure, so i glued another placemat and a skinny strip from a third placemat on and let them dry for the rest of the day.\u00c2\u00a0 when they were dry, i trimmed the edges with my rotary cutter and now i have a nice, clean kitchen floor mat!<\/p>\n

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it feels nice on bare feet and today when the boy spilled green smoothie on it, i just wiped it off with a cloth–no soaking in!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 no residue!\u00c2\u00a0 i love it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

my kitchen mat was starting to look a little sad.\u00c2\u00a0 (sorry.\u00c2\u00a0 i keep completely failing to take “before” pictures, so you’ll just have to believe me when i tell you that it was stained, the fabric on top was pilling … 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","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=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}