{"id":870,"date":"2018-12-27T22:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T22:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2018-12-27T22:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T22:28:43","slug":"for-the-love-of-mermaids-and-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/27\/for-the-love-of-mermaids-and-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"For the love of mermaids and sharks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not really Christmas until I&#8217;ve created something with my own hands to give as a gift. And I&#8217;m not one to really follow a pattern or the recipe. I like putting my own touch on things. Over the years, it&#8217;s been jewelry, knitted scarves, candles, pinterest ideas (that didn&#8217;t turn out like the computer image!), jams, lefse (yes, I&#8217;m one of the million Norwegians in this state), snowmen made from socks and a lot of smelly product&#8230;you get the idea. This year I made these snuggly sleep bags for the two little ones in my life. I even made the mini ones for their &#8220;babies&#8221;. I hope they have as much fun as I did making them-somewhat without a pattern.<br \/>\nThis obsession to create is probably what I cherish most about writing. I pluck the idea from somewhere and go with it. Sometimes it&#8217;s a flop and sometimes it&#8217;s an award winning piece. But it&#8217;s a creation all my own. I write as though no one will ever read it, which is probably not what an editor\/publisher would recommend, but it works for me as I feel a sense of freedom in doing it my way. What about you? Do you color inside the lines? follow all the rules? delight in being different?\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-876 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_7034-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_7034-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_7034-1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-875\" src=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_7032-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_7032-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_7032-2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not really Christmas until I&#8217;ve created something with my own hands to give as a gift. And I&#8217;m not one to really follow a pattern or the recipe. I like putting my own touch on things. Over the years, it&#8217;s been jewelry, knitted scarves, candles, pinterest ideas (that didn&#8217;t turn out like the computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marybleckwehl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}