{"id":1603,"date":"2011-12-05T17:17:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T23:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2011-12-05T17:17:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T23:17:27","slug":"christmas-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/christmas-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Crafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We put up our first family Christmas tree last night. It&#8217;s sparsely adorned with ornaments from Andrew&#8217;s past, a few we have collected together over the years, and ones I recently took from my grandmother&#8217;s collection. Today Griffin added his first handmade ornament, made from buttons my grandmother collected from her days working in a coat factory. It turned out super cute, and it was just the right level of coordination for his two and a half year old hands.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1607\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1607\" title=\"christmas ornament2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament2.jpg?resize=199%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament2.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament2.jpg?resize=680%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament2.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament2.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament2.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Griffin carefully threads buttons onto the wire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1606\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1606\" title=\"christmas ornament\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament.jpg?resize=199%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament.jpg?resize=680%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/christmas-ornament.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The finished product, which Griffin hung proudly on the tree &quot;all by myself.&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We put up our first family Christmas tree last night. It&#8217;s sparsely adorned with ornaments from Andrew&#8217;s past, a few we have collected together over the years, and ones I recently took from my grandmother&#8217;s collection. Today Griffin added his first handmade ornament, made from buttons my grandmother collected from her days working in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/christmas-crafts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Crafts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}