{"id":6125,"date":"2015-06-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6125"},"modified":"2015-06-07T08:08:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T13:08:50","slug":"make-your-hands-happy-crafting-books-on-slow-down-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6125","title":{"rendered":"Make your hands happy – crafting books on Slow-Down Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

With so much rush-rush and 24\/7 connectivity, it’s good to sit back and work with our hands for a while.<\/p>\n

Choose a time to give yourself permission to slow down and make something special – for yourself or for someone else (hint: Father’s Day is 2 weeks away).<\/p>\n

Click on the title for my recommendation of these fun craft books to try new materials, new ideas, new techniques:<\/p>\n

\"book<\/a>\"book<\/a>At Home With Handmade Books<\/a> – think beyond plain white paper as you make books from shipping tags or use postcards as covers.<\/p>\n

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Grab your favorite colors and designs of duct-tape and let your Sticky Fingers<\/a> craft new accessories and adornments.<\/p>\n

What crafty creations would you like to try on a slow-down summer day?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With so much rush-rush and 24\/7 connectivity, it’s good to sit back and work with our hands for a while. Choose a time to give yourself permission to slow down and make something special – for yourself or for someone else (hint: Father’s Day is 2 weeks away). Click on the title for my recommendation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[23],"tags":[259,55,42,49,73,8],"class_list":["post-6125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","tag-blogathon2015","tag-books","tag-crafts","tag-memories","tag-summer","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6131,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions\/6131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}