{"id":2013,"date":"2023-08-16T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2023-08-16T06:32:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T11:32:50","slug":"crafts-over-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/2023\/08\/16\/crafts-over-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafts Over the Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This summer, in India, I&#8217;ve done a lot of crafts. These range from painting, to crochet, to embroidery, to balloon animals. They&#8217;ve all been a ton of fun and so I thought I&#8217;d go in detail about some of the fun things I&#8217;ve done this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crochet:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I started learning how to crochet from my great-grandmother, who is a pro at it! We started small, with chains, then rubber bands, flowers, stars, and worked up to super cute bear keychains! I&#8217;m really proud of how much I&#8217;ve been able to learn in these 2 months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_4-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2036\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?attachment_id=2036\" class=\"wp-image-2036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_4-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_4-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_4-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_4-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_4-1200x1600.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_2-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2039\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?attachment_id=2039\" class=\"wp-image-2039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_2-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_2-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_2-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_2-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_2-1200x1600.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_1-1-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2044\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_1-1.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?attachment_id=2044\" class=\"wp-image-2044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_1-1-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_1-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_1-1-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_1-1-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/crochet_1-1-1200x1600.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Painting:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Using paints from my aunt, I first started painting in a coloring book. Currently, I&#8217;m working on a sunflower painting, but flipping the colors to their complementary versions (yellow is purple, green is red, etc.). I also painted a t-shirt using fabric paints! (also from my aunt).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2034\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?attachment_id=2034\" class=\"wp-image-2034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/painting-1200x1600.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PAPERCRAFTS:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Papercrafts are these dolls you can make! A game that I enjoy a lot- Project Sekai- offers up templates for these papercrafts for free, so I got to make a lot this summer! (8 in total).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/akito-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2042\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?attachment_id=2042\" class=\"wp-image-2042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/akito-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/akito-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/akito-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/akito-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/akito-1200x1600.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Embroidery:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I started an embroidery project this summer, using a kit! I&#8217;d never really done embroidery before, but using instructions from my grandmother, I was really proud of the end product!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/embroidery-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2046\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/embroidery.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?attachment_id=2046\" class=\"wp-image-2046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/embroidery-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/embroidery-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/embroidery-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/embroidery-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/embroidery-1200x1600.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Balloon Animals:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This summer, I bought a balloon making kit. I learned how to make a balloon dog and balloon flowers! I got really good at making them and I still have a bunch of balloons left so I can&#8217;t want to keep making more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-5 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-1-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2047\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?attachment_id=2047\" class=\"wp-image-2047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-1-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-1-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-1-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-1-1200x1600.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-2-768x1024.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2049\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-2.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/?attachment_id=2049\" class=\"wp-image-2049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-2-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-2-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-2-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-2-1536x2048.png 1536w, https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/balloon-2-1200x1600.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s your favorite craft?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, in India, I&#8217;ve done a lot of crafts. These range from painting, to crochet, to embroidery, to balloon animals. They&#8217;ve all been a ton of fun and so I thought I&#8217;d go in detail about some of the fun things I&#8217;ve done this year. Crochet: I started learning how to crochet from my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/2023\/08\/16\/crafts-over-the-summer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crafts Over the Summer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,42,38,3,14,311,2,1,93,384],"tags":[1206,965,826,367,1205,6,1203,1204,227,1202],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-me","category-events","category-hobbies","category-india","category-information","category-reading-hobbies","category-travel","category-uncategorized","category-writing","category-writing-hobbies","tag-balloon-animals","tag-crafting","tag-crafts","tag-crochet","tag-embroidery","tag-india","tag-painting","tag-paper-crafts","tag-summer","tag-summer-break"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourowncorner.com\/themintgirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}