{"id":17742,"date":"2023-08-21T22:36:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T21:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=17742"},"modified":"2023-08-22T22:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T21:49:25","slug":"daily_3114_-_bottle_coasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/08\/21\/daily_3114_-_bottle_coasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3114 &#8211; bottle coasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after getting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/06\/17\/daily_1633_-_kitchen\/\">a new kitchen<\/a>, I still think happy thoughts about it at least monthly. I&#8217;ve got well-organized storage space, I&#8217;ve got comfortable counter space, I&#8217;ve got outlets everywhere. And I&#8217;ve got pretty things in the kitchen: salt jars and utensil jars and towels and pot holders.<\/p>\n<p>There is just one ugly thing in the middle of all the nice stuff, and that&#8217;s the folded-up paper towels under the oil bottles to catch any drips.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3114_coasters_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3114_coasters_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, now that ugly thing is finally no more. Instead I have decent quilted coasters under them now. I happened to look at the paper towels and couldn&#8217;t stand them any more, and made coasters out of scrap fabric then and there. It would probably have taken me less time and fewer mistakes if I hadn&#8217;t undertaken the project late at night, but I just wanted the problem solved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3114_coasters_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With some careful measuring and piecing, I got two double-sided coasters out of an eight-centimetre strip of a curtain fabric sample. That almost deserves some kind of prize.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3114_coasters_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after getting a new kitchen, I still think happy thoughts about it at least monthly. I&#8217;ve got well-organized storage space, I&#8217;ve got comfortable counter space, I&#8217;ve got outlets everywhere. And I&#8217;ve got pretty things in the kitchen: salt jars and utensil jars and towels and pot holders. There is just one ugly thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17745,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17742\/revisions\/17745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}