{"id":15094,"date":"2012-07-02T06:49:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T11:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15094"},"modified":"2012-06-27T08:05:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T13:05:14","slug":"the-cotton-monster-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15094","title":{"rendered":"The Cotton Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cottonmonster.jpg\" alt=\"Cotton Monster Design\" title=\"Cotton Monster Design\" width=\"111\" height=\"108\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Fiber artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cottonmonster.com\/\">Jennifer Strunge<\/a> makes unique monsters, heavy on the eyeballs, out of recycled clothing and linens.  They&#8217;re made without a pattern, so each one is unique.<\/p>\n<p>Her monster &#8220;breeds&#8221; include Watchful Eyes (which can be hung on the wall to stare at you), Bottom Feeders, and Space Bugs; many designs include a hidden pocket in their mouths for storing&#8230;whatever one would store in a plush monster&#8217;s mouth.  According the the FAQ, although they may pretend to eat your arm, they prefer broccoli.<\/p>\n<p>Her site lists a couple of brick-and-mortar places in the U.S. that sell her designs, but it&#8217;s probably easier to find them in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/cottonmonster\">Etsy shop<\/a>.  She also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/cottonmonster.blogspot.com\/\">blog<\/a> where she writes about her monsters and lots of other crafty stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiber artist Jennifer Strunge makes unique monsters, heavy on the eyeballs, out of recycled clothing and linens. They&#8217;re made without a pattern, so each one is unique. Her monster &#8220;breeds&#8221; include Watchful Eyes (which can be hung on the wall to stare at you), Bottom Feeders, and Space Bugs; many designs include a hidden pocket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15094"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15384,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094\/revisions\/15384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}