{"id":2490,"date":"2009-02-06T07:42:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T11:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2009-02-03T20:55:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T00:55:47","slug":"the-gravestone-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2490","title":{"rendered":"The Gravestone Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/gravestone-148x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gravestone\" title=\"Gravestone\" width=\"148\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Old gravestones are works of art, and if you&#8217;re lucky enough to be near an historic graveyard, you can (with permission) make rubbings and even castings of interesting stones.<\/p>\n<p>The Gravestone Girls have taken it to the next level: They offer wall art, jewelry, and magnets made from castings or rubbings of 17th, 18th and 19th century gravestones found in cemeteries throughout the New England region.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve recently begun to offer classes, so if you&#8217;re in the New England area you can learn how to non-invasively take castings of your own stones.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, go take a look at the site for inspiration of your own.  I&#8217;d never considered using details of old tombstones as decorative objects, but I absolutely love the result.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gravestonegirls.com\/\">Link<\/a> <I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/pumpkinrot.blogspot.com\/\">Pumpkinrot<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old gravestones are works of art, and if you&#8217;re lucky enough to be near an historic graveyard, you can (with permission) make rubbings and even castings of interesting stones. The Gravestone Girls have taken it to the next level: They offer wall art, jewelry, and magnets made from castings or rubbings of 17th, 18th and [&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-2490","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\/2490","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=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}