{"id":765,"date":"2008-09-04T08:05:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T12:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2008-09-01T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T16:50:34","slug":"decorating-with-lace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Decorating with Lace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/coasters-119x150.jpg\" alt=\"Coasters\" title=\"Coasters\" width=\"119\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decoratingwithlace.com\/\">Decorating with Lace<\/a> site offers a wide variety of lace decorative items, including a bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decoratingwithlace.com\/victorianlace.htm\">Victorian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decoratingwithlace.com\/scottishlace.htm\">&#8220;Period Reproduction&#8221; Scottish<\/a> lace.  Best of all, they have a page dedicated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decoratingwithlace.com\/halloweenfun.htm\">Halloween<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>A few pieces are kitschy, but many of them are really very elegant; I particularly like the Gala Mantle and the Lampshade Cover.<\/p>\n<p>Their prices seem fairly reasonable, although the crafty goth could probably reproduce some of the simpler pieces (like the spiderweb coasters) themselves.  Spiderweb-patterned lace fabric isn&#8217;t hard to find (US source <a href=\"http:\/\/jandofabrics.com\/proddetail.asp?prod=fro000134\">here<\/a>, UK <a href=\"http:\/\/www.online-fabrics.co.uk\/Lace\/Spiderweb-Lace\">here<\/a>), particularly around Halloween, when it&#8217;s <EM>everywhere<\/EM>.<\/p>\n<p>I love the daintiness of these pieces, and the fact that most of them aren&#8217;t terribly spooky until you look closely.  They&#8217;d be a nice way to keep a little gothiness around without scaring your houseguests.<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/spookymoon.com\/\">Spooky Moon<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Decorating with Lace site offers a wide variety of lace decorative items, including a bunch of Victorian and &#8220;Period Reproduction&#8221; Scottish lace. Best of all, they have a page dedicated to Halloween! A few pieces are kitschy, but many of them are really very elegant; I particularly like the Gala Mantle and the Lampshade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}