{"id":738,"date":"2011-12-05T21:48:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T03:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2013-05-29T21:52:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T02:52:18","slug":"stuffed-sewing-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Stuffed Sewing Box"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sewing box with goodies<\/p><\/div>\n

My brother-in-law (Paul) and I have a special long-distance friendship.\u00a0 We email often but our favorite thing to do is to find bargains at thrift stores and garage sales or make things and send them to each other.\u00a0 Sometimes I send him canned veggies from my garden or homemade egg noodles and he sends wonderful items he finds in his thrift store travels.\u00a0 It’s so fun to get surprises in the mail… the bigger the bargain the better!<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, the mailman came with a huge heavy package from Florida.\u00a0 I was excited as I opened it to find cargo shorts for Bob (his favorites!), vitamins to make us stronger, a book I’ll enjoy and this beautiful stuffed sewing box.<\/span><\/p>\n

Digging through this sewing box brought back happy memories of doing the same with my grandmother’s supplies.\u00a0 I used to love rewinding threads, sorting and organizing all the treasures in her sewing box.\u00a0 Today, I felt the same pleasure.
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As I dug through it, I immediately contacted Paul to express my love and appreciation.\u00a0 He explained when he purchased his used sewing machine from a neighbor, it came with this stocked sewing box.\u00a0 Since he rarely uses the machine and only for the most basic sewing, he gifted the sewing box and all its goodies to me.\u00a0 How neat is that?!!<\/span><\/p>\n

Just like with my grandmother’s sewing box, I’ve rewound thread, thrown away bent\/rusty needles and organized everything.\u00a0 What fun!!\u00a0 Not shown in the picture but included were 3 Raggedy Ann patterns and required fabric to make them, a package of unwaxed tracing paper, 1\/2 lb. of new steel pins, several Pfaff bobbins, machine needles and some buttons. <\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks again, Paul, and thanks for all the love shared through our many years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shirl<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My brother-in-law (Paul) and I have a special long-distance friendship.\u00a0 We email often but our favorite thing to do is to find bargains at thrift stores and garage sales or make things and send them to each other.\u00a0 Sometimes I send him canned veggies from my garden or homemade egg noodles and he sends wonderful (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}