{"id":2374,"date":"2009-01-22T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T18:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2009-01-22T12:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T18:26:22","slug":"birthday-thaumatropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=2374","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Thaumatropes"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are thaumatropes you ask? Thaumatropes are Victorian spinner toys. In this case they are also Eli’s birthday party invitations. I got the idea from my new favorite author Ester K. Smith. The thaumatropes are from a book called Magic Books & Paper Toys<\/a>. You hold the strings, twist and see the robot open and close his eyes and mouth. Eli is obsessed with them. While I was working on them, he claimed all of my prototypes and goofs.<\/p>\n

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You can also see the buttons I made as party favors in the foreground. Eli can’t decide which robot he wants to keep for himself. I have this sneaking suspicion that I’m going to be making four or five more buttons for him to keep for his very own.<\/p>\n

I have gotten a ton of crafting tools (the button maker<\/a>! and a Bind-it-all<\/a>!) and books at Christmas and since then. There’s going to be many, many craft\/making things posts in the days to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What are thaumatropes you ask? Thaumatropes are Victorian spinner toys. In this case they are also Eli’s birthday party invitations. I got the idea from my new favorite author Ester K. Smith. The thaumatropes are from a book called Magic Books & Paper Toys. You hold the strings, twist and see the robot open and … Continue reading Birthday Thaumatropes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t