{"id":3730,"date":"2019-01-27T14:38:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T22:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2019-01-27T14:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T22:38:19","slug":"sleep-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/27\/sleep-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep masks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sometimes it’s very difficult to fall asleep on an airplane. Actually, it’s almost\u00a0always\u00a0<\/em>difficult to fall asleep on an airplane! I decided to try using a sleep mask the next time I take a long flight, but it seemed like very little extra work to make similar ones for all of the girls in the family: our two daughters and our granddaughter. The design is made entirely in the hoop and came from OESD. I modified the “Nighty night” design to substitute the “Zzzz” text so that each would be different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it’s very difficult to fall asleep on an airplane. Actually, it’s almost\u00a0always\u00a0difficult to fall asleep on an airplane! I decided to try using a sleep mask the next time I take a long flight, but it seemed like very little extra work to make similar ones for all of the girls in the family: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[301,303],"tags":[193,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-3730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"category-family","8":"tag-embroidery","9":"tag-family","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-Ya","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5145,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/20\/first-embroidery-on-new-machine\/","url_meta":{"origin":3730,"position":0},"title":"First embroidery on new machine","author":"Sandy","date":"September 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"After making all of those stitch samples and doing a bit of other stitching on my new Bernina 790Pro, I figured I probably ought to test out the machine embroidery, too. 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