{"id":360,"date":"2007-03-04T20:47:33","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T00:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2007-03-04T20:47:33","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T00:47:33","slug":"from-the-ice-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"From the Ice Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the ice fishing derby \/ ice sculpture \/ winterfest event at Lake Sebago, there was an area for vendors billed as the Ice Mall. It wasn&#8217;t on the ice &#8212; a good thing for vendors who were there all day! &#8212; but rather inside a building, so it was actually one of the few places to get warm. We had a long talk with someone who collected antique ice fishing equipment &#8212; actually, when he waxed enthusiastic about how lots of his items were handmade in the &#8217;30s by people who needed to put food on their tables, and how each one represented someone&#8217;s ideas on how to catch fish, I could understand being interested in them &#8212; and saw a couple of people we&#8217;ve run into at other craft sales in the area. We bought from two booths we haven&#8217;t seen before. One was a man and wife who were into different crafts. She made soap and pebble sculptures, mini rock cairns and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inukshuk\">inuksuks<\/a>. He had handmade knives and bud vases, wall hooks, and pendants made from flea market silverware. Arlene looked and looked and settled on a bud vase made from a soupspoon and the handle of a table knife.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/02\/soupspoon_vase.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other booth was run by two women with spinning wheels. Of course it caught my eye. They were selling some knitwear and roving. I got a two ounce ball of white finn x romney roving.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/02\/roving.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the ice fishing derby \/ ice sculpture \/ winterfest event at Lake Sebago, there was an area for vendors billed as the Ice Mall. It wasn&#8217;t on the ice &#8212; a good thing for vendors who were there all day! &#8212; but rather inside a building, so it was actually one of the few &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=360\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Ice Mall&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}