{"id":157,"date":"2010-02-02T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2010-02-02T10:31:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:31:56","slug":"save-me-from-the-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/save-me-from-the-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Me From The Trolls!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So for those who don’t know, I think I’m a quarter Swede. I guess that’s not too much but while growing up, my mom always tried to teach my sister and me the Swedish culture. No one ever tried to develop my French or German roots so I have always thought of myself as a 20th (or some other larger number) generation Swedish American. Growing up, my mom made us Swedish pancakes and Swedish meatballs, which I have never been a fan of, and had my sister dress up as Santa Lucia every December 13th. Then throughout our house (especially during Christmas) we would have scattered around Dala horses, trolls, abstract doves, and straw goats. It was just our tradition.<\/p>\n

Well, after talking about cultures yesterday, I decided to make something based off of my culture. And because I have only made one pattern since I created this blog, I decided to make a pattern based off of that pseudo-Swedish culture I grew up in.<\/p>\n

This pattern is based off of what I believe as a traditional Dala horse. My mom said that each Swedish family has a Dala horse in their family to kind of represent the family like a crest. Somewhere I read that they also are meant to scare trolls away but I have also read that straw goats are meant to do that. Either way, Dala horses are really pretty ornaments that are the key symbol of Sweden to me. Sometimes I even wonder why the Swedish flag isn’t orange and blue.<\/p>\n

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Did you know that I am part Swede? Well, I am. With that bloodline, comes a couple of traditions, including the oldest daughter serving breakfast in December wearing a funny costume, eating a lot of pastries, and having a Dala horse in their house. Well, today, I made pattern to celebrate all of that. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[56,55],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pattern","tag-dala-horse","tag-sweden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}