{"id":216,"date":"2019-04-22T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T22:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2020-11-12T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T19:10:51","slug":"found-a-bargain-in-bad-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/found-a-bargain-in-bad-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Found a Bargain\u2014in Bad Condition!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Searching for bargains online is one of my favorite pastimes, and if I can find beautiful old pieces of handmade lace or crochet, then that\u2019s even better! I try to look beneath the surface to see whether the piece has potential, so little problems have never bothered me much. I love it, in fact, when a seller admits that something has staining or brown spots, a few missing stitches, a ripped seam, whatever. That\u2019s when I get my best buys, and I can usually fix the problem fairly easily. Usually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found these whimsical vintage coasters on ebay. \u201cWhat cool 1950s retro,\u201d I thought. \u201cYou\u2019d never find these in a store!\u201d My excitement faded the minute they arrived, though. They looked so bad up close that I wasn\u2019t at all sure I could save them. The discolored coasters were much worse than their photos \u2026 and not at all suitable for my guests without a major makeover.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Coasters-1-Before.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Coasters-1-Before.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Coasters-1-Before-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Sometimes vintage linens can&#8217;t be used until the stains are removed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I went ahead and bleached a couple of them just to prove to myself that Mama\u2019s Miracle really works. Judge for yourself by checking out the photos below: The coasters on the right are in their original condition, the ones on the left are how they look now. All of the stains are gone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They looked so bad that I wasn\u2019t at all sure I could save them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[7,8,9,10],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mamasmiracle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}