{"id":2887,"date":"2009-09-01T01:34:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T08:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2016-11-04T02:06:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T09:06:46","slug":"inspiration-tuesday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/inspiration-tuesday-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were two estate sales in our neighborhood over the weekend so we went and took a look. I think estate sales are incredibly sad. These were especially so. We saw piles of photographs of the people living their lives. There was a pile of scrapbook pages. One of the pages held a portrait of a handsome young man with the handwritten caption &#8220;almost married him.&#8221; What a story that must be! Yet there they were in boxes being sold for whatever the family could get. Very sad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2888\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2888\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4440sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2888\" title=\"1950s Ornaments\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4440sm-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"1950s Ornaments\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4440sm-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4440sm-981x1024.jpg 981w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/PICT4440sm.jpg 1474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 85vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1950s Ornaments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I really like the shapes and the stylized indentations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2903\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/PICT4457sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2903\" title=\"Ornaments\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/PICT4457sm-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Ornaments\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/PICT4457sm-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/PICT4457sm-1024x741.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ornaments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was pleased to see, and buy, these ornaments, though. My grandmother had a tree full of them when I was a kid and I loved them.\u00a0 She also had strings of metallic beads she used as garland. She got rid of them all in a frenzy of cleaning because they were too old. It made me sad. I have been collecting old fashioned looking ornaments, like the Christopher Radko type ornaments. These are the first I\u00a0 have of this type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were two estate sales in our neighborhood over the weekend so we went and took a look. I think estate sales are incredibly sad. These were especially so. We saw piles of photographs of the people living their lives. There was a pile of scrapbook pages. One of the pages held a portrait of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/inspiration-tuesday-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inspiration Tuesday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[389],"tags":[319],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-inspiration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}