{"id":58363,"date":"2023-02-04T06:48:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T14:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=58363"},"modified":"2023-02-02T19:16:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T03:16:17","slug":"birthday-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/birthday-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_58366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58366\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_222725_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58366\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_222725_wm-sm-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"DH gifts - 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_222725_wm-sm-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_222725_wm-sm-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_222725_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DH gifts &#8211; 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was so fortunate to receive some fab gifts for my <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/happy-birthday-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">birthday<\/a>. First, my husband let me open my gifts early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I always love the gifts he gets me, but I really liked the card. It says &#8220;Part Rainbow Part Tornado&#8221; and I think it is fairly perfect for me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58367\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_222559_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58367\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_222559_wm-sm-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Birthday gifts form Julie 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_222559_wm-sm-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_222559_wm-sm-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_222559_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birthday gifts from Julie 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As usual, Julie and I went out to lunch and to a quilt store. She got me A LOT of gifts! I was so thrilled to get so many. I really liked them too.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58368\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_221048_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58368\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_221048_wm-sm-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"Tula Pink Minerals\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_221048_wm-sm-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_221048_wm-sm-768x711.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230127_221048_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tula Pink Minerals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The guild retreat is coming up so I look forward to using the wool pressing mat. Julie assures me it doesn&#8217;t smell. It goes with the mini Oliso she gave me <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/birthday-extravaganza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a few years ago<\/a>. Julie also stocked me up on Tula Pink ribbon from Renaissance Ribbon and Tula fabric. Yay!<\/p>\n<p>The minerals are really good tone-on-tone fabric. I might still be able to use some of them for <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/la-passacaglia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Passacaglia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58371\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230202_182147_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58371\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230202_182147_wm-sm-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"Gift from Amanda - 2023\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230202_182147_wm-sm-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230202_182147_wm-sm-768x730.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230202_182147_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gift from Amanda &#8211; 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Portland, I met Amanda for lunch. She also gave me a gift. I was surprised and pleased!<\/p>\n<p>First of all, she made that fabulous pouch. I&#8217;ll show more of it another day. The top stitching is amazing, then she filled it with totally useful gifts &#8211; items that I will definitely use up. And candy. We all need something sweet, right?<\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of people donated to the charity I chose on Facebook and that just warms my heart. I am so fortunate to have so many good friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so fortunate to receive some fab gifts for my birthday. First, my husband let me open my gifts early in the morning. Of course, I always love the gifts he gets me, but I really liked the card. It says &#8220;Part Rainbow Part Tornado&#8221; and I think it is fairly perfect for me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/birthday-surprises\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birthday Surprises&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-58363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-519","tag-fabric"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58363","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58372,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58363\/revisions\/58372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}