{"id":69639,"date":"2026-02-07T07:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=69639"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:38:27","slug":"birthday-gifts-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/birthday-gifts-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Gifts for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69551\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_103905-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-69551 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_103905-sm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tulips from Mom\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_103905-sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_103905-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tulips from Mom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was fortunate to get a number of fabulous gifts for my birthday, which was in January.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69553\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69553\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_143210_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69553\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_143210_wm-sm-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"2026 BD gifts from Julie\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_143210_wm-sm-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_143210_wm-sm-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_143210_wm-sm-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_143210_wm-sm.jpg 1076w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2026 BD gifts from Julie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Julie topped up my fabric supply with some mini Pearl bracelets plus a couple of other pieces (far right) that were used as wrapping. I have an idea for the teal Art Gallery Round Elements.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69552\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_142416_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69552\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_142416_wm-sm-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"2026 BD gifts from Julie\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_142416_wm-sm-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_142416_wm-sm-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_142416_wm-sm-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260121_142416_wm-sm.jpg 1133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2026 BD gifts from Julie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There were other gifts as well. I can always use cards (also from Julie) as I send a lot of them out to friends. Mary gave me a couple of packs of continuous zipper tape while Tim found a wild button pouch that is super unique.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You know I like <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/paper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper folding<\/a>. The origami paper might help me finish the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/more-mette-rings-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mette Rings<\/a> I started as a Fair entry last year (?)<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-69639 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20260129_175124_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260129_175124_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Gifts from Carrie\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-69614\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-69614'>\n\t\t\t\tGifts from Carrie\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20260129_175223_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260129_175223_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Gifts from Carrie\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-69613\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-69613'>\n\t\t\t\tGifts from Carrie\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Recently, I received a lovely bunch of gifts from Carrie, both Christmas and birthday at the same time as we haven&#8217;t been able to get together. Carrie has been experimenting with Kraftex and I am always excited to see what she has made. I was fortunate enough to receive a pouch (upper right) and a business card holder.&nbsp; I have also been reading about Kraftex in the book she gave me and am planning a journal cover or two.<\/p>\n<p>I bullied, a little, Carrie into making journal covers for composition books as raffle prizes. I wanted people to have something to make notes on at guild meetings. I was the fortunate recipient of a composition book and cover, too!<\/p>\n<p>I received a few other things, which was very nice. The best was the calls, cards, and messages from far flung friends and family. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was fortunate to get a number of fabulous gifts for my birthday, which was in January.&nbsp; Julie topped up my fabric supply with some mini Pearl bracelets plus a couple of other pieces (far right) that were used as wrapping. I have an idea for the teal Art Gallery Round Elements. There were other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/birthday-gifts-for-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birthday Gifts for Me&#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":[558],"tags":[508],"class_list":["post-69639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-gifrs-for-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69639","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=69639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69644,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69639\/revisions\/69644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}