{"id":7413,"date":"2011-01-04T06:39:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T13:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=7413"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:52:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:52:04","slug":"gift-post-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/gift-post-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Post #5"},"content":{"rendered":"

DH’s family has a tradition of his siblings and cousins giving each other’s families small handmade gifts at our big Christmas Eve celebration. People make bread. One SIL makes tea and other hot drink mixes. There is a lot of food that I can’t eat, but it is all in good fun.<\/p>\n

\"Green<\/a>
Green Holly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We have fallen into the habit of making ornaments. Last New Year’s we were thinking ahead to another year of strained finances and we bought kits for ornaments from the revered craft company, Herrschners<\/a> when they were on sale. We planned to be very organized and have them done in a timely manner well before Christmas. No last minute beading for us.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>
Red Chandelier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You know where this story is going and know that our plan didn’t happen. We were beading and poking pins into styrofoam balls a few days before Christmas.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>
Red Snowflakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each family received three ornaments. One seems so meager, though I know everyone would have been happy with one.<\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a>
Red Snowflake - detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

DH was the primary maker in this endeavor and he did a great job directing me after I was able to get away from the pies and help him.<\/p>\n

\"Blue<\/a>
Blue Ice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some of the ornaments, especially the round one called for many more sequins and much more beading, but DH decided they were sparkly enough and we passed on some of the beading. The round ornaments required a lot of pins to keep beads on.<\/p>\n

I found it fun to work with DH on a craft project. In general, I enjoy working with people on projects, as long as we are companionable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DH’s family has a tradition of his siblings and cousins giving each other’s families small handmade gifts at our big Christmas Eve celebration. People make bread. One SIL makes tea and other hot drink mixes. There is a lot of food that I can’t eat, but it is all in good fun. We have fallen … Continue reading “Gift Post #5”<\/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_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":[400],"tags":[316,86],"class_list":["post-7413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-gifts","tag-off-topic-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413","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=7413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}