{"id":2190,"date":"2009-11-30T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2009-11-30T10:55:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:55:20","slug":"hello-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"Hello Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back!!!\u00a0 How was your Thanksgiving weekend?\u00a0 I can NOT believe how fast it all went.\u00a0 Here it is Monday, and now we&#8217;re facing\u00a0 the holiday season.\u00a0 My Fall wreath is still hanging on the door. I told my husband when we left for Florida that when we returned, it would look out of season.\u00a0 Those fall colors are put too quickly behind us and are replaced with red, green, silver and gold.<\/p>\n<p>We made it home safe and sound yesterday,\u00a0 and I can&#8217;t complain.\u00a0 There were stretches once we made it back in to VA where we could only drive 15 miles an hour, but all that matters is that we had a great time and made it home safely.\u00a0 <em>If I haven&#8217;t stopped by your blog recently, I apologize.\u00a0 I have a lot of catching up to do!<\/em> If you&#8217;ll humor me, I&#8217;ll share some pictures from Florida.\u00a0 We had a great time with my brother, sister-in-law, and their sons (ages 3 and 13 months).\u00a0 We made it to the St. Augustine Alligator Farm, the town of St. Augustine, my baby nephew&#8217;s beautiful Baptism, and a few playgrounds in between.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a lot to pack in to such a short time!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2191\" title=\"florida4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida4.jpg\" alt=\"florida4\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida4.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida4-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida4-450x318.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2192\" title=\"florida2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida2.jpg\" alt=\"florida2\" width=\"500\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida2.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida2-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida2-450x325.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2193\" title=\"florida\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida.jpg\" alt=\"florida\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida-337x450.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2194\" title=\"florida5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida5.jpg\" alt=\"florida5\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida5.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida5-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida5-450x280.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2195\" title=\"florida7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida7.jpg\" alt=\"florida7\" width=\"475\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida7.jpg 475w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida7-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida7-361x450.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2196\" title=\"florida6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida6.jpg\" alt=\"florida6\" width=\"515\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida6.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida6-300x255.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/florida6-450x383.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2201\" title=\"12-days-of-christmas-charm3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/12-days-of-christmas-charm3-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"12-days-of-christmas-charm3\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/12-days-of-christmas-charm3-300x286.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/12-days-of-christmas-charm3-450x430.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/12-days-of-christmas-charm3.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before I left on our trip, I was happy to mail out my charms for the Charmster&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">12 Days of Christmas Charm Swap<\/span>.\u00a0 I was assigned &#8220;11 Pipers Piping&#8221;&#8230;.hmm, now how would you tackle that one?\u00a0 Not too difficult when you can find some great clip art!\u00a0 The tricky part for me though was putting the images in the little Patera bezels.\u00a0 With the help of my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/jeanetteblix.com\/\">Jeanette<\/a>,\u00a0 I tackled resin for the first time.\u00a0 We used Ice Resin and I found out first-hand that there is a learning curve involved with this stuff!\u00a0 Some of the charms turned out better than others, and I&#8217;ve learned a few things to try\/avoid the next time.\u00a0 I made tags for the charms to resemble book marks.\u00a0 Maybe they can be slipped in to the pages of a Christmas classic, such as &#8220;The Nutcracker&#8221; or &#8220;A Christmas Carol&#8221; (can you guess what books my husband pulled out already?)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2203\" title=\"12-days-of-christmas21\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/12-days-of-christmas21.jpg\" alt=\"12-days-of-christmas21\" width=\"515\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/12-days-of-christmas21.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/12-days-of-christmas21-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/12-days-of-christmas21-450x349.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>*I need to add here that I&#8217;ll be laying low as I work on a few projects with LOOMING deadlines! \u00a0 I&#8217;ll be a bit swamped in the next few weeks getting those projects completed (along with the usual holiday craziness!).\u00a0 I&#8217;ll pop in when I can!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have a great week!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2197\" title=\"siggie10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/siggie10.png\" alt=\"siggie10\" width=\"138\" height=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back!!!\u00a0 How was your Thanksgiving weekend?\u00a0 I can NOT believe how fast it all went.\u00a0 Here it is Monday, and now we&#8217;re facing\u00a0 the holiday season.\u00a0 My Fall wreath is still hanging on the door. I told my husband when we left for Florida that when we returned, it would look out of season.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charmsters","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}