{"id":357,"date":"2008-09-21T21:13:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T04:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2008-09-21T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T04:13:12","slug":"boys-birthdays-bunnies-and-beads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Boys, Birthdays, Bunnies and Beads!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a\u00a0low-key weekend around here for once, thank goodness!\u00a0\u00a0The weather was\u00a0absolutely gorgeous…totally tolerable to do anything in.\u00a0 The kids enjoyed plenty of outdoor fun, from walking around the lake across the street\u00a0to flying kites on the Mall in DC.<\/p>\n

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It was also my Dad’s birthday….time to bake a special cake!\u00a0 He initially asked for a pineapple upside down cake but\u00a0I had to remind him that I’ve only made that once and it didn’t turn out (anyone have a good recipe??).\u00a0 So I decided on a tried and true favorite that I made for his birthday last year…a moist carrot cake complete with cream cheese frosting!\u00a0 My favorite is a recipe from the Mary Englebreit’s Sweet Treats Dessert Cookbook.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Would you believe it calls for 4 cups of carrots.\u00a0\u00a0 What a healthy<\/em>\u00a0 birthday cake!<\/p>\n

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I made a little booklet from the kids to their Pop Pop in which they\u00a0filled in some of their favorite things and birthday wishes.\u00a0 Here’s an excerpt from my 4 year old who just loves<\/strong> bunnies.\u00a0 By the way, he wants to be a bunny for Halloween…but where am I going to find a bunny costume that is anything bigger than 18 months?!\u00a0 I need to start looking..<\/p>\n

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And speaking of Halloween…it’s not too\u00a0early (actually I’m probably a bit behind) on planning some Halloween-themed jewelry!\u00a0 I don’t usually go overboard with seasonal\/holiday jewelry, but I did get a request.\u00a0 I ordered a set of petite-sized\u00a0beads from Snozberry Beads<\/a>.\u00a0 This lampwork artist just had a baby less than 2 weeks ago (number 5!) so I don’t know how she managed to make them.\u00a0 I’m not sure if they’ll go into a bracelet or two or earrings, but aren’t they adorable?<\/p>\n

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Have a great week ahead!<\/p>\n

~ Cindy<\/p>\n

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We had a\u00a0low-key weekend around here for once, thank goodness!\u00a0\u00a0The weather was\u00a0absolutely gorgeous…totally tolerable to do anything in.\u00a0 The kids enjoyed plenty of outdoor fun, from walking around the lake across the street\u00a0to flying kites on the Mall in DC. It was also my Dad’s birthday….time to bake a special cake!\u00a0 He initially asked for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indie-artists","category-life-and-times","category-something-yummy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}