{"id":37,"date":"2007-08-20T20:23:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T03:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2007-08-20T20:23:52","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T03:23:52","slug":"back-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Back in town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/6x8.jpg\" title=\"Kayak at Sunset Island, Aug. 2007\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/greetingsfromoc8x6.jpg\" title=\"Greetings from OC\"><\/a>We just came home not too long ago from another long weekend at the beach.\u00a0 We left on Friday night so we could be there ready to go on Saturday morning!\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a fun-filled weekend.\u00a0 It all started on Friday with a trip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intergem.com\/\" title=\"Intergem\">International Gem and Jewelry Show<\/a>.\u00a0 Apparently they have shows in 30 different cities, and I am very fortunate that they happen to come to a city near me (4 times a year)!\u00a0 Considering that we were leaving town for the beach (if I wanted to go to the show at all)\u00a0\u00a0I had to bring my 3 little ones with me.\u00a0 It was indeed a challenge, but I perservered and stocked up on some beautiful new Hilltribe silver and pearls and stones in autumn colors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/6x8.jpg\" title=\"Kayak at Sunset Island, Aug. 2007\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/greetingsfromoc8x6.jpg\" title=\"Greetings from OC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/greetingsfromoc8x6.jpg\" alt=\"Greetings from OC\" height=\"394\" style=\"width: 487px; height: 394px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/6x8.jpg\" title=\"Kayak at Sunset Island, Aug. 2007\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/6x8.jpg\" title=\"Kayak at Sunset Island, Aug. 2007\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">On Saturday afternoon, all five of us\u00a0jumped in the kayak and my husband paddled us around the bay.\u00a0 \u00a0It\u00a0was great to see the shore from a different perspective.\u00a0 In the evening we trekked to the boardwalk, which in Ocean City is just notorious for people watching.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve ever been, you know what I mean.\u00a0 It actually started drizzling while we were there.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember rain on the weekend in such a long time.\u00a0 Today on the way home we visited a new-found antique\u00a0mall in an old packaging plant in Cambridge, MD.\u00a0 This last remaining plant was part of a huge vegetable, fruit and seafood cannery that belonged to Phillips Packing Company.\u00a0 I saw a great pie safe there in wonderful condition.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One vendor had a nice selection of unusual \u00a0blue and white transferware that I would have loved to add to our collection.\u00a0 The kids were thrilled to each pick an old key out of a big pile of old keys\u00a0 ~ and a new collection has started.\u00a0\u00a0We were\u00a0glad to find this gem off the beaten path.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll be sure to return soon!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chesapeakelifemag.com\/\/images\/travel\/cambridge_4.jpg\" alt=\"Cambridge\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just came home not too long ago from another long weekend at the beach.\u00a0 We left on Friday night so we could be there ready to go on Saturday morning!\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a fun-filled weekend.\u00a0 It all started on Friday with a trip to the International Gem and Jewelry Show.\u00a0 Apparently they have shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}