{"id":51,"date":"2007-09-04T10:53:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T17:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2007-09-04T10:53:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T17:53:24","slug":"heres-to-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s to Beginnings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/generalskitchen8x6.jpg\" title=\"General's Kitchen\"><\/a>Did everyone have a great Labor Day weekend?\u00a0 Just being far from home and our usual routines, it sure seemed like a mini summer vacation there all over.\u00a0 But alas, the three day weekend had to come to an end too.\u00a0 We had fun doing the usual activities at the beach: building a sandcastle (which looked more like a massive space craft), kayaking on the bay (my youngest finds this to be the perfect place for an afternoon nap), and eating our favorite fare (Philip&#8217;s crabcakes, Thrashers and Fisher&#8217;s popcorn one last time!).\u00a0 Speaking of eating&#8230;we visited General&#8217;s Kitchen, \u00a0our new local&#8217;s favorite again yesterday.\u00a0 This little place is so popular that there is literally a line out the door to the side walk.\u00a0\u00a0New comers may be discouraged and leave when they see the long line.\u00a0 No, not us!\u00a0 We know that the wait goes so fast and we&#8217;ll be seated in less than 10 minutes.\u00a0 And the food there is sure worth the wait.\u00a0 The creamed chipped beef is <em>almost <\/em>as good as my Grandmother&#8217;s was&#8230;yes, chipped beef makes us happy! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/generalskitchen8x6.jpg\" title=\"General's Kitchen\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/generalskitchen8x6.jpg\" alt=\"General's Kitchen\" height=\"348\" style=\"width: 366px; height: 348px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">With summer ending (long sigh), there are many new beginnings to be excited about&#8230;.one being the launch of my friend Kerry&#8217;s new website!\u00a0 You have to check out the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kabsconcepts.com\" title=\"Kab's Creative Concepts\">Kab&#8217;s Creative Concepts <\/a>website&#8230;.very\u00a0fresh and\u00a0streamlined.\u00a0 There are so many beautiful pieces of jewelry to see, and the new website is a great showcase for it all.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">For many of you, your little ones (and big ones too) will be returning to school tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 In case you haven&#8217;t discovered it yet, <em>The Kissing Hand<\/em> by Audrey Penn is a great going-back-to-school book.\u00a0 I gave this to one of my sons last year, and as it turns out, his teacher read it on the first day of Kindergarten last week.\u00a0 Such a sweet story.\u00a0 I wish you all the best with any and all of YOUR new beginnings this Fall!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"429\" src=\"http:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51Ox7jwiRWL._SS500_.jpg\" height=\"395\" style=\"width: 429px; height: 395px\" id=\"prodImage\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did everyone have a great Labor Day weekend?\u00a0 Just being far from home and our usual routines, it sure seemed like a mini summer vacation there all over.\u00a0 But alas, the three day weekend had to come to an end too.\u00a0 We had fun doing the usual activities at the beach: building a sandcastle (which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-reads","category-indie-artists","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}