{"id":5791,"date":"2011-04-02T00:42:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T04:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2011-04-02T00:42:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T04:42:44","slug":"from-cake-to-colonial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=5791","title":{"rendered":"From Cake to Colonial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5792\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=5792\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5792 aligncenter\" title=\"randys-b-day_2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/randys-b-day_2011.jpg\" alt=\"randys-b-day_2011\" width=\"346\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/randys-b-day_2011.jpg 346w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/randys-b-day_2011-150x443.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/randys-b-day_2011-101x300.jpg 101w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/randys-b-day_2011-228x675.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was cause for celebration this week &#8211; it was my husband&#8217;s birthday and the perfect reason for CAKE.\u00a0 Not just any ordinary cake.\u00a0 When I showed my 10 year old son an old issue of <em>Southern Living<\/em>, he\u00a0wanted to make the cake featured right on the cover.\u00a0 Bigger has to be better, right?\u00a0 Although there were many steps involved (from the batter, to the lemon curd, to the cream cheese frosting), my son managed to create a masterpiece&#8230;.and a sink full of bowls and measuring cups!\u00a0 The hard work paid off though as my husband said it was the best cake he ever had.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re up for a challenge or have a celebration on the horizon, you can find the recipe for <em>Southern Living&#8217;s<\/em> Lemon-Coconut Cake right<a href=\"http:\/\/find.myrecipes.com\/recipes\/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&amp;recipe_id=10000001563807\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today was Colonial Day at my oldest son&#8217;s school.\u00a0 Way back at the Back-to-School night in the Fall, my husband signed me up for this 4th grade festivity not knowing <em>I<\/em> would have to dress up if I volunteered.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ll admit I wasn&#8217;t too keen on the thought of wearing Colonial garb, but it really turned out to be quite fun since everyone\u00a0was in the spirit, students and teachers alike\u00a0(check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.org\/history\/clothing\/intro\/index.cfm\">this <em>fantastic<\/em>\u00a0website <\/a>\u00a0if you&#8217;d like to learn more\u00a0about\u00a0the period\u00a0clothing).\u00a0 \u00a0So with our mob cap and tri-corner hats on, we went back in time and\u00a0experienced Colonial America.\u00a0 The kids could chose many traditional activities and topics such as Colonial herbs, calligraphy, quilting, cooking, candle and soap making.\u00a0 I \u00a0helped in the tin punching room and we created decorative panels with a bit of \u00a0tin, nails and a hammer.\u00a0 The sound of pounding nails all day was loud, but as a Mom of 4 boys, nothing too out of the ordinary!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5793\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=5793\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5793    aligncenter\" title=\"colonial-day_2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/colonial-day_2011.jpg\" alt=\"colonial-day_2011\" width=\"515\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/colonial-day_2011.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/colonial-day_2011-150x104.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/colonial-day_2011-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5797\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=5797\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5797\" title=\"colonial-day2_20111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/colonial-day2_20111.jpg\" alt=\"colonial-day2_20111\" width=\"515\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/colonial-day2_20111.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/colonial-day2_20111-150x115.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/colonial-day2_20111-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now on to the weekend &#8211; lacrosse games and birthday parties.\u00a0 Never a dull moment, just the way I like it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5798\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=5798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5798\" title=\"siggie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/siggie.png\" alt=\"siggie\" width=\"138\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was cause for celebration this week &#8211; it was my husband&#8217;s birthday and the perfect reason for CAKE.\u00a0 Not just any ordinary cake.\u00a0 When I showed my 10 year old son an old issue of Southern Living, he\u00a0wanted to make the cake featured right on the cover.\u00a0 Bigger has to be better, right?\u00a0 Although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times","category-something-yummy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791","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=5791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}