{"id":844,"date":"2009-04-01T08:39:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T15:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2009-04-01T08:39:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T15:39:13","slug":"spring-glorious-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Spring, glorious spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s April 1st&#8230;did you say Jack Rabbit?\u00a0 Do you have any April Fool&#8217;s Day pranks up your sleeve?\u00a0\u00a0 Now that it is April, it feels like Spring is truly in the air.\u00a0 Spring and Summer&#8230;my favorite seasons of all.<\/p>\n<p>Here in the DC area, those famous cherry blossoms are in full bloom everywhere you look.\u00a0 My husband managed to capture\u00a0the legendary trees from his seat on the school bus on Monday.\u00a0 Here are some of my favorite photos from the trip&#8230;.the Jefferson Memorial, the Washington Monument, and my son in the middle of the steps of the Natural History Museum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-845 aligncenter\" title=\"dc-field-trip-2-2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dc-field-trip-2-2009.jpg\" alt=\"dc-field-trip-2-2009\" width=\"450\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-846 aligncenter\" title=\"dc-field-trip-2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dc-field-trip-2009.jpg\" alt=\"dc-field-trip-2009\" width=\"450\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-847 aligncenter\" title=\"museum-of-natural-history-2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/museum-of-natural-history-2009.jpg\" alt=\"museum-of-natural-history-2009\" width=\"450\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now speaking of Spring&#8230;I have a great giveaway to tell you about!\u00a0 And if you hurry (ends on Friday), you can enter!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paintedwhite.com\/\">Painted White <\/a>is one of my new blog favorites.\u00a0 Alice has created a serene place to visit, full of pale,\u00a0romantic \u00a0images and vintage wares.\u00a0 Her blog is a place where you feel like you are relaxing on a plump couch, without a care in the world and the troubles of life fade away.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 Of course her soft music selection sure helps.\u00a0 And you&#8217;ll have to see the photos of her sweet pup, Renoir.\u00a0 My Grandmother Rose had a frisky Cairn Terrier too, named Whiskey.\u00a0 Seeing Renoir sure brings back some great childhood memories.\u00a0 Oh!&#8230;.back to that giveaway&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-848 aligncenter\" title=\"painted-white-giveaway\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/painted-white-giveaway.jpg\" alt=\"painted-white-giveaway\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visit her Spring Renewal post <a href=\"http:\/\/alicew.typepad.com\/thoughts_from_alice_w\/2009\/03\/spring-renewal-giveaway.html\">here<\/a>, leave a comment on her blog, and you can enter to win this lovely set of goodies!\u00a0 My favorite is that big handmade pomander ball!\u00a0 I&#8217;m getting my name in the hat twice!\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;ve had my eye on this Rose painting&#8230;perfect for my future shabby chic studio&#8230;and I bought it today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-849 aligncenter\" title=\"la-rose-by-alice-w\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/la-rose-by-alice-w.jpg\" alt=\"la-rose-by-alice-w\" width=\"396\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now go and enter!!! \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Cindy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s April 1st&#8230;did you say Jack Rabbit?\u00a0 Do you have any April Fool&#8217;s Day pranks up your sleeve?\u00a0\u00a0 Now that it is April, it feels like Spring is truly in the air.\u00a0 Spring and Summer&#8230;my favorite seasons of all. Here in the DC area, those famous cherry blossoms are in full bloom everywhere you look.\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":[18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indie-artists","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}