{"id":2502,"date":"2009-08-02T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T06:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2009-08-02T08:08:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T06:08:47","slug":"our-lives-on-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/2502","title":{"rendered":"Our Lives on Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"

God I\u2019ve been meaning to write about this for ages but I\u2019ve been so busy the last while with my friend Penny being in town and a few other things that have been going on (that I will write about soon), my blog has suffered.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, a while back my mother in law asked for some photos of us because she wanted to do a painting for us.\u00a0 How cool, huh?!\u00a0\u00a0 I figured it\u2019d take her absolute ages and that we\u2019d pick it up sometime we were there but before we knew it, we had it here at home!<\/p>\n

She did send us a photo of it before she sent it though so we knew what she had made.\u00a0 Have a look!<\/p>\n

\"nicolepaint\"<\/a><\/p>\n

At first, there is nothing weirder than seeing yourself painted like that, it took me a minute of looking at it to get used to it hehe\u00a0 I think everyone probably feels that way when they first see themselves in a painting.\u00a0 She really did capture us though, didn\u2019t she? Once I got over that, I got to see all the really cool details!<\/p>\n

Xander on his laptop with Bailey licking his head, how awesome it.\u00a0 It\u2019s strange but hilarious, clearly she thought so too. hehe\u00a0 How cool that we have it on the painting!<\/p>\n

A little Pixel on the bottom in the middle it\u2019s a bit hard to see from the pic but it\u2019s so life-like!\u00a0 Same with Harley, our Hedgehog, the detail is amazing!<\/p>\n

Of course, robots and LEGO for my Robot \/ Mindstorm crazed husband.\u00a0 The robot in the photo is this really cool walking robot called Big Dog<\/a> by Boston Dynamics<\/a>.\u00a0 I can only assume he told her about it too.\u00a0 I think he was more excited to see that in the painting than he was to have ME in it!<\/p>\n

Look above Bailey and Xander \u2013 it\u2019s CANADUTCH!!<\/p>\n

I really really love the maple leafs and you can\u2019t see the detail but just over Xander\u2019s shoulder is sheet music for a song from back in Cape Breton.<\/p>\n

It really is our lives on canvas.\u00a0 Us together, our hobbies and little furry friends we share our lives with.\u00a0 My life here and my life back home.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have a photo of it hung yet as we are still deciding where to put it.\u00a0 I have two places in mind and one of them is going to be painted soon so I didn\u2019t want to put it up, take it down, put it up etc.\u00a0 We are both too accident prone for that and I\u2019m scared I\u2019ll damage it.\u00a0\u00a0 For now it\u2019s safe up on top of our shelving unit where neither us nor the animals can harm it!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also been my usual lame self that forgets to email people, doesn\u2019t leave my phone charged and makes people think I\u2019m not thinking of them when really I\u2019m just in my own little world.\u00a0 So I haven\u2019t managed to thank her properly for it yet.\u00a0 Hopefully this will make up for it!<\/p>\n

Merci, Nicole!!\u00a0 We really really love it and it was so cool of you to do this for us! BIG KISS!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God I\u2019ve been meaning to write about this for ages but I\u2019ve been so busy the last while with my friend Penny being in town and a few other things that have been going on (that I will write about soon), my blog has suffered. Anyhow, a while back my mother in law asked for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[65,345],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crafty-creations","category-life-in-nl","tag-family","tag-nicole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}