{"id":747,"date":"2007-12-09T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T21:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/747"},"modified":"2008-08-07T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T08:20:47","slug":"christmas-crafting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/747","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Crafting"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday my husband and I had a total meltdown after dealing with our end of year bill from our energy company.\u00a0\u00a0 Getting a bill for 800 euros just before Christmas really sucks ass.\u00a0 We can pay it, but it really screws up most plans we had for Christmas shopping and such, especially after just getting back from holiday.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a>To get my mind off the stress I dug into my Tickle Trunk<\/a> of crafting goodies and pulled out a little cross stitch I had started last year after finishing my rocking horse pillow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I finished it off and wanted to try my hand at framing, so I took an ugly old blue and gold frame we had here and covered it with some nice red Christmas fabric leftover from my tree skirt<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I tried a method of mounting that I found online where you use thread to tie the cross stitch around the mounting board (which was just the back of the frame in this case).\u00a0\u00a0 I probably should have looked for a square frame but I was on a mission and wanted to try the framing thing so I used this one anyway.<\/p>\n

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

It looked like it needed something after I put it together so I used some of the gold rope I bought for my lightbulb snowmen<\/a> and added it around the inside edge of the frame.<\/p>\n

Worked great for getting my mind off the mega-bill and got me in a crafty mood, so I started another stitching project of an old toy store window at x-mas.<\/p>\n

I really need to get better at using a glue gun cuz my fingers are killing me from the glue oozing out around stuff as I press it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday my husband and I had a total meltdown after dealing with our end of year bill from our energy company.\u00a0\u00a0 Getting a bill for 800 euros just before Christmas really sucks ass.\u00a0 We can pay it, but it really screws up most plans we had for Christmas shopping and such, especially after just …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[71,55,56],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crafty-creations","category-life-in-nl","tag-christmas","tag-crafts","tag-cross-stitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}