{"id":10248,"date":"2014-12-04T10:11:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=10248"},"modified":"2014-12-04T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:29:11","slug":"creative-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/creative-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10249\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-DSC_2390.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10249 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-DSC_2390.jpg\" alt=\"1-DSC_2390\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-DSC_2390.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-DSC_2390-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-DSC_2390-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We had some snow last month. It melted quickly, but not before the two boys had made several snowmen and a &#8220;perfect snowball&#8221; that we considered storing in the freezer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-DSC_2410.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-DSC_2410.jpg\" alt=\"1-DSC_2410\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-DSC_2410.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-DSC_2410-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-DSC_2410-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had several\u00a0really creative days this week. I raced through my housework and sat down to choose music, pictures, and movies\u00a0for our annual Christmas video\u00a0for the grandparents. Another day I painted gifts, cut fancy papers, and wrapped presents. I even finished all of the applique work on my Thanksgiving wall hanging. Now I have a year to finish the embroidery. Last week Mark and I covered every counter top and table to paint a\u00a0dozen large papers we will cut into shapes to make Eric Carle style art projects.<\/p>\n<p>I rarely plan ahead for a day of creative work, and I usually get swept into a project before I&#8217;ve combed my hair or gotten dressed for the day. Yesterday before I knew it, it was 2 pm. The school teaching and housework were done, but I hadn&#8217;t benefited from a trip to the mirror all day.<\/p>\n<p>One reason for all of this creativity is that\u00a0the truck was\u00a0in the shop and I didn&#8217;t\u00a0have transportation. I guess I needed to expand my world a little. My days of creative isolation left me with a shopping list that includes more tape, more paint, and more glue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had several\u00a0really creative days this week. I raced through my housework and sat down to choose music, pictures, and movies\u00a0for our annual Christmas video\u00a0for the grandparents. Another day I painted gifts, cut fancy papers, and wrapped presents. I even finished all of the applique work on my Thanksgiving wall hanging. Now I have a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/creative-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creative Days<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10248"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10258,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions\/10258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}