{"id":607,"date":"2005-11-28T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2005-11-28T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-28T05:07:00","slug":"martha-stewart-would-be-mildly-interested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/martha-stewart-would-be-mildly-interested\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha Stewart would be mildly interested"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I was crafty. I’m talking glue guns, ribbon, feathers, silk flowers \u2014 the whole crafty caboodle. I finished one of my grandmother’s gifts \u2014 a 3-D portrait of a red hat. She’s totally into the Red Hat Society<\/a>, so I thought she might like something in that vein. She buys a new red hat pretty regularly, so I assumed there was no way I could buy her one that she didn’t already have. (Incidentally, last year, I bought her a bracelet she not only already had, but had also received from my mother the Christmas before that, which made my bracelet her third; at least you can argue that we know her tastes.) So instead of buying something she might already have, I painted a red hat on a 16×16 inch canvas board and trimmed it out with a purple ribbon and purple feathers and a red silk carnation. Then I lined the border all around in a red slender feather boa. It turned out pretty well. Now I’m thinking I probably should have used red felt for the hat instead of paint. Eh …<\/p>\n

I also drug Phil to Ike’s with me so we could pick out a cheap tree and some lights. We found a six-foot (fake) tree for $20 (it’s pretty sparse and it smells like chemicals) and three packs of multicolored globe-shaped lights for a buck each. We already had tinsel and beaded garland (the latter of which I tried to string first, but Felix kept stealing and dragging behind the bureau, so I switched to the less interesting tinsel and hid the beads, which sort of smelled weird anyway). The tree leans ever so slightly to the left, and it lacks a skirt and a topper and ornaments, but it’s a start as it’s the first non one-foot-tall tree I’ve ever had since I moved out of my parents’ house.<\/p>\n

So even though it’s balmy outside and we’ve got the windows open, I’m trying to encourage myself to believe that it’s really almost December. Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I was crafty. I’m talking glue guns, ribbon, feathers, silk flowers \u2014 the whole crafty caboodle. I finished one of my grandmother’s gifts \u2014 a 3-D portrait of a red hat. She’s totally into the Red Hat Society, so I thought she might like something in that vein. She buys a new red hat pretty regularly, so I assumed there was no way I could buy her one that she didn’t already have. (Incidentally,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-9N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}