{"id":4337,"date":"2018-11-27T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T19:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2018-11-27T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T19:12:24","slug":"and-so-it-begins-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4337","title":{"rendered":"and so it begins again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i finished up the ornaments on my mini tree (see post earlier this month)  and in keeping with my resolution to purge i bundled up most of the extra beads and dropped them off at the charity store, yesterday.  i was planning to just drop and run, but they had a big sign up front that all their christmas stuff was now out&#8230; so i just had to go take a look.  on one of the tables was an 15&#8243; tree, one of the ones with perfect scale tiny branches <em>and<\/em> it was marked at only $2.  of course i immediately decided my girls needed a second tree.  the 24&#8243; one is a bit big for some of the smaller kids.<\/p>\n<p>once i got home and confirmed that this indeed was a perfect tree, i panicked.  i realized that i had just given away all the extra ornaments :doh you see why i so seldom purge?<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/46077612971\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"because who doesn&#x27;t need two christmas trees?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4808\/46077612971_f6d8b07baf.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"500\" alt=\"because who doesn&#x27;t need two christmas trees?\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\ni found some lovely angel charms on sale for cyber monday and quickly ordered a few.  but luckily before i went too crazy reordering ornaments i took a look through the beads and charms that i had decided to keep and found i had a lot more than i thought.  enough to pretty much fill the tree, which is what i did this morning.<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/31139109227\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"minit tree ornaments\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4810\/31139109227_ba5cf775b6.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"minit tree ornaments\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\ni have a few spots left for the angel charms when they come, the angel on top desparately needs repainting, and of course i will need to add lights (which i have in my box) and make another tree skirt.  but overall i&#8217;m happy and my desire to purge is back on track \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i finished up the ornaments on my mini tree (see post earlier this month) and in keeping with my resolution to purge i bundled up most of the extra beads and dropped them off at the charity store, yesterday. i was planning to just drop and run, but they had a big sign up front that all their christmas stuff was now out&#8230; so i just had to go take a look. on one of the tables was an 15&#8243; tree, one of the ones with perfect scale tiny branches and it was marked at only $2. of course i&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,455,230],"tags":[4,231,490,489,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}