{"id":235,"date":"2007-09-22T23:00:46","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2007-12-26T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T22:05:00","slug":"christmas-decorations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Christmas decorations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning from a dream where I was beading little stars out of beads and sequins.\u00c2\u00a0 While I was brushing my teeth I thought &#8216;that could work!&#8217;.\u00c2\u00a0 Then while I was getting dressed I realised it wouldn&#8217;t as it wouldn&#8217;t be stiff enough.\u00c2\u00a0 But by the time I&#8217;d got to <a title=\"Patchings Art Centre\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patchingsartcentre.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patchings<\/a> and my beads it had occured to me that if I used bugles it <em>would<\/em> work.\u00c2\u00a0 So I started by making this silver star.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image232\" alt=\"Silver star\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/star-small.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was quite pleased with this, so I carried on playing and made these Christmas trees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image233\" alt=\"Beaded Christmas Trees\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/trees-small.jpg\" width=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And moved onto these versions using 3mm bugles and smaller sequins for earrings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image234\" height=\"325\" alt=\"Star and tree earrings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/earrings.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s a bit early yet, but it&#8217;s only a month to the Christmas Market.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m quite pleased with these (the earrings in particular are much nicer than they look in the photo &#8211; seasonal but not over the top), especially as they were designed in a dream!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning from a dream where I was beading little stars out of beads and sequins.\u00c2\u00a0 While I was brushing my teeth I thought &#8216;that could work!&#8217;.\u00c2\u00a0 Then while I was getting dressed I realised it wouldn&#8217;t as it wouldn&#8217;t be stiff enough.\u00c2\u00a0 But by the time I&#8217;d got to Patchings and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}