{"id":98,"date":"2011-01-08T14:42:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T19:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2011-01-08T14:42:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T19:42:02","slug":"new-year-fresh-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"New year, fresh start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t promise to be diligent with this journal.\u00c2\u00a0 I am a known slacker and am entirely too old to change.\u00c2\u00a0 However, I&#8217;m going to make an effort here to keep up with this thing a little better.\u00c2\u00a0 There are so many beautiful things out there and I&#8217;d love to be able to perhaps inspire some one person as I myself have been inspired by so many.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d start by posting a preview of a project that I&#8217;m about to start on.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a birthday gift for a friend and from the color selections (and the fact that her birthday is next week) it won&#8217;t be difficult to guess who this is for.\u00c2\u00a0 But this is before any cutting has taken place.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to give too much away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"pinks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/images\/projects\/2011\/mimi_bday_2k11_fabric_preview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I recently bought my grandmother&#8217;s Viking Rose sewing machine.\u00c2\u00a0 This will be my first project on the machine.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope it and I can come to terms enough to sew something relatively simple.\u00c2\u00a0 I have another sewn project in mind for another January birthday.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise, I&#8217;ll have to come up with a completely new idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t promise to be diligent with this journal.\u00c2\u00a0 I am a known slacker and am entirely too old to change.\u00c2\u00a0 However, I&#8217;m going to make an effort here to keep up with this thing a little better.\u00c2\u00a0 There are so many beautiful things out there and I&#8217;d love to be able to perhaps inspire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-gifts","category-sewn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}