{"id":50,"date":"2012-05-06T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2023-07-15T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T18:34:09","slug":"christmas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making stuff for Christmas<\/strong><\/h2>\n

One of the traditions I’ve started is to give out home-made gifts at Christmas. Tacky, yes, but I try to come up with things that one just can’t find anywhere else. What ends up happening is that for a few weeks prior to Christmas, Santa’s Little Sweatshop gets pretty darned busy, and the air inside turns a festive shade of blue.\u00a0 Over the past few years I’ve done tumbling clowns, candle holders, “Mr.&Mrs. Goose”, wooden toads, wooden pens, and toys & puzzles of various sorts. Another neat thing (well, I<\/em> like ’em) is dated Christmas tree ornaments done on the scroll saw. It’s a lot of work, yes, but the heartfelt “You shouldn’t have. I mean it … you REALLY shouldn’t have” makes it all worth while. It’s a challenge to come up with something new and different every year, but that’s half the fun (not to mention the panic).<\/h4>\n

Note that some years have a paucity of pictures. Sometimes that means that I chose to buy gifts rather than making them (gasp! horror!). Sometimes that means that I got so caught up in wrapping and mailing that I forgot to take pictures.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Making stuff for Christmas One of the traditions I’ve started is to give out home-made gifts at Christmas. Tacky, yes, but I try to come up with things that one just can’t find anywhere else. What ends up happening is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greiner.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}