{"id":1452,"date":"2011-05-12T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/where-did-the-time-go\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T09:38:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:38:19","slug":"where-did-the-time-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/where-did-the-time-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did the time go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been almost a month since my last post! Yikes! I&#8217;ve been working on a bed runner to use at the foot of our bed, where Bisou likes to lie at night. I think it will be much easier to keep clean than a huge quilt. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Like many, I thoroughly enjoyed watching the recent royal wedding. Since I collect thimbles, I was very excited to receive a commemorative thimble in today&#8217;s mail! I bought it from a highly-rated seller on Ebay, and I&#8217;m very pleased with it. This is the photo the seller posted of the front and back:<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Weddingthimble.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Weddingthimble-300x227.png?resize=320%2C241\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been almost a month since my last post! Yikes! I&#8217;ve been working on a bed runner to use at the foot of our bed, where Bisou likes to lie at night. I think it will be much easier to keep clean than a huge quilt. \ud83d\ude09 Like many, I thoroughly enjoyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[277],"class_list":{"0":"post-1452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-thimble","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Weddingthimble.png?fit=493%2C373&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-nq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1557,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/13\/so-cute\/","url_meta":{"origin":1452,"position":0},"title":"So cute!","author":"Sandy","date":"February 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I needed a spool of pale blue thread today, so off I went to my LQS (local quilt shop) to see what I could find. 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