{"id":3889,"date":"2019-07-05T16:05:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T23:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2019-07-05T16:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T23:05:20","slug":"back-in-the-swing-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/05\/back-in-the-swing-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the swing of things"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My husband and I have been away for a couple of weeks. We took a trip from Venice, Italy, to Athens, Greece. Everywhere we went was gorgeous, though the scenery in Montenegro and Dubrovnik were probably the most gorgeous I’ve seen. Still, I think seeing the Parthenon\/Acropolis were the things I’d looked forward to for the longest — since reading some Greek mythology when I was in elementary school! Oh, and there was the obligatory gondola trip in Venice — it was everything I’d hoped for. This is the two of us on our first evening in Venice.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>While we were away, a member of our extended family (the niece of our son-in-law) and her husband — both delightful people — had their first baby. Naturally, I wanted to mark the occasion, so I embroidered this birth panel. Unfortunately, I completely forgot to take another photo of it after completing with a blue mat and white frame; I blame jet lag. \ud83d\ude09 \u00a0I’ve blurred part of the baby’s name for privacy purposes, but the template for the project came from Designs by Juju<\/a>. I did use my Embrilliance software to very easily add another “block” of text and border above the original one intended for the name; this baby’s name is rather long, so I needed the extra space. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My husband and I have been away for a couple of weeks. We took a trip from Venice, Italy, to Athens, Greece. Everywhere we went was gorgeous, though the scenery in Montenegro and Dubrovnik were probably the most gorgeous I’ve seen. Still, I think seeing the Parthenon\/Acropolis were the things I’d looked forward to for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3890,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[301],"tags":[193,224],"class_list":{"0":"post-3889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-embroidery","8":"tag-embroidery","9":"tag-travel","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0346.jpg?fit=192%2C256&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-10J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3615,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/27\/biscornu-cushion\/","url_meta":{"origin":3889,"position":0},"title":"Biscornu cushion","author":"Sandy","date":"October 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Several years ago I made a pin cushion that is a biscornu -- that is, it's a way of putting together two squares so that you end up with eight sides. 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