{"id":4331,"date":"2020-10-16T13:25:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2020-10-16T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:25:13","slug":"this-years-christmas-ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/16\/this-years-christmas-ornaments\/","title":{"rendered":"This year’s Christmas ornaments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"snowflake<\/a>I’ve posted before about giving our grandchildren Christmas ornaments each year, and I got a bit of a head start on them this year. Using the Embrilliance<\/a> software that I really should know more about, I created some snowflakes for this year’s “batch”. Each snowflake is different, though I’ll admit it’s not easy to tell in this photo. However, each one is the name of the recipient, as well as its mirror image, all repeated eight times. I hope they like them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted before about giving our grandchildren Christmas ornaments each year, and I got a bit of a head start on them this year. Using the Embrilliance software that I really should know more about, I created some snowflakes for this year’s “batch”. Each snowflake is different, though I’ll admit it’s not easy to tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[242,193,198],"class_list":{"0":"post-4331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"tag-christmas","8":"tag-embroidery","9":"tag-holiday","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-17R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5436,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/08\/23\/more-ornaments\/","url_meta":{"origin":4331,"position":0},"title":"More ornaments","author":"Sandy","date":"August 23, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"My husband and I give our grandchildren a Christmas ornament each year. 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