{"id":2376,"date":"2010-11-10T06:41:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T19:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2010-11-10T06:41:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T19:41:04","slug":"award-winning-mountmellick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/11\/10\/award-winning-mountmellick\/","title":{"rendered":"award winning Mountmellick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, today I want to say a heartfelt thank you to those lovely people who emailed me yesterday or posted a comment to encourage me. I really appreciate the time you took to write to me explaining why what I do has made a difference to your life. It does put things into perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was writing to someone who had been in a difficult medical situation, where something was very wrong, but the medical staff were just dismissing their concerns. Eventually it was happily resolved, but not without a lot of heartache where the people in the situation felt very powerless to help themselves because the people who should have been helping them weren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote, it seemed to me not a bad description of poverty: the powerlessness of needing help to get out of a situation, and having no way to help oneself to get out. And thinking about poverty also puts my situation in perspective. I am so very blessed by God with all that I have, and it does give a feeling of responsibility to help others who cannot help themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, moving on from the introspection (for now &#8211; I&#8217;m never far away from it!)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pia-snow-white.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pia-snow-white.jpg\" alt=\"Pia&#039;s Snow White Mountmellick embroidery\" title=\"pia-snow-white\" width=\"400\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2377\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pia-snow-white.jpg 400w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pia-snow-white-300x257.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pia-snow-white-150x128.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The other day I received an email from Pia in Queensland (which is one of Australia&#8217;s states) who recently won second prize in a state-wide competition for a Mountmellick embroidery that she embroidered. The design was an adaption of my design &#8220;Snow White&#8221; which was featured in Inspirations magazine, issue 62 a little while back. Congratulations Pia, on your beautiful embroidery, and for winning second place! A well deserved result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, today I want to say a heartfelt thank you to those lovely people who emailed me yesterday or posted a comment to encourage me. I really appreciate the time you took to write to me explaining why what I do has made a difference to your life. It does put things into perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11,26,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-embroidery","category-embroidery-musings","category-inspirations","category-mountmellick-embroidery","category-whitework","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}