{"id":2686,"date":"2011-01-03T06:50:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T19:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2011-01-03T06:57:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T19:57:15","slug":"a-snowy-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2011\/01\/03\/a-snowy-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A snowy Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve explained that here in Sydney we don&#8217;t get snow at any time of the year, but particularly not at Christmas! However, due to a bit of a ridiculously out of season cold snap, the Snowy Mountains (quite some hours south of Sydney) DID get snow right near Christmas time!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Veronica-2010-ornament.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Veronica-2010-ornament.jpg\" alt=\"Veronica 2010 Christmas ornament\" title=\"Veronica-2010-ornament\" width=\"250\" height=\"321\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Veronica-2010-ornament.jpg 250w, https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Veronica-2010-ornament-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Veronica-2010-ornament-116x150.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>My snowy Christmas arrived in a box just before New Year, from Veronica, as part of our Christmas ornament swap. Here&#8217;s how I described the experience of opening the box and finding a very cute snow man Christmas ornament:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I loved the pretty box, and on opening it I immediately saw all that lovely smocking. Then I saw the scarf and the hat replete with snow. And then the carrot nose (it was facing the other way when I lifted it out of the box!). It all works together so well to create such a stunning ornament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Veronica told me about how he came to be:<br \/>\n&#8220;I recently learned to smock. I made the carrot nose from the new memory thread and even crocheted the little scarf from a varigated yarn. Since you don&#8217;t have snow I thought the little bit of snow on his hat might cool you off if the weather gets too hot!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Veronica for the gorgeous ornament and for all the work that went into it. We&#8217;ve decided to keep our Christmas tree up until Ethiopian Christmas (they celebrate Orthodox Christmas) so we&#8217;ll be enjoying it for a little while yet, this season, and then each Christmas from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve explained that here in Sydney we don&#8217;t get snow at any time of the year, but particularly not at Christmas! However, due to a bit of a ridiculously out of season cold snap, the Snowy Mountains (quite some hours south of Sydney) DID get snow right near Christmas time!<\/p>\n<p>My snowy Christmas arrived in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-ornament-swap","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}