{"id":3038,"date":"2013-12-11T21:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T02:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2013-12-17T23:39:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T04:39:34","slug":"decking-the-halls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/decking-the-halls\/","title":{"rendered":"Decking the Halls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"garland\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m not even going to tell you what happens in my head if I think or hear “deck the halls” without hearing a certain holiday diddy with it. Trust me on this. You are glad.<\/p>\n

I love the holiday season. While I’m not a fan of winter, I love the lights, the red and green candies. I love the holiday baking issues of magazines. Love, love, love.<\/p>\n

I want to enjoy it all, day-by-day-by-day. I want to avoid waking up and realizing that it is December 20 and that I hadn’t fully embraced and enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

Bring on the Christmas music<\/a>!!<\/p>\n

Bring on the crafts!<\/p>\n

\"beads\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was at the Scrapbox<\/a> when I saw a container of red, white, and green beads. I knew I needed to make a garland. Nevermind that I made a garland<\/a> threeyears ago.<\/p>\n

So, the beads had to come home with me. I had envisioned making this with Alex as we watched something together.<\/p>\n

He had other plans, preferring to work on his own project.<\/p>\n

We still had together time. I still got a new garland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not even going to tell you what happens in my head if I think or hear “deck the halls” without hearing a certain holiday diddy with it. Trust me on this. You are glad. I love the holiday season. While I’m not a fan of winter, I love the lights, the red and green… Continue reading Decking the Halls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-N0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3954,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/holiday-beer-bottling-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":3038,"position":0},"title":"Holiday Beer: Bottling Day","author":"admin","date":"November 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I want a beer that makes me hear Sleigh Ride when you crack it open.\" That's what I said when the boyfriend was looking for suggestions for the next beer he was going to make. 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