{"id":4914,"date":"2012-04-22T21:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T02:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2012-04-22T21:15:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T02:15:52","slug":"wreath-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=4914","title":{"rendered":"Wreath Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that the &#8220;welcome wreath&#8221; hanging on my front door was badly in need of a facelift.\u00a0 I put it together just after we moved in&#8211;which would be coming up on 8 years&#8230; (holy cow!\u00a0 Where did that time go?!)\u00a0 Every spring I pull it out, dust it off and hang it back on the front door.\u00a0 But after years of coming to and from the basement storage, it was starting to look a bit worn and dated.<\/p>\n<p>Cue motivational music.<\/p>\n<p>So, when I was in St. Cloud yesterday Shannon and I made a trip to the craft store and I picked up a few items to update it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m very pleased with the transformation.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cheerful, clean and inviting, but didn&#8217;t cost an arm and a leg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_4917\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/old-wreat.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4917\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4917\" title=\"old wreath\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/old-wreat-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/old-wreat-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/old-wreat-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wreath Before<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4916\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-wreath.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4916\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4916\" title=\"new wreath\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-wreath-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-wreath-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-wreath-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wreath After<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4915\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-wreath-close-up.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4915\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4915 \" title=\"new wreath close up\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-wreath-close-up-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-wreath-close-up-680x1024.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/new-wreath-close-up-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">and a closer look... <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that the &#8220;welcome wreath&#8221; hanging on my front door was badly in need of a facelift.\u00a0 I put it together just after we moved in&#8211;which would be coming up on 8 years&#8230; (holy cow!\u00a0 Where did that time go?!)\u00a0 Every spring I pull it out, dust it off and hang it back on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4920,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions\/4920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}