{"id":114,"date":"2009-07-29T21:47:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T03:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydnieann.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-07-29T21:47:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T03:47:34","slug":"i-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"I melt&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greeleygov.com\/CultureArt\/ArtsPicnic.aspx\">Greeley Arts Picnic<\/a>.\u00a0 Of course, the main attraction was the food (especially the crepes!), but there was a lot of art and crafty stuff to check out too.\u00a0 I always like to go look at things and think, &#8220;I could make that!&#8221;\u00a0 Or, more often, &#8220;Tina could totally make that!&#8221;\u00a0 More often than not, I don&#8217;t actually make any of it.\u00a0 But I always think that one of us <strong>could <\/strong>do it, if we set our minds to it.\u00a0 Or if I went and picked up a bunch of new crafty stuff for a new crafty hobby.\u00a0 (My latest is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.provocraft.com\/products\/detail.php?cl=knifty%20knitter&amp;scl=looms&amp;cat=&amp;item=21-0100\">Knifty Knitter<\/a> set.)\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaels.com\/art\/online\/home\">Michael&#8217;s<\/a> LOVES me.\u00a0 They&#8217;d better, anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the busier booths at the fair was one that sold melted wine\/liquor bottle cheeseboards &#8211; they were selling tons of these things at about $25 each.\u00a0 Stuff like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winetini.com\/flat-bottle-plates.php\">this<\/a>.\u00a0 This one, I KNOW I could do.\u00a0 I did it in 3rd grade.\u00a0 OK, so I didn&#8217;t really melt anything myself.\u00a0 But, along with the rest of my class, I brought a collection of glass bottles to school, which Mr. Art Teacher melted in a kiln!\u00a0 Very cool art class project!\u00a0 So, see, I know that I could do this project.\u00a0 All I need is a bunch of glass bottles, and a kiln.\u00a0 Slightly more expensive than my Knifty Knitters, but still.\u00a0 Possibly more expensive than my car.\u00a0 But you have to spend money to make money, right??\u00a0 (I didn&#8217;t just make that up, did I?)<\/p>\n<p>Some rules would have to change, too.\u00a0 I&#8217;m generally not allowed near power tools, sharp objects, or hot surfaces.\u00a0 Some of those rules are for my own protection, others for the protection of my house and everyone in it&#8230;\u00a0 Maybe this is a hobby for Tina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I went to the Greeley Arts Picnic.\u00a0 Of course, the main attraction was the food (especially the crepes!), but there was a lot of art and crafty stuff to check out too.\u00a0 I always like to go look at things and think, &#8220;I could make that!&#8221;\u00a0 Or, more often, &#8220;Tina could totally make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}