{"id":4910,"date":"2012-11-30T14:17:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2012-11-30T14:17:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T19:17:47","slug":"christmas-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/30\/christmas-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas countdown!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Or advent calendar. Whatever you want to call it, it’s hanging on my foyer wall. <\/p>\n

I spent the past week browsing Pinterest and just becoming so overwhelmed with advent calendar ideas. I kept complaining, “we neeeeed a calendar. we neeeeed a countdown. blah, blah, blaaaaaaah.” Finally, yesterday, I stopped complaining and went to Hobby Lobby for supplies. While taking Andrew to the bathroom (OF COURSE), I noticed the shelf with wood sheets and my mind flashed to the few scrap wood trees I’d seen in my Pinterest perusing. Bingo!<\/p>\n

I loved the look of the scrap trees, but I wanted something really quick and easy. You can see the exact materials I used, below:
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I stamped the numbers using a set my MIL gave me a few years ago. Everything is hot glued together and it hangs with a small piece of yarn. I’m going to fill the tiny envelopes with activity prompts and\/or chocolates (I’m thinking Andes!) for both boys. I’m glad I got it done on time. They are super excited for tomorrow! I’m just a little<\/i> terrified that 2012 is already so close to being over. How’d it go by so quickly?!<\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"the<\/center><\/p>\n

Or advent calendar. Whatever you want to call it, it’s hanging on my foyer wall. <\/p>\n

I spent the past week browsing Pinterest and just becoming so overwhelmed with advent calendar ideas. I kept complaining, “we neeeeed a calendar. we neeeeed a countdown. blah, blah, blaaaaaaah.” Finally, yesterday, I stopped complaining and went to Hobby Lobby for supplies. While taking Andrew to the bathroom [Read More…]<\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,84,42,115],"tags":[53,116,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4916,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions\/4916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}