{"id":3268,"date":"2017-01-10T11:54:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2017-01-10T11:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:54:32","slug":"still-brrrrrrrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/10\/still-brrrrrrrr\/","title":{"rendered":"Still brrrrrrrr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3269\" src=\"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fullsizeoutput_67-1431x1424.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"637\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What a funny year we&#8217;re having here. \u00a0It&#8217;s been cold and snowy for a month now, and it&#8217;s pretty much impossible to buy salt anywhere around Vancouver. \u00a0The last few days it warmed up enough to rain instead of snow, and melted away some of the frozen piles along my steep driveway, but last night it froze again and my youngest and I went out for the school bus run to find solid sheets of ice and no more salt. \u00a0Ugh. And my neighbours shiny young jeep at the bottom in my runaway lane. \u00a0I chickened out, I&#8217;ve just lost my winter driving guts in the last couple of warm winters, and we went back into the house to wait for at the very least my neighbour to go to work so I could slide down the driveway only risking my own car. \u00a0(But I also don&#8217;t want to risk my dear &#8220;Spot&#8221; who has had my back and held my seat so wonderfully for so many years now. \u00a0I love Spot like a dear dog. \u00a0 We have had many adventures together and wherever I leave her she&#8217;s always waiting there for me with a smile on her face and a wag in her tail. \u00a0Honestly I still feel happy when I look out in a parking lot and see her there. \u00a0And we listen to the best tunes together! \u00a0Ah Spot. \u00a0I love your Honda heart.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3270\" src=\"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0307-e1484071204222-1217x1424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"749\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I rooted around my garage one more time and found a surprise\u00a0last bag of salt and that took care of the driveway ice for now. \u00a0We had missed the bus by then but I drove my youngest to school and got myself a hot chai out of it too. \u00a0The world is full of cold and flus and I have finally given in to one too, so the chai scowled at it and suggested it get on its way.<\/p>\n<p>Winter.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m heading to San Jose in a couple of weeks for Market and the Winter canvas above on 18, which has been\u00a0part of a club with the Needlepointer, will be fresh into the Pippin line. \u00a0I was able to get a picture of it stitched, and it has a stitch guide available, with each window designed by a different instructor. Isn&#8217;t it sweet? \u00a0I love my basket weave but what a treat for me to get to see the fancy things on my designs. We&#8217;ve pulled out a few of the windows as separate canvases on 13 count. \u00a0All of these are brand new at the end of the month. \u00a0I must have been feeling winter last summer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3287\" src=\"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fullsizeoutput_72-1724x1293.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3285\" src=\"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fullsizeoutput_70-1407x1424.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"648\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3286\" src=\"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fullsizeoutput_71-e1484076704450.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was certainly feeling bears!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3280\" src=\"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fullsizeoutput_6b-e1484074546497.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"807\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The nine polar bears and brown bears have been popular so we&#8217;ve pulled out a couple of them into smalls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3283\" src=\"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fullsizeoutput_6f-1237x1424.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"737\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3282\" src=\"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fullsizeoutput_6e-1724x1293.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And one of them grabbed a balloon and hopped into a fancier frame.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3292\" src=\"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fullsizeoutput_74-1198x1424.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"761\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These three said, like me, humph to winter. \u00a0We&#8217;re going back to bed with a comfy cover and a good book.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3290\" src=\"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/fullsizeoutput_73-e1484077160973.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"698\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a sneaky peek ar some of the things coming at the end of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a funny year we&#8217;re having here. \u00a0It&#8217;s been cold and snowy for a month now, and it&#8217;s pretty much impossible to buy salt anywhere &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88890,"featured_media":3269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1,11,91],"tags":[24,100,93,8,41],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-designing","category-uncategorized","category-needlepoint","category-new-design","tag-critters","tag-designing","tag-needlepoint","tag-new-design","tag-summers-coming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}