{"id":111,"date":"2006-11-14T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T14:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/the-blog\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:09:41","slug":"the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked my husband to change my blog, maybe put some bags on the header.\u00a0 Not sure what he was thinking but he gave me a snowy scene with an ugly snowflake border.\u00a0 Hmmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe something like this would have been better<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=427,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/elisak.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/decorations\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Decorations\" height=\"266\" alt=\"Decorations\" src=\"http:\/\/elisak.typepad.com\/stuff\/images\/decorations\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>this is the fireplace in my studio, decorated with Christmas lights last year.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Cole and I hit our first thrift store.\u00a0 Wasn&#8217;t sure what to expect but I found two wing chairs for $30 each!\u00a0 And the feet match the feet on the chairs and table from Andy&#8217;s grandmother.\u00a0 They need to be recovered, so I reserved some books at the library to try to tackle that project.\u00a0 I put one of them here in my studio next to the fireplace.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/297303708\/Thrifted_Chair.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Thrifted Chair\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/115\/297303708_44edebd233.jpg\" width=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Love that Astro is laying there with his weird little squeeky toy.\u00a0 And not to leave out the girl, even the back of her head is cute.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=427,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/elisak.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/bar_head\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bar_head\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" height=\"266\" alt=\"Bar_head\" src=\"http:\/\/elisak.typepad.com\/stuff\/images\/bar_head\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Busy week around here.\u00a0 I get to spend 2 hours at the dentist tomorrow\u00a0getting a crown, we are going to see the Blue Man Group with friends on Thursday night and then to the Game of the Century as they are calling it around here.\u00a0 Ohio State\u00a0vs. Michigan on Saturday.\u00a0 Off to make some bags!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked my husband to change my blog, maybe put some bags on the header.\u00a0 Not sure what he was thinking but he gave me a snowy scene with an ugly snowflake border.\u00a0 Hmmm&#8230;. Maybe something like this would have been better this is the fireplace in my studio, decorated with Christmas lights last year. Yesterday Cole and I hit our first thrift store.\u00a0 Wasn&#8217;t sure what to expect but I found two wing chairs for $30 each!\u00a0 And the feet match the feet on the chairs and table from Andy&#8217;s grandmother.\u00a0 They need to be recovered, so I reserved some books at the library to try to tackle that project.\u00a0 I put one of them here in my studio next to the fireplace. \u00a0 \u00a0Love that Astro is laying there with his weird little squeeky toy.\u00a0 And not to leave out the girl, even the back of her head is cute. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Busy week around here.\u00a0 I get to spend 2 hours at the dentist tomorrow\u00a0getting a crown, we are going to see the Blue Man Group with friends on Thursday night and then to the Game of the Century as they are calling it around here.\u00a0 Ohio State\u00a0vs. Michigan on Saturday.\u00a0 Off to make some bags!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20842,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/20842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}