{"id":1294,"date":"2012-12-31T05:41:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T14:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2012-12-31T05:52:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T14:52:15","slug":"reflections-on-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2012 has been filled with creativity, adventure and connection.  As I browse through this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blog posts, I am amazed. I knew I had been busy, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6wow!  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/wpid-2012reflect1-2012-12-31-05-41.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-2012reflect1-2012-12-31-05-41.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"472\"\/><br \/>\nI completed over 3 dozen art quilts &#8211; stitched backgrounds, girls and ruffles and so much color &#8211; yumm!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/wpid-2012reflect2-2012-12-31-05-41.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-2012reflect2-2012-12-31-05-41.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"423\"\/><br \/>\nI taught two classes on making creative girl art quilts and created a better pattern and used Spoonflower for printing the faces.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/wpid-2012reflect5-2012-12-31-05-41.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-2012reflect5-2012-12-31-05-41.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"639\"\/><br \/>\nI made stuffed creatures, bags, dresses, journals and fabric books.  I love sewing!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/wpid-2012reflect3-2012-12-31-05-41.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-2012reflect3-2012-12-31-05-41.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"299\"\/><br \/>\nI completed over 2 dozen throw size quilts allowing me to practice piecing and machine quilting.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/wpid-2012reflect4-2012-12-31-05-41.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-2012reflect4-2012-12-31-05-41.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"541\"\/><br \/>\nI love patchwork and cannot wait to stitch even more quilts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/wpid-2012reflect6-2012-12-31-05-41.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-2012reflect6-2012-12-31-05-41.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"512\"\/><br \/>\nArt quilts and fabric books were published in magazines.  I created cover art for a novel and matching pattern.  I stitched lots of blocks for charity quilts and allowed myself to play whenever possible.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful that I can express my creativity and inspire others to do the same.  I am grateful to have set goals and attained them.  I am grateful that I began the journey to change my creative hobby into a tiny business.  <\/p>\n<p>I look forward to what the next year will bring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 has been filled with creativity, adventure and connection. As I browse through this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blog posts, I am amazed. I knew I had been busy, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6wow! I completed over 3 dozen art quilts &#8211; stitched backgrounds, girls and ruffles and so much color &#8211; yumm! I taught two classes on making creative girl art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}