{"id":8,"date":"2005-01-04T03:34:35","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T03:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=8"},"modified":"2018-04-13T08:03:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:03:03","slug":"new-year-new-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"New Year &#8211; New Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<p>I fell in love with this spunky lady when I saw her at the antique store.  She will soon appear on journals, in quilts &#8211; she seems to have a spirit that says &#8216;You can do anything!&#8217;  And this year I feel as if I really can do anything to which I set my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t make resolutions.  Instead for the past few years I&#8217;ve made a self challenge.  Last year I challenged myself to use all the fabric from my then enourmous stash.  I didn&#8217;t use it all, but I did come close.  A few delicious yards and fat quarters, a ton of polyester, and scraps remain. <\/p>\n<p>This year I am challenging myself to create 7 items a week and document them here.  That&#8217;s 365 completed projects in 2005.  Creating, whether it be with fabic, paper or wire, makes me come alive.  Why not challenge myself to feel truly alive every day?   <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t quite commit to create an item a day because some days that is impossible or some projects take multiple days.  Seven in a week is attainable.  I&#8217;m excited, nervous and hoping that this public declaration of my challenge\/goal will spur me into a creative frenzy that continues for a lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fell in love with this spunky lady when I saw her at the antique store. She will soon appear on journals, in quilts &#8211; she seems to have a spirit that says &#8216;You can do anything!&#8217; And this year I feel as if I really can do anything to which I set my mind. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7888,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/7888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}