{"id":18,"date":"2004-04-16T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts2\/?p=18"},"modified":"2010-02-06T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:03:12","slug":"painted-plaster-ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/2004\/04\/painted-plaster-ornaments.html","title":{"rendered":"Painted plaster ornaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/painted.jpg\" width=400><br \/>\n<br \/>These were my salvation when I quit smoking.  I&#8217;d already gotten into painting and decorating with glitter these plain white plaster ornaments that are sold in craft stores everywhere around Christmas-time.  I realized that I could work on them for hours without hardly thinking about smoking, so when I quit I spent a lot of time on this project.  I have dozens of them probably and even more that aren&#8217;t painted yet but are waiting for next year.  I have pots and pots of paint and flourescent paint and metallic paint and pearlized paint and every kind of glitter.  It&#8217;s like being a kid during crafts hour again.<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/photos\/paintedhorse.jpg\" height=300><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/photos\/paintedbells.jpg\" height=300><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/photos\/paintedmoon.jpg\" height=300><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/photos\/paintedtree.jpg\" height=300><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/photos\/paintedsnowman2.jpg\" height=300><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/photos\/paintedsnowman.jpg\" height=300><br \/>\n<br \/>This last snowman is from a kit.  The kit was my first introduction to painting plaster ornaments and I enjoyed it so much I went out and bought dozens of others to paint.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were my salvation when I quit smoking. I&#8217;d already gotten into painting and decorating with glitter these plain white plaster ornaments that are sold in craft stores everywhere around Christmas-time. I realized that I could work on them for hours without hardly thinking about smoking, so when I quit I spent a lot of&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/2004\/04\/painted-plaster-ornaments.html\" title=\"ReadPainted plaster ornaments\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ornaments","category-painting","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/crafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}