{"id":2438,"date":"2006-12-06T15:54:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T22:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:41:56","slug":"ornamentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/12\/06\/ornamentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ornamentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started with Sculpey clay, a rolling pin, and cookie cutters. <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/315972249\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/108\/315972249_89bac3bc7a.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"ornaments stage 1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Then I painted them on both sides. I&#8217;m glad I did, because they baked a little too hard on the side that had contact with the cookie sheet. It took several days to do this process because acrylic paint takes awhile to dry. Each piece has two coats of paint and one coat of translucent gold or silver paint (except for the candy canes which are simply white).<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/315972252\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/120\/315972252_9e1371488e.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"ornaments stage 2\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today I added embellishments to both sides and painted the candy canes. Now they just need time for the glue to set.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/315972253\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/106\/315972253_9d7a2edd92.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"ornaments stage 3\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Voila! Christmas presents!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started with Sculpey clay, a rolling pin, and cookie cutters. Then I painted them on both sides. I&#8217;m glad I did, because they baked a little too hard on the side that had contact with the cookie sheet. It took several days to do this process because acrylic paint takes awhile to dry. Each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,214,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-domestic-arts","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11188,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/11188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}