{"id":7196,"date":"2010-07-05T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7196"},"modified":"2010-06-28T09:38:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T13:38:51","slug":"nmbc-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7196","title":{"rendered":"NMBC Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/nmbctree-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"NMBC Tree\" title=\"NMBC Tree\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Craftster member kirastorm has a miniature Christmas tree that she plans to decorate with a different theme every year.  Her inaugural <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftster.org\/forum\/index.php?topic=329598.msg3805542#msg3805542\">theme<\/a> was <i>The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/i>, and I think it turned out splendidly.<\/p>\n<p>The ornaments are simply plain balls that she painted: Black, white with black spirals, and Jack&#8217;s face.  The rest of the tree is filled in with black-and-white garland and white stars.  As simple as the ornaments are, they&#8217;re really very striking. <\/p>\n<p>This would be a great decoration for a small space, for Halloween or the various winter holidays.*  If you wanted to get fancy, you could also decorate blown eggs with the same designs.  You could also swap out the tree for something a little less overtly seasonal like a bare branch or standing metal hanger and use it to display the ornaments (or eggs) year-round.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*I realize it&#8217;s only July, but think of this as getting a head-start on seasonal crafts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craftster member kirastorm has a miniature Christmas tree that she plans to decorate with a different theme every year. Her inaugural theme was The Nightmare Before Christmas, and I think it turned out splendidly. The ornaments are simply plain balls that she painted: Black, white with black spirals, and Jack&#8217;s face. The rest of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7247,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions\/7247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}