{"id":21,"date":"2011-11-05T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T16:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2011-12-22T22:05:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T05:05:01","slug":"balancing-the-threads-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/balancing-thoughts\/balancing-the-threads-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing the Threads of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<strong>Life is made of threads,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They weave and sew,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And sometimes they unravel\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But in the end, each life is a piece of work.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how I\u2019m starting.\u00a0 Like my first footsteps on the moon.\u00a0 It\u2019s what I want to talk about and share with you; all the things that weave into a life, all the threads and knots and beautiful ribbons and bows.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so excited to finally have this blog up and running.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/QeB-2011Nov4a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26\" title=\"new and very simple\" src=\"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/QeB-2011Nov4a-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"full spectrum votives\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/QeB-2011Nov4a-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/QeB-2011Nov4a-1024x484.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/QeB-2011Nov4a-500x236.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">new for my first blog post<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0Its genesis arrives in the middle of a decoupage project in the studio.\u00a0And I have some new and beautiful things to share.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I delayed starting this project, like I always do with tasty things, so I could focus on just the work and the colors and designs.\u00a0 So far I\u2019m pleased.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/QeB-2011Nov4b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27\" title=\"the first widgets\" src=\"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/QeB-2011Nov4b-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"I'm working on promotional ites...free gifts\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/QeB-2011Nov4b-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/QeB-2011Nov4b-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/QeB-2011Nov4b-427x300.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the first test run of Qpins<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">Qpins&#8230;&#8221;they&#8221; say I need something for distinctive packaging and free promotional gifts.\u00a0 Altered clothespins with my shop names and address decoupaged on one side, fabric on the other side.\u00a0 Maybe fabric on both sides.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking they&#8217;re a little ridiculous and just\u00a0might work.<\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m always a little uncertain tho\u2019 whether I\u2019ll really like it all in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Life is made of threads, They weave and sew, And sometimes they unravel\u2026 But in the end, each life is a piece of work.\u00a0 That\u2019s how I\u2019m starting.\u00a0 Like my first footsteps on the moon.\u00a0 It\u2019s what I want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/balancing-thoughts\/balancing-the-threads-of-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[10,6,14,13,12,15,8,11,9,16,7,17],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balancing-thoughts","category-inthestudio","tag-studio","tag-balance","tag-magick","tag-colors","tag-ideas","tag-steps","tag-life","tag-newwork","tag-philosophy","tag-promotion","tag-thread","tag-widgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qexpeditions.com\/qeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}