{"id":6541,"date":"2015-08-19T19:32:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T00:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2016-01-04T17:47:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T22:47:46","slug":"a-bold-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2015\/08\/a-bold-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"A bold choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

My living room rug arrived today. I was a bit, um, apprehensive before I unrolled it. It was a bold choice. Would I like it in person?<\/p>\n

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Yes, I do!<\/p>\n

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And now my living room doesn’t echo anymore. It was worth spending all those hours online to find & pick this rug. I bought it at rugsusa<\/a> — a suggestion from my daughter who’s purchased from them before. Part of the reason I spent so much time choosing it was because a lot (half?) of the rugs I liked were made in China and I ruled them all out. This is 100% wool, and was hand tufted in India. I’ve never had a wool rug before, nor a rug that was patterned. My rug was on a major sale – 70% off regular price, making it affordable. <\/p>\n

Ignore that box next to the couch. It’s waiting for me to find a piece of furniture to replace the TV tray with my little lamp on it in the other photo. This as-yet-to-be-even-considered piece of furniture will hold the DVD player that’s in that box. (Ok, I admit it, there’s a VCR in the box, too. I probably won’t set that up. I shouldn’t have brought it, should I?)<\/p>\n

The other rug, the one for my spare room, should arrive on Thursday or Friday.<\/p>\n

Today started and ended very well, with a bit of an oops in the middle. As I was beaming the warp for JMC & AF – isn’t it gorgeous?!…<\/p>\n

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…we had a brief downpour. I noticed that the gutter along the side of my weaving studio didn’t appear to be working at all. Water was pouring over the side. So a bit later after it had stopped I got out my step ladder to clean the gutter. I had to bring it up from the basement, which was fine…until I got out the side door. That’s when I tripped and fell. Got a scraped leg that’ll be black & blue for sure, but that’s not the real problem. On my way down the ladder scraped my neighbor’s car. (My side door opens onto their driveway.) I don’t think it scratched it, but it did leave a mark. As soon as I got off the couch from the elevation\/ice routine, I went next door and showed them what I did. I’m not yet sure if the marks will rub out, and if not, I will certainly reimburse them for any expense.<\/p>\n

Then my ladder wasn’t tall enough for me to clean the gutter anyway. Although I could reach in a bit and it didn’t seem like there was anything in there. Odd. I’ve called my son, who will come and check it out for me when he gets a chance. Not a rush.<\/p>\n

I’ve already mentioned that I have wonderful neighbors. It’s really true. Yesterday they brought me this lovely fruit pizza. <\/p>\n

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It’s really much sweeter than things I usually like or eat, but I’ll probably eat most of it anyway. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My living room rug arrived today. I was a bit, um, apprehensive before I unrolled it. It was a bold choice. Would I like it in person?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Yes, I do!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And now my living room doesn’t echo anymore. It was worth spending all those hours online to find & pick this rug. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[129,568,574],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","category-weaving","tag-custom-weaving","tag-handwoven-baby-wrap","tag-moving","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6549,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions\/6549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}