{"id":610,"date":"2018-01-06T11:20:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T11:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/?p=610"},"modified":"2018-01-07T11:25:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T11:25:20","slug":"finally-back-and-a-happy-new-year-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/2018\/01\/finally-back-and-a-happy-new-year-to-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally back! And a Happy New Year to all"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe my last post was in August 2017… Well I did say that things were about to go crazy at work, and they did and they didn’t let up till Christmas!\u00a0 I went on holiday in October though, but as soon as I got back I fell ill (think I caught something on the plane). And that didn’t help.\u00a0 I did manage to make a few cards – even some for challenges – but didn’t get enough time or energy to post them.<\/p>\n

Well, my word for this year is JOY – make joy, find joy – because I’ve been a miserable old thing ever since mum died in 2016 and it’s time I made an effort…\u00a0 and making cards gives me JOY so hurrah! And so does writing and blogging….<\/p>\n

Here is a belated posting of my Christmas tree this year. Made from sparkly silver wallpaper and old book pages from an ancient dictionary which fell apart.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/p>\n

My birthday was in this period too and I managed to make it to a creative evening my friends organised for me at Debbie Bryan’s<\/a> – it was a vintage-inspired jewellery making workshop.\u00a0 Thoroughly recommended! Here is my steampunk inspired necklace:<\/p>\n

\"necklace\"<\/p>\n

And I hope to see you around in blogland in 2018. Happy New Year!<\/p>\n

And today’s haiku based on my word of 2018:<\/p>\n

Blue skies and prospects
\nOf new creativity
\nPromise I’ll find joy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe my last post was in August 2017… Well I did say that things were about to go crazy at work, and they did and they didn’t let up till Christmas!\u00a0 I went on holiday in October though, but as soon as I got back I fell ill (think I caught something on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,46],"tags":[54,55,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenwhitehead.com\/haiku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}