{"id":55,"date":"2010-12-23T10:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T16:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/?p=55"},"modified":"2010-12-23T10:05:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T16:05:16","slug":"crafty-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Crafty Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Meringue cookies: SUCCESS! They were pretty damn good!<\/li>\n
  2. Jam\/jelly: 4 dozen so far. Double berry sangria, pomegranate-cherry, apple pie (with real apples…looks like applesauce \ud83d\ude41 ), and a pomegranate-cherry-Christmas Wine one.<\/li>\n
  3. Bourbon caramel sauce: That shit takes too long to make. Maybe next year. When I have more time. (wheee!)<\/li>\n
  4. 3 flavors of marshmallows: SUCCESS! The last batch of chocolate ones that I took to work were described as tasting like Count Chocula without the milk.<\/li>\n
  5. Chocolate Cherry Bourbon bark: meh. The cherries were too wet and cause the chocolate to look like it was moldy. The second batch seized so bad I tossed it. I might try again with slightly better directions.<\/li>\n
  6. Honey Caramels: Nope. didn’t even try.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now here is a list of stuff I did manage to get right that I hadn’t planned to do:<\/p>\n

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    1. 3 batches of fudge. I might make more since I have more chips. It’s quick and easy and people seem to like it okay.<\/li>\n
    2. A Longhorn patterned no sew fleece throw. I made one for my mom in Cowboys pattern a couple of years ago. I swore I would never make another. Apparently I lied. My back still aches. Those things take minimum two hours to make for an adult sized one. I think I’ll move on to making baby blankets. Or pillows.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      So..two is not really a list, huh. I plan on making more jams\/jellies because I ran out of time and got started way late this year. I’m going to experiment with IKEA juice drink concentrates. Ooooohhh…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Meringue cookies: SUCCESS! They were pretty damn good! Jam\/jelly: 4 dozen so far. Double berry sangria, pomegranate-cherry, apple pie (with real apples…looks like applesauce \ud83d\ude41 ), and a pomegranate-cherry-Christmas Wine one. Bourbon caramel sauce: That shit takes too long to make. Maybe next year. When I have more time. (wheee!) 3 flavors of marshmallows: SUCCESS! … Continue reading Crafty Update<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Rylh-T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.topenga.net\/art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}