{"id":51,"date":"2011-01-24T12:49:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T20:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2011-01-24T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T20:49:19","slug":"descanso-gardens-wreath-making-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Descanso Gardens Wreath-making Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year (in 2009) I signed up to do a wreath-making class at Descanso Gardens and loved it. \u00a0They trim the trees in their gardens and then have a class to instruct people on how to create a wreath. \u00a0Very fun!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-52\" title=\"Eucalyptus Wreath\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jsgreene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20091205_24787-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20091205_24787-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20091205_24787-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20091205_24787-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20091205_24787-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20091205_24787-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/20091205_24787-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s class was a big class and I was at the back of the class (because I got there\u00a0slightly late) and I ended up making my wreath out of eucalyptus. \u00a0At the time, I was really bummed out because I envisioned a more traditional wreath. \u00a0But, in reality, I really liked my eucalyptus wreath and was quite happy with how it turned out. \u00a0Plus, it had a very nice scent for quite awhile.<\/p>\n<p>I signed up for the class again this year (December 2010). \u00a0This time, I knew to show up early so that I could be at the front of the class and be first to the materials I wanted to use. \u00a0It ended up showing up was not so necessary&#8211;the class was much smaller (like half the size!) and there was plenty of materials to use.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-55\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=55\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-55\" title=\"Juniper Wreath\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jsgreene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/juniperwreath-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/juniperwreath-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/juniperwreath.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>For this year&#8217;s wreath, I chose to make it out of juniper (I think). \u00a0I am quite pleased with how it came out and it, too, smelled good for quite awhile. \u00a0I especially liked that it was festive, but didn&#8217;t necessarily scream Christmas because I used more of a gold\/purple color scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year (in 2009) I signed up to do a wreath-making class at Descanso Gardens and loved it. \u00a0They trim the trees in their gardens and then have a class to instruct people on how to create a wreath. \u00a0Very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=51\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,113,134,144,197,360,394],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}