{"id":96,"date":"2017-12-17T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/?p=96"},"modified":"2021-05-26T01:56:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T01:56:24","slug":"christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tree-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tree-1-1.jpg 240w, https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tree-1-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Christmas time and we don&#8217;t have a lot of room for a tree. Plus &#8211; I don&#8217;t love the idea of either a synthetic tree full of chemicals or a natural tree which I will have to clean up after. So &#8211; I spent some time on Pinterest (who doesn&#8217;t?) and found some great trees that were concentric circles of plywood cut up &#8211; but that would require time and a jigsaw. So&#8230; I did this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is made from circles of grape vine &#8211; pulled off of my mothers shed. If you have never tried to make a rustic basket.. you won&#8217;t appreciate how easy this is. Really. Literally, just the vines off and twist into a circle, tucking them into themselves, like when you make a daisy chain. As the wood tries it will get stiff and &#8220;permanent&#8221;. I made a bunch of rings, each one a little bit smaller and then attached them with ribbon. Strung up the lights and hung the ornaments! (I bought some very cheap ornament hooks to make it easier).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three things I love about it (besides that it is pretty) is that it hangs from the ceiling and doesn&#8217;t touch the ground so cleaning up underneath is easy.  Second, it will fold up into a jumbo pizza box to store for next year and, when it&#8217;s no longer pretty it&#8217;s 100% compostable. For the win!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tree-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tree-2.jpg 240w, https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tree-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tree-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tree-3.jpg 240w, https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tree-3-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption>my favorite ornament &#8211; Santa in Drag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas time and we don&#8217;t have a lot of room for a tree. Plus &#8211; I don&#8217;t love the idea of either a synthetic tree full of chemicals or a natural tree which I will have to clean up after. So &#8211; I spent some time on Pinterest (who doesn&#8217;t?) and found some great trees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}