{"id":392,"date":"2009-10-19T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2009\/pine-needle-jewellery-and-pretty-things\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T08:36:00","slug":"pine-needle-jewellery-and-pretty-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/pine-needle-jewellery-and-pretty-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Pine needle jewellery and pretty things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Stw_Fm6V8XI\/AAAAAAAAAYc\/MyBTFxOlnVE\/s1600-h\/100_6611.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Stw_Fm6V8XI\/AAAAAAAAAYc\/MyBTFxOlnVE\/s320\/100_6611.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394255819260162418\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>When I was a child my mother taught me how to make necklaces from pine needles. Our recent holiday in the forest bought this back to me (oh how I love the smell of pine forests) so Isabella, Jules and I sat for an hour making things with pine needles.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you do the necklaces:<\/p>\n<p>1. Pull complete &#8216;V&#8217; shaped needles off &#8211; you will probably need about 20 (allowing for some breaking!)<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Stw_HFxoTQI\/AAAAAAAAAY0\/J1zJ23FyT0I\/s1600-h\/100_6589.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Stw_HFxoTQI\/AAAAAAAAAY0\/J1zJ23FyT0I\/s320\/100_6589.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394255844724985090\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>2. Carefully remove one of the needles from the V, without damaging the brown &#8220;cocoon&#8221; that it sits in. Bend round the remaining needle and tuck the pointy end into the cocoon. It should stay (some don&#8217;t, just discard and use another).<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Stw_GHNJscI\/AAAAAAAAAYk\/V_P188SkdYg\/s1600-h\/100_6582.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Stw_GHNJscI\/AAAAAAAAAYk\/V_P188SkdYg\/s320\/100_6582.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394255827928986050\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>3. Repeat this process but loop each new &#8220;link&#8221; into the previous to create your necklace! If you want it to last a bit longer, put a bit of <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">PVA<\/span> glue at the top of each link.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Stw_GnY2rEI\/AAAAAAAAAYs\/UNpU5evkzAU\/s1600-h\/100_6602.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Stw_GnY2rEI\/AAAAAAAAAYs\/UNpU5evkzAU\/s320\/100_6602.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394255836568005698\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>While we doing this, Isabella decided to put beads onto the pine needles, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">so<\/span> we tucked the ends into the top bead to make a loop and hung them from the trees &#8211; so pretty! They probably won&#8217;t last long but it is a nice way for the little ones to learn about threading!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Stw_HvP4oGI\/AAAAAAAAAY8\/BE6RobAPI00\/s1600-h\/100_6608.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Stw_HvP4oGI\/AAAAAAAAAY8\/BE6RobAPI00\/s320\/100_6608.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394255855857737826\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child my mother taught me how to make necklaces from pine needles. Our recent holiday in the forest bought this back to me (oh how I love the smell of pine forests) so Isabella, Jules and I sat for an hour making things with pine needles. Here&#8217;s how you do the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artful-living","category-get-creative-arty-crafty-tutorials-and-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}