{"id":503,"date":"2010-10-31T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2010\/tree-glitter-pictures-from-the-archive\/"},"modified":"2010-10-31T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T22:36:00","slug":"tree-glitter-pictures-from-the-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/tree-glitter-pictures-from-the-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree glitter pictures…from the archive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(We did this last Autumn and it was a lot of fun! Since the blog readership has grown a lot in the year, I thought I would post it again for you to see and have a go!)<\/div>\n

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The colours of spring and autumn totally captivate me – I stare and stare at a tree in blossom or covered in golden red leaves trying to imprint the image on my soul so that I can access that beauty once it goes, which invariably it does. On one level I find this rather gutting – like creating lots of masterpieces and then putting them on the ground to decay. I know this is the cycle of life but something in me still wants to cling to and preserve what I see.<\/p>\n

At the moment, we have our lovely grape vine outside our dining room window, covered in leaves of the most luscious red \/ green \/ orange colours. I picked a whole bunch of them the other day and they sat in a bowl on our dining table, looking pretty and awaiting some use. As the days passed, they started to dry. It was then I had an ‘aha’ moment – an idea of how to use this beautiful colour and preserve something of the memory of autumn into the winter months.<\/p>\n

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A few minutes later, Isabella and I sat with our hands in the bowl and started crunching. (The noise, feeling and smell of this is highly recommended!). After a few crunches we had our very own “leaf glitter”.<\/p>\n

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We then decided to do pictures of trees, using some twigs for the trunk and branches and a liberal sprinkling of our leaf glitter for the leaves – lo and behold we have captured something of the beauty of autumn for several more weeks at least!<\/p>\n

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We will try doing it with different leaves soon – there are some beautiful yellows dropping from\u00a0 a tree near our house at the moment. Oh, and the pinks from that bush near the park…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(We did this last Autumn and it was a lot of fun! Since the blog readership has grown a lot in the year, I thought I would post it again for you to see and have a go!)   The colours of spring and autumn totally captivate me – I stare and stare at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artful-living","category-get-creative-arty-crafty-tutorials-and-ideas","category-nurturing-creativity-in-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}