{"id":4388,"date":"2009-11-27T23:52:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T04:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2011-12-06T23:10:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T04:10:41","slug":"santa-claus-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/27\/santa-claus-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Claus is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/SantaClausisComing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4390\" title=\"SantaClausisComing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/SantaClausisComing-1024x763.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/SantaClausisComing-1024x763.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/SantaClausisComing-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/SantaClausisComing.jpg 1688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">With Thanksgiving over, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to pull out the Christmas pillowcases. This bedtime message\u00c2\u00a0gives\u00c2\u00a0children \u00c2\u00a0something to think about before\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;visions of sugar plums dance in their heads.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It is just one more element that adds to the excitement and anticipation of the upcoming festivities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Before I had grandchildren, I made this pillowcase for a special little boy whom I love very much. His intelligence, imagination and grasp of fantasy delighted me then and continues to do so now. Years ago, 5 year old Grey and I were discussing\u00c2\u00a0 Santa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s amazing ability to deliver toys to children around the world.\u00c2\u00a0 This led\u00c2\u00a0to further\u00c2\u00a0discussion that showed an amazing understanding of geography for a child so young.\u00c2\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thus began one of those sessions that children of that age enjoy so much. In his little sing song voice he listed Santa destinations with which he was familiar. &#8220;Santa Claus is coming to Alaska (where his cousin lived). Santa Claus is coming to Orlando. Santa Claus is coming to Ocala. Santa Claus is coming to Gainesville (where he lives). Hurrah!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 That dialogue was the inspiration for this pillowcase.\u00c2\u00a0 Grey\u00c2\u00a0was delighted with it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The fabric is slate blue Imperial broadcloth from Spechler-Vogel, trimmed with ivory chenille rick rack, mimicking mounds of snow beneath the Christmas\u00c2\u00a0midnight fliers. \u00c2\u00a0 Children love the fuzzy textured zig zags and I use it frequently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The embroidery design is from Babylock&#8217;s <em>Christmas Collection II.<\/em> The text was added with the Kid Block Font from <em>Monogram Wizard Plus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Grey will be 12 next month but he still enjoys his personalized holiday pillowcase.\u00c2\u00a0 Merry Christmas, Sweet Boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Thanksgiving over, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time to pull out the Christmas pillowcases. This bedtime message\u00c2\u00a0gives\u00c2\u00a0children \u00c2\u00a0something to think about before\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;visions of sugar plums dance in their heads.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It is just one more element that adds to the excitement and anticipation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/27\/santa-claus-is-coming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19885,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions\/19885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}