{"id":860,"date":"2008-11-28T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2008-11-29T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T20:52:30","slug":"parents-of-mr-mrs-happy-stuff-will-ruin-christmas-surprises-if-they-read-this-post-youve-been-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"parents of mr. & mrs. happy stuff will ruin christmas surprises if they read this post! you’ve been warned!"},"content":{"rendered":"

okay, i’m assuming that if you’re still reading this post that you are not my parents and you’re not my husband’s parents or you just don’t care about surprises.\u00c2\u00a0 i wanted to tell my readers (who are not our parents) about a project that i’ve been working on over at lulu.com.\u00c2\u00a0 i was inspired by soulemama’s blog <\/a>to put together a calendar of my own photos.\u00c2\u00a0 partly, i thought it would make a lovely christmas gift for our parents (shhh!\u00c2\u00a0 don’t tell!), and partly because i wanted one for myself and i thought that if i was putting that much work into it, i’d offer it to my blog readers as well.\u00c2\u00a0 i’ve decided to make things a little more interesting by promising that for every calendar sold, i will donate $10 to heifer project<\/a> (my profit of $5 + i’ll double it).\u00c2\u00a0 at the end of january, i’ll report back to the blog about which gift we were able to give.\u00c2\u00a0 will it be a flock of ducks?\u00c2\u00a0 or honeybees?\u00c2\u00a0 or the “knitting basket” (2 sheep, 2 llamas)?<\/p>\n

i got a little carried away and ended up designing two calendars.\u00c2\u00a0 the first one<\/a> is general photos from my blog and the second one<\/a> is specifically photos from our trip to maui last december.\u00c2\u00a0 i would post teaser photos of the calendars, but those might be hard for certain parents to ignore, so just follow the links to see what they look like.\u00c2\u00a0 i hope you like them!\u00c2\u00a0 even if you decide not to buy one this year, i’d love to hear which photos–in either calendar–were your favorites and if there were favorite photos from my blog that you don’t see in this year’s calendar.\u00c2\u00a0 maybe next year i’ll put one together a little earlier!<\/p>\n

*note added later:\u00c2\u00a0 you can purchase the calendars directly from the links i’ve posted.\u00c2\u00a0 you can also click on the little arrows just above the picture of the calendar cover to see previews of each month’s photo.\u00c2\u00a0 if you have any problems with that website, let me know and i’ll see what i can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

okay, i’m assuming that if you’re still reading this post that you are not my parents and you’re not my husband’s parents or you just don’t care about surprises.\u00c2\u00a0 i wanted to tell my readers (who are not our parents) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}