{"id":7102,"date":"2012-12-19T18:13:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T01:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/?p=7102"},"modified":"2012-12-20T06:43:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T13:43:38","slug":"salvage-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/?p=7102","title":{"rendered":"Salvage Operation."},"content":{"rendered":"

Several years ago I made an awesome and easy wreath to put around a candle as a table centerpiece.<\/p>\n

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Every year in January I took the wreath off the table and hung it up in the shed for the following Christmas.<\/p>\n

Too bad that sometime over the past year, the mice discovered my wreath.\u00a0 And because they are stupid, they thought the little red berries were real.\u00a0 I know you think that is harsh and judgmental.\u00a0 But I stand by it.\u00a0 If the mice had chewed 1 or 2 berries, discussed the terrible taste amongst themselves, and then decided the berries were fake, I could handle that.\u00a0 But no.\u00a0 They chewed the berries on an entire 1\/2 of the wreath before realizing their mistake.\u00a0 WTH?<\/p>\n

So I was left with a wreath where 1\/2 the berries were chewed down to expose their fake styrofoam insides.<\/p>\n

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Now anyone else would probably figure they got their use out of it and toss that wreath in the trash.\u00a0 Honestly, I considered that.\u00a0 But while I was searching through my Christmas boxes for a possible replacement table centerpiece, I stumbled upon the perfect fix.\u00a0 In a bag from Michael’s containing marked down Christmas supplies, I found some frosted pine cones.\u00a0 You know, frosted to look like they are coated with a dusting of snow.<\/p>\n

Aha!<\/p>\n

I stuck them in my wreath on the side of chewed berries.\u00a0 So now the whole thing looks like it’s frosted with snow.<\/p>\n

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Well, the whole one side of it.\u00a0 The other side is fine and looks like it did originally.<\/p>\n

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Which is OK by me.\u00a0 Because no matter what side of the dining room table you’re sitting on, you can only see one side of the wreath at a time.\u00a0 Plus, everyone knows snow can drift on just one side of an object, depending on how the wind is blowing.\u00a0 We just happen to have a southerly wind blowing in the dining room.\u00a0 That’s natural, people.<\/p>\n

Feel free to use this tip in your own household.\u00a0 I bet they still have some of those frosted pine cones at Michael’s. Or frosted holly leaves.\u00a0 Or frosted pine branches.\u00a0 Whatever you need to fix the damage caused by the mice in your shed.<\/p>\n

Aren’t you glad you’re a subscriber?\u00a0 After all, you can’t get these kind of tips from HGTV.\u00a0 But you can count on me to be keepin’ it real.<\/p>\n

Now I need to go set some mouse traps.\u00a0 Perhaps I’ll use the fake cheese from the kids Mousetrap <\/a>game…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several years ago I made an awesome and easy wreath to put around a candle as a table centerpiece. Every year in January I took the wreath off the table and hung it up in the shed for the following Christmas. Too bad that sometime over the past year, the mice discovered my wreath.\u00a0 And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7102"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7123,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102\/revisions\/7123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}