{"id":318,"date":"2006-12-05T19:39:46","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T18:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/?p=318"},"modified":"2006-12-09T20:27:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T19:27:52","slug":"secret-sinterklaas-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/secret-sinterklaas-pal\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Sinterklaas Pal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"articleimgleft\" title=\"Shimmer van Knit Picks\" alt=\"Shimmer van Knit Picks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-images\/shimmer1.jpg\" \/>Today is Sinterklaas and in a few hours for most of the Dutch Pakjesavond begins. Not Dutchies: <a title=\"Sinterklaas explained\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sinterklaas\" target=\"_blank\">read all about it<\/a>. And just today the second package of my dear Secret Pal decided to arrive. How appropriate.<br \/>\nSomewhere in October she (is my secret pal a she?) asked me about my wishes. I felt free to ask for some yarn from Knit Picks. Had seen beautiful things by the American S&#8217;nB women in the Amsterdam group and I had seen beautiful things on the <a title=\"Knit Picks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knitpicks.com\/homepage.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Knit Picks site<\/a>. And here it is. Three skeins of Shimmer are lying on my lap. They feel so soft and tempting, being\u00a0alpaca mixed with silk. And their colour is\u00a0gorgeous: turquoise splendor.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"articleimg\" title=\"Turquoise Splendor\" alt=\"Turquoise Splendor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-images\/shimmer2.jpg\" \/>A beautiful pattern of a <a title=\"Triangle Cover Shawl Knit Picks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knitpicks.com\/Projects\/itemid_50511220\/projects_display\" target=\"_blank\">triangle cover shawl<\/a>\u00a0was included. I&#8217;m really not sure whether I will succeed in knitting this. I&#8217;m a very weak lace knitter. (One day I will tell my adventures with the Wedding Shawl when I have more than 7 rows to show.) And there were more surprises. A Clover circular needle (so, why don&#8217;t you start rightaway with that shawl&#8230;?), a notepad with paper with a soft grey flowery pattern, and, and<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"articleimgleft\" title=\"Smith's Rosebud Salve\" alt=\"Smith's Rosebud Salve\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-images\/rosebud.jpg\" \/>Smith&#8217;s Rosebud Salve, which I love! Ages ago I bought a tin in the States. It&#8217;s great for dry, coarse, sensitive, sore, everything skin and lips.<br \/>\nWonderful gifts. Thank you, thank you, secret pal. You have made an exquisite choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Sinterklaas and in a few hours for most of the Dutch Pakjesavond begins. Not Dutchies: read all about it. And just today the second package of my dear Secret Pal decided to arrive. How appropriate. Somewhere in October she (is my secret pal a she?) asked me about my wishes. I felt free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algemeen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippa.nl\/yvonnep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}