{"id":380,"date":"2016-11-27T12:21:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T12:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/?p=380"},"modified":"2016-11-27T12:21:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T12:21:51","slug":"christmas-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/11\/27\/christmas-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas is Coming."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Sibo-cutie-face.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-147\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Sibo-cutie-face.jpg\" alt=\"Sibo cutie face\" width=\"684\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Sibo-cutie-face.jpg 684w, https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Sibo-cutie-face-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Sibo-cutie-face-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eish! Seems like this year went very fast \u2013 to me, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The other day mum and I went to the mall and guess what\u2026 the shops are all full of Christmassy stuff. There are crackers, Christmas lights and the toy isles are starting to look very interesting. I got all excited but mum sighed and said that each year the shops get their Christmas stuff in earlier and earlier and by the time Christmas actually arrived you were so sick of Jingle Bells you could hooch.<\/p>\n<p>I thought she was completely crazy but decided not to say a word.<\/p>\n<p>When we got home I rattled my piggy bank and was a tad concerned to see that it is not very jingly. In fact it is downright empty.<\/p>\n<p>I made a deal with mum. She will pay me for extra chores \u2013 things like vacuuming and doing different odd jobs obviously \u2013 not my usual tasks like washing dishes, picking up my dog\u2019s pooh and stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p>Dad says if I help in the garden, he\u2019ll pay me too.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, I don\u2019t think I am going to have enough money to buy cool Christmas presents for everybody. I am going to have to get crafty\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Very crafty!<\/p>\n<p>Ultra crafty in fact. I am going to have to make my presents this year. Good job I realised now already because it gives me enough time to get things done.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m planning on making some stuff out of Paper Mache. I know we\u2019ve done this before \u2013 but really \u2013 it remains one of the easiest and yet nicest ways of making awesome things using recycled plastic stuff like yogurt containers and old newspapers or magazines.\u00a0 You can transform simple junk into lovely useful pencil holders, boxes or mobiles \u2013 just by using a bit of imagination.<\/p>\n<p>You can use wallpaper glue or you can make your own glue using water and flour. It\u2019s not hard and it does not cost much.\u00a0 Once you\u2019ve finished sticking on several layers (remember to let them dry in-between) you can paint your article to make it look really nice.<\/p>\n<p>The other day a friend of mine made a cool hat stand using a balloon and the top of a coke bottle. Then she painted a face on it. I bet you could use something like that for necklaces or scarves as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you need help with your Paper Mache \u2013 check out my website \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sibo.co.za\">www.sibo.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get busy!<\/p>\n<p>Sibo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eish! Seems like this year went very fast \u2013 to me, anyway. The other day mum and I went to the mall and guess what\u2026 the shops are all full of Christmassy stuff. There are crackers, Christmas lights and the toy isles are starting to look very interesting. I got all excited but mum sighed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/2016\/11\/27\/christmas-is-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas is Coming.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}