{"id":1994,"date":"2020-01-13T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2020-01-12T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T21:48:07","slug":"apple-picking-in-6x12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=1994","title":{"rendered":"Apple Picking in 6&#215;12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love fall.  I&#8217;m all in for pumpkin spiced everything. I love pumpkin patches, apple cider, sweaters, the whole bit.  I know it&#8217;s cliche, and maybe even a little bit silly. I don&#8217;t care.  So when our dear friends Alicia and Kyle asked us if we wanted to go apple picking, I jumped at the chance.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040599-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2010\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040599-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040599-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040599-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They live about an hour and half north of us, so we met halfway in the Skagit Valley, (one of my favorite places in the state, so I wasn&#8217;t hard to convince).  We ended up at this adorable orchard and pumpkin patch, which also happened to have a nice farm store as well.  I was in Fall heaven.  We wandered up and down the rows picking any apples that looked yummy.  Henry was a bit confused, but interested in the leaves since he really likes trees.  We picked way too many apples, but it didn&#8217;t matter.  I just made them into apple sauce for Henry once we were home.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040579-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1996\" data-link=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=1996\" class=\"wp-image-1996\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040579-400x600.jpg 400w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040579-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040579-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040585-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1999\" data-link=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=1999\" class=\"wp-image-1999\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040585-400x600.jpg 400w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040585-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040585-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For this layout, I used one large 6&#215;12 photo, and the front and back of a 3&#215;3 pocket page so I could include lots of photos.  I initially struggled to embellish the 3&#215;3 page, because everything I added made the layout look too busy.  Eventually I settled on the little acetate leaves from a recent Ali Edwards kit and some older Ali Edwards sentiment cards, an old card from a Studio Calico kit, and a few pieces from a Simple Stories Fall ephemera kit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040588-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2000\" data-link=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=2000\" class=\"wp-image-2000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040588-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040588-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040588-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040600-1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2013\" data-link=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?attachment_id=2013\" class=\"wp-image-2013\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040600-1-600x400.jpg 600w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040600-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/P1040600-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I am making an effort to use the stuff in my stash, and stop hoarding my &#8220;special&#8221; pieces like that sweet cork pumpkin.  It makes me happy to see these unique items actually in my layouts rather that gathering dust in my drawers.  I&#8217;m trying to remember that there will never be the perfect project for every single item, and done is way better than perfect anyways.  How do you use your favorite items? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love fall. I&#8217;m all in for pumpkin spiced everything. I love pumpkin patches, apple cider, sweaters, the whole bit. I know it&#8217;s cliche, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=1994\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple Picking in 6&#215;12<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-scrapbooking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}