{"id":12411,"date":"2015-02-16T21:01:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T03:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=12411"},"modified":"2015-02-16T21:03:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T03:03:51","slug":"couples-painting-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=12411","title":{"rendered":"Couples Painting Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=11206\"  title=\"Couples Painting Night 2014\">Despite the challenges we ran into trying to do a couples painting project together last Valentines<\/a> we still decided to have another go at it this year. LOL.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/15928259633\"  title=\"10984280_10205939810402760_4011337618375025589_n by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7440\/15928259633_2db2838abb.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"10984280_10205939810402760_4011337618375025589_n\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We initially had a few couples interested but then everyone bailed at the last minute except for Holly and Meader. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/16531681572\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7415\/16531681572_1e6ba1e120.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we first decided to do the couples painting thing this year, I was bummed that it wasn&#8217;t going to be a private event like last year. However, after everyone started bailing, I was relieved that it wasn&#8217;t a private event because we would have been on the hook for all of those painting fees. Another benefit of the event being open is that we got to meet some really cool people, who we never would have met otherwise. We also bumped into one of Brian&#8217;s former coworkers at T-Mobile, Levi.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/16530789641\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8665\/16530789641_6b627d9a18.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the couple painting project that we were going for; unfortunately, ours didn&#8217;t turn out as successfully. Brian wouldn&#8217;t even let me take a picture of his final painting.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/16532855655\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7397\/16532855655_3a7b0ba5c9_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mine started out a mess. Brian&#8217;s started out really well.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/16345365180\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7323\/16345365180_1bc7710bfc.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meader&#8217;s and Holly&#8217;s paintings started well and ended up awesome.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/15910253044\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7413\/15910253044_7ee241a03d.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess it works out well when you are creative and have a plan. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/15925866114\"  title=\"12919_10102149910878331_723055098963863805_n by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8591\/15925866114_9c40328a59.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"12919_10102149910878331_723055098963863805_n\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of my final painting.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/16345465898\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7409\/16345465898_fc01f00287_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My painting actually looks better after I painted over everything. Brian didn&#8217;t like the way his turned out after he painted over it so there is no picture of his painting. I don&#8217;t think we will be putting these paintings on display. We will try this again next year. Hopefully with better results.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/16531455662\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching Brubaker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8612\/16531455662_52521a710d_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the challenges we ran into trying to do a couples painting project together last Valentines we still decided to have another go at it this year. LOL. We initially had a few couples interested but then everyone bailed at the last minute except for Holly and Meader. When we first decided to do the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1340,262],"tags":[1205,2275,2273,337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12411"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12422,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions\/12422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}