{"id":112,"date":"2014-07-01T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.217.193\/blog\/creative-nudge-cowgirl-americana"},"modified":"2015-03-07T00:04:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T00:04:47","slug":"creative-nudge-cowgirl-americana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/creative-nudge-cowgirl-americana\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Nudge – Cowgirl Americana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As we approach the Fourth of July holiday here in the US, I thought it would be fun to do a collage of Cowgirls and Americana<\/a>. Between these 3 categories – Americana<\/a>, Old West<\/a> and Horses<\/a> – there are enough flags, cowgirl boots and galloping horses to keep you busy sewing until Thanksgiving<\/a>! <\/p>\n

When I was a girl growing up in Longmont Colorado, on the 4th of July we would pack a picnic, stake out a spot for our blanket at Roosevelt Park, eat watermelon<\/a> and wait for dusk to watch the fireworks overhead. A month later I would ride my pinto Quarter Horse at the Boulder County Fair, barrel racing in my boots and cowgirl hat<\/a>. Do you have special memories of summer and Independence Day? <\/p>\n

I have a very special memory from my visit to the Carter Center<\/a> Retreat in Vail last week. A friend who is part of their Ambassador Circle invited me as her guest, and I then received a special invite to a semi-private breakfast with President Jimmy Carter and Rossalyn Carter. (About 20 people got to introduce themselves to the Carters in a private room, and listen to him speak informally over breakfast.) <\/p>\n

Very quickly I realized that I have had a lot of misconceptions about the Carters' post-presidency work. Politics aside, they have dedicated their later years to eradicating disease, waging peace by monitoring democratic elections, and more recently focusing on ending violence against women and girls. I thought Habitat for Humanity was their organization, but it is not. The Carter Center<\/a> is their foundation doing this good work around the globe. They have worked in 145 countries and that includes many places I would not want to visit. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I wanted to share some of my photos from the retreat<\/a>, which included a visit to the Betty Ford Alpine Garden<\/a>, and the Beaver Creek Rodeo<\/a>. The collage above has a variety of fabrics from eQuilter, and the photo in the center is the Rodeo Queen carrying the American flag while galloping around the arena. Jimmy Carter was sitting a few rows in front of me when I snapped this photo. <\/span><\/p>\nShare Post:<\/strong>
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As we approach the Fourth of July holiday here in the US, I thought it would be fun to do a collage of Cowgirls and Americana. Between these 3 categories – Americana, Old West and Horses – there are enough … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}