{"id":1373,"date":"2013-01-01T12:52:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T17:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heather-maclean.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2016-03-21T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T15:41:39","slug":"creative-custom-word-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/happy\/creative-custom-word-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Custom Word Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have one rule for Mother&#8217;s Day: homemade gifts only. My kids are kids; they don&#8217;t have a lot of their own money, and the little they do have, I don&#8217;t want them to spend on me. And I don&#8217;t want them to spend <strong>my<\/strong> money on me especially when they think everything in the Dollar Store is magic.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1378\" src=\"http:\/\/heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tagxedo.jpg\" alt=\"tagxedo\" width=\"269\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, they have made me my favorite foods, decorated my door, painted me rocks, made me nature art, all kinds of wonderful, thoughtful, beautiful gifts that I cherish. And they always make me handmade cards.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThis year my 12-year-old made her card for me on the computer. She used a site called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tagxedo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tagxedo<\/a><\/strong> to enter whatever words she wanted, picked a shape and colors, and they turned her sentiments into art. She listed all the people that love me. How sweet is that? I love it!<\/p>\n<p>Tagxedo is free and super easy to use. You can keep words together, choose the frequency of certain words, use punctuation marks, change the font, use a custom font, and even make a word cloud out of your tweets or blog RSS feeds. After instantly creating your image, Tagxedo lets you choose high-quality outputs for printing or saving. You can then upload your custom word cloud image to a photo sharing site and have it printed on anything: a coffee mug, a tote bag, a t-shirt&#8230; You could use it to make your own invitations, to make a birth announcement poster, labels for your canned goods, fun menus for a dinner party&#8230; the possibilities are endless!<\/p>\n<p>Tell me: how have you used Tagxedo or how would you?<\/p>\n<p>Tagxedo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tagxedo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.tagxedo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have one rule for Mother&#8217;s Day: homemade gifts only. My kids are kids; they don&#8217;t have a lot of their own money, and the little they do have, I don&#8217;t want them to spend on me. And I don&#8217;t&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/happy\/creative-custom-word-clouds\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heather-maclean.com\/heathermacleancooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}