{"id":1167,"date":"2012-12-06T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2012-12-06T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:42:48","slug":"felties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"Felties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my goodness. I had no idea the <a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=1150\" target=\"_blank\">giveaway<\/a> would be so exciting! I&#8217;ll try to announce the winner Friday evening, but it might not be until Monday depending on how things shake out.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to our regular programming of making stuff, and I am so so enamored with these little guys. I present you Rose and Bob (K named them &#8211; we might need to work on exposing her to more fanciful names).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1168\" title=\"felties-bears1\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears1-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They were meant to be key chains. I started to cut out the felt and when K saw the inception of a bear shape, she said &#8220;Oh, oh, can you make a girl bear and boy bear that are in love? Getting married?&#8221; My brain started churning out ideas and I was literally squealing with delight as I was stitching them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1169\" title=\"felties-bears2\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears2-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bob is just shy of 5 inches and Rose stands about 4 1\/2 inches tall. I used a combo of cheap-o felt (from all over) and divine wool felt from <a href=\"http:\/\/clovertoys.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0I added just a wisp of wool batting to give their shape a little more dimension.\u00a0The bow tie is flannel. Grey! Polka dot! Smitten.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1171\" title=\"felties-bears4\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"3075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears4.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears4-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears4-799x1024.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I LOVE that Bob&#8217;s bow tie is over-sized. Do you think he needs a jacket? That black belt is supposed to be a cummerbund and not a reference to any martial arts skills that Bob may have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1170\" title=\"felties-bears3\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/felties-bears3-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Rose, oh Rose&#8230;she&#8217;s a beauty, this blushing bride. Rose&#8217;s silver heels didn&#8217;t translate as well as I&#8217;d hoped, but I think you get the idea. \u00a0K and I are talking about creating a whole set of different scenery\/backgrounds for them &#8211; how fun would that be? Obviously K adores them and she, like her mother, squealed with delight when she saw them this morning.<\/p>\n<p>They will make a cameo appearance for the Happy Friday outfit tomorrow. Until then, I will leave you with a nugget of a conversation I had with my wise daughter this morning:<\/p>\n<p>Me: It can&#8217;t be Thursday! Where did the week go?<\/p>\n<p>K: To California. Or maybe Japan.<\/p>\n<p>I love that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my goodness. I had no idea the giveaway would be so exciting! I&#8217;ll try to announce the winner Friday evening, but it might not be until Monday depending on how things shake out. Anyway, back to our regular programming of making stuff, and I am so so enamored with these little guys. I present you Rose and Bob (K named them &#8211; we might need to work on exposing her to more fanciful names). They were meant to be key chains. I started to cut out the felt and when K saw the inception of a bear shape, she said &#8220;Oh, oh, can you make a girl bear and boy bear that are in love? Getting married?&#8221; My brain started churning out ideas and I was literally squealing with delight as I was stitching them. Bob is just shy of 5 inches and Rose stands about 4 1\/2 inches tall. I used a combo of cheap-o felt (from all over) and divine wool felt from here. \u00a0I added just a wisp of wool batting to give their shape a little more dimension.\u00a0The bow tie is flannel. Grey! Polka dot! Smitten. I LOVE that Bob&#8217;s bow tie is over-sized. Do you think he needs a jacket? That black belt is supposed to be a cummerbund and not a reference to any martial arts skills that Bob may have. And Rose, oh Rose&#8230;she&#8217;s a beauty, this blushing bride. Rose&#8217;s silver heels didn&#8217;t translate as well as I&#8217;d hoped, but I think you get the idea. \u00a0K and I are talking about creating a whole set of different scenery\/backgrounds for them &#8211; how fun would that be? Obviously K adores them and she, like her mother, squealed with delight when she saw them this morning. They will make a cameo appearance for the Happy Friday outfit tomorrow. Until then, I will leave you with a nugget of a conversation I had with my wise daughter this morning: Me: It can&#8217;t be Thursday! Where did the week go? K: To California. Or maybe Japan. I love that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crafts","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}