{"id":12475,"date":"2015-02-13T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=12475"},"modified":"2015-02-12T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T23:07:09","slug":"happy-friday-randomness-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=12475","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Friday! So tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and I have no idea how that snuck up on me, given that Ute<\/a> and I are\u00a0hosting an exchange for this very day. I just found out that my SVE partner got her gift early (!!) and I’m beyond impressed with Switzerland’s postal system, but then again, I should have expected that from the country that gave us the Swiss watch. I plan on doing more of an extensive recap in a week or two, but check out #2015sve on instagram and our Flickr pool<\/a>\u00a0— I’m not ashamed to admit that\u00a0tears welled up while looking through the thoughtful and beautifully made gifts!<\/p>\n

Don’t worry if gifts haven’t arrived yet. We have so many international participants, it would have been shocking if every gift made it on time. Thank you, everyone, for yet another successful and inspiring Secret Valentine Exchange<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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If you’re looking for last minute Valentines to print up, here are a few I’ve created in the past:<\/p>\n

Animal + Dino Bookmarks<\/a><\/p>\n

Sweet Bookmarks<\/a><\/p>\n

Valentine’s\u00a0Word Search<\/a><\/p>\n

For K, I made a stamp with her name (there’s an “i” in her name and it’s dotted with a heart), and we’ll use that along with the froggy and heart<\/a> stamps to make Valentine’s for her class. Attaching cricket-shaped candy would have been funny and okay, gross — of course, it would\u00a0have been a huge hit with the third-graders. Sorry about that visual, let’s think about a field of blushing peonies instead.<\/p>\n

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Happy weekend, my friends!<\/p>\n

What to do for M?<\/em>
\nBoxers were a disaster*<\/em>
\nHe’s sworn off candy**<\/em><\/p>\n

*My last foray into boxer-making<\/a> didn’t go so well…<\/p>\n

**M’s been trying out the Paleo diet, so sweets are out, which was always my default gift. Hmmmm…I have 24 hours to come up with something….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Friday! So tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and I have no idea how that snuck up on me, given that Ute and I are\u00a0hosting an exchange for this very day. I just found out that my SVE partner got her gift early (!!) and I’m beyond impressed with Switzerland’s postal system, but then again, I should have expected that from the country that gave us the Swiss watch. I plan on doing more of an extensive recap in a week or two, but check out #2015sve on instagram and our Flickr pool\u00a0— I’m not ashamed to admit that\u00a0tears welled up while looking through the thoughtful and beautifully made gifts! Don’t worry if gifts haven’t arrived yet. We have so many international participants, it would have been shocking if every gift made it on time. Thank you, everyone, for yet another successful and inspiring Secret Valentine Exchange! ******************************************************* If you’re looking for last minute Valentines to print up, here are a few I’ve created in the past: Animal + Dino Bookmarks Sweet Bookmarks Valentine’s\u00a0Word Search For K, I made a stamp with her name (there’s an “i” in her name and it’s dotted with a heart), and we’ll use that along with the froggy and heart stamps to make Valentine’s for her class. Attaching cricket-shaped candy would have been funny and okay, gross — of course, it would\u00a0have been a huge hit with the third-graders. Sorry about that visual, let’s think about a field of blushing peonies instead. ******************************************************* Happy weekend, my friends! What to do for M? Boxers were a disaster* He’s sworn off candy** *My last foray into boxer-making didn’t go so well… **M’s been trying out the Paleo diet, so sweets are out, which was always my default gift. Hmmmm…I have 24 hours to come up with something….<\/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":[43,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-community","7":"category-life","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475","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=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12481,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions\/12481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}