{"id":13143,"date":"2015-05-01T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13143"},"modified":"2015-05-01T17:26:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T00:26:36","slug":"happy-friday-call-for-pattern-testers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13143","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Call for Pattern Testers [CLOSED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/in-progress.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13144\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/in-progress.jpg\" alt=\"in-progress\" width=\"800\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/in-progress.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/in-progress-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The house: a disaster. The food: completely reliant on Trader Joe&#8217;s frozen food section. The &#8220;studio&#8221; (aka my bedroom where I sew): unspeakable.<\/p>\n<p>And in an effort to <a title=\"Here and Now\" href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13131\" target=\"_blank\">walk my talk<\/a>, I&#8217;m calling uncle and reaching out\u00a0for help: is anyone out there willing to pattern test for book #2? I&#8217;ve already roped in a few wonderful folks, but I definitely need more testers as the sewing book I&#8217;m currently working on has over 20 projects. If interested, please email me: sanaeishida13[AT]gmail.com. These are super simple (I hope), beginner-friendly projects and I want to make sure I&#8217;m not writing up gobbledygook!<\/p>\n<p>[Update: Oh my goodness!! The response has been overwhelming, and I&#8217;m beyond grateful. I have more than enough at this point and will contact you individually over the next few days. THANK YOU!]<\/p>\n<p>*******************************<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I feel better after typing that. Some housekeeping: <a title=\"Monthly Income Report + Furoku Membership Sign-ups\" href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13072\" target=\"_blank\">Furoku membership sign ups<\/a>\u00a0will close at the end of today, and I&#8217;m so so so close to getting it done but I&#8217;ll need just a few more days for furoku #2.<\/p>\n<p>*******************************<\/p>\n<p>I was giving K a synopsis of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0812982940\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0812982940&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sanaishi-20&amp;linkId=PZBRNCFRHOWR5BGX\">The Age of Miracles<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=sanaishi-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0812982940\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0(such a great book!),\u00a0about how each day keeps getting longer and longer.<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;Maybe the sun had too much caffeine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Love that.<\/p>\n<p>*******************************<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday, and have a lovely weekend!!<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m behind behind<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Not trying to humble brag<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Thanks for being kind*\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*I&#8217;ve had to ask way too many people for favors (for babysitting, for extensions on deadlines, for moral support, for a hug) and I feel lucky to be surrounded by kind souls. That includes you, my friends.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I&#8217;ll be posting on Tuesday of next week instead of Monday to celebrate the official launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Little-Kunoichi-The-Ninja-Girl\/dp\/1570619549\" target=\"_blank\">Little Kunoichi<\/a>!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ack!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The house: a disaster. The food: completely reliant on Trader Joe&#8217;s frozen food section. The &#8220;studio&#8221; (aka my bedroom where I sew): unspeakable. And in an effort to walk my talk, I&#8217;m calling uncle and reaching out\u00a0for help: is anyone out there willing to pattern test for book #2? I&#8217;ve already roped in a few wonderful folks, but I definitely need more testers as the sewing book I&#8217;m currently working on has over 20 projects. If interested, please email me: sanaeishida13[AT]gmail.com. These are super simple (I hope), beginner-friendly projects and I want to make sure I&#8217;m not writing up gobbledygook! [Update: Oh my goodness!! The response has been overwhelming, and I&#8217;m beyond grateful. I have more than enough at this point and will contact you individually over the next few days. THANK YOU!] ******************************* Okay, I feel better after typing that. Some housekeeping: Furoku membership sign ups\u00a0will close at the end of today, and I&#8217;m so so so close to getting it done but I&#8217;ll need just a few more days for furoku #2. ******************************* I was giving K a synopsis of The Age of Miracles\u00a0(such a great book!),\u00a0about how each day keeps getting longer and longer. She said, &#8220;Maybe the sun had too much caffeine.&#8221; Love that. ******************************* Happy Friday, and have a lovely weekend!! I&#8217;m behind behind Not trying to humble brag Thanks for being kind*\u00a0 *I&#8217;ve had to ask way too many people for favors (for babysitting, for extensions on deadlines, for moral support, for a hug) and I feel lucky to be surrounded by kind souls. That includes you, my friends. P.S. I&#8217;ll be posting on Tuesday of next week instead of Monday to celebrate the official launch of Little Kunoichi!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ack!!<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13143","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=13143"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13156,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13143\/revisions\/13156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}