{"id":13428,"date":"2015-06-15T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13428"},"modified":"2015-06-21T18:12:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T01:12:34","slug":"linen-wool-cotton-kids-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13428","title":{"rendered":"Linen, Wool, Cotton Kids Giveaway [CLOSED]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"giveaway-linencottonwoolkids\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Good morning! I thoroughly enjoyed a low-key weekend and I hope you had a great one too.<\/p>\n

I didn’t do much other than eat, it seems. I grazed from one meal to the next, and the best part was that I didn’t cook at all and felt very pampered indeed. Although I squeezed in a tiny little bit of sewing, the weekend was all about hanging out.<\/p>\n

My UFO pile seems to be shrinking a tad\u00a0and my plan is to show you a finished item or two next week, but I acquired the English version of one of my favorite Japanese Sewing books<\/a>\"\" and wanted to do a little giveaway for today. This book is particularly meaningful to me because it’s the one that launched my handmade wardrobe craziness three summers ago. I made this dress<\/a>, and the sweat-inducing difficulty and the\u00a0simultaneous\u00a0exhilaration are still visceral.<\/p>\n

\"Ooh<\/a><\/p>\n

And I kept making things from this book.<\/p>\n

Same pattern, different fabric<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"pinkdress_1\"<\/a>A brown and silver combo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"brownandsilver_outfit\"<\/a>
\nA starry indigo top<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"starryblouse6\"<\/a>The Bubble Dress<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"bubbledress3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Jodhpur pants<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"jodhpurpants_stripeyshirt4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sashiko Pullover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"sashiko-sailor-jacket-lucky-culotte2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Patch-sleeve Jacket<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"office-girl-in-noir4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Capelet 1<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"hooded-capelet-grey-almost-skinnies1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Capelet 2<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"purple-riding-hood8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Coat Dress<\/a><\/p>\n

\"boucle-coat-dress7\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Fluttery\u00a0Top<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"fluttery-top-2-shorts1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Wow, I’ve never compiled\u00a0all the outfits I’ve made from a single book before. I obviously had a lot more time back then. I remember how I loved the creative freedom I used to feel, and I can see that I really tried a lot out in the spirit of experimentation. Even though I’ve scaled back on the styling and propping (and the sewing), I do think my photography has improved with time, and it’s nice to see progress.<\/p>\n

Anyway. If you’d like to enter the giveaway for this oh-so-special book, please leave a……hmmm, it’s getting harder to come up with questions. I just had a memory flash of a\u00a0dinner with\u00a0friends a while ago, and the topic of color therapy<\/a> came up. Have you heard of it? It’s the utilization of light and colors to restore desired “balance”, be it physical, mental, emotional, etc. It sounds like it’s considered pseudo science, bordering on woo-woo. I admit that I don’t really understand it, but the conversation turned to how the diagnosis part of color therapy is as follows: you are given a multitude of\u00a0colored papers to choose from (it makes me think of paint chips) and are asked to select the colors you’re drawn to the most and arrange them on a larger sheet of paper. My friends and I discussed which colors we would gravitate towards and that was fun and very enlightening. Whether color therapy works or not, I’m a big believer in the power of colors and their effect on my moods and general state of being. For my colors, I chose grey, blue, white, cream, and dusty, chalky hues you would see in French countryside homes like the bluish-greenish-greys and muted pinks. So my question is this: which colors are you most naturally drawn to?<\/p>\n

The giveaway will stay open until this Friday, June 19th, and I’ll announce the winner the following Monday. Entries from around the world are more than welcome. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning! I thoroughly enjoyed a low-key weekend and I hope you had a great one too. I didn’t do much other than eat, it seems. I grazed from one meal to the next, and the best part was that I didn’t cook at all and felt very pampered indeed. Although I squeezed in a tiny little bit of sewing, the weekend was all about hanging out. My UFO pile seems to be shrinking a tad\u00a0and my plan is to show you a finished item or two next week, but I acquired the English version of one of my favorite Japanese Sewing books and wanted to do a little giveaway for today. This book is particularly meaningful to me because it’s the one that launched my handmade wardrobe craziness three summers ago. I made this dress, and the sweat-inducing difficulty and the\u00a0simultaneous\u00a0exhilaration are still visceral. And I kept making things from this book. Same pattern, different fabric: A brown and silver combo: A starry indigo top: The Bubble Dress: Jodhpur pants: Sashiko Pullover: Patch-sleeve Jacket:   Capelet 1:   Capelet 2: Coat Dress Fluttery\u00a0Top: Wow, I’ve never compiled\u00a0all the outfits I’ve made from a single book before. I obviously had a lot more time back then. I remember how I loved the creative freedom I used to feel, and I can see that I really tried a lot out in the spirit of experimentation. Even though I’ve scaled back on the styling and propping (and the sewing), I do think my photography has improved with time, and it’s nice to see progress. Anyway. If you’d like to enter the giveaway for this oh-so-special book, please leave a……hmmm, it’s getting harder to come up with questions. I just had a memory flash of a\u00a0dinner with\u00a0friends a while ago, and the topic of color therapy came up. Have you heard of it? It’s the utilization of light and colors to restore desired “balance”, be it physical, mental, emotional, etc. It sounds like it’s considered pseudo science, bordering on woo-woo. I admit that I don’t really understand it, but the conversation turned to how the diagnosis part of color therapy is as follows: you are given a multitude of\u00a0colored papers to choose from (it makes me think of paint chips) and are asked to select the colors you’re drawn to the most and arrange them on a larger sheet of paper. My friends and I discussed which colors we would gravitate towards and that was fun and very enlightening. Whether color therapy works or not, I’m a big believer in the power of colors and their effect on my moods and general state of being. For my colors, I chose grey, blue, white, cream, and dusty, chalky hues you would see in French countryside homes like the bluish-greenish-greys and muted pinks. So my question is this: which colors are you most naturally drawn to? The giveaway will stay open until this Friday, June 19th, and I’ll announce the winner the following Monday. Entries from around the world are more than welcome. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giveaway","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13428","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=13428"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13512,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13428\/revisions\/13512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}