{"id":14588,"date":"2016-01-13T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=14588"},"modified":"2016-01-12T13:12:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:12:11","slug":"last-day-to-sign-up-for-2016-sve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=14588","title":{"rendered":"Last Day to Sign Up for 2016 SVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-sve3.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14589\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-sve3.jpg\" alt=\"2016-sve3\" width=\"800\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-sve3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-sve3-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello! Just a quick note today with one last reminder that today&#8217;s the deadline to sign up for the <a title=\"2016 Secret Valentine Exchange!!\" href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=14528\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Valentine Exchange<\/a>. We&#8217;ll stop taking sign-ups tonight, around midnight-ish my time (PST). We have nearly 150 participants!! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ute_ig\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ute<\/a> and I can&#8217;t wait to pair everyone up &#8211; there are over 20 countries represented, making this the most internationally diverse SVE yet!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/supplies1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14590\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/supplies1.jpg\" alt=\"supplies1\" width=\"800\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/supplies1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/supplies1-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I, of course, am planning, planning, planning. Last year, Ute made a stunning\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kollabora.com\/users\/359510\/ute?tab=projects#projects\" target=\"_blank\">constellation mini quilt<\/a>\u00a0for <a href=\"http:\/\/lauralovespugs.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elle<\/a> (scroll down a bit through all of Ute&#8217;s amazing Kollabora projects) and received knitted and sewn loveliness from <a href=\"http:\/\/sweetkmblogs.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/secret-valentine-exchange-gray-marled.html\" target=\"_blank\">Monika<\/a>, and I received gorgeous <a title=\"Heartfelt Thanks\" href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=12908\" target=\"_blank\">tea towels and sachets<\/a>\u00a0from Mirta of <a href=\"http:\/\/modernbotanics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Modern Botanics<\/a> &#8212; much adored and used &#8212; and made <a title=\"What I Made for 2015 SVE\" href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=12726\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>. You can see more of the swapped gifts from previous years at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/secret-valentine-exchange\/pool\/with\/16342594370\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr pool<\/a> as well (since Flickr isn&#8217;t used quite as much, we&#8217;ve opted to focus more on IG this year).<\/p>\n<p>I feel remiss without giving Ute major \u00a0props for being the most generous and kindhearted partner in this annual collaboration we&#8217;ve stumbled into &#8212; Ute&#8217;s idea, naturally. We are very much a simpatico team, and it&#8217;s one of my very favorite things to do every year. We hope you&#8217;ll join us in this celebration of intercontinental friendships through handmade goods! Sign up <a title=\"2016 Secret Valentine Exchange!!\" href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=14528\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! Just a quick note today with one last reminder that today&#8217;s the deadline to sign up for the Secret Valentine Exchange. We&#8217;ll stop taking sign-ups tonight, around midnight-ish my time (PST). We have nearly 150 participants!! Ute and I can&#8217;t wait to pair everyone up &#8211; there are over 20 countries represented, making this the most internationally diverse SVE yet! I, of course, am planning, planning, planning. Last year, Ute made a stunning\u00a0constellation mini quilt\u00a0for Elle (scroll down a bit through all of Ute&#8217;s amazing Kollabora projects) and received knitted and sewn loveliness from Monika, and I received gorgeous tea towels and sachets\u00a0from Mirta of Modern Botanics &#8212; much adored and used &#8212; and made this. You can see more of the swapped gifts from previous years at our Flickr pool as well (since Flickr isn&#8217;t used quite as much, we&#8217;ve opted to focus more on IG this year). I feel remiss without giving Ute major \u00a0props for being the most generous and kindhearted partner in this annual collaboration we&#8217;ve stumbled into &#8212; Ute&#8217;s idea, naturally. We are very much a simpatico team, and it&#8217;s one of my very favorite things to do every year. We hope you&#8217;ll join us in this celebration of intercontinental friendships through handmade goods! Sign up here! &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/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":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-secret-valentine-exchange","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588","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=14588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14597,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions\/14597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}