{"id":14957,"date":"2016-03-07T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=14957"},"modified":"2016-03-06T15:10:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T23:10:47","slug":"baby-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=14957","title":{"rendered":"Baby Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14958\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bear-on-bike-print1.jpg\" alt=\"bear-on-bike-print1\" width=\"800\" height=\"1132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bear-on-bike-print1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bear-on-bike-print1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bear-on-bike-print1-724x1024.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br \/>\nGood morning! I <em>have<\/em> been sewing in the background, but I&#8217;ve also been working on giving my blog a little face lift, figuring out how this whole etsy things works, and just attacking all the outstanding to-do items\u00a0that have been haunting me for months and months.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14959\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bear-on-bike-print2.jpg\" alt=\"bear-on-bike-print2\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bear-on-bike-print2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bear-on-bike-print2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m approaching it all with the baby steps mentality. I know I&#8217;ll never finish everything, but I decided to start by\u00a0adding one more item to the startlingly slim offerings in my shop. I&#8217;ve learned that I&#8217;m not a big fan of fulfilling physical products so I&#8217;m testing out a\u00a0digital download illustration package, and I&#8217;ll see where that takes me. I may give in and offer up physical prints in the near future if there&#8217;s enough demand. [In case you&#8217;re wondering, these are images I uploaded to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/SanaeIshida\" target=\"_blank\">etsy shop<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not celebrating a birthday,\u00a0per se &#8211; maybe someone reading this <em>is<\/em> having birthday festivities today. If so, Happy B-day!!!]<\/p>\n<p>Do you like the cleaner, more streamlined blog design? I <em>love<\/em> it. It&#8217;s a template\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomblogshop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bloom Blog Shop<\/a> (found via my friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/besottedblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Besotted<\/a>), and\u00a0I&#8217;m still tweaking things, but I have to say that compared to other WordPress themes I&#8217;ve installed, this one was a piece of cake.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you for your patience as I take itty bitty, wobbly steps toward getting all set up. More soon!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. The winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=14907\" target=\"_blank\">giveaway<\/a> is Andreia, congrats! Check out her gorgeous <a href=\"http:\/\/inamannerofsewing.blogspot.pt\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> &#8212; I love everything she makes!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning! I have been sewing in the background, but I&#8217;ve also been working on giving my blog a little face lift, figuring out how this whole etsy things works, and just attacking all the outstanding to-do items\u00a0that have been haunting me for months and months. I&#8217;m approaching it all with the baby steps mentality. I know I&#8217;ll never finish everything, but I decided to start by\u00a0adding one more item to the startlingly slim offerings in my shop. I&#8217;ve learned that I&#8217;m not a big fan of fulfilling physical products so I&#8217;m testing out a\u00a0digital download illustration package, and I&#8217;ll see where that takes me. I may give in and offer up physical prints in the near future if there&#8217;s enough demand. [In case you&#8217;re wondering, these are images I uploaded to my etsy shop &#8211; I&#8217;m not celebrating a birthday,\u00a0per se &#8211; maybe someone reading this is having birthday festivities today. If so, Happy B-day!!!] Do you like the cleaner, more streamlined blog design? I love it. It&#8217;s a template\u00a0by Bloom Blog Shop (found via my friends at Besotted), and\u00a0I&#8217;m still tweaking things, but I have to say that compared to other WordPress themes I&#8217;ve installed, this one was a piece of cake. So thank you for your patience as I take itty bitty, wobbly steps toward getting all set up. More soon! P.S. The winner of the giveaway is Andreia, congrats! Check out her gorgeous blog &#8212; I love everything she makes!!<\/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":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shop","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14957","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=14957"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14967,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14957\/revisions\/14967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}