{"id":15663,"date":"2016-07-29T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=15663"},"modified":"2016-08-04T17:48:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T00:48:59","slug":"happy-friday-giveaway-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=15663","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Giveaway! [CLOSED]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Friday! This giveaway is all cuteness, my friends. Tuttle Publishing sent me this darling book: 501 Enchanting Embroidery Designs<\/a>, and I was very, very tempted to keep this for myself. Normally I would have requested two copies (one for me, one for a giveaway), but these days I’m delving deeply into the\u00a0minimalistic approach of letting go of things that I know I won’t get around to anytime soon. When the moment comes when I’m ready for some ridiculously adorable embroidery, I’ll purchase the book.<\/p>\n

As such, I want to offer it up to you. The book is divided up into five parts\u00a0that don’t make a whole lot of sense to me, but that might be because I’m not well-versed in embroidery. Part 1 is called “Little Scandinavian Sketches”, and these are probably my favorite designs. Here are a couple spreads from this section:<\/p>\n

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I loved these motifs from part 2, “Sweet Little Sketches”:<\/p>\n

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I noticed that the image above features\u00a0only some of the letters of the alphabet, and it felt like a sign of some sort to see the letters\u00a0“K” and “M” and “S”. I have a bad habit of trying to make everything mean something.<\/p>\n

Part 3 goes into “Cross Stitch Motifs” (I didn’t take any photos of this section, sorry) and part 4 encourages us with the title “Let’s Embroider” and\u00a0displays\u00a0ideas for items that could be enhanced with some extra stitchery. There are even some sewing patterns included (e.g. the potholders).<\/p>\n

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Part five finishes off with embroidery techniques followed by the motifs\/designs that can be traced.<\/p>\n

Crazy cute, right?<\/p>\n

I’m back on the deadline horse, so I am feeling not so\u00a0sanguine (I had to look up that word before including it here — do you ever do that? A word pops into your mind to use in a sentence but you have only a vague idea of what it actually means, which could result in embarrassment if left unchecked. In this case, I was happy to verify that sanguine means “optimistic, positive, confident, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.” Works for me!). My non-sanguineness is partly because of the heat that feels oppressive in our unventilated house, and partly because of the heavy food I’ve been eating. I’m craving light, healthy summer dishes.<\/p>\n

So, with that in mind, to enter the giveaway, any comment will do as usual, but I would love a summer dish\/recipe recommendation. Sweet or savory! The giveaway will be open until next Friday, August 5th. Good luck and have a fabulous weekend!<\/p>\n

Oh what a big day
\nTomorrow is K’s birthday
\nTEN! Oh my, oh my<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Friday! This giveaway is all cuteness, my friends. Tuttle Publishing sent me this darling book: 501 Enchanting Embroidery Designs, and I was very, very tempted to keep this for myself. Normally I would have requested two copies (one for me, one for a giveaway), but these days I’m delving deeply into the\u00a0minimalistic approach of letting go of things that I know I won’t get around to anytime soon. When the moment comes when I’m ready for some ridiculously adorable embroidery, I’ll purchase the book. As such, I want to offer it up to you. The book is divided up into five parts\u00a0that don’t make a whole lot of sense to me, but that might be because I’m not well-versed in embroidery. Part 1 is called “Little Scandinavian Sketches”, and these are probably my favorite designs. Here are a couple spreads from this section:   I loved these motifs from part 2, “Sweet Little Sketches”: I noticed that the image above features\u00a0only some of the letters of the alphabet, and it felt like a sign of some sort to see the letters\u00a0“K” and “M” and “S”. I have a bad habit of trying to make everything mean something. Part 3 goes into “Cross Stitch Motifs” (I didn’t take any photos of this section, sorry) and part 4 encourages us with the title “Let’s Embroider” and\u00a0displays\u00a0ideas for items that could be enhanced with some extra stitchery. There are even some sewing patterns included (e.g. the potholders). Part five finishes off with embroidery techniques followed by the motifs\/designs that can be traced. Crazy cute, right? I’m back on the deadline horse, so I am feeling not so\u00a0sanguine (I had to look up that word before including it here — do you ever do that? A word pops into your mind to use in a sentence but you have only a vague idea of what it actually means, which could result in embarrassment if left unchecked. In this case, I was happy to verify that sanguine means “optimistic, positive, confident, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.” Works for me!). My non-sanguineness is partly because of the heat that feels oppressive in our unventilated house, and partly because of the heavy food I’ve been eating. I’m craving light, healthy summer dishes. So, with that in mind, to enter the giveaway, any comment will do as usual, but I would love a summer dish\/recipe recommendation. Sweet or savory! The giveaway will be open until next Friday, August 5th. Good luck and have a fabulous weekend! Oh what a big day Tomorrow is K’s birthday TEN! Oh my, oh my<\/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-15663","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\/15663","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=15663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15720,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663\/revisions\/15720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}