{"id":16444,"date":"2017-07-21T19:05:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T02:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=16444"},"modified":"2017-08-04T18:31:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T01:31:49","slug":"happy-friday-yet-another-giveaway-sew-sweet-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=16444","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Yet Another Giveaway: Sew Sweet Book [CLOSED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16445\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/giveaway-sewsweet1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/giveaway-sewsweet1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/giveaway-sewsweet1-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday! I might as well just call this a giveaway blog at this point, no? I&#8217;m still playing catch up since returning from Japan and when I looked at the calendar, I shook my head in\u00a0pure disbelief that over a week had already passed and that we are yet again traveling (this time domestically, to visit M&#8217;s family in Indiana).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16446\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/giveaway-sewsweet2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/giveaway-sewsweet2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/giveaway-sewsweet2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But lucky you, I have a backlog of Tuttle Books I&#8217;m happy to give away and this one is a particularly good one. I would keep it, except K can no longer fit into the largest size. Besides, the patterns in this book are precisely the kind that I drool over but hold very little interest for her. I mean, look at those dresses and skirts!!<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, if you&#8217;d like to win a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sweet-Handmade-Clothes-Girls-Easy\/dp\/4805313153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sew Sweet: Handmade Clothes for Girls<\/a>, please leave a comment. As always, any comment is great, but perhaps you&#8217;d like to share a favorite summer dish? I love making pesto pasta because it&#8217;s easy and quick and refrigerates well. Who wants to slave over the stove in this heat, right?<\/p>\n<p>OK! I will have to skip yet another couple of weeks due to travel, but will be back again on August 4th. Happy end of July, everyone!<\/p>\n<p><em>So many flurries<\/em><br \/>\n<em>of summer activities<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Barely keeping up<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Update: The winner is Coralee, congrats!]<\/p>\n<p>P.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sasquatchbooks.com\/book\/?isbn=9781632171177&amp;chibi-samurai-wants-a-pet-by-sanae-ishida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chibi Samurai Wants a Pet <\/a>is launching SO soon on August 8th, and I have some fun stuff I&#8217;ve been working on to share soon!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday! I might as well just call this a giveaway blog at this point, no? I&#8217;m still playing catch up since returning from Japan and when I looked at the calendar, I shook my head in\u00a0pure disbelief that over a week had already passed and that we are yet again traveling (this time domestically, to visit M&#8217;s family in Indiana). But lucky you, I have a backlog of Tuttle Books I&#8217;m happy to give away and this one is a particularly good one. I would keep it, except K can no longer fit into the largest size. Besides, the patterns in this book are precisely the kind that I drool over but hold very little interest for her. I mean, look at those dresses and skirts!! Anyhow, if you&#8217;d like to win a copy of Sew Sweet: Handmade Clothes for Girls, please leave a comment. As always, any comment is great, but perhaps you&#8217;d like to share a favorite summer dish? I love making pesto pasta because it&#8217;s easy and quick and refrigerates well. Who wants to slave over the stove in this heat, right? OK! I will have to skip yet another couple of weeks due to travel, but will be back again on August 4th. Happy end of July, everyone! So many flurries of summer activities Barely keeping up [Update: The winner is Coralee, congrats!] P.S. Chibi Samurai Wants a Pet is launching SO soon on August 8th, and I have some fun stuff I&#8217;ve been working on to share soon!! &nbsp;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444","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=16444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16474,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16444\/revisions\/16474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}