{"id":569,"date":"2011-12-12T02:22:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T11:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=569"},"modified":"2011-12-11T20:24:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T05:24:42","slug":"december-giveaway-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"December Giveaway Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/wpid-DSC01886-2011-12-12-02-221.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC01886-2011-12-12-02-221.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"616\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">She forgot her insecurities (8\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 10\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The above quilt is a thread embellished print of a scanned painting that was printed onto cotton fabric.   When creating the original painting, the words stuck with me and I spent most of 2011 letting go of insecurities and taking risks. It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always work out well; there were tears and frustration.  But overall, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had an adventure, learned a lot and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thrilled with all that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve accomplished this year:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Creating art quilts in all shapes and sizes like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=369\">this one<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=120\">this one<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=357\">this one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=467\">this one<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Finishing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=336\">first hand quilted quilt<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Having quilts and articles in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=177\">Sew Somerset June issue<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Creating and quilting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=447\">my first queen size quilt and commission<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Opening an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/believemagic\">Etsy shop<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=496\">Teaching\/presenting<\/a> how to make creative girl art quilts<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Having quilts and an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=541\">Art Quilting Studio December issue<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I feel like celebrating my successes and the timing of the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day is perfect.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">One lucky reader will win the thread embellished print\/art quilt above.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A second lucky reader will win a Creative Girl Faces &#038; Dress Patterns mini kit with the dress pattern in 2 sizes, quilt instructions and 8 small and 4 large faces.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/wpid-artquiltkit4-2011-12-12-02-221.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-artquiltkit4-2011-12-12-02-221.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">To enter the giveaway, leave a comment before 5pm Pacific time on Friday, December 16th telling me about one of your favorite successes of the past year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll randomly select the 2 winners  (one for the quilt and one for the kit) on Saturday.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Be sure to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/sewmamasew.com\/blog2\/\">Sew Mama Sew<\/a> to find all giveaways this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/wpid-GiveawayDay-2011-12-12-02-22.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-GiveawayDay-2011-12-12-02-22.jpg\" width=\"138\" height=\"138\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She forgot her insecurities (8\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 10\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) The above quilt is a thread embellished print of a scanned painting that was printed onto cotton fabric. When creating the original painting, the words stuck with me and I spent most of 2011 letting go of insecurities and taking risks. It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always work out well; there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}