{"id":2908,"date":"2005-11-15T20:02:04","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T03:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2005-11-15T20:02:04","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T03:02:04","slug":"irrational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/?p=2908","title":{"rendered":"Irrational&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t sew.<\/p>\n<p>So why, oh why, have I spent WAY too much time looking at Japanese craft books online&#8230;books with patterns like this:<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=200,height=250,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/palmsizedstuffies.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Palmsizedstuffies\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Palmsizedstuffies\" src=\"https:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/ponderings\/images\/palmsizedstuffies.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=392,height=572,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/japanesecraftbook4391117.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Japanesecraftbook4391117\" height=\"437\" alt=\"Japanesecraftbook4391117\" src=\"https:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/ponderings\/images\/japanesecraftbook4391117.jpg\" width=\"299\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>If I happened to get my hands on such a craft book, could I actually make any of the quirky critters within? Heck, no. I can barely read an English pattern, let alone a Japanese one.<\/p>\n<p>I also <del>want<\/del> need a handmade bag, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_item.php?listing_id=32663\">this<\/a> (purse by MarketaNewYork, found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\">Etsy<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=400,height=438,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/cutepurse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cutepurse\" height=\"328\" alt=\"Cutepurse\" src=\"https:\/\/dinastamps.typepad.com\/ponderings\/images\/cutepurse.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I did an art journal page this week with my friend Ann-tastic. I&#8217;ll post it tomorrow. I&#8217;ve had a hard time adjusting back to &quot;normal&quot; life since the China trip. I&#8217;m battling fatigue and the blahs&#8230;post-adventure let-down, I guess. I need some sort of challenge or swap to jump start my creativity. Suggestions???<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t sew. So why, oh why, have I spent WAY too much time looking at Japanese craft books online&#8230;books&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinawakley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}