{"id":673,"date":"2008-12-22T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/gift-bags-from-afar-for-the-luckiest-girl\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T21:02:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T04:02:48","slug":"gift-bags-from-afar-for-the-luckiest-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/gift-bags-from-afar-for-the-luckiest-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Bags From Afar for the Luckiest Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a surprise on Thursday! <a href=\"http:\/\/ardentpeace.blogspot.com\/\">Kristen<\/a> and Mrs. Kristen sent me a dotted package filled with fabrics and gift bags. I was so thrilled and it was just the pick-me-up I needed.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SU2Vejy0RtI\/AAAAAAAAC60\/sx3s9zCYMj8\/s1600-h\/PICT3432sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SU2Vejy0RtI\/AAAAAAAAC60\/sx3s9zCYMj8\/s320\/PICT3432sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282042290212456146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I saw this sunflower fabric on Kristen&#8217;s blog and asked her to get me some earlier this year. I never saw it and know that she is really busy, but was so pleased to see it come to live with me.<\/p>\n<p>The dots, of course, will come in very handy.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SU2VeCpaXwI\/AAAAAAAAC6s\/XzCkByZPi5Y\/s1600-h\/PICT3424sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 246px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SU2VeCpaXwI\/AAAAAAAAC6s\/XzCkByZPi5Y\/s320\/PICT3424sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282042281314639618\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>While they were at it, they worked on some gift bags for me. Aren&#8217;t they pretty? They have little cuffs on them, which is wonderful and different from mine. I am so pleased to add them to my collection.  I am also pleased that the gift bags phenomenon is spreading. Hope you will make some, too!<\/p>\n<p>They put it all in a gift box covered with dots, which made me happy even before I opened the package. Thanks, ladies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a surprise on Thursday! Kristen and Mrs. Kristen sent me a dotted package filled with fabrics and gift bags. I was so thrilled and it was just the pick-me-up I needed.I saw this sunflower fabric on Kristen&#8217;s blog and asked her to get me some earlier this year. I never saw it and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/gift-bags-from-afar-for-the-luckiest-girl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gift Bags From Afar for the Luckiest Girl&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[315,19,316,86],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-fabric","tag-gift-bags","tag-gifts","tag-off-topic-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}