{"id":322,"date":"2007-10-05T02:07:54","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T02:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/dreaming-of-ships-with-map-patterned-sails\/"},"modified":"2007-10-05T02:07:54","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T02:07:54","slug":"dreaming-of-ships-with-map-patterned-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/dreaming-of-ships-with-map-patterned-sails\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming of ships with map patterned sails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of my initial ideas are recorded in my sketchbook. Recently I have been attached to it, carrying it around everywhere. Ideas come and go through dreams, meanderings outdoors, while perusing antique shops, driving or drinking a cup of yummy tea&#8230;I never know when I&#8217;ll need my book! I have pretty patterned tapes that I use to secure magical little things I find on the ground or in old storybooks. I have no objection to tearing out old book pages. My pile of thrifted books is growing so I have tear and toss or else they will take over my whole studio. Some ideas in my journals are recorded and passed over, but some are used in paintings. Here&#8217;s a page&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/071004_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nTime is flying by&#8230;.I have <i>so many<\/i> wonderful new vintage things to share. Vintage shoes and riding boots, the most whimsical folk art tin, porcelain sailboat plates a wicker basket that is in the shape of a ship (my heart was all a-flutter for that find)&#8230;.all from today! I got the best little calico quilted jacket today with toggles, red piping and little patch pockets. I am impatient so I scanned it here, and as soon as it is clean it is going with me into the woods&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/071004_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nI love searching for vintage on etsy. I bought these wonderful wing-tipped vintage secretary shoes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=5156190\">And the Open Road<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/071004_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nand I think I am going to make little wool flowers to clip on them. Has anyone seen the magazine Marie Claire ideas? Its in french which I can&#8217;t read but the idea photos are lovely!<\/p>\n<p>\nOk, enough about old shoes french magazines and thrift shopping. I leave you with this little sketch, she is the &#8220;sketchiest&#8221; I get (and I am usually shy about posting something so unfinished but I feel brave tonight)<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/071004_4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nHave a beautiful weekend. I believe this one will be the height of the pretty-leaf season! I hope to carve a pumpkin or two. <\/p>\n<p>\n~*~*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of my initial ideas are recorded in my sketchbook. Recently I have been attached to it, carrying it around everywhere. Ideas come and go through dreams, meanderings outdoors, while perusing antique shops, driving or drinking a cup of yummy tea&#8230;I never know when I&#8217;ll need my book! I have pretty patterned tapes that I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/dreaming-of-ships-with-map-patterned-sails\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dreaming of ships with map patterned sails&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}