{"id":477,"date":"2009-04-18T23:25:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T23:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/18\/new-lockets-and-fig-buttercups\/"},"modified":"2009-04-18T23:36:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T23:36:15","slug":"new-lockets-and-fig-buttercups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/18\/new-lockets-and-fig-buttercups\/","title":{"rendered":"new lockets and fig buttercups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two bits of good news. I am not mia or forgetting about this blog! I have some major time-consuming work obligations right now (which take up part of my weekend as well) but come the end of May it will end and I will be less busy! Also, I look forward to a relaxing, painting-filled <i>and totally free<\/i> summer in the coming months.  I have been using this time to go back to the well, so to speak, and sketch, plan, journal. I hope to revamp this blog with more of my process, my inspirations, sketches. Would you like to see more of my sketchbooks?  I&#8217;d like to know! The second bit of news is of a shop update, with a couple of lockets that feature my sketchings and bits from my oil paintings.<br \/>\nA preview of a vintage locket that will be in my shop within the next few days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/090419_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nClose up, the blue bird is taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=20515486&#038;ref=em\">Pulling on our Ribbons and Hair.<\/a> I think I&#8217;m going to tie a piece of vintage fabric to the top of this one.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/090419_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd the gal from the locket graces the inside of my giant sketching book\/ journal.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/090419_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nI ventured to a swampy glen down the street to take some pics of my lockets. There are the most amazing flowers that carpet the entire woods floor, creating an almost day-glow effect. They are called Fig Buttercups, or Pilewort and they grow in moist areas (and often mix with the skunk cabbage, which is abundant here as well.)<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/090419_5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nA close-up of these sweet little perennial blooms.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/090421_4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nI am so grateful for each and every one of your comments here! It keeps me going, inspires me to post more often&#8230; Thank you!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two bits of good news. I am not mia or forgetting about this blog! I have some major time-consuming work obligations right now (which take up part of my weekend as well) but come the end of May it will end and I will be less busy! Also, I look forward to a relaxing, painting-filled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/18\/new-lockets-and-fig-buttercups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;new lockets and fig buttercups&#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":[23,12,9,18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-paintings","category-sketch","category-sketchbook","category-wanderings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}