{"id":2040,"date":"2009-10-08T15:10:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2023-04-04T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T20:26:40","slug":"newsbytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/newsbytes\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsbytes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few little things for you today:<\/p>\n<h2>Discount on my book<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/paperchains_inside.jpg\" alt=\"paper chains &#038; garlands - inside the box!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t yet got around to buying my new book and kit, <em>Paper Chains &#038; Garlands<\/em>, I&#8217;ve got a sweet deal from Barnes &#038; Noble for you: a discount for 10% off the highest-price item in your online order (only valid until October 19th, so hurry up if you want to take advantage of it!)<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re doing that, an easy way to find my book is to search for &#8216;gilbank&#8217; on the B&#038;N site &#8211; mine is the first result!<\/p>\n<h2>Creativ Festival<\/h2>\n<p>The Creativ Festival in Toronto is fast approaching &#8211; it&#8217;s on next Friday to Sunday (16th-18th)! Due to a scheduling mix-up my class is on the Friday, not the Saturday, and I can&#8217;t make it for both days, so <strong>I&#8217;ll only be there on Friday October 16th<\/strong>. I&#8217;m really sorry if you were hoping to see me on the Saturday \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/creativ_f09_brochurecover.jpg\" alt=\"creativ festival brochure cover\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are coming on Friday 16th, come and see me at <em>A Needle Pulling Thread<\/em> magazine&#8217;s booth; that&#8217;s <strong>booth #527<\/strong>. I&#8217;ll be there with a selection of my creations all day Friday except when I&#8217;m teaching, and I&#8217;ll have show special discounts on my patterns, plenty of eyes and stitch markers on offer, and a new cute PlanetJune business card for you to pick up!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning  how to make amigurumi, there are still some spaces left for my class, <em>A Whale of a Crochet<\/em>, where I&#8217;ll be teaching how to make this adorable little ami whale! (And if you can&#8217;t make it to the class but like my whale, check back here after the show finishes &#8211; it&#8217;ll be my next donationware pattern.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/whales.jpg\" alt=\"amigurumi whales by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I hope to see you at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativfestival.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Creativ Festival<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t know of any show like it; it&#8217;s like heaven for crafters! Bring plenty of money though, because you won&#8217;t be able to resist all the tempting craft supplies. I wish I could attend as a customer, although my bank balance is happy I&#8217;ll be on duty there instead \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few little things for you today: Discount on my book If you haven&#8217;t yet got around to buying my new book and kit, Paper Chains &#038; Garlands, I&#8217;ve got a sweet deal from Barnes &#038; Noble for you: a discount for 10% off the highest-price item in your online order (only valid until October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22979,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/22979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}