{"id":2630,"date":"2010-03-04T14:19:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2017-03-07T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T15:01:15","slug":"climbing-the-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/climbing-the-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"climbing the walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding space for all my creations is a bit of a challenge! I&#8217;ve come up with a novel solution for my <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=94\">amigurumi gecko,<\/a> so I thought I&#8217;d share&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When we were in Hawaii, the geckos we saw could climb straight up vertical walls, thanks to their special toe pads. We always saw them climbing around window frames, or running around the walls inside the front porch, right up by the roof. That image was always in my mind when I made my gecko, so I thought it would be cool to let <strong>my<\/strong> gecko do a little wall-climbing too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/craftroom_gecko.jpg\" alt=\"amigurumi gecko on the wall of my craft room\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also in this photo: my computer desk, the <a href=\"\/blog\/trinket-shelves\/\">purple trinket shelves<\/a> I made last year and my new magnetic white board (it&#8217;s actually silver-coloured, which is why it looks glaringly white here &#8211; reflected light from the window!)<\/p>\n<p>How does he do it? It&#8217;s actually very simple &#8211; I knocked a couple of tiny nails into the wall and his stitches just hook onto them! The effect is very good &#8211; you only see the nails if you put your head right against the wall:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/craftroom_gecko2.jpg\" alt=\"amigurumi gecko climbing the wall\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s my Hawaiian inspiration (awww!):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/archive\/photoblog\/albums\/hawaii%202008%20pics\/day1\/P1120502.JPG\" alt=\"gecko\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A pretty close match, I think \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding space for all my creations is a bit of a challenge! I&#8217;ve come up with a novel solution for my amigurumi gecko, so I thought I&#8217;d share&#8230; When we were in Hawaii, the geckos we saw could climb straight up vertical walls, thanks to their special toe pads. We always saw them climbing around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft-room","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","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=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}