{"id":286,"date":"2008-06-20T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2023-04-04T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T20:28:00","slug":"milestones-and-winners-and-bears-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/milestones-and-winners-and-bears-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"milestones and winners and bears, oh my"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, this is my <strong>200th<\/strong> blog post! Yet another milestone reached &#8211; I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve written 200 posts; it&#8217;s amazing how it all adds up&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a taster of my amigurumi polar bear. He&#8217;ll get a full post of his own with more photos, more details and some interesting polar bear facts, but here&#8217;s a pic to keep you going for tonight:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/polarbear.jpg\" alt=\"crocheted polar bear by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This polar bear is the latest design for my AquaAmi collection. I&#8217;ve never seen a toy polar bear in the standing position before, but to me this is the classic polar bear pose, so it was the obvious choice for my design.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now back to the real subject for this post: I want to thank everyone who entered my 2nd blogiversary contest. Your comments were so kind and thoughtful &#8211; you really know how to make a girl feel special. Over the next week or so, I&#8217;ll go through all the comments and make a note of all your suggestions and check out all <em>your<\/em> blogs too &#8211; I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll discover some new (to me) gems this way \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>After sifting through an amazing 153 comments on the contest post, I&#8217;ve filtered them into 2 numbered lists in Word &#8211; one for the pattern entries and one for the mouse entries. As I&#8217;ve had 90 entries for the pattern and only 53 entries for the mouse, I&#8217;ve decided to commemorate this 200th post by <strong>drawing an extra winner <\/strong>for the pattern contest &#8211; yay!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.random.org\/integers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Random.org<\/a> to select the lucky winners from my Word lists:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/year2_contest.jpg\" alt=\"contest winners\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>So without further ado, the two pattern winners are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#47 <strong>Barbara Liedtke<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>#85 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/falwyn.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falwyn<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ladies, I will e-mail you both to notify you personally and to find out which pattern you&#8217;d each like to select for your prize.<\/p>\n<p>And the PocketAmi mouse goes to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#12 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/litenskrutt.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josefin<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Josefin, I&#8217;ll be e-mailing you to get your mailing address so I can send your mousey out to you &#8211; I hope you&#8217;ll give him a good home in Sweden \ud83d\ude42 Please post a picture of him on your blog after he gets to you!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all three winners! And thanks to all the other entrants too &#8211; you&#8217;ve given me some great ideas to take me into year 3 of PlanetJune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, this is my 200th blog post! Yet another milestone reached &#8211; I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve written 200 posts; it&#8217;s amazing how it all adds up&#8230; Here&#8217;s a taster of my amigurumi polar bear. He&#8217;ll get a full post of his own with more photos, more details and some interesting polar bear facts, but here&#8217;s [&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":[1],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-286","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\/286","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=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22972,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/22972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}