{"id":3484,"date":"2010-10-01T14:38:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T18:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2011-11-25T16:01:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T21:01:35","slug":"friday-giveaway-rainy-showers-bring-fall-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2010\/friday-giveaway-rainy-showers-bring-fall-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Giveaway: Rainy Showers Bring Fall Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congrats to our winner Keri Butler. Hope you all had relaxing weekends! Be sure to subscribe to the Goods via RSS<\/a>, to get the heads up about our next giveaways and contests!<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

It’s been raining here in Brooklyn all week. I don’t know about you, but I sure need a pick-me-up!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Luckily this week we’re giving away one of artist Jenn Bell’s Pansy or Echinacea Wall Hangings<\/a>— made of copper, glass, and enamel, and a sure to keep the flowers blooming year round.<\/p>\n

I talked to Jenn for a few minutes this week about how she creates creates her handmade pieces.<\/p>\n

“There are daily accidents that turn out to be gorgeous,” says Jenn of her creative process.<\/p>\n

What does she mean by that?<\/p>\n

“… As I’ve grown up I’ve realized that you have no idea where each day is going to take you and rolling with the punches makes everything better. I’m incredibly hard on myself, so I have pieces all over my shop that I have deemed unacceptable. Friends come over and just randomly point and say, “I like that one.” So I take it to a show and someone else likes it. Sometimes making art seems to be this balance of listening to your gut and ignoring it all at the same time.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
Here’s Jenn at work in her studio.<\/em><\/div>\n

And the lesson this week is that it’s quite alright to give yourself a break every now and then.<\/p>\n

Leave a comment below to win one of Jenn’s beautiful handmade wall hangings<\/a>, and let us know what you’re doing this weekend to give yourself a break.<\/p>\n

As always, you can leave a comment on our Facebook<\/a> wall, or tweet @uncommongoods<\/a> to triple your chances to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artist Jenn Bell makes her copper flower wall art pieces by hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[40,182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}