{"id":1518,"date":"2010-07-06T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/oh-my-my-lucky-day\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:38:08","slug":"oh-my-my-lucky-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/oh-my-my-lucky-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh my! My lucky day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SueSpargo_L3d.png\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SueSpargo_L3d.png?w=1140\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve been quiet lately, but it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been away. Mike and I have been visiting my twin and her family, who live right outside of Paris. More about that later.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">While I was enjoying French food and scenery, I had a message from Sarah at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricquilt.com\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Electric Quilt<\/a> company to say that my name had been drawn in their badge contest. Do you see the EQ7 badge way down on the left side of this page? Putting it there let me enter the drawing, and I&#8217;m one of the lucky winners. \ud83d\ude00 What&#8217;s even nicer was that I had&nbsp; <i>four<\/i> different pieces of software to choose from as my prize! I&#8217;m just waiting now to receive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricquilt.com\/Shop\/SueSpargo\/SueSpargo.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Sue Spargo&#8217;s Folk Art Dreams<\/a>, which may already be here; but my neighbor has been collecting my mail and isn&#8217;t home right now for me to get it from her. <g>&nbsp;<\/g><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been quiet lately, but it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been away. Mike and I have been visiting my twin and her family, who live right outside of Paris. More about that later.&nbsp; While I was enjoying French food and scenery, I had a message from Sarah at the Electric Quilt company to say that my name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[299],"tags":[219],"class_list":{"0":"post-1518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-eq","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/SueSpargo_L3d.png?fit=200%2C228&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-ou","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3082,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/05\/badge-holder\/","url_meta":{"origin":1518,"position":0},"title":"Badge Holder","author":"Sandy","date":"July 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"My quilt buddy, Phyl, and I go to the Houston Festival each year, and we need to keep our badges handy for easy entry to the show and to any classes we take. 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