{"id":11501,"date":"2015-12-09T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=11501"},"modified":"2015-12-09T07:02:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T14:02:01","slug":"just-terribly-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/just-terribly-cute\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Terribly Cute"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"il_fullxfull.663382560_fhu7\"<\/a>As I\u00a0continue to indulge my inner child this week, I decided to just go terribly cute today. I could not stop looking through the fun selection of expertly crafted cuteness in the Etsy shop of\u00a0Caroline Fisermanis<\/a>, best known online as Fizzy.<\/p>\n

Fizzy creates delightful imagery in three dimensions–everything from cake toppers to miniatures to joyful little home accents. I can see these wondrous little fairy homes popping up in potted plants, alongside book collections, hanging from a railing, or sitting on one’s\u00a0car dash. How fun would it be to stash one of these in the medicine cabinet (might end up being just the kind of ‘medication’ one needs) or have it tucked\u00a0in someone’s lunch or just suddenly appear on a favorite co-worker’s desk? Items in the terribly cute range seem to be much needed these days. I think the rampant sharing\u00a0of \u00a0cat videos alone is a testament to that.<\/p>\n

Cute, like other styles of craft, is not the same as frivolous or low brow. The truly cute takes intent, skill, and finesse to create something that reaches out and grabs us. Fun and cute may not often get elevated into the halls of high craft or fine art, but these are the things that so easily make us smile, make us laugh and bring bright little sparks of joy to our day. Why is that not more readily regarded as a high craft? Is art not there to evoke\u00a0a reaction from us? And are joy and smiles\u00a0not some\u00a0of the best reactions you can aim\u00a0for?<\/p>\n

Add a few more smiles to your day with a jaunt through Fizzy’s Etsy page<\/a> or her blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As I\u00a0continue to indulge my inner child this week, I decided to just go terribly cute today. I could not stop looking through the fun selection of expertly crafted cuteness in the Etsy shop of\u00a0Caroline Fisermanis, best known online as Fizzy. Fizzy creates delightful imagery in three dimensions–everything from cake toppers to miniatures to joyful…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4583,1437,4585,4584,640,12,11,4582,3730,3816,16],"class_list":["post-11501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-caroline-fizermanis","tag-cute","tag-fairy-homes","tag-fizzy","tag-polymer","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-the-daily-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts","tag-the-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-2Zv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}