{"id":12920,"date":"2016-11-28T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=12920"},"modified":"2016-11-28T07:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T14:25:55","slug":"a-little-bit-of-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/a-little-bit-of-cute\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Bit of Cute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countblue.lolipop.jp\/w014.htm\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12921\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12921\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/a-little-bit-of-cute\/count-blue-animal-rings\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/count-blue-animal-rings.jpg?fit=504%2C364&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"504,364\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Caplio GX100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1408371255&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0147058823529&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"count-blue-animal-rings\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/count-blue-animal-rings.jpg?fit=430%2C311&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-12921\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/count-blue-animal-rings-430x311.jpg?resize=430%2C311\" alt=\"count-blue-animal-rings\" width=\"430\" height=\"311\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/count-blue-animal-rings.jpg?resize=430%2C311&amp;ssl=1 430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/count-blue-animal-rings.jpg?resize=200%2C144&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/count-blue-animal-rings.jpg?resize=350%2C253&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/count-blue-animal-rings.jpg?w=504&amp;ssl=1 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>After a really long and exceedingly full week, just brimming with ups and downs, I am quite in the mood for a fun and light-hearted week. How does that sound?<\/p>\n<p>Cutesy craft does not get a nod to its artistry quite the way that contemporary craft usually does. But that doesn&#8217;t mean there is any less talent, skill and self-expression in it. It&#8217;s just less serious. Which is great! Life is rough enough as it is. Let&#8217;s admire work that makes us smile. Like these meticulously detailed and unquestionably adorable animal rings from our Japanese colleague\u00a0Jiro Miura who sells under the moniker <a href=\"http:\/\/countblue.lolipop.jp\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Count Blue<\/a>. These adorable rings are a fantastic idea. Now you can take your prized polymer cuties out and about with you instead of just keeping them to yourself on a shelf at home.<\/p>\n<p>Jiro does create sculptures that would just sit on a shelf but\u00a0he also creates tiny earrings of his creatures. Small in size is the most common feature along with being very detailed. You can find more of his work on this <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=ja&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fcountblue.lolipop.jp%2Findex.htm\" target=\"_blank\">translated-to-English link to his Count Blue website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inspirational Challenge of the Day: <\/strong>Create something cute, playful, or at least not serious today but use your usual techniques. Let your child side out and enjoy creating joyful things with familiar processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\">_________________________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"likethisblog\">Like this blog? 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How does that sound? Cutesy craft does not get a nod to its artistry quite the way that contemporary craft usually does. But that doesn&#8217;t mean there is any&hellip;<\/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":[5165,1716,13,5164,157,1437,17,748,92,4653,166,5163,12,1687,4698,11,3661,395,164,1488,48,4582,3730,3816,16],"class_list":["post-12920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-animal-rings","tag-artist-inspiration","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-count-blue","tag-creativity","tag-cute","tag-design","tag-detail","tag-earrings","tag-inspirational-challenge-of-the-day","tag-jewelry","tag-jiro-miura","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-arts","tag-polymer-blog","tag-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-jewelry","tag-rings","tag-sculpture","tag-small","tag-technique","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-3mo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920","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=12920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}