{"id":169,"date":"2012-06-16T19:01:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T01:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2017-12-22T11:37:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T19:37:56","slug":"moving-on-polka-dot-creations-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/moving-on-polka-dot-creations-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving On: Polka Dot Creations&#8217; Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who haven&#8217;t heard the sad news, our polymer friend and TPA retailer Lisa Clarke over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polkadotcreations.com\/index.php \" target=\"_blank\">Polka Dot Creations\u00a0<\/a> is shifting gears and closing shop. She has been supporting and providing our community with great products, materials, books, and other media for eleven years. It is never a bad thing to recognize when it is time to move on but it&#8217;s hard to lose such a considerate and involved retailer.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Polka Dot Creations Sale\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/goob_250.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can support Lisa and help her on her way, along with getting some great deals by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polkadotcreations.com\/index.php  \" target=\"_blank\"> heading over to her shop<\/a> where she is having her &#8220;Going out of Business&#8221; sale.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Lisa&#8217;s note to the community from her website:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Polka Dot Creations will be closing up shop at the end of June!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Serving the polymer clay community for the last eleven years has been my pleasure, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support during that time. For more of my thoughts on this decision please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaclarke.net\/2012\/06\/03\/the-end-of-polka-dot-creations\/\">my blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll keep in touch! I will be hanging out in my <a href=\"http:\/\/lisaclarke.net\/\">Polka Dot Cottage<\/a> this summer\u263a<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!\u00a0 &#8211;Lisa Clarke<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for everything, Lisa! We wish you all the best as you journey on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who haven&#8217;t heard the sad news, our polymer friend and TPA retailer Lisa Clarke over at Polka Dot Creations\u00a0 is shifting gears and closing shop. She has been supporting and providing our community with great products, materials, books, and other media for eleven years. It is never a bad thing to&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":[7],"tags":[69,68,12,11,16],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polymer-community-news","tag-lisa-clarke","tag-polka-dot-creation","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-2J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}