{"id":1137,"date":"2017-02-26T19:51:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T00:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debramaerz.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2017-03-23T13:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:37:30","slug":"exciting-results-from-the-gourd-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debramaerz.com\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Results from the Gourd Show !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/debramaerz.com\/?attachment_id=1138\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1138\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1138\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/debramaerz.com\/?attachment_id=1138\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debramaerz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17016004_10210583843105156_1130592515377559880_o.jpg?fit=640%2C1448&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,1448\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&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&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"17016004_10210583843105156_1130592515377559880_o\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Me with my winning entry !! &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debramaerz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17016004_10210583843105156_1130592515377559880_o.jpg?fit=453%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1138\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debramaerz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17016004_10210583843105156_1130592515377559880_o-133x300.jpg?resize=133%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debramaerz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17016004_10210583843105156_1130592515377559880_o.jpg?resize=133%2C300&amp;ssl=1 133w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debramaerz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17016004_10210583843105156_1130592515377559880_o.jpg?resize=453%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 453w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/debramaerz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/17016004_10210583843105156_1130592515377559880_o.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a>Here I am at the 2017 State of Florida Gourd Festival with my winning entry.&nbsp; My Indian Girl was created with gourds, one for the body,one for her head and the arms are parts of a gourd also.&nbsp; The pots are also small gourds so a total of five gourds made this piece.&nbsp; Her face was sculpted on the gourd with paper clay, her hands were sculpted with polymer clay and inserted into the gourd pieces. For her hair I made a wig cap, and created wefts from a braid I purchased at Sally&#8217;s. &nbsp; I was very pleased with the completed piece, and extremely happy to receive all the ribbons!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank-you Therese Payne Ferguson for the photograph !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am at the 2017 State of Florida Gourd Festival with my winning entry.&nbsp; My Indian Girl was created with gourds, one for the body,one for her head and the arms are parts of a gourd also.&nbsp; The pots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/debramaerz.com\/?p=1137\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jXmy-il","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1473,"url":"https:\/\/debramaerz.com\/?p=1473","url_meta":{"origin":1137,"position":0},"title":"May 2019","author":"Debra","date":"May 26, 2019","format":"gallery","excerpt":"Here we are approaching the mid point of the year - June... in Florida of course that means hurricane season too, oh ... how I dread hurricane season. 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