{"id":830,"date":"2008-04-29T23:11:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T04:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/fun-in-oregon\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T19:51:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T23:51:41","slug":"fun-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/fun-in-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"fun in Oregon!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m having a fantastic time here in Portland! I REALLY have to get out of my studio more often, eh?!<\/p>\n

First, an amazing hotel-\u00a0 Hotel Monaco<\/a>. Thanks Ben and Priceline<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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We got into town around noon on Sunday. That’s noon, west coast time- we had been up and traveling for 10 hours by that time. Ariana, of Staindrop<\/a>, met us at the hotel and gave us a wonderful walking tour of downtown Portland. The weather was perfect. We got to spend several hours talking about art, craft, blogging, etc.<\/p>\n

Monday morning was our tour of PNCA<\/a>. I have loved going on these Art School tours. On Monday afternoon, I met Diane of CraftyPod<\/a>. I have to say that getting a chance to meet her was high on my list of why I wanted to come to Portland with my son! I enjoyed talking to her so much when she interviewed me<\/a> last fall. Getting a chance to spend a few more hours with her was amazing. She found my blog originally because of my tikis. I wanted to make her a little gift and on Saturday, before I left, I got a flash of the perfect present-<\/p>\n

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a tiki pincushion! As you can see<\/a>, she liked it :) There is nothing so satisfying as figuring out the right gift! She gave me a list of great suggestions of crafty places to go and things to see- Thanks so much Diane!<\/p>\n

The weather was beautiful and clear, so Pete and I decided to go to dinner at a restaurant described as a place for tourist- I said, Heh! We’re tourists! It was a wonderful way to see the city and surrounding area-<\/p>\n

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Today (Tuesday) I spent the day checking out craft wonderfulness and Pete did his thing. First stop for me was the Knitten Kitten<\/a> (a Diane recommendation).<\/p>\n

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How amazing is a craft supply thrift store?! I left there with a bag full of goodies. Then back into town to the Museum of Contemporary Craft<\/a>. Next stop- The Playful Needle<\/a>.\u00a0 And last, when I was worried that my feet were going to give out on me, The Button Emporium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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That place was heaven… well, actually I think Portland is an embroiderer’s paradise- I have never seen anything like the stores full of beautiful threads and embellishments that I’ve seen here. Swoon!<\/p>\n

Okay, so here was what was in my bag at the end of the day-<\/p>\n

from the Knitten Kitten-<\/p>\n

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and everywhere else-<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow we go back home. My stay has been a delight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m having a fantastic time here in Portland! I REALLY have to get out of my studio more often, eh?! First, an amazing hotel-\u00a0 Hotel Monaco. Thanks Ben and Priceline… We got into town around noon on Sunday. That’s noon, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9198,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/9198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}