{"id":1596,"date":"2010-11-16T08:57:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T08:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hip97.com\/wp\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2010-11-16T08:57:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T08:57:46","slug":"mel-stringer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/11\/16\/mel-stringer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Stringer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4149\/5031917050_5ecc801729_o.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"girl and cat \" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2123\/2467793560_021a04dfe4.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"obutcher small\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3080\/2764325645_c5dccddd48.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"6 small\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3094\/2764325627_4ea7269fbe.jpg\" width=\"440\" alt=\"1 small\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love the colorful work of <a href=\"http:\/\/melstringer.blogspot.com\">Mel Stringer<\/a>, an illustrator and visual artist based in Australia. She emailed me a couple of weeks back and her name sounded real familiar, so I dug out a few old copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankie.com.au\/\">Frankie magazine<\/a> and it turned out that I was right &#8212; she was the illustrator behind some of my favorite spreads in the magazine!<\/p>\n<p>She has an Etsy shop where she sells zines, prints and stickers called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/girliepains?ref=seller_info\">Girlie Pains<\/a> and not only can she draw, but she makes these cute little felt characters as well (available over at her other Etsy shop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetlittlefelt.etsy.com\/\">Sweet Little Felt<\/a>). And I just read that she&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/melstringer.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/endeavoring-new-materials.html\">experimenting with ceramics<\/a> too &#8212; she&#8217;s one crafty person, that&#8217;s for sure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; <a title=\"Mel Stringer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/2010\/11\/16\/mel-stringer\/\" aria-label=\"More on Mel Stringer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_generate-full-width-content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pikaland.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}