{"id":2157,"date":"2018-09-04T11:20:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T01:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=26299"},"modified":"2019-03-14T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T06:47:20","slug":"were-moving-to-tasmania%f0%9f%8f%a0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/were-moving-to-tasmania%f0%9f%8f%a0\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re moving to Tasmania!!!\ud83c\udfe0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">OMG, it&#8217;s ACTUALLY happening&#8230; we are moving house!!!<\/span> \ud83d\ude40<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s the weirdest thing to walk around our home and hear my voice echo because of the empty rooms. We&#8217;ve been in this house for 15 years so it&#8217;s been a BIG part of the Funky Friends story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27217\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Moving.jpg\" alt=\"moving house\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\"><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many of the early Funky Friends soft toy patterns were designed in my tiny sewing room which was in one of our smallest rooms&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Sewing-stuffed-dinosaur.jpg\" alt=\"Sewing stuffed dinosaur\" width=\"400\" height=\"459\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>which I soon outgrew!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14285\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sewing-room-over-flowing.jpg\" alt=\"sewing room over flowing\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So we converted our garage into an amazing studio for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>LOOK how pleased I was with my renovating skills!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27208 size-full\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Sewing-studio.jpg\" alt=\"sewing studio reno\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The garden has been awesome for photographing my toys too!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19809 size-medium\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Pauline-McArthur-Easter-Bunny-Sewing-Pattern.web_1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pauline McArthur Easter Bunny Sewing Pattern\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Even the chickens enjoyed the photo shoots!<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16110 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Iguana-and-chickens.jpg\" alt=\"Iguana and chickens\" width=\"420\" height=\"389\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The wildlife here has been a huge inspiration for the Funky Friends soft toy patterns too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16000 \" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/REAL-cockatoo.jpg\" alt=\"REAL cockatoo\" width=\"524\" height=\"393\"><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Charlie Cockatoo was based on this cheeky cockatoo that used to squawk outside my sewing room window for me to put out some bird seed for him!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26429\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Australian-COCKATOO-sewing-pattern..jpg\" alt=\"Australian sewing pattern cockatoo\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be sad to leave this behind for sure!!!<\/p>\n<h2>BUT I wonder what new inspiration our move will bring?<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Pauline McArthur\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Pauline-McArthur.jpg\" alt=\"Pauline McArthur\" width=\"202\" height=\"196\"><br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>bye for now, <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong> Pauline<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>xxx<\/strong> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"White-Spacer\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/White-Spacer.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"sociable\">\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be sad to leave this behind for sure!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-my-life","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}