{"id":6664,"date":"2012-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/2012\/05\/18\/the-answer-and-then-some\/"},"modified":"2012-05-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T00:00:00","slug":"the-answer-and-then-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/?p=6664","title":{"rendered":"the answer and then some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--single.php--><\/p>\n<p><!--loop-->\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t        <!--navigation--><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!--post title--><\/p>\n<div class=\"postspace2\">\n\t<\/div>\n<p><!--content with more link--><\/p>\n<p>The answer to yesterday\u00b4s little quiz is: It\u00b4s a giraffe! The neck of a giraffe to be exact. Yesterday was the Norwegian National day, and I celebrated at home quietly painting and drawing giraffes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/simple-smile-106.png\" alt=\":-)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"\/>&amp;nbsp;At the bottom I\u00b4ll reveal the winner of the little goody give-away and a the prize.<\/p>\n<p>Giraffes have the funniest faces! They\u00b4re odd-shaped with bulges going in all directions, weird things sticking out of their head, and yet a serious Bambi-look with eye-lashes that flutter from here to eternity\u2026 How can you not like them?!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14567\" title=\"_MG_6403\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MG_6403.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"849\"><\/p>\n<p>We have a couple of christenings coming up soon, and I thought this might be a fun little acrylic painting for a child\u00b4s room. Inspired by the VERY cool&amp;nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/jennifermercede2\/currentshows\">Jennifer Mercede\u00b4s<\/a>&amp;nbsp;funky-cool giraffes.<\/p>\n<p>Another one, this is the bearded lady-giraffe. But she\u00b4s being proud and standing tall, just like her mother told her!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14568\" title=\"_MG_6405\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MG_6405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\"><\/p>\n<p>And the third is a little miniature one, about a square inch, soon to be on it\u00b4s way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetpeajewelry1.blogspot.com\/\">Sandy Martin <\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/simple-smile-106.png\" alt=\":-)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14579\" title=\"_MG_6413\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MG_6413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"259\"><\/p>\n<p>And finally, this is the little goody give-away prize:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14578\" title=\"_MG_6409\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MG_6409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"346\"><\/p>\n<p>The oversized ears just make him even funnier, and it makes the motto: \u201cBe proud- stand tall!\u201d even better.<\/p>\n<p>I got a lot of good suggestions to yesterdays quiz. It was, clearly, a giraffe\u00b4s neck, which Elise answered straight away (for those of you who don\u00b4t read Norwegian). Another good suggestion was that it was my new stockings <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/simple-smile-106.png\" alt=\":-)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"\/> I really would have liked stockings like that! Even more creative suggestions were tentacles on a octopus or a ham-on-marzipan-roll (eehh\u2026 yuk?).<\/p>\n<p>And the winner is for the best answer &amp;nbsp;(ok, I admit I asked Mr Random to help me out, because I thought there were so many good suggestions) goes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopjomama.com\/\">Jo<\/a> for her suggestion of Strawberry-tattoos on an arm! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/simple-smile-106.png\" alt=\":-)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Yo! Jo! Send me your address, so I can send you a giraffe!)<\/p>\n<p>Jo makes the coolest recycled tie-scarf-necklaces ever, so be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopjomama.com\/\">her site!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was fun! I wanna do this more! 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