{"id":29538,"date":"2012-12-19T00:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T08:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=29538"},"modified":"2012-12-19T00:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T08:09:56","slug":"youve-got-mail-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/29538","title":{"rendered":"Wrapped In Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0You&#8217;ve got mail!!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Twenty-one women have wrapped me in their arms forever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"glad_sis-you've_got_mail-1218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/glad_sis-youve_got_mail-1218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-29552\" title=\"glad_sis-you've_got_mail-1274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/glad_sis-youve_got_mail-1274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But first, a bit of a story. Sitting here on my desk is an Internet page I printed from anthropologie.com on 10\/15\/12. Actually, I&#8217;d found their\u00a0crochet\/knit &#8220;quirky heirloom throw&#8221;\u00a0sometime in June when I was\u00a0in one of their stores, but the price tag had kept me from buying it. Back home, I couldn&#8217;t get it off my mind. So eventually,\u00a0I went online, found it there, and printed it. A girl can dream, right? To be honest, I wanted a homemade version of it, thinking maybe someday I&#8217;d make one. The idea of a &#8220;quirky heirloom throw&#8221; in mismatched colors that perfectly matches the new sitting couch in my new mismatched kitchen continued to call to me. Unbeknownst to me and unbeknownst to 21 women, we were already &#8220;collaborating&#8221; on a &#8220;Farmgirl Collaborative Afghan&#8221;\u2014even better!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-29553\" title=\"glad_sis-you've_got_mail-1229\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/glad_sis-youve_got_mail-1229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can you tell I&#8217;m in love?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-29554\" title=\"glad_sis-you've_got_mail-1233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/glad_sis-youve_got_mail-1233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, the colors!!!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-29555\" title=\"glad_sis-you've_got_mail-1245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/glad_sis-youve_got_mail-1245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The goodwill. The memories I&#8217;ll have forever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-29556\" title=\"glad_sis-you've_got_mail-1238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/glad_sis-youve_got_mail-1238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The way it makes me f-e-e-l.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-29624\" title=\"glad_sis-you've_got_mail-1254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/glad_sis-youve_got_mail-12541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I love my sisters. I love how <em>quirky<\/em> we are. I love how <em>heirloom<\/em> we are. I love the way we <em>throw<\/em> our arms around each other.\u00a0Thanks for the most amazing surprise EVAH, girlfrens !!!!! And love to Diane Van Horn, Fiddlehead Farm, Sister #922, for stitching us all TOGETHER.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0You&#8217;ve got mail!!!! 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