{"id":3343,"date":"2012-01-24T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T14:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2012-01-24T22:31:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T22:31:28","slug":"the-ipca-progress-and-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"The IPCA Progress and Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3344\" title=\"Tracery\" src=\"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracery.jpg 790w, http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Tracery-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a>I woke up this morning to a surprise. Both of the pieces I entered into the International Polymer Clay Association&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/theipca.org\/gallery\/index.php\/Progress-Possibilities-2011\" target=\"_blank\">2012 Progress and Possibilities<\/a> placed. I&#8217;m more than thrilled that both the judges and the membership enjoyed my work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Tracey&#8221;, my giant necklace above tied for 2nd place with Bettina Welker&#8217;s hinged bracelet, &#8220;Circles&#8221; \u00a0and with my second entry, &#8220;Fantasy Fish Bowl&#8221; ( in the photo below). How wonderful is that? I&#8217;m laughing because I&#8217;m tied with myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Tracey&#8221; also placed 1st with the members and &#8220;Fantasy Fish Bowl&#8221; was second. Really, first and second? I couldn&#8217;t believe it, still can&#8217;t. \u00a0I am honored to have been able to compete with such wide array of talented \u00a0polymer clay artists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thank you to the judges and all the members who voted for my pieces. And a big thank you to Suzanne Ivester who encouraged me to create something to enter. (Shamed me into it would be a better discription, lol)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The rest of this day&#8230;..well&#8230;..it&#8217;s going to continue to be pretty wonderful, I&#8217;m grinning \u00a0from ear to ear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fantasyfishbowl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3345\" title=\"fantasyfishbowl\" src=\"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fantasyfishbowl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fantasyfishbowl.jpg 720w, http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fantasyfishbowl-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning to a surprise. Both of the pieces I entered into the International Polymer Clay Association&#8217;s 2012 Progress and Possibilities placed. I&#8217;m am more than thrilled that both the judges and the membership enjoyed my work [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,403],"tags":[487,488,486,484,803,849,462,483,485],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-ipca","tag-1st-place","tag-2nd-place","tag-competition","tag-fantasy-fish-bowl","tag-fish","tag-ipca","tag-progress-and-possibilities","tag-suzanne-ivester","tag-tracery","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6yjqg-RV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polymerclayetc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}