{"id":1937,"date":"2012-01-11T13:41:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T13:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=10866"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T00:46:06","slug":"getting-excited-one-month-till-visit-the-blue-mango-india-fair-trade-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/getting-excited-one-month-till-visit-the-blue-mango-india-fair-trade-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting excited &#8211; one month till visit the Blue Mango India Fair Trade Organization!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I designed <strong>Anu the Elephant,<\/strong> my first <a href=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/fair-trade-toys-from-india\/\"><strong>Fair Trade toy pattern<\/strong> for <strong>Blue Mango India<\/strong><\/a>. It was back in 2009, so we are all feeling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10868\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"fair-trade-toy-india\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/fair-trade-toy-india.jpg\" alt=\"fair trade toy India\" width=\"327\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>it&#8217;s time for some new designs!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>AND so guess who&#8217;s been invited to go and do the deed????<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> ME!!! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Yeeeeeeee-har!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/h1>\n<p>What an<strong> honour\/priviledge\/treat<\/strong> this is, for me to go to India and <strong>meet Tamar and Bruce and ALL the lovely Bluemango ladies<\/strong> who have been making these toys!<\/p>\n<p>* If you don&#8217;t know about <a href=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/fair-trade-toys-from-india\/\"><strong>Blue Mango<\/strong><\/a> this video gives you a glimpse of the organization and the wonderful work they are doing.)<br \/>\n<br class=\"clear\" \/><br \/>\n<object width=\"520\" height=\"294\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HDYxf0vcl3U?version=3&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<br class=\"clear\" \/><br \/>\n<br class=\"clear\" \/><br \/>\nNOW I have to admit &#8211; it is a <strong>little scary<\/strong> knowing I am going to have to come up with some lovely new designs for them in the space of the 3 weeks I will be there, but Tamar has said the ladies will help me sew up the proto types so please keep fingers crossed that the inspirations comes!!!! : )<\/p>\n<p><strong>I would LOVE to hear from you<\/strong> &#8211; I don&#8217;t think they want particularly cute and cuddly toys&#8230; I dunno &#8211; so please let me know <strong>what YOU think would make a brilliant Fair Trade Toy design<\/strong>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">all ideas welcome please!!!<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-280\" title=\"Teddy-bear-rings\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Teddy-bear-rings.png\" alt=\"Pauline McArthur - Funky Friends Factory\" width=\"224\" height=\"218\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Till next time,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Sewing,<br \/>\nPauline<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6592\" title=\"White-Spacer\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/White-Spacer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"30\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I designed Anu the Elephant, my first Fair Trade toy pattern for Blue Mango India. It was back in 2009, so we are all feeling&#8230; it&#8217;s time for some new designs! AND so guess who&#8217;s been invited to go and do the deed???? ME!!! Yeeeeeeee-har!<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-my-life","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}