{"id":1960,"date":"2012-07-27T04:48:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T04:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=12006"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T01:20:40","slug":"friday-frenzy-famous-celebrity-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/friday-frenzy-famous-celebrity-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday FRENZY Famous Celebrity FUN!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m settling back into the swing of things after having <strong>a lovely visit with my family and friends<\/strong> overseas. I&#8217;m obviously <strong>still a bit jetlagged<\/strong> because I only woke up at 10am and <strong>realised it was FRIDAY FRENZY time<\/strong> &#8211; yeeeehar!!!!<\/p>\n<p>It was fabulous to see everyone again after soooooooooo long and it felt wonderful to<strong> &#8216;take up where we left off&#8217;<\/strong> and it was comforting that everyone was <strong>&#8216;JUST THE SAME&#8217;- nothing&#8217;s changed!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Well, ONE person seems to have changed&#8230;.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>LOOK how tall<br \/>\nNelson Mandela&#8217;s got???<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12007\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px;\" title=\"Nelson-Mandela---johannesburg-airport\" src=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Nelson-Mandela-johannesburg-airport.jpg\" alt=\"Nelson Mandela - Johannesburg airport\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ha! Ha! Just kidding!!!!! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is me posing with <strong>a\u00a0 bead-work statue of Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg airport<\/strong>, which has been made to commemorate his<strong> 94 birthday<\/strong> on the 18th of July.<br \/>\nI was sooooo excited to &#8216;see him&#8217; <strong>eventhough it was only beads <\/strong>that I stopped a total stranger passing by to take this photo!!!! For this <strong>Friday Frenzy<\/strong> I thought we&#8217;d have <strong>a bit of fun with famous celebrities<\/strong>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/h1>\n<h2><strong>Sooooooooooooooooooooooo what are we getting up to THIS Friday?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>To enter this Friday Frenzy &#8211; all you have to do is tell me which FUNKYFRIENDSFACTORY TOY you think would best suit YOUR FAVOURITE CELEBRITY and <strong>you can win the pattern you suggested for them!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>So let me go first:<\/h2>\n<blockquote style=\"padding: 2px 10px; margin: 30px 40px; border: 2px dotted #4a7d0c; color: #4a7d0c;\"><p>I think Nelson Mandela would LOVE a Honey Teddy. He has done so much for others and especially for children, with the Nelson Mandela Childrens Fund. I think he would really enjoy having a Honey Teddy Bear of his own knowing that she is the official pattern for the<br \/>\n<strong><a title=\"Billion Bears Charity Drive\" href=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/billion-bears-charity-drive-country-threads-article\/\" target=\"_self\">Billion Bears Charity Drive<\/a><a title=\"Billion Bears Charity Drive\" href=\"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/billion-bears-charity-drive-country-threads-article\/\" target=\"_self\">&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong>and that so many people have made and donated teddies like her to children all around the world, or to raise funds for the charities closest to their hearts!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Now your turn:<\/h2>\n<p>Leave a comment below to\u00a0 let me know which FUNKYFRIENDSFACTORY TOY suits YOUR FAVOURITE CELEBRITY!<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">I will draw a winner on Sunday&#8230;. so everyone gets a chance to enter!<\/h2>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><br \/>\n<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><br \/>\n<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>I&#8217;m settling back into the swing of things after having a lovely visit with my family and friends overseas. I&#8217;m obviously still a bit jetlagged because I only woke up at 10am and realised it was FRIDAY FRENZY time &#8211; yeeeehar!!!! It was fabulous to see everyone again after soooooooooo long and it felt wonderful [&hellip;]<\/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":[18,19,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-my-life","category-blog","category-competitions-giveaways"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","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=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manage.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}