{"id":5,"date":"2010-01-13T00:09:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T05:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/wp\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T17:08:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>About w3bch1ck.com<\/h3>\n<p><strong>W3bch1ck.com <\/strong>is one woman&#8217;s dream of making beautiful things that make people smile. My name is Kristy Rhoades and I am a web application developer\u00a0by day, which is where my &#8220;web chick&#8221; handle was born.\u00a0\u00a0 With that paying the bills I can spend my free time repurposing vintage textiles such as seed, feed, grain &amp; flour sacks.\u00a0\u00a0My initial\u00a0line of repurposed purses was called\u00a0<em>The Up^Cycles<\/em>,\u00a0I have since expanded my product line\u00a0to include pillows, wall hangings, stuffed bears and more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve attemped many creative outlets over the years, everything from stained glass to jewelry making to book binding &amp; currently braided rugs, but I always return to\u00a0my first love &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Untitled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4 alignright\" title=\"Author's great grandparents on the homestead\" src=\"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Untitled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Author's great grandparents on the homestead\" width=\"105\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a>\u00a0fabric. \u00a0I have been sewing since I was 6 years old\u00a0and I come from a long line of talented &amp; resourceful women.\u00a0 My mother is an extremely talented seamstress &amp; quiltmaker, from her I inherited my love of cloth collecting.\u00a0 My great-grandmother raised a family during the great depression, from her I learned the value of re-use long before recycling was in vogue.\u00a0\u00a0 <em><strong>W3bch1ck <\/strong><\/em>is a natural progression, combining my love of sewing with my interest in rural farm life\u00a0over the\u00a0last century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w3bch1ck.etsy.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-414\" src=\"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ee.jpg\" alt=\"ee\" width=\"45\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a>I sell my work at local NH craft fairs as well as\u00a0on my <big><strong>Etsy store<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/w3bch1ck.etsy.com\">http:\/\/w3bch1ck.etsy.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-412\" src=\"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/blue-envelope.gif\" alt=\"blue envelope\" width=\"43\" height=\"48\" \/>If you&#8217;d like to drop me a line you can <strong>email<\/strong> me at <a href=\"MAILTO:kristy@irishred.com\"><strong>info<\/strong>@w3bch1ck.com<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m located in the beautiful town of Merrimack, NH, voted the 19th safest city in the country in 2014!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About w3bch1ck.com W3bch1ck.com is one woman&#8217;s dream of making beautiful things that make people smile. My name is Kristy Rhoades and I am a web application developer\u00a0by day, which is where my &#8220;web chick&#8221; handle was born.\u00a0\u00a0 With that paying the bills I can spend my free time repurposing vintage textiles such as seed, feed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3bch1ck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}