{"id":130,"date":"2007-11-19T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2007-11-19T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T17:14:08","slug":"how-was-your-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"How was your weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/pursecharm.jpg\" title=\"Purse Charm\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/golden.jpg\" title=\"golden\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tigereye.jpg\" title=\"tiger eye\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mixedbracelet.jpg\" title=\"walks of life\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tjcraftshowspace.jpg\" title=\"TJ Holiday Extravaganza booth picture\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tjcraftshowspace.jpg\" title=\"TJ Holiday Extravaganza booth picture\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tjcraftshowspace.jpg\" alt=\"TJ Holiday Extravaganza booth picture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>My weekend was great!\u00a0 It was a busy one.\u00a0 On Saturday I was at the Holiday Craft Fair at TJ High School all day.\u00a0 I really liked sharing a table this time around with a friend.\u00a0 Chrissie and I had fun arranging our display, and then looking through one another&#8217;s jewelry.\u00a0 We discussed whose lampwork beads or gauge of wire was used in a piece, or what color crystals we chose.\u00a0 What a way a way to pass the day&#8230;talking jewelry!\u00a0 There are very few people in my life that I share this passion with, so you can imagine how fun it was to be enmeshed in the topic for the day!\u00a0 It was great to meet the &#8220;vendors&#8221; at the show.\u00a0 We compared notes with other jewelry designers, and enjoyed the company of the ladies on either side of our table.\u00a0 One created stained glass pieces and dichroic glass pendants.\u00a0 On the other side was this great mother-daughter team.\u00a0 One crocheted and the other knit.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to show you a picture of my purchase from them.\u00a0 These are the kinds of people you would hope to meet again at another craft show.\u00a0 Too bad I am not doing anymore this year&#8230;.I&#8217;m considering what shows I&#8217;d like to do in the Spring.\u00a0 Hopefully Chrissie will join me again then!Here are a few pieces that were finished recently.\u00a0 The first is a purse charm\/clip.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been wanting to make something fun like this for a while but never got around to it&#8230;something whimsical to add to a tote bag or purse.\u00a0 This one was bought at the show as a gift for a sister.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/pursecharm.jpg\" title=\"Purse Charm\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/pursecharm.jpg\" title=\"Purse Charm\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/pursecharm.jpg\" alt=\"Purse Charm\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/golden.jpg\" title=\"golden\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/golden.jpg\" title=\"golden\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/golden.jpg\" alt=\"golden\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tigereye.jpg\" title=\"tiger eye\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tigereye.jpg\" title=\"tiger eye\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/tigereye.jpg\" alt=\"tiger eye\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>I just love how this next bracelet turned out!\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice combination of color, not the colors I would normally work with.\u00a0 I especially like the stone with the woven wire as well as the large\u00a0Tibetan silver-capped bead (I&#8217;ve been saving that bead for just the right thing).\u00a0 The bracelet was oxidized, polished and then tumbled.\u00a0\u00a0 Wait\u00a0&#8217;til you see\u00a0the complementary\u00a0necklace!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mixedbracelet.jpg\" title=\"walks of life\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mixedbracelet.jpg\" title=\"walks of life\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/mixedbracelet.jpg\" alt=\"walks of life\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My weekend was great!\u00a0 It was a busy one.\u00a0 On Saturday I was at the Holiday Craft Fair at TJ High School all day.\u00a0 I really liked sharing a table this time around with a friend.\u00a0 Chrissie and I had fun arranging our display, and then looking through one another&#8217;s jewelry.\u00a0 We discussed whose lampwork [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewelry-design","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}