{"id":1326,"date":"2009-06-19T01:28:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T05:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2009-06-19T01:28:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T05:28:27","slug":"recent-jewelry-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=1326","title":{"rendered":"Recent Jewelry Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working on a project or two here and there, although it may take me forever to show them.\u00a0\u00a0 It seems to be getting harder and harder to squeeze in time to make jewelry…I just try to be patient with how long it takes me now to complete something once I start it!<\/p>\n

Last month I created a bracelet for fundametal.net’s <\/a>copper washer design contest.\u00a0 It’s amazing what you can do with a simple metal washer.\u00a0 My husband rolls his eyes in disbelief when I get excited to hit the hardware store for something to use in my jewelry….copper tubing, stainless steel wire (could not find this at Home Depot though), and other little doo dads.\u00a0 Did I say doo dads….hmm,\u00a0 not like me.\u00a0 The good thing is, you don’t have to take a trip to the hardware store to pick up a nifty box of assorted copper washers….they are on sale <\/span>at fundametal.net and you can just place an order without leaving home (see them here<\/a>).\u00a0 The washers come in a nice little storage box too.<\/p>\n

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For this bracelet design I created “love knots” from sterling silver wire.\u00a0 I\u00a0layered two sizes of washers and texturized the smaller washer to add contrast.\u00a0 The washers were easily oxidized along with the silver with liver of sulphur.<\/p>\n

This next piece was a gift for a very special teacher.\u00a0 My preschooler had the most incredible speech therapist this year, someone he looked forward to seeing every Thursday.\u00a0 I think he thought of their sessions as a playdate really because he had so much fun while he was learning.\u00a0 I couldn’t think of the right gift for her…she really deserved something one-of-a-kind so I decided it had to be handmade.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I can’t seem to get enough stamping with metal these days as you’ll see in this next piece.\u00a0 Remember my recent post about Cynthia Thornton’s upcoming book, Enchanted Adornments<\/em>?\u00a0\u00a0 Andrew Thornton (her sweet brother) announced a design competition in honor of the book.\u00a0 The jewelry for this challenge must be either a mixed media piece or utilize a Green Girl Studios product.\u00a0 I combined a GGS pewter coral branch with handstamped charms, Hilltribe silver and Swarovski crystals.\u00a0 The easy, breezy “Sea Dreams” necklace was oxidized for character and a well-loved look.\u00a0 Visit the flickr site here <\/a>if you’d like to enter.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been working on a project or two here and there, although it may take me forever to show them.\u00a0\u00a0 It seems to be getting harder and harder to squeeze in time to make jewelry…I just try to be patient with how long it takes me now to complete something once I start it! Last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-jewelry-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","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=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}