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Hello sweet bead studio friends!<\/p>\n
Remember the colorful bracelet that I featured just the other day?\u00a0 It was inspired by this <\/em>necklace.\u00a0 And what inspired this necklace?\u00a0 About a month ago I saw a friend\/neighbor that I had not seen in a long time.\u00a0 She was wearing a long, simple necklace.\u00a0 And very colorful.\u00a0 I thought…..hmmm, I wonder how I could put a real spin on the concept of using mixed, colorful beads.\u00a0 I knew I wanted to add as much wirework as I could throw in.\u00a0 I found carved stone beads, wood, Thai silver and\u00a0of course\u00a0a bit of lampwork.\u00a0 I had the most eclectic mix laid out and went to town figuring out ways to lay out this crazy mix of beads that I had selected.\u00a0<\/p>\n Once I finished\u00a0the necklace\u00a0(and I tell you it was really a labor of love because it took me so long), I put it in the tumbler and it was polished to a high shine.\u00a0 When I looked at the finished piece I knew something just wasn’t right.\u00a0 I couldn’t figure out if it was just the variety of bead styles and color that was too <\/em>much or what.\u00a0\u00a0 I decided to rely on a trusty trick.\u00a0 I oxidized the piece and brought it to a super dark gray state.\u00a0\u00a0 I then polished it link by link with fine gauge steel wool.\u00a0 Then back in the tumbler it went….and when it came out I was very happy<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 That my friends, is how this necklace came to be.\u00a0 And I have a confession:\u00a0 I made two so that I could keep one for myself!\u00a0 I have worn it already with so many things….it’s my favorite accessory of the moment. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello sweet bead studio friends! Remember the colorful bracelet that I featured just the other day?\u00a0 It was inspired by this necklace.\u00a0 And what inspired this necklace?\u00a0 About a month ago I saw a friend\/neighbor that I had not seen in a long time.\u00a0 She was wearing a long, simple necklace.\u00a0 And very colorful.\u00a0 I […]<\/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-137","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\/137","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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}