{"id":186,"date":"2008-01-25T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T19:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:02:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T19:02:03","slug":"next-up-pearls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Next up:  Pearls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/clearasday.jpg\" title=\"Clear as Day\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/genevieve.jpg\" title=\"Genevieve\"><\/a>I&#8217;m back to post a few pictures of this week&#8217;s creations.\u00a0\u00a0 A mosaic is a fun, catch-all way to work with anything from pearls and crystal to sea glass and gemstones.\u00a0 The first mosaic-style jewelry that caught my eye were the ornate, intricately coiled wire pieces by the well-known artist, Eni Oken.\u00a0 She&#8217;s featured on the Links page on the website.\u00a0 There are several up and coming jewelry designers whose work is equally breath taking:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.izamalczyk.com\/\">Iza Malczyk <\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=5109922&amp;order=&amp;section_id=&amp;page=1\">Magdalena&#8217;s Atelier<\/a>.\u00a0 Please visit their sites to see fine examples of time-consuming wire coiling and exquisite\u00a0design.\u00a0\u00a0 I recently found a project by Kate Ferrant Richbourg of <a href=\"http:\/\/beadissimo.com\/web\/\">Beadissimo\u00a0<\/a>and knew that this type of casual, wire weaving would be just the style of mosaic for me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve named this necklace &#8220;Clear as Day&#8221;, and it has\u00a0a bit of a Shabby Chic look to it.\u00a0 Speaking of which, I was just thinking that one day it would be great to have an all-white room&#8230;.pale, muted whites mixed with ironstone platters and time worn sea shells.\u00a0 Back to the sea&#8230;.I&#8217;m dreaming of that warm weather again.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/clearasday.jpg\" alt=\"Clear as Day\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next piece includes pretty, pale pearls as well.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve surrounded the tubular lampwork focal with a nice cluster of both pearls and tiny Swarovski crystals.\u00a0 I had fun making these bunches of dangles.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ll make more to compliment other lampwork focals that I&#8217;ve collected and have stashed away&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/genevieve.jpg\" alt=\"Genevieve\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Have a great weekend everyone!<\/p>\n<p>~ Cindy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back to post a few pictures of this week&#8217;s creations.\u00a0\u00a0 A mosaic is a fun, catch-all way to work with anything from pearls and crystal to sea glass and gemstones.\u00a0 The first mosaic-style jewelry that caught my eye were the ornate, intricately coiled wire pieces by the well-known artist, Eni Oken.\u00a0 She&#8217;s featured on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indie-artists","category-inspiration","category-jewelry-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}