{"id":2284,"date":"2009-12-16T02:43:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T06:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2009-12-16T02:43:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T06:43:26","slug":"secret-santa-is-a-sweetie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=2284","title":{"rendered":"Secret Santa is a Sweetie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello friends!<\/p>\n<p>How are the holidays treating you?\u00a0 I hope full of fun and anticipation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One big bright spot in all of the business has been a Secret Santa jewelry exchange hosted by<a href=\"http:\/\/beautifullybrokenme.blogspot.com\"> Molly Alexander<\/a> of Beautifully Broken Me.\u00a0 It seems like a while ago now that she invited me to participate along with 11 amazing artists, some familiar and some were new to me &#8211; an altogether impressive group of ladies.\u00a0 We were given names drawn by random and were to create a necklace\u00a0 based on a few questions that we answered in the beginning.\u00a0 This week was the deadline (and it seemed so far off back then!).\u00a0 My Secret Santa has been revealed&#8230;. I received a wonderful surprise from <a href=\"http:\/\/vintagesweets.typepad.com\/\">Beth Brickner<\/a> of Vintage Sweets.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2285\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=2285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2285\" title=\"secret-santa-by-beth-bric\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/secret-santa-by-beth-bric.jpg\" alt=\"secret-santa-by-beth-bric\" width=\"515\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/secret-santa-by-beth-bric.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/secret-santa-by-beth-bric-221x300.jpg 221w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/secret-santa-by-beth-bric-331x450.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was completely over the moon with my gorgeous necklace&#8230;.I don&#8217;t know how Beth could have designed anything more perfect for me&#8230;it&#8217;s got the classic colors I love &#8211; sparkly Swarovski crystals mixed with a bit of rustic hand-stamped silver.\u00a0 And look at those perfect fused fine silver rings!\u00a0\u00a0 How did she know how much I love charms&#8230;and long necklaces?\u00a0 I especially love how she incorporated\u00a0 the word {<strong>sweet<\/strong>} from both of our blog names.\u00a0 She even created earrings to match.\u00a0 <em>Thank you<\/em> dear Santa!!!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2286\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=2286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2286\" title=\"secret-santa2-by-beth-bri\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/secret-santa2-by-beth-bri.jpg\" alt=\"secret-santa2-by-beth-bri\" width=\"515\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/secret-santa2-by-beth-bri.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/secret-santa2-by-beth-bri-300x289.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/secret-santa2-by-beth-bri-450x434.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post some pictures soon of the necklace I created for my exchange recipient.\u00a0 Just want to make sure she&#8217;s surprised too!\u00a0 I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;ve been hopping around the participant&#8217;s blogs trying to get a peek of the exchange necklaces&#8230;.they are just starting to pop up.\u00a0 Molly will be posting a compilation on her blog soon, I believe.<\/p>\n<p>As always, I thank you for stopping by.\u00a0 Enjoy the rest of your week!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2287\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=2287\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2287\" title=\"siggie4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/siggie4.png\" alt=\"siggie4\" width=\"138\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello friends! How are the holidays treating you?\u00a0 I hope full of fun and anticipation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One big bright spot in all of the business has been a Secret Santa jewelry exchange hosted by Molly Alexander of Beautifully Broken Me.\u00a0 It seems like a while ago now that she invited me to participate along with 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-love","category-indie-artists","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","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=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}