{"id":2783,"date":"2010-02-22T02:22:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T06:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2010-02-22T02:22:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T06:22:49","slug":"beady-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=2783","title":{"rendered":"Beady Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning friends (beady friends or not!)<\/p>\n<p>This weekend went by way too fast!\u00a0\u00a0 So much jammed in to just two short days.\u00a0 Speaking of a short period of time, I made it to the International Gem and Jewelry show in one hour flat.\u00a0 Hard to believe, but I only spent <strong>one<\/strong> hour there because that was all the time I had (in between a birthday party and picking up the dogs from the groomers)!\u00a0 In that short hour I managed to spend a few minutes with a friend and find some beautiful new Thai silver beads.<\/p>\n<p>I met up with <a href=\"http:\/\/lorianderson.blogspot.com\/\">Lori Anderson<\/a>, of Bead Soup Party fame.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve met at this show several times before, in fact, \u00a0this is where we met in person for the first time a few years ago.\u00a0 I&#8217;d say an hour with a beady friend and quickly looking for beads is an hour well spent!<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0mentioning Lori, I can&#8217;t resist showing you a special gift I received in the mail this past week.\u00a0 Lori\u00a0was so sweet to send me a surprise\u00a0&#8211; a beautiful necklace (love her fused wire bail!) that showcases a lampwork bead by Sarah Moran of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.z-beads.com\/\">z-beads<\/a>.\u00a0 Oh I had never seen a z-bead before and it is just gorgeous!!\u00a0 Thank you, Lori!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2784\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=2784\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2784  aligncenter\" title=\"loriandersongift\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/loriandersongift.jpg\" alt=\"loriandersongift\" width=\"515\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/loriandersongift.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/loriandersongift-300x245.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/loriandersongift-450x367.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope you are all off on the start of a GREAT week.\u00a0 Thanks for stopping by!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2785\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=2785\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2785\" title=\"siggie13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/siggie13.png\" alt=\"siggie13\" width=\"138\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning friends (beady friends or not!) This weekend went by way too fast!\u00a0\u00a0 So much jammed in to just two short days.\u00a0 Speaking of a short period of time, I made it to the International Gem and Jewelry show in one hour flat.\u00a0 Hard to believe, but I only spent one hour there because [&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-2783","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\/2783","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=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}