{"id":5734,"date":"2011-03-27T21:16:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T01:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2011-03-27T23:09:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T03:09:48","slug":"a-little-pink-pretty-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=5734","title":{"rendered":"A little pink, pretty please."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5735\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=5735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5735 aligncenter\" title=\"birthday-dinner-with-lori\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birthday-dinner-with-lori.jpg\" alt=\"birthday-dinner-with-lori\" width=\"500\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birthday-dinner-with-lori.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birthday-dinner-with-lori-150x133.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birthday-dinner-with-lori-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I {heart} pink these days.\u00a0 When I think of Spring, pink certainly comes to mind.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org\/\">National Cherry Blossom Festival <\/a>opened this weekend in DC\u00a0and the blossoms are blooming everywhere.\u00a0 This event is so timely as our hearts go out to the people of Japan.\u00a0 I hope we are able to attend while the blooms are still out.<\/p>\n<p>A very special friend is having a birthday this week (please say <a href=\"http:\/\/lorianderson.blogspot.com\/\">Happy Birthday to Lori <\/a>on Tuesday!), and we were able to meet\u00a0for an early celebration when she was in town for a big show.\u00a0 I\u00a0admired Lori&#8217;s\u00a0new pink &#8216;do in person, and let me tell you her smile\u00a0was just as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">vibrant<\/span>!\u00a0 We caught up about everything from the usual bead talk, to family, and dreams for the future.\u00a0 And of course there was something yummy for dessert.\u00a0 Lori finally had her pie and it came with a great big birthday sparkler.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5736\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=5736\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5736  aligncenter\" title=\"birthday-dinner-with-lori_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birthday-dinner-with-lori_2.jpg\" alt=\"birthday-dinner-with-lori_2\" width=\"515\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birthday-dinner-with-lori_2.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birthday-dinner-with-lori_2-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/birthday-dinner-with-lori_2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back at home I was in the mood to create something simple to wear with a new pink top.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve touched a crimp in over a year so it felt rather invigorating to make something strung with<em> no<\/em> wirework involved at all.\u00a0 I used a chandelier crystal and a vintage floral earring using <a href=\"http:\/\/rosa-josies.blogspot.com\/\">Diane Cook&#8217;s \u00a0<\/a>Princess Crystal Drop technique.\u00a0 With a random mix of Swarovski crystals, rose quartz, pearls and Czech glass, I put together a simple &amp; sweet Spring necklace.\u00a0 If you&#8217;d like one of your own, drop me an email as I believe I do have all of the components to make\u00a0a another necklace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5738\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=5738\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5738  aligncenter\" title=\"pink-pretty-please_final\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pink-pretty-please_final.jpg\" alt=\"pink-pretty-please_final\" width=\"515\" height=\"774\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pink-pretty-please_final.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pink-pretty-please_final-150x225.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pink-pretty-please_final-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/pink-pretty-please_final-449x675.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you for your visit today.\u00a0 As always I appreciate hearing from you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5739\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?attachment_id=5739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5739\" title=\"siggie8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/siggie8.png\" alt=\"siggie8\" width=\"138\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I {heart} pink these days.\u00a0 When I think of Spring, pink certainly comes to mind.\u00a0 The National Cherry Blossom Festival opened this weekend in DC\u00a0and the blossoms are blooming everywhere.\u00a0 This event is so timely as our hearts go out to the people of Japan.\u00a0 I hope we are able to attend while the blooms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18,6,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-love","category-indie-artists","category-inspiration","category-jewelry-design","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","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=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}