{"id":596,"date":"2009-01-30T18:57:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T01:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-01-30T18:57:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T01:57:18","slug":"where-wirework-takes-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Where wirework takes me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that does sound like a silly title.\u00a0 But today I met an online-turned-in-person friend at Starbucks for some tea\/cocoa.\u00a0 This jewelry making habit has led me to some interesting people over the last couple of years, and to some wonderful friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Take Jeanette, we began corresponding over the summer after she sent me a kind email out of the blue to congratulate me over my recent magazine tutorial publication.\u00a0 Very nice for a stranger to do.\u00a0 Soon after she was published in the same magazine and even made the cover.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve kept in touch via email and low and behold, we now live in the same city.\u00a0 What a coincidence.\u00a0 When you get to know someone online via beading forums and common blogs, you&#8217;d never guess you&#8217;d actually live close enough to meet.\u00a0 Today she showed me a beautiful new bracelet she created, just last night.\u00a0 It was so eye-catching that the fellow at the next table came over to ask if she had a business card and if she would create another one just for his wife (what a nice husband, eh?).\u00a0 She then pulled out her tools and some copper wire and we both tried to figure out a new wire link&#8230;not something I can do with just anyone.\u00a0\u00a0 Last but not least, she brought a bag full of goodies&#8230;some new tools that I had ordered from her metal and wire shop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fundametals.net\/\">Fundametals<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I have a new wire bracelet to show off as well.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t made a &#8220;Collector&#8217;s Club&#8221; bracelet in a while and it was fun to revisit one of my favorite designs.\u00a0 This heavy gauge wire bracelet features a collection of some classic links &#8211; the spring link, love knot, horse shoe and the caged bead.\u00a0 All favorites, all in one place!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/collectors-club-bracelet2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-598 aligncenter\" title=\"collectors-club-bracelet2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/collectors-club-bracelet2-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/collectors-club-bracelet1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-599 aligncenter\" title=\"collectors-club-bracelet1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/collectors-club-bracelet1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Have\u00a0a great weekend, and stay warm! &#8230;If you are reading this and living in CA, enjoy that sun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that does sound like a silly title.\u00a0 But today I met an online-turned-in-person friend at Starbucks for some tea\/cocoa.\u00a0 This jewelry making habit has led me to some interesting people over the last couple of years, and to some wonderful friends.\u00a0 Take Jeanette, we began corresponding over the summer after she sent me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-jewelry-design","category-life-and-times","category-new-in-the-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}