{"id":227,"date":"2009-04-12T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.alonestarjewelry.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-04-12T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T19:21:00","slug":"hanging-in-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Hanging in There"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>‘Lo. I am trying to stay in the loop, but as happens in life, priorities must shift periodically. My husband’s new business over the past few months has been eating most of my time, and my elderly mother and 10-year-old boy demand the rest. I need a maid and some sleep, but this will pass. Finally pried myself away one recent afternoon to visit the bead shop down the road that is called Antiques, Beads & Crafty People (http:\/\/www.abcraftypeople.com\/<\/a>). My purchase was a couple of inexpensive magnesite and howlite stones for some practice with bezels. This one is magnesite, and larger at about 1.5″ in diameter. The back is partially covered with silver sheet. Typically the hole in a pendant-sized stone like this is utilized vertically, but I was forced to find another solution when I made a mistake and one part of the bezel ended up looking less perfect than I like. That section is now hidden on the bottom, so that is why the hole is oriented horizontally now. I like the solution, but sometimes it flips and shows the back, so the next one I make will ensure the front is always visible. The clasp is magnetic.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Lo. I am trying to stay in the loop, but as happens in life, priorities must shift periodically. My husband’s new business over the past few months has been eating most of my time, and my elderly mother and 10-year-old boy demand the rest. I need a maid and some sleep, but this will pass. Finally pried myself away one recent afternoon to visit the bead shop down the road that is called Antiques, Beads & Crafty People (http:\/\/www.abcraftypeople.com\/). My purchase was a couple of inexpensive magnesite and howlite stones for some practice with bezels. This one is magnesite, and larger at about 1.5″ in diameter. The back is partially covered with silver sheet. Typically the hole in a pendant-sized stone like this is utilized vertically, but I was forced to find another solution when I made a mistake and one part of the bezel ended up looking less perfect than I like. That section is now hidden on the bottom, so that is why the hole is oriented horizontally now. I like the solution, but sometimes it flips and shows the back, so the next one I make will ensure the front is always visible. The clasp is magnetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewelry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}