{"id":233,"date":"2008-04-30T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.alonestarjewelry.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2008-04-30T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T01:46:00","slug":"april-30-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"April 30, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I finished another pair of earrings tonight. The inspiration came from a drawing in the sketchbook made a while back when I was looking through some African artifacts on the internet. Drawings have to incubate sometimes. I think the thing was actually a rattle, but the copper disks on these earrings just simulate the round rattle. The sticks are made of PMC3, and the rest is sterling wire. I scratched some lines in the copper but they disappeared when I patina-ed the metal; the next pair I might try to etch the lines using beeswax. I don’t know if the area will be too small to effectively perform this technique, but experimentation will tell. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished another pair of earrings tonight. The inspiration came from a drawing in the sketchbook made a while back when I was looking through some African artifacts on the internet. Drawings have to incubate sometimes. I think the thing was actually a rattle, but the copper disks on these earrings just simulate the round rattle. The sticks are made of PMC3, and the rest is sterling wire. I scratched some lines in the copper but they disappeared when I patina-ed the metal; the next pair I might try to etch the lines using beeswax. I don’t know if the area will be too small to effectively perform this technique, but experimentation will tell.<\/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-233","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\/233","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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}