{"id":249,"date":"2007-03-31T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.alonestarjewelry.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2007-03-31T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T21:13:00","slug":"coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Coming soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_g8iZm7fk5C0\/Rg7PfU77wwI\/AAAAAAAAAGM\/YI0OrxOxjyI\/s1600-h\/Texas%2BBling%2Bearrings.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048200369431888642\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_g8iZm7fk5C0\/Rg7PfU77wwI\/AAAAAAAAAGM\/YI0OrxOxjyI\/s320\/Texas%2BBling%2Bearrings.jpg?w=960\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Whoa, blew past my birthday on the 23rd and still didn&#8217;t get a post up. Things are going on in the personal life&#8211;kid stuff, relative stuff, work stuff&#8211;as usual. But I am here today because a couple of new items stand to be posted soon&#8211;the recent earrings for which I uploaded a drawing, and a new bracelet about which I had no time to post information.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Above are the promised new Texas earrings, which we lovingly call &#8220;Texas Bling Earrings&#8221; thanks to my clever husband Matt, always full of good ideas. They are a whopping 1.38 inches in width, and for me that is big, but they <em>glorious<\/em> in this size. You will have to excuse me, but I reserve the right to brag when I am in the blog. And at shows. But I do personally love these earrings. They are fun to wear&#8211;not too heavy at all despite the size&#8211;and flashy. But even while having the &#8220;bling&#8221; factor, they are very pretty because of the texture contrast. I used a small grinding bit, and lightly sanded the entire outside area, then polished to a high shine the state of Texas&#8211;<em>as promised<\/em>!! The result is smashing, in my opinion. The blue topaz are very pretty&#8211;you can see the star that&#8217;s cut into them, but not too easily since the stone is small at 3mm. But anything bigger did not appeal to me for some reason. I may change that, because a larger bezel would be easier to work with at least. <em>Bling, bling, bling! <\/em><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><em><\/em><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><em><span style=\"color:#990000;\"><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the picture will look good on the site. Despite the fact that we have a nice photography setup (we have an EZ Cube and accoutrements), silver is not easy to photograph when it hasn&#8217;t been oxidized or has large areas of smooth and\/or polished texture.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa, blew past my birthday on the 23rd and still didn&#8217;t get a post up. Things are going on in the personal life&#8211;kid stuff, relative stuff, work stuff&#8211;as usual. But I am here today because a couple of new items stand to be posted soon&#8211;the recent earrings for which I uploaded a drawing, and a new bracelet about which I had no time to post information. Above are the promised new Texas earrings, which we lovingly call &#8220;Texas Bling Earrings&#8221; thanks to my clever husband Matt, always full of good ideas. They are a whopping 1.38 inches in width, and for me that is big, but they glorious in this size. You will have to excuse me, but I reserve the right to brag when I am in the blog. And at shows. But I do personally love these earrings. They are fun to wear&#8211;not too heavy at all despite the size&#8211;and flashy. But even while having the &#8220;bling&#8221; factor, they are very pretty because of the texture contrast. I used a small grinding bit, and lightly sanded the entire outside area, then polished to a high shine the state of Texas&#8211;as promised!! The result is smashing, in my opinion. The blue topaz are very pretty&#8211;you can see the star that&#8217;s cut into them, but not too easily since the stone is small at 3mm. But anything bigger did not appeal to me for some reason. I may change that, because a larger bezel would be easier to work with at least. Bling, bling, bling! Hopefully the picture will look good on the site. Despite the fact that we have a nice photography setup (we have an EZ Cube and accoutrements), silver is not easy to photograph when it hasn&#8217;t been oxidized or has large areas of smooth and\/or polished texture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","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\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}