{"id":20,"date":"2009-01-25T10:16:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T15:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valerieaheck.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=3"},"modified":"2009-01-25T10:16:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T15:16:31","slug":"design-challenge-30-minute-earrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/2009\/01\/25\/design-challenge-30-minute-earrings\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Challenge: 30-Minute Earrings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I missed the deadline for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ulupuh.hr\/hr\/my_documents\/my_documents\/645\/30_Minute_Earrings_Proposal_Form.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">30-Minute Earrings<\/span><\/a> book but I thought I&#8217;d share my sketches, design and directions with you. (Submissions are due tomorrow and I&#8217;ve never heard of today shipping.)<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_vQwjpChUGaU\/SXx1Uog_snI\/AAAAAAAAAWs\/aIh0P5rj_-I\/s1600-h\/1_25_09.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;width: 320px;height: 135px;text-align: center\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_vQwjpChUGaU\/SXx1Uog_snI\/AAAAAAAAAWs\/aIh0P5rj_-I\/s320\/1_25_09.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> These earrings are for someone with a stretched earlobe (specifically ear hole is stretched from wearing heavy earrings). The sketches above show the front (left) and the side (right). The earring is made of a silver disk and the post is soldered into the middle of the back.<\/p>\n<p>Supplies:<br \/>\n2 20-gauge earring posts and backs<br \/>\n2 silver discs 5\/8 inch diameter<br \/>\n4 20-gauge jump rings (small)<br \/>\n2 pieces of 24 or 26 gauge silver for balling and adding crystal<br \/>\n2 crystals or pearl beads<\/p>\n<p>Steps:<br \/>\n1) Drill a small hole in the silver discs close to the edge (make sure your jump rings can fit through)<br \/>\n2) Use a small punch stamp and hammer to put a dot design around the edge of your discs (pictured below)<br \/>\n3) Use doming block and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">slightly<\/span> dome discs for depth<br \/>\n4) Take 2 pieces of 24 or 26 gauge wire and use your torch to ball the ends<br \/>\n5) Sandpaper discs (220 grit) for more artistic texture as shown below<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_vQwjpChUGaU\/SXx1KMMZwGI\/AAAAAAAAAWk\/SLJNZ4CJOBo\/s1600-h\/detail.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;width: 184px;height: 150px;text-align: center\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_vQwjpChUGaU\/SXx1KMMZwGI\/AAAAAAAAAWk\/SLJNZ4CJOBo\/s320\/detail.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>6) Solder ear posts on center back of domed discs<br \/>\n7) Add a jump ring through the hold in disc and attach a second jump ring to that (at this step I through them in my tumble vibe to polish for maybe 10 min, before you add the crystal)<br \/>\n8) Use 24 or 26 <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\">gauge<\/span> balled wire and add bead then wire wrap to second jump ring<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_vQwjpChUGaU\/SXx0713txOI\/AAAAAAAAAWc\/cLjz65A6Dac\/s1600-h\/DSC02694.JPG\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;width: 320px;height: 233px;text-align: center\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_vQwjpChUGaU\/SXx0713txOI\/AAAAAAAAAWc\/cLjz65A6Dac\/s320\/DSC02694.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Here are your finished earrings!<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_vQwjpChUGaU\/SXx02dsWtHI\/AAAAAAAAAWU\/f-qsRqMZoBI\/s1600-h\/DSC02697.JPG\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;width: 320px;height: 224px;text-align: center\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_vQwjpChUGaU\/SXx02dsWtHI\/AAAAAAAAAWU\/f-qsRqMZoBI\/s320\/DSC02697.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For a slighting easier project skip the dot texture around the edge of the earrings like the ones pictured above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I missed the deadline for the 30-Minute Earrings book but I thought I&#8217;d share my sketches, design and directions with you. (Submissions are due tomorrow and I&#8217;ve never heard of today shipping.) These earrings are for someone with a stretched earlobe (specifically ear hole is stretched from wearing heavy earrings). The sketches above show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/valerieaheck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}