{"id":23,"date":"2008-03-16T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherskowoodjewelry.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2008\/03\/16\/commissioned-jewelry-for-samantha-mills\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T23:30:00","slug":"commissioned-jewelry-for-samantha-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/2008\/03\/16\/commissioned-jewelry-for-samantha-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioned Jewelry &#8211; for Samantha Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_9epDco86QeY\/R92visvF_II\/AAAAAAAAANI\/v-XQfHc82rM\/s1600-h\/Sam%27s+brooch.JPG\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_9epDco86QeY\/R92visvF_II\/AAAAAAAAANI\/v-XQfHc82rM\/s200\/Sam%27s+brooch.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:arial\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size:medium\">This brooch was created for yet another of my wonderful jeweler friends in Manchester, Samantha Mills. Sam is one of the few people I know who can rock a hat like nobody&#8217;s business! I&#8217;m always so jealous when I see her because I want to wear hats with cool brooches on them but can never really pull it off like Sam. Maybe I can convince her to send in a photo of herself so you can see what I mean.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:arial\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size:medium\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:arial\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size:medium\">This design is made of very thin sterling silver sheet so it will not be too heavy on her hat but is reinforced with the I-beam-like reinforcement on the curves to make the brooch ridged and strong. I really love incorporating architectural elements like that into my designs. The sweeping curves of this design remind very much of Sam&#8217;s flexible and free spirited approach to everything she does. You can see some of her work at the<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/myweb.tiscali.co.uk\/manchesterjewellers\/sammills.htm\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size:medium\"> Manchester Jewellers Network site<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size:medium\">. I happen to own one of her lovely &#8216;jack&#8217; necklaces as well as one of her amazing necklaces made out of sewing bobbins! Sam&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalmetalsmiths.org\/CGE\/BK_Mills_1.htm\">bobbin necklace<\/a> is featured in the Ethical Metalsmith&#8217;s online exhibition, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalmetalsmiths.org\/CGE_Index3.html\">Composting Good and Evil<\/a>&#8220;.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:arial\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size:medium\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family:arial\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size:medium\">H.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brooch was created for yet another of my wonderful jeweler friends in Manchester, Samantha Mills. Sam is one of the few people I know who can rock a hat like nobody&#8217;s business! I&#8217;m always so jealous when I see her because I want to wear hats with cool brooches on them but can never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}