{"id":25,"date":"2008-03-18T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherskowoodjewelry.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2008\/03\/18\/commissioned-jewelry-for-indrayani-ghangrekar\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T18:42:00","slug":"commissioned-jewelry-for-indrayani-ghangrekar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/2008\/03\/18\/commissioned-jewelry-for-indrayani-ghangrekar\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioned Jewelry &#8211; for Indrayani Ghangrekar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9epDco86QeY\/R-AOTcvF_MI\/AAAAAAAAANo\/v6oktQqJiIY\/s1600-h\/Inda2007.JPG\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9epDco86QeY\/R-AOTcvF_MI\/AAAAAAAAANo\/v6oktQqJiIY\/s200\/Inda2007.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9epDco86QeY\/R-AOTsvF_NI\/AAAAAAAAANw\/ZMdmq5_OHOU\/s1600-h\/Inda+2007+back.JPG\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_9epDco86QeY\/R-AOTsvF_NI\/AAAAAAAAANw\/ZMdmq5_OHOU\/s200\/Inda+2007+back.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">You may have noticed that it isn&#8217;t very often that I use stones in my work. The reason being is that I am obsessed with metal and how I can use it to build forms with it rather than using metal as a just a platform to showcase a stone.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial\"> Nonetheless I cannot deny the allure of shiney things and particularly stones that are VERY unusual so occasionally I do use them. <\/p>\n<p>A Connecticut jeweler friend of mine who uses a lot of stones in her jewelry designs introduced me to her stone dealer last year and it was then I began to really understand her obsession with stones and reconsider them myself. Her dealer is Joe Jelks of Horizon Mineral in Lewes, Delaware. Joe is a kind and very chilled out guy who hand cuts his own stones from minerals he sources from all over the world. I have to say I walked away with quite a few of his stones and set out to do a few pieces with them as a challenge to how I usually design.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">The first of these challenges was this necklace that I made for my friend Indrayani in the UK that features one of Joe&#8217;s hand-cut Ocean Jaspers. I chose this stone for Inda because she studies neuroscience and I thought the pattern in this Jasper was very cellular looking. Since the stone&#8217;s pattern is not just on the surface and can also be seen from the back I decided to pierce the metal out in the back to reveal its pattern there too. I also added the extra metal pieces on the top and bottom to continue the pattern and imply that it was growing out if its frame.<\/p>\n<p>The next few entries that I post will be on this series of pendants with stones, I hope you will let me know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>H.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that it isn&#8217;t very often that I use stones in my work. The reason being is that I am obsessed with metal and how I can use it to build forms with it rather than using metal as a just a platform to showcase a stone. Nonetheless I cannot deny the [&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\/25"}],"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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}