{"id":25,"date":"2008-10-20T15:44:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmwjewelry.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-10-20T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T20:44:55","slug":"flowers-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jmwjewelry\/2008\/10\/20\/flowers-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers & Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was my first weekday after my last day at my job, and I think I took full advantage of it! I did a lot of work in the studio today. I’m very excited, too, because I made one piece that I now plan to make into a whole new series! If you’ve seen my marriage-of-metals pieces<\/a>, you know that I really do love that technique. Well, I want to start doing it again, and incorporating it into my shop. I had made a brooch for my mother a while back with irises depicted in it with the marriage-of-metals technique, and I took the pattern from that piece and pulled out just one of the irises and made it into a pendant! I used sterling silver, brass, and copper.<\/p>\n

This technique is SO hard to photograph, but I think I got some good ones despite that!<\/p>\n

I made it so that the chain goes through a loop in the back, rather than drill a hole through the design itself, and I’m so glad that I did! I want to design a bunch of these with different flowers.<\/p>\n

I also took some more pictures of the Anniversary Date necklace so that I could get it listed on Etsy (it should be up in the next day or two!)<\/p>\n

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