{"id":400,"date":"2011-08-08T01:12:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T05:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/?p=400"},"modified":"2011-08-08T01:13:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T05:13:18","slug":"400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/2011\/08\/08\/400\/","title":{"rendered":"Advancing My Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: black\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\">The shop continues, Debora is doing the bead work, she keeps very busy and her work is fantastic.&nbsp; She labors over each bracelet, anklet, pair of earrings and necklace.&nbsp; She has great ability to create and design this work.&nbsp; She loves creating pieces that have a great combination of colors.&nbsp; While she continues her work, I have been able to concentrate on my lapidary and metalsmithing pursuits.&nbsp; Over the years, I have acquired multiple sets of split rings, so I did a little chain work, and copper smithing to make a necklace that is at least not only beautiful, but unique.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=DF.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"JAR August\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_DF.jpg\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=Bracelet.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Geology Bracelet\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_Bracelet.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the necklace, I have been able to complete a commissioned piece for a geologist.&nbsp; He wanted a bracelet (17 cm in length) made with Sterling Silver, that shows a cross bedded fluvial environment.&nbsp; This is the background for the bracelet. The foreground is a river that is meandering.&nbsp; The 10 gauge round wire shows the river, and also is the wave uncomformity in the cross-section.&nbsp; In the slow inner portion of the meanders, rough diamonds were placed.&nbsp; These were set with prongs and a ledge cut into the round wire.&nbsp; Each of the rock strata were physically patterned, then patinated with Liver of Sulfur to create colors for different sections.&nbsp; See thumbnail above.&nbsp; Click on the thumbnails to see a full sized image.<\/p>\n<p>Final item for this edition of my blog is a combination project.&nbsp; While in Helen, GA, Debora and I went to a fee mine and bought several geodes.&nbsp; I cut them into slices, them strung them from a crescent of brass to make a wind chime.&nbsp; Also did a little polishing.&nbsp; Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=GeodeWindChime82011.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_GeodeWindChime82011.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shop continues, Debora is doing the bead work, she keeps very busy and her work is fantastic.&nbsp; She labors over each bracelet, anklet, pair of earrings and necklace.&nbsp; She has great ability to create and design this work.&nbsp; She loves creating pieces that have a great combination of colors.&nbsp; While she continues her work, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,7,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}