{"id":413,"date":"2011-11-02T20:34:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T00:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/?p=413"},"modified":"2011-11-02T20:34:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T00:34:05","slug":"november-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/2011\/11\/02\/november-items\/","title":{"rendered":"November Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#006400\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"Verdana\">Actually the end of October for the making of these two necklaces.&nbsp; The first was a small piece of opal and matrix rough.&nbsp; As can be seen the opal is the bottom edge and is a gray-blue color.&nbsp; The gray matrix is obvious in this free form cabochon.&nbsp; I cut the cabochon two weeks ago, then drilled a 2 mm hole at the apex of the triangular shape and attached the bail.&nbsp; The chain is a base metal with silver coloring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=JH.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_JH.jpg\" alt=\"Photobucket\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>If you click on the thumbnail, you can see a large image of the piece.&nbsp; The next is made from 18 gauge round copper wire.&nbsp; I bought a 50 foot coil of dead soft wire (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abeadedaffair.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.abeadedaffair.com<\/a>) then coiled the wire with the assistance of Debbie into 6 mm jump rings.&nbsp; The entire chain was handcrafted.&nbsp; The resulting Byzantine pattern necklace is 22 inches long.&nbsp; As you all know, no one could afford to purchase this necklace if the actual hours used to craft the chain were used to price the necklace.&nbsp; I took at least 10 hours to put the chain together.<br \/>&lt;!&#8212;-&gt;<a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=JG.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_JG.jpg\" alt=\"Photobucket\" border=\"0\"><\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Everyone have a happy Turkey Day later this month.&nbsp; I have two birthdays to take care of.&nbsp; Thanks to Maria Jenny for one gift (teal pearl bracelet) and the other is a dark yellow topaz \/ gold necklace.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>John<br \/><a target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually the end of October for the making of these two necklaces.&nbsp; The first was a small piece of opal and matrix rough.&nbsp; As can be seen the opal is the bottom edge and is a gray-blue color.&nbsp; The gray matrix is obvious in this free form cabochon.&nbsp; I cut the cabochon two weeks ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}