{"id":14,"date":"2009-02-19T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T15:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tschetterstudio.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=11"},"modified":"2009-02-19T10:46:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T15:46:49","slug":"2009-off-to-a-great-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tschetterstudio\/2009\/02\/19\/2009-off-to-a-great-start\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 Off to a Great Start!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from Phillie and the Buyer&#8217;s Market of American Craft.\u00a0 I picked up 2 new galleries which was my goal for the show.\u00a0 Buyers were there\u00a0but buying conservatively which is understandable.\u00a0 Savvy buyers are anticipating an upswing in consumer purchasing within the next 6-12 months.\u00a0 They will have the inventory on hand while those who hesitated will be left scrambling for new work to entice consumers.\u00a0 Wendy Rosen, president of the Rosen Group which owns and operates the Buyer&#8217;s Market and publishes <em>Niche <\/em>and <em>American Style <\/em>magazines purchased a one-of-a-kind brooch from me entitiled &#8220;Something Old, Something New II&#8221;.\u00a0 The brooch is 18kt\u00a0yellow gold with a pink cobalto calcite drusy, rainbow pyrite drusy, sea-foam green tourmaline, sugalite, and an Idaho river rock with 3 flush-set champagne diamonds.\u00a0 The stones are separated by 5mm, 22kt gold granulated domes and punctuated by 2 more champagne diamonds on each end.\u00a0 It is an honor\u00a0that Wendy purchased one of my brooches!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alan Revere, president of The American Jewelry Design Counsel informed me yesterday that I am an Honorable Mention for this year&#8217;s New Talent Competition.\u00a0 The AJDC will honor the winners at the JA show in New York this July.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping to exhibit there this summer in the New Designer Gallery.\u00a0 Wahoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from Phillie and the Buyer&#8217;s Market of American Craft.\u00a0 I picked up 2 new galleries which was my goal for the show.\u00a0 Buyers were there\u00a0but buying conservatively which is understandable.\u00a0 Savvy buyers are anticipating an upswing in consumer purchasing within the next 6-12 months.\u00a0 They will have the inventory on hand while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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\/tschetterstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tschetterstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tschetterstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tschetterstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tschetterstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tschetterstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tschetterstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tschetterstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/tschetterstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}