{"id":1218,"date":"2012-03-13T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2012-03-12T11:44:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T18:44:25","slug":"march-earrings-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/march-earrings-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"March Earrings Week #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to <em>March Earrings Week<\/em>!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#39;m displaying a pair of turquoise earrings on which I used a sort of new technique&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSC04283.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1203\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSC04283.jpg\" title=\"DSC04283\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSC04283.jpg 600w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSC04283-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSC04283-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These turquoise (actually dyed howlite) beads are available at Michael&#39;s. I got them on sale for $4 for a strand of four beads &#8211; Michael&#39;s has been having a lot of 40%\/50% off sales lately. They have holes in the top and bottom presumably so you can string them all the way through. Instead of stringing the beads all the way through, I wanted the cut-out part to be free of any other attachments so I only strung a round headpin through the top part to create a dangle. These simple earrings are pretty lightweight (considering how big the stone is) and fun to wear!<\/p>\n<p><em>Next time: hearts!<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/march-earrings-week-2\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to March Earrings Week!&nbsp; Today I&#39;m displaying a pair of turquoise earrings on which I used a sort of new technique&#8230; These turquoise (actually dyed howlite) beads are available at Michael&#39;s. I got them on sale for $4 for a strand of four beads &#8211; Michael&#39;s has been having a lot of 40%\/50% &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/march-earrings-week-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;March Earrings Week #2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,303,285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-earrings-week","category-jewelry-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}