{"id":15,"date":"2015-01-10T23:58:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T04:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2016-03-07T11:59:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:59:25","slug":"project-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Project #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I decided on my first project: take one or more pieces of jewelry from the thrift store and make it into something new. I went to Last Chance Thrift Store and spent some time looking through their jewelry cases. I looked at several different pieces before settling on a black wire-spring beaded bracelet and a gold seahorse pin with pink crystals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/seahorse_before.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/seahorse_before-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"seahorse_before\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/seahorse_before-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/seahorse_before-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/seahorse_before.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love seahorses, but this pin was something that I&#8217;d never, ever wear. There was a really pretty butterfly in blue, pink, and purple that I could have just clipped on the bracelet, but the point was to actually change a piece, not just put two pieces together, so I went with the seahorse.<\/p>\n<p>I started with a metallic silver coat of enamel. It came out much brighter than I expected and I thought it would look a bit odd like that, so once it dried, I painted over it with black while letting some of the silver show through. I then topped off some areas with glitter, like the back fins and the tip of the nose. I had to scrape some of the paint off the pink crystals because it was too hard to paint around them, so I painted right over the top. Once dry, I put the beaded bracelet on and then clipped the seahorse on top. I think it came out great for a first project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/seahorse_after.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/seahorse_after-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"seahorse_after\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/seahorse_after-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/seahorse_after-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/seahorse_after.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I decided on my first project: take one or more pieces of jewelry from the thrift store and make it into something new. I went to Last Chance Thrift Store and spent some time looking through their jewelry cases. I looked at several different pieces before settling on a black wire-spring beaded bracelet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.makerofbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}