{"id":20987,"date":"2013-06-07T00:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T04:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=20987"},"modified":"2013-06-07T22:21:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T02:21:20","slug":"thanks-for-the-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/thanks-for-the-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for the Love!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got to thank a bunch of people for sending love my way lately. First, thanks to gorgeous client Beverly for alerting me to an item on my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/jewels-of-the-month-more-emoji-and-emoji-stud-earrings\/\" target=\"_blank\">emoji earrings<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Sun<\/a>. She even scanned it for me. How thoughtful!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21007\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vancouver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21007\" class=\" wp-image-21007\" alt=\"vancouver\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vancouver.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vancouver.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/vancouver-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The item originated only with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekit.ca\/fashion\/accessories\/express-yourself-with-wendy-brandes-jewellery\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Kit<\/a>, which wrote about my swear rings, IDGAF necklace and emoji earrings in May. The Kit is a division of Toronto Star Newspapers, and some of its content ends up in inserts in the print versions of various Canadian newspapers. I&#8217;ve always had a lot of Canadian customers and I&#8217;m excited to get some more due to this piece. Note to Canadians: Feel free to email me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com to discuss shipping options.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also honored that Jonathan&#8217;s Fine Jewelers in Houston included me on its list of <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathansfinejewelers.com\/2013\/05\/30\/best-jewelry-blogs\/#axzz2UhcJI9tF\" target=\"_blank\">five best jewelry blogs<\/a>. Thanks, Jonathan&#8217;s!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve popped up in the photos that Brittany Siminitz, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JCKmarketplace\" target=\"_blank\">JCK Marketplace Manager<\/a>, blogged from the JCK Las Vegas jewelry trade show. Check out her post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jckonline.com\/blogs\/on-your-market\/2013\/06\/06\/real-gems-people-that-make-jewelry-sparkle\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Barbara Palumbo, another of the wimmins I hung out with in Vegas, wrote a blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveisforty.com\/2013\/06\/day-46-vegas-means-comedy-tragedy.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and you must see her abs in the bikini shot! I&#8217;ve been inspired to work out harder. <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/what-wendy-wore-jck-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\">I did my own post on JCK on Monday with pictures of all the ladies.<\/a> I don&#8217;t have any bikini photos, but I do have a body builder and a shark!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: JCK attendee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pricescope.com\/author\/erika_w\" target=\"_blank\">Erika Winters of PriceScope<\/a> &#8212; who bought my IDGAF necklace right off my neck while we waited to hear Maroon 5 &#8212; sent me an amazing photo of the piece.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21013\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.erikawinters.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21013\" class=\" wp-image-21013 \" alt=\"idgafresize\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/idgafresize.jpg\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/idgafresize.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/idgafresize-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Erika Winters. Click to go to her jewelry blog and see more examples of her great photography.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wow, right?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED AGAIN TO ADD: Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erikawinters.com\/jewelry-blog\/vegasgems-stealth-trending-at-jck-and-couture-2013\" target=\"_blank\">Erika&#8217;s post on our JCK shenanigans<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/idazzle.com\/2013\/06\/06\/las-vegas-jewelry-shows-the-people-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">here is a post from Monica of iDazzle<\/a>. I love the way she used one of my favorite words: &#8220;highlarious.&#8221; <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got to thank a bunch of people for sending love my way lately. First, thanks to gorgeous client Beverly for alerting me to an item on my emoji earrings in the Vancouver Sun. She even scanned it for me. How thoughtful! The item originated only with The Kit, which wrote about my swear rings,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/thanks-for-the-love\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[608,8,83,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-emoji","8":"category-gorgeous-clients","9":"category-gorgeous-friends","10":"category-press","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20987"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21017,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20987\/revisions\/21017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}