{"id":21634,"date":"2013-07-23T13:51:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=21634"},"modified":"2013-07-23T13:51:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:51:34","slug":"lion-jewelry-for-luxury-loving-leos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/lion-jewelry-for-luxury-loving-leos\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion Jewelry for Luxury-Loving Leos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Leo period of the astrological calendar begins today. You really don&#8217;t have to be a Leo to wear my lion-themed jewelry &#8212; the pieces weren&#8217;t inspired by astrology &#8212; but if you ARE a Leo, they&#8217;re even more compelling, no?<\/p>\n<p>My Eleanor necklace was inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine\" target=\"_blank\">Eleanor of Aquitaine<\/a>, one of the most powerful women in Europe in the Middle Ages. It&#8217;s made with 18K yellow gold and onyx.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21635\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Eleanor-Necklace\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21635\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21635\" alt=\"LionPendant_Zoom__27458_std\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/LionPendant_Zoom__27458_std.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/LionPendant_Zoom__27458_std.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/LionPendant_Zoom__27458_std-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/LionPendant_Zoom__27458_std-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">$9,000. Click to purchase on my website.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Eleanor married England&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/book-club-empress-matilda-part-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\">Henry II<\/a>, the son of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/book-club-empress-matilda-part-i\/\" target=\"_blank\">jewelry-inspiring Empress Matilda<\/a>, who was another enormously powerful woman. No one married for love in the 12th century, but I like to think it wasn&#8217;t <em>entirely<\/em> coincidental that the woman who was most politically advantageous for Henry to marry just so happened to be as tough as his mother.<\/p>\n<p>Then, of course, there is this month&#8217;s Jewel of the Month: my Lion and Hunter &#8220;Maneater&#8221; ring. Click the photo below for more photos of the finished ring, pictures of the ring in progress and information on the process and my Maneater collection.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21637\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/jewel-of-the-month-lion-and-hunter-maneater-ring\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21637\" class=\" wp-image-21637\" alt=\"lion2\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lion2.jpg\" width=\"463\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lion2.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lion2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lion2-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click me!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And, for fun, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/thornybush-more-fun-than-a-pool-full-of-monkeys\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to see a picture I took while on safari of a lion showing off his fabulous hair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Leo period of the astrological calendar begins today. You really don&#8217;t have to be a Leo to wear my lion-themed jewelry &#8212; the pieces weren&#8217;t inspired by astrology &#8212; but if you ARE a Leo, they&#8217;re even more compelling, no? My Eleanor necklace was inspired by Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the most powerful&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/lion-jewelry-for-luxury-loving-leos\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21635,"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":[140,43,13,37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-animals","8":"category-my-designs","9":"category-necklaces","10":"category-queens","11":"category-rings","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21634","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=21634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21640,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21634\/revisions\/21640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}