{"id":22992,"date":"2013-10-29T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=22992"},"modified":"2014-01-13T23:31:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T04:31:51","slug":"an-easy-redesign-pendant-to-single-earring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/an-easy-redesign-pendant-to-single-earring\/","title":{"rendered":"An Easy Redesign: Pendant to Single Earring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/redesigns\/\" target=\"_blank\">redesigning<\/a> old jewelry. If it&#8217;s not being worn as is, why not figure out a way to use it again? That&#8217;s what I did for myself recently, though, to be fair, it is more a repurposing than a redesign because the change was so simple. I had a black-and-white diamond pendant left over from the inventory of my first jewelry company &#8212; the one I had with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/career-money\/jobs\/secrets-and-lies-business-partner-betrayal\" target=\"_blank\">late business partner<\/a>. The pendant isn&#8217;t like anything I design now, so it was languishing in a safe. I am, however, very enthused for <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/try-wearing-just-one-earring-made-by-wendy-brandes\/\" target=\"_blank\">single earrings of all styles<\/a> and it suddenly occurred to me that this pendant would make a great single earring.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a close-up of the piece, post-conversion. The orange blur in the background is <a href=\"http:\/\/fitzroythecat.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FitzRoy the cat<\/a> photobombing me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22993\" alt=\"earringcloseupblack\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/earringcloseupblack.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/earringcloseupblack.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/earringcloseupblack-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it looks on. I like to wear it next to a small black diamond hoop that I made this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22994\" alt=\"earring\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/earring.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/earring.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/earring-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve worn the new-old earring nearly every day since converting it. That&#8217;s after not wearing the pendant for eight years. It&#8217;s never too late to make something great! In fact, I found another pendant from that time in my jewelry career, and I&#8217;m converting that one too. It&#8217;s onyx and white gold, and I think it will complement the diamond earring nicely. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy redesigning old jewelry. If it&#8217;s not being worn as is, why not figure out a way to use it again? That&#8217;s what I did for myself recently, though, to be fair, it is more a repurposing than a redesign because the change was so simple. I had a black-and-white diamond pendant left over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/an-easy-redesign-pendant-to-single-earring\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22993,"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":[60,41,578,643],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earrings","8":"category-pictures-of-me","9":"category-redesigns","10":"category-single-earrings","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22992","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=22992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22996,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22992\/revisions\/22996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}