{"id":27643,"date":"2014-10-27T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=27643"},"modified":"2014-10-27T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:10:54","slug":"honorable-mention-in-the-agta-spectrum-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/honorable-mention-in-the-agta-spectrum-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorable Mention in the AGTA Spectrum Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thrilled to say my newest Maneater ring &#8212; the Pink Elephant and Tipsy Writer &#8212; has received <a href=\"http:\/\/agta.org\/pressroom\/20141027-2015SpectrumWinners.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">honorable mention in the American Gem Trade Association Spectrum Awards<\/a>. The awards recognize fine-jewelry designers whose work uses natural colored gemstones and cultured pearls.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t revealed the finished ring on my social media yet. First, it will appear at an editor&#8217;s event being held by AGTA today. Then I will be showing it and the rest of the Maneater collection to press and retailers at my own event at the Plaza Hotel this week. My right-hand woman Eryn is coordinating everyone&#8217;s appointments, so if you&#8217;re a member of the press or a buyer and you have received an invitation but haven&#8217;t confirmed a time, please get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/contact.php\" target=\"_blank\">in touch with her<\/a> ASAP because we can&#8217;t accept any walk-ins. (If, for some reason, you haven&#8217;t been invited and you should have been, please contact Eryn too!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m holding my event in partnership with fellow jewelry designer Bella Campbell, so you industry types will get to see two collections in one visit. Today, Bella received AGTA&#8217;s honorable mention in the Spectrum Awards bridal category,<\/p>\n<p>As for all my blog readers, you&#8217;ll get to see the official photos of the elephant ring SOON, as FitzRoy the cat might say.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27644\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/creepercat.jpg\" alt=\"creepercat\" width=\"498\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/creepercat.jpg 609w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/creepercat-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/creepercat-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thrilled to say my newest Maneater ring &#8212; the Pink Elephant and Tipsy Writer &#8212; has received honorable mention in the American Gem Trade Association Spectrum Awards. The awards recognize fine-jewelry designers whose work uses natural colored gemstones and cultured pearls. I haven&#8217;t revealed the finished ring on my social media yet. First, it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/honorable-mention-in-the-agta-spectrum-awards\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27644,"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":[231,77],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-awards","8":"category-cats","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27643","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=27643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27646,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27643\/revisions\/27646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}