{"id":32288,"date":"2016-03-28T11:54:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=32288"},"modified":"2016-08-24T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T20:12:23","slug":"slay-like-beyonce-with-my-new-slay-studs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/slay-like-beyonce-with-my-new-slay-studs\/","title":{"rendered":"Slay Like Beyonc\u00e9 With My New SLAY Studs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you follow me on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wendybrandesjewelry\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>? If not, you should, because that&#8217;s where you might get a chance to pre-order my newest designs or get an early shot at a sale.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BCL2TEvDZcr\/?taken-by=wendybrandesjewelry&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">I gave a sneak peek of my new SLAY stud earrings on IG last month<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32290\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Word-Earrings-%252d-SLAY-Studs-%252d-Silver\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32290\" class=\"wp-image-32290\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearrings-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"slayearrings\" width=\"498\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearrings-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearrings-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearrings-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearrings.jpg 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SLAY earrings in sterling silver. $100 for the pair. Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; and the first order has already gone out.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32289\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Word-Earrings-%252d-SLAY-Studs-%252d-Silver\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32289\" class=\"wp-image-32289 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearringorder.jpg\" alt=\"slayearringorder\" width=\"484\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearringorder.jpg 484w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearringorder-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearringorder-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ready for shipping!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The next SLAY studs will be made to order, so please allow two weeks for delivery. You can order the pair or just one earring, because you know <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/all-the-single-earrings-all-the-single-earrings\/\" target=\"_blank\">I love those single earrings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had been meaning to add SLAY to my collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Letter-Necklace-%252d-Small%2C-Silver%2C-TWERK\" target=\"_blank\">word<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/search.php?search_query=letter&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\" target=\"_blank\"> letter<\/a> jewelry for ages, but I had a grand vision of a big, complicated, difficult piece. Then, in February, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/valentines-dayanti-valentines-day-countdown-6-of-14\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonc\u00e9 blew me away with her video for the song &#8220;Formation,&#8221;<\/a> with its repeated &#8220;I slay&#8221; lyrics.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32291\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/valentines-dayanti-valentines-day-countdown-6-of-14\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32291\" class=\"wp-image-32291\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/beyonce.jpg\" alt=\"beyonce\" width=\"498\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/beyonce.jpg 583w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/beyonce-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for my original post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After that, I wanted to have my SLAY piece done yesterday, but that wasn&#8217;t going to happen with the design I had in mind. That&#8217;s when I recalled the wise words of Frank the Pug in <em>Men in Black<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;You humans. When are you gonna learn that size doesn&#8217;t matter? Just &#8217;cause something&#8217;s important, doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not very, very small.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_32292\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32292\" class=\"wp-image-32292\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MEN_IN_BLACK-8.jpg\" alt=\"MEN_IN_BLACK-8\" width=\"498\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MEN_IN_BLACK-8.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/MEN_IN_BLACK-8-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy Lee Jones interrogates Frank the Pug in &#8220;Men in Black.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had also had word studs on my to-do list for a long time. All I had to do was change my SLAY design to stud earrings, and I&#8217;d accomplish two goals at once. So that&#8217;s what I did. Thanks to Beyonc\u00e9 and Frank the Pug for the inspiration.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32293\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Word-Earrings-%252d-SLAY-Studs-%252d-Silver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32293\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32293\" class=\"wp-image-32293\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearrings2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Click to purchase.\" width=\"498\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearrings2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearrings2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearrings2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/slayearrings2.jpg 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Keep an eye on my Instagram for previews of the SLAY ring and necklace &#8212; neither of which is the big design I originally planned! I&#8217;m going to get back to that concept ASAP.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you follow me on Instagram? If not, you should, because that&#8217;s where you might get a chance to pre-order my newest designs or get an early shot at a sale. For instance, I gave a sneak peek of my new SLAY stud earrings on IG last month &#8230; &#8230; and the first order has&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/slay-like-beyonce-with-my-new-slay-studs\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32289,"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":[60,86,42,43,644],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earrings","8":"category-movies","9":"category-music","10":"category-my-designs","11":"category-stud-earrings","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32288","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=32288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33889,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32288\/revisions\/33889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}