{"id":32425,"date":"2016-04-10T17:03:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=32425"},"modified":"2016-04-10T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T21:03:18","slug":"the-week-in-review-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-week-in-review-66\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, here&#8217;s what was on the blog this week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/im-a-jewelers-choice-award-finalist\/\" target=\"_blank\">My diamond ring won second place in its category at the JCK Jewelers&#8217; Choice Awards<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/five-questions-with-indesign-jewelry\/\" target=\"_blank\">I enjoyed doing this interview with InDesign<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/vintage-moschino-to-free-the-nipple\/\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s Instagram going to do if we all start wearing these vintage tops<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Thursday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/what-wendy-wore-ossie-clark-to-see-shakespeare\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wearing Ossie Clark to see Shakespeare<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Friday: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/i-stand-with-marla-aaron\/\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m putting my foot down. No more consignment. This is a business, not a charity<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wendybrandesjewelry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, I offered an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BD0tJDajZSl\/?taken-by=wendybrandesjewelry&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">in-depth look<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BD8a5BIjZff\/?taken-by=wendybrandesjewelry&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">diamond and platinum micro studs<\/a> that are April&#8217;s Jewel of the Month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/WBmicrostuds\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO BUY THE STUDS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of those studs, and diamonds in general, I met with a new New York-based manufacturer this week. It looks like they&#8217;ll be able to do some cool things for me. I liked the other work they showed me, but after looking at it, I said I&#8217;d be providing my own diamonds. &#8220;What quality do you use?&#8221; they asked.\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/adventures-in-engagement-ring-redesigning\/\" target=\"_blank\">F color, VS clarity for pav\u00e9 and small pieces,<\/a>&#8221; I said.\u00a0 They were like, &#8220;YOU USE THAT HIGH QUALITY ALL THE TIME?!&#8221; What can I say? My gorgeous clients deserve great things.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32426\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32426\" class=\"wp-image-32426 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sign.jpg\" alt=\"sign\" width=\"498\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sign.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sign-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/sign-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-32426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I took a photo of this sign in another jeweler&#8217;s workroom years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, here&#8217;s what was on the blog this week. Monday: My diamond ring won second place in its category at the JCK Jewelers&#8217; Choice Awards. Tuesday: I enjoyed doing this interview with InDesign. Wednesday: What&#8217;s Instagram going to do if we all start wearing these vintage tops? Thursday: Wearing Ossie Clark&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/the-week-in-review-66\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32426,"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":[598],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-week-in-review","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32425","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=32425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32429,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32425\/revisions\/32429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}