{"id":35280,"date":"2017-01-18T08:30:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=35280"},"modified":"2019-11-01T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T14:46:57","slug":"jewel-of-the-month-happy-year-of-the-rooster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/jewel-of-the-month-happy-year-of-the-rooster\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewel of the Month: Happy Year of the Rooster!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chinese zodiac assigns an animal sign to each year of a 12-year cycle<\/a>, and the Year of the Rooster starts on January 28. That means the last Rooster Year was in 2005, two years before I started this blog. I’ve never celebrated a Rooster Year here, and that’s all the excuse I need to give one of my classic designs a second opportunity<\/a> to be Jewel of the Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Yep, it’s my chicken-in-egg locket, inspired by a golden egg objet d’art<\/em> that I saw in the Royal Danish Collection in Copenhagen. The original can be separated into an ivory eggshell, a gold eggshell, hen, crown, and ring … and there’s a yolk!<\/p>\n

CLICK TO SEE THE ROYAL HEN<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n

I’m so jealous of that yolk. Unfortunately, I didn’t have space to include a yolk, because my locket is much smaller than the original object.\u00a0 (When I’m directly inspired by objects that I see in a museum, I like to shrink the large things and enlarge the small things.) In the case of my necklace, when the 18K gold egg is opened up, out pops a silver chicken with diamond eyes.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t she adorable? But that’s not all, because the chicken opens up to reveal three golden eggs in her nest.<\/p>\n

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This design slayed at last week’s Metal & Smith jewelry show<\/a>.\u00a0 People were asking, “How do you DO these things?!” All I can say is that a piece like this is not easy! As I wrote when I introduced the chicken<\/a> in its previous Jewel of the Month post, work like this is limited-edition, wearable art.<\/p>\n

Admittedly, hens sit on nests, not roosters, but still … chickens! During the Year of the Rooster, simply tell your friends this is a rooster who stepped up to help with the kids.\u00a0 Who doesn’t love an involved father?<\/p>\n

I only keep one of these necklaces in stock at any given time and I never make another until the previous one is sold. There will only be five of these ever made — if that many. So,\u00a0 if you’re someone who craves the unique, this is the necklace for you. I guarantee it will be a huge hit at any Rooster New Year’s celebration you attend. Remember, there’s just one available, so if you want yours for January 28, order today<\/a>.\u00a0 I’m happy to answer any questions you might have about the necklace before you purchase it. Email those to me at info at wendybrandes dot com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chinese zodiac assigns an animal sign to each year of a 12-year cycle, and the Year of the Rooster starts on January 28. That means the last Rooster Year was in 2005, two years before I started this blog. I’ve never celebrated a Rooster Year here, and that’s all the excuse I need to…<\/p>\n

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