{"id":42330,"date":"2019-04-21T22:13:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T02:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=42330"},"modified":"2019-04-21T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T02:13:15","slug":"easter-egg-jewelry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/easter-egg-jewelry\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Egg Jewelry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not, charm bracelets have existed for millennia<\/a>! While I’m normally obsessed with ancient artifacts, my favorite charms are of more recent vintage — generally the 20th century, when a lot of clever mechanical pieces were produced. I love designing mechanical jewelry myself, and I was once inspired by an old charm, though I put my own twist on the concept<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My chicken-in-egg locket, however, was not<\/em> created because of this adorable Easter egg charm, which was posted on Instagram this week by the Eden Collective ahead of today’s holiday<\/p>\n

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The egg-locket necklace I introduced 10 years ago<\/a> (dang! time flies!) was created because I coveted an 18th-century objet d’art<\/em> I saw in Denmark’s royal treasure<\/a>. The original can be separated into an ivory eggshell, a gold eggshell, hen, crown, and ring \u2026 and there\u2019s also a yolk<\/a>. I couldn’t squeeze hat many treats into my mini version, but I think I did pretty well. My 18K yellow gold egg ….<\/p>\n

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… opened up to reveal a sterling-silver chicken with diamond eyes …<\/p>\n

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… but what really delighted people was the fact that the chicken opened up to reveal three golden eggs in her nest.<\/p>\n

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I don’t have any of these lockets available right now, but I will make one to order! Holla at me at info at wendybrandes dot com to inquire. Also, for a while, I made a little silver chicken necklace. She still opened up to show the eggs in the nest — she just didn’t reside in the big gold egg. Those sold out long ago and I don’t make silver jewelry anymore but …<\/p>\n

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… I did find a tarnished and tangled silver chicken necklace lying around here recently. She’s fixable, for sure, so if you’re interested, shoot me an email. She’s the last of her kind.<\/p>\n

Oh, and to answer the old question: The egg came first!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not, charm bracelets have existed for millennia! While I’m normally obsessed with ancient artifacts, my favorite charms are of more recent vintage — generally the 20th century, when a lot of clever mechanical pieces were produced. I love designing mechanical jewelry myself, and I was once inspired by an old charm, though…<\/p>\n

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