{"id":658,"date":"2008-06-25T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2008-06-25T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T13:30:00","slug":"avert-your-eyes-skull-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/avert-your-eyes-skull-haters\/","title":{"rendered":"Avert Your Eyes, Skull Haters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a one-of-a-kind ring that I recently finished. The skull is carved in onyx and the green stones are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemstone.org\/gem-by-gem\/english\/tsavorite.html\">tsavorite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=32&amp;collect=true&amp;id=420\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SFlViBQyH6I\/AAAAAAAADds\/BC77hFBWH3s\/s320\/onyx+skull+straight+_low.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213292086600802210\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=32&amp;collect=true&amp;id=420\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SFlVqeGr1xI\/AAAAAAAADd0\/rGhzKRSVHxU\/s320\/onyx+skull+side+_low.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213292231782029074\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Skull Ring<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:85%;\" >\u00a9 Wendy Brandes 2007-2008<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:85%;\" >All photos by <a href=\"http:\/\/squaremoose.com\/\">Squaremoose<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:100%;\" ><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:100%;\" ><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">In the next photo, you&#8217;re looking past the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.mimi.hu\/jewelry\/shank.html\">shank<\/a> to see the diamonds that are set on the INSIDE of the ring.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=32&amp;collect=true&amp;id=420\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SFlX-Nl4UNI\/AAAAAAAADd8\/NKYbecBjDZ8\/s320\/onyx+skull+behind+_low.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213294769970106578\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Everything is set in 18K gold. The gold has been blackened in some places to give more depth to the piece and make the tsavorites pop. You can get an idea of the size of it if you enlarge the photo in <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/i-feel-so-incomplete.html\">this post<\/a>. I&#8217;m wearing it on the hand that&#8217;s touching the sign.<br \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:85%;\" ><\/span> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a one-of-a-kind ring that I recently finished. The skull is carved in onyx and the green stones are tsavorite. Skull Ring\u00a9 Wendy Brandes 2007-2008All photos by Squaremoose In the next photo, you&#8217;re looking past the shank to see the diamonds that are set on the INSIDE of the ring. Everything is set in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/avert-your-eyes-skull-haters\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-my-designs","category-rings","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","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=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}