{"id":983,"date":"2008-12-02T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2008-12-02T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T21:27:00","slug":"sneak-preview-of-new-locket-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/sneak-preview-of-new-locket-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneak Preview of New Locket Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a proper introduction for my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingtutone.com\/queens\/hatshepsut\/\">Hatshepsut<\/a> Locket, but I can&#8217;t resist sharing some amateur pictures of my latest piece. This version is in sterling silver, hanging on a black satin cord.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the necklace looks against my <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/amazing-bosom.html\">amazing bosom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 222px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/STWj9mgFkBI\/AAAAAAAAGxA\/ffwg3dPJAZo\/s320\/locket+and+bosom.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275302817236881426\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Please, <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/hilarytheguy.blogspot.com\/\">Pistols<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">, don&#8217;t get overexcited by this.<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>To open the locket, you first open the safety clasp and unscrew the top, like so.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/STWlICmKcxI\/AAAAAAAAGxI\/fPxM_gTigCc\/s320\/IMG_0067.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275304096088879890\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Then you can slide the two sides of the pendant away from each other, like so.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/STWl2Hh6KEI\/AAAAAAAAGxQ\/K4tKWl1249c\/s320\/locket+open.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275304887687194690\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hatshepsut Locket<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;\">\u00a9 Wendy Brandes 2007-2009<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;\"><br \/><\/span>I&#8217;m not going to show you the gold and diamond version till the professional photos are taken.<\/p>\n<p>Hatshepsut was an Egyptian queen who, after her husband (who was also her half-brother) died, proclaimed herself Pharaoh.  I think she would have gotten along great with <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/thursday-book-club-empress-wu-part-i.html\">Empress Wu<\/a>, the self-proclaimed female emperor of China, if only they hadn&#8217;t been separated by two millennia.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in owning this piece, email me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com, because it&#8217;s not going on my<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\"> site<\/a> until I do the good photos. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a proper introduction for my new Hatshepsut Locket, but I can&#8217;t resist sharing some amateur pictures of my latest piece. This version is in sterling silver, hanging on a black satin cord. Here&#8217;s how the necklace looks against my amazing bosom. Please, Pistols, don&#8217;t get overexcited by this. To open the locket, you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/sneak-preview-of-new-locket-design\/\">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":[43,13,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-my-designs","category-necklaces","category-queens","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}