{"id":1260,"date":"2006-09-30T20:13:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T01:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2006-09-30T20:14:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T01:14:15","slug":"first-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"First piece finally done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did it! I finally completed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/256829068\/\">Joe&#8217;s necklace<\/a> and it came out nice except I&#8217;m a little worried that the crimp beads I got are crappy. They seem flimsy and I&#8217;m worried they will break since the hematite is pretty heavy and I broke one of them just trying to finish the necklace. I want to purchase better crimp beads but I have no idea what I need. There is so much to choose from. I&#8217;m leaning toward sterling silver for the finish but I still have no idea if I should get round or tube shaped and how thick they should be.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I have no idea what type of beading wire I need, but I&#8217;m guessing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firemountaingems.com\/details.asp?PN=H202654BS\">this<\/a> would work out ok since other than the hematite, so far I&#8217;m using very small glass beads so my necklaces and bracelets won&#8217;t be very heavy and warrant stronger thread. <\/p>\n<p>If anyone has tips, please share because I need all the help I can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did it! I finally completed Joe&#8217;s necklace and it came out nice except I&#8217;m a little worried that the crimp beads I got are crappy. They seem flimsy and I&#8217;m worried they will break since the hematite is pretty heavy and I broke one of them just trying to finish the necklace. I want to purchase better crimp beads but I have no idea what I need. There is so much to choose from. I&#8217;m leaning toward sterling silver for the finish but I still have no idea if I should get round or tube shaped and how thick they should be. Also, I have no idea what type of beading wire I need, but I&#8217;m guessing this would work out ok since other than the hematite, so far I&#8217;m using very small glass beads so my necklaces and bracelets won&#8217;t be very heavy and warrant stronger thread. If <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1260\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}