{"id":4956,"date":"2014-01-17T23:51:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T22:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=4956"},"modified":"2014-01-17T23:51:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T22:51:49","slug":"necklaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/necklaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Necklaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I said I didn&#8217;t buy or make things that are only beautiful but not useful. That requires some clarification, I think.<\/p>\n<p>I do like buying and making things that make our home more cosy: curtains, rugs, potted plants, and plants for the garden. Those are beautiful but not very useful.<\/p>\n<p>I also like necklaces, and wear them on most days. Those are definitely not useful. But they are more practical than rings and bracelets, which I hardly ever wear.<\/p>\n<p>I am too practically-minded and frugal to buy necklaces for myself nowadays. Although now that I think about it, maybe I should.<\/p>\n<p>However I do like getting necklaces as gifts. In fact I think the majority of my necklaces have been given to me. Mostly by Eric, but also some by my mother, and some by other friends.<\/p>\n<p>I like unusual, non-traditional, interesting necklaces: no strands of pearls for me! I have necklaces made of wood, of mother-of-pearl, of stainless steel. I have one that is made out of a silver fork, bent into a curious shape. I have a gilded lettuce leaf, and a 3d-printed geometrical structure.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my favourites did not photograph well in lamplight; here are the ones that turned out well.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first necklace I bought for myself. It is a silver pendant, designed to look like a Viking coin (but not a real one). The size of my thumbnail and paper-thin, and on an almost-invisible chain: an economical purchase for a teenager. But I still like it after all these years.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Necklace_viking.jpg\" class=\"x4y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These wooden ones Eric made for me:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Necklace_leaf.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Necklace_turtle.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ingrid made this bracelet:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Bracelet.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mother-of-pearl and steel:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Necklace_Kid.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Necklace_mother_of_pearl.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3D printed tangle:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Necklace_3d.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a more traditional one:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Necklace_Autrum.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I said I didn&#8217;t buy or make things that are only beautiful but not useful. That requires some clarification, I think. I do like buying and making things that make our home more cosy: curtains, rugs, potted plants, and plants for the garden. Those are beautiful but not very useful. I also like necklaces, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4963,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}