{"id":94,"date":"2008-05-23T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unikatissima.wordpress.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2008-07-29T14:26:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T12:26:28","slug":"pendant-anhanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Pendant-to-be-embellished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-246\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/080523.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Pendant to be embellished\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\nOne day I wanted to have a pendant-to-be-embellished and decided to create it myself.<br \/>\nOn the photo you see both sides of a charm of about 1,5 cm (appr. 0.6 inches) which I embellished with self-dyed fabric and some metallic yarn embroidery.<br \/>\nThe embellishment isn&#8217;t quite what I dreamed of, but the core pendant worked well.<\/p>\n<p>This is how I did it:<br \/>\n<strong>You need: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>some cardboard (the thickness of the middle piece must be about the same as the wire)<\/li>\n<li>some wire<\/li>\n<li>glue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-247\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/080523-01.jpg?w=125\" alt=\"Pendant to be embellished\" width=\"125\" height=\"94\" \/> <strong>img 1:<\/strong> Cut 3 equal pieces of your cardboard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-248\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/080523-02.jpg?w=125\" alt=\"Pendant to be embellished\" width=\"125\" height=\"94\" \/> <strong>img 2:<\/strong> Wrap the wire round a dowel to form the eye. Then turn a couple of times to form the peg and then form a bigger eye which will be hidden in the pendant.<br \/>\nNote: I prefer the hidden part of the wire to be an eye because then the wire can&#8217;t be dragged out by accident.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-249\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/080523-03.jpg?w=125\" alt=\"Pendant to be embellished\" width=\"125\" height=\"143\" \/> <strong>img 3:<\/strong> Take the cardboard piece which will sit in the middle and trace your hanger.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-250\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/080523-04.jpg?w=125\" alt=\"Pendant to be embellished\" width=\"125\" height=\"143\" \/> <strong>img 4:<\/strong> Cut out the place you will need for the hanger.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-251\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/080523-05.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Pendant to be embellished\" width=\"125\" \/> <strong>img 5:<\/strong> Glue the hanger and the middle cardboard pieces onto one outer cardboard piece.<br \/>\nNote: I glue on also the cardboard piece in the eye to prevent having a hollow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-252\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/080523-06.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Pendant to be embellished\" width=\"125\" \/> <strong>img 6:<\/strong> Glue the other outer cardboard piece onto. Your pendant-to-be-embellished is finished and you may begin with the embellishments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-253\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/080523-07.jpg?w=125\" alt=\"Pendant to be embellished\" width=\"125\" height=\"86\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-254\" src=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/080523-08.jpg?w=125\" alt=\"Pendant to be embellished\" width=\"125\" height=\"86\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>img 7 &amp; 8:<\/strong> This is a solution for a 2-eyed pendant.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>There are so many ways to embellish your self-made pendant (mini collages, painted, beaded, stamped etc), I&#8217;d love to see them.<br \/>\nPlease feel free to comment here to show your trinkets.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day I wanted to have a pendant-to-be-embellished and decided to create it myself. On the photo you see both sides of a charm of about 1,5 cm (appr. 0.6 inches) which I embellished with self-dyed fabric and some metallic yarn embroidery. The embellishment isn&#8217;t quite what I dreamed of, but the core pendant worked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=94\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pendant-to-be-embellished&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,13,38,82],"tags":[452,137,160,205,467,273,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}