{"id":283,"date":"2016-05-03T22:45:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2020-11-08T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T20:58:42","slug":"opal-earrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Opal Earrings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here’s a picture of the opal earrings<\/strong> I made for my mother-in-law back in 2014, and which kind of kicked off a “rediscovered” passion for silversmithing after an absence of over two decades in a way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sterling silver and opal earrings<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had often missed creating silver jewelry, but never really had a place where I could do more than a quick repair, or something very simple as we were apartment dwellers never in the same place for long due to my job at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made from sterling sheet and wire, the bezels were hand-serrated and set within a twisted rope border. The opal stones are about 5-6 mm triangular free-form cabochons that I had acquired well over 30 years earlier, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, when I originally purchased them, I had also purchased another slightly larger opal that I later used in creating a ring for Kathy back in the late 80’s (and is when I discovered apartment living really *does* limit what you can do when it comes to silversmithing). \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was after I had made Kathy that ring and her mom had seen it, that I wound up promising to make a pair of earrings with the other two opals for her. You can read more details about that on this site’s About<\/strong> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a picture of the opal earrings I made for my mother-in-law back in 2014, and which kind of kicked off a “rediscovered” passion for silversmithing after an absence of over two decades in a way. I had often missed creating silver jewelry, but never really had a place where I could do more than … <\/p>\n

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