{"id":10728,"date":"2013-07-20T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T20:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=10728"},"modified":"2013-07-20T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T20:25:35","slug":"non-geek-wear-shiny-baubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/10728","title":{"rendered":"Non-Geek Wear: Shiny Baubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we were at Wheeling, we wandered into the glass museum (against my better wishes, I might add, since Michelle + Breakable Stuff = Trouble Found. There, I saw  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fentonartglass.com\/shop\/product.asp?c=0&#038;l=Fenton%20Glass%20-%20Beads%20and%20Earrings\">Fenton Glass Beads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I usually pick jewelry because I find it interesting or amusing, but these I liked just because they are pretty.<\/p>\n<p>When we were at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msacf.com\">Ripley Craft Fair<\/a>, Fenton had a table that was staffed by two of the women who paint the beads.<\/p>\n<p>I made Michael buy me some.<\/p>\n<p>This was the bead that pushed me over the edge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fentonartglass.com\/cart2\/asp\/images\/large\/0B431GM_L.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fentonartglass.com\/cart2\/asp\/images\/large\/0B431GM_L.jpg?resize=500%2C475\" width=\"500\" height=\"475\" alt=\"9\/16'' dia. Bead ''Beach Buddies'' \" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I had to get the sesquicentennial bead:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fentonartglass.com\/cart2\/asp\/images\/large\/0B016HY_L.jpg?resize=500%2C500\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"WV 150th Mountain Heritage Bead\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t get just two, now could I?<\/p>\n<p>So I now have five hand-painted Fenton glass beads, and want more, because they&#8217;re gorgeous, and they&#8217;re made here in West (by God) Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta support the state economy, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were at Wheeling, we wandered into the glass museum (against my better wishes, I might add, since Michelle + Breakable Stuff = Trouble Found. There, I saw Fenton Glass Beads. I usually pick jewelry because I find it interesting or amusing, but these I liked just because they are pretty. When we were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2N2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}