{"id":23927,"date":"2015-01-29T05:40:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23927"},"modified":"2015-01-14T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T21:56:17","slug":"family-portrait-necklace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=23927","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Family Portrait&#8221; Necklace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/portraitnecklace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/portraitnecklace-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait Necklace\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><\/a>Artist Ashley Gilreath made this lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/ashleygilreath.com\/artwork\/1996012_I_Am_Who_They_Were.html\">portrait necklace<\/a>, entitled, &#8220;I Am Who They Were,&#8221; featuring photos of various ancestors.  There are several additional views in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ashleygilreath.com\/section\/209019_Reliquaries.html\">Reliquaries<\/a> section of her portfolio (scroll down toward the bottom).<\/p>\n<p>This is a really striking piece and would be a great way to showcase photos of people who were important to you.  A &#8220;family tree&#8221; one featuring notable ancestors would be a thoughtful gift for someone interested in genealogy, and a necklace with thumbnails of goth icons&#8211;anyone from Poe to Siouxsie Sioux&#8211;would be a very unique accessory.<\/p>\n<p>Gilreath cast the silver and bronze frames herself, but similar small frames can be found at craft stores in the jewelry or scrapbooking section, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;field-keywords=photo%20charm&#038;sprefix=photo+cha%2Caps\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/market\/photo_charm\">Etsy<\/a>, and at jewelry suppliers like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firemountaingems.com\/search\/?keywords=photo+charm\">Fire Mountain Gems<\/a>.  Most seem to only have a single place at the top to attach a chain, but if you wanted to achieve the same multi-strand chain effect of the original piece you could use a little solder.  (A soldering iron isn&#8217;t difficult to use, just don&#8217;t put it down and then reach blindly behind you to pick it up again and grab the hot end.  Like&#8230;nobody I know has ever done.  Heh.  Heh.)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got photos languishing in a drawer, it&#8217;s time to dig them out and turn them into a conversation piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Ashley Gilreath made this lovely portrait necklace, entitled, &#8220;I Am Who They Were,&#8221; featuring photos of various ancestors. There are several additional views in the Reliquaries section of her portfolio (scroll down toward the bottom). This is a really striking piece and would be a great way to showcase photos of people who were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23927"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23981,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927\/revisions\/23981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}