{"id":4160,"date":"2010-01-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:25:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-28T16:24:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T10:24:56","slug":"fire-mountain-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/fire-mountain-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Mountain Gems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firemountaingems.com\/\">Fire Mountain Gems and Beads<\/a> is, in a sense, the <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/mcmastercarr-on\/\">McMaster Carr<\/a> of the jewelry world. The company&#8217;s 400-plus page print catalog, with its to-scale photos of beads, gems, clasps and findings (roughly, the jewelry-making hardware), rivals any catalog in terms of introducing creative possibilities, and enticing you to buy stuff. For me, having the physical catalog makes navigating the extensive website easier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"firemountaingems2sm.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/firemountaingems2sm.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"116\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in making bead jewelry, I&#8217;d recommend taking a beginner&#8217;s class at a local bead store to get started and gain a basic familiarity with the tools. I took a wire wrap class at a local shop and then had a foundation from which I was able to learn knotting and stringing pearls watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firemountaingems.com\/beading_howtos\/default.asp\">Fire Mountain&#8217;s instructional videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"firemountaingems3sm.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/firemountaingems3sm.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"128\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite aspects of having even a basic ability to make jewelry is that I&#8217;m always able to create a last-minute gift, at least for friends whose taste is similar to mine. I keep a small stash of beads and findings around, and then can put together a pair of earrings in 10 minutes&#8212;a personal, homemade gift I didn&#8217;t have to go to the store to buy.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beading, jewelrymaking resource<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[682],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}