{"id":1219,"date":"2013-03-04T06:08:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T06:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2013-03-04T09:19:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T09:19:47","slug":"polishing-beads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"Polishing Beads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found these large, plastic gems at Dollar Tree. You can pretty well tell from looking at them that they came from a large package that was purchased for a dollar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3320.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1220\" title=\"IMAG3320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3320-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3320-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3320-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3320-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I decided to pretty them up with nail polish. After some experimentation, I found a clear-based glitter polish worked the best, and that it did indeed add quite a bit to them.<\/p>\n<p>This Christmas tin came in handy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3324.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1221\" title=\"IMAG3324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3324-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3324-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3324-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3324-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a handy project for <a href=\"www.meetup.com\/weirdery\">Weirdery<\/a>&#8216;s Craft Day, as it didn&#8217;t involve loud sewing machines or take up a lot of room. Plus, I inspired a fellow crafter to think about more uses for nail polish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3325.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1222\" title=\"IMAG3325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3325-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3325-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3325-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMAG3325-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found these large, plastic gems at Dollar Tree. You can pretty well tell from looking at them that they came from a large package that was purchased for a dollar. So I decided to pretty them up with nail &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/?p=1219\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[241],"tags":[242,243,230,244,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nordahlia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}