{"id":13878,"date":"2017-09-08T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=13878"},"modified":"2017-09-02T00:50:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T07:50:49","slug":"a-talented-hobbyist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/a-talented-hobbyist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Talented Hobbyist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThePolymerArts\/photos\/a.240409849351056.63221.175620935829948\/299105356814838\/?type=3&amp;theater\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13879\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/a-talented-hobbyist\/macabrea-split\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/macabrea-split.jpg?fit=502%2C551&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"502,551\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"macabrea split\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/macabrea-split.jpg?fit=430%2C472&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13879\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/macabrea-split-350x384.jpg?resize=350%2C384\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"384\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/macabrea-split.jpg?resize=350%2C384&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/macabrea-split.jpg?resize=182%2C200&amp;ssl=1 182w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/macabrea-split.jpg?resize=430%2C472&amp;ssl=1 430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/macabrea-split.jpg?w=502&amp;ssl=1 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad that this artist became easier to find and to read up on since the day I originally posted this. Cecilia Button does amazing work but still, she doesn&#8217;t sell it. Rather this is a hobby for her that she does in the very early hours of the day before running off to attend to her busy textile career.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the post from January 31st, 2012:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The &#8216;Pretty of the Day&#8217; &#8230; off another non-English blog (Google so needs to pay me for sending people to their translator all the time!) She&#8217;s French, lives in Asia, only lists &#8216;Cecilia&#8217; for her name and doesn&#8217;t sell her work, just gifts it. Lucky friends she has!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mabcrea.space-blogs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\" data-lynx-uri=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmabcrea.space-blogs.com%2F&amp;h=ATPBnzAtBldsCQiQ56i_D8Ji0VnwnS6sWbE05srDPCqsSRlRp73ZkS4lv9CgRQfeCGuuFzbL0EfU2SGmxBvxQOqT_9spjzZ-pBOg-G3_xpsJCP8VI9onldzOgfxXH_WgE7nMuMNZTvsRa9Kee-gyOsKXqqnn30LSE1bw4Dd48von7I7pA8omcXN1yq2c6WqUdyUmavRiXfUhEmKCNO3uJxpZ4bIgmj0MtPXA75dluLK89web-23HpQyx\">http:\/\/mabcrea.space-blogs.com\/<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These days you can find more of her work on\u00a0her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24199592@N07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her Flickr pages<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mabcrea.space-blogs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her blog site<\/a>\u00a0has not been active since 2013, but is still rather revealing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\">_________________________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"likethisblog\">Like this blog? 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Cecilia Button does amazing work but still, she doesn&#8217;t sell it. Rather this is a hobby for her that she does in the very early hours of the day before running off to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4649,4852,103,1716,25,13,5544,74,5076,1324,4827,4849,4884,118,5545,4699,4847,157,17,1810,5543,166,3710,29,640,12,1687,4698,11,5542,3661,4688,3703,3730,3816,16],"class_list":["post-13878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-art-blog","tag-art-magazine","tag-artist","tag-artist-inspiration","tag-artistic-influence","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-asian-artist","tag-beads","tag-cecilia-button","tag-clay","tag-clay-blog","tag-clay-magazine","tag-colorful-jewelry","tag-composition","tag-contrasting-jewelry","tag-craft-blog","tag-craft-magazine","tag-creativity","tag-design","tag-french-artist","tag-hobby-art","tag-jewelry","tag-mabcrea","tag-necklace","tag-polymer","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-arts","tag-polymer-blog","tag-polymer-clay","tag-polymer-hobby","tag-polymer-jewelry","tag-polymer-magazine","tag-polymer-necklace","tag-the-polymer-arts","tag-the-polymer-arts-blog","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-3BQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}