{"id":15745,"date":"2018-12-14T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=15745"},"modified":"2018-12-14T00:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T08:41:30","slug":"found-mediums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/found-mediums\/","title":{"rendered":"Found Mediums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10210727711627923&amp;set=pb.1803355013.-2207520000.1544560141.&amp;type=3&amp;theater\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15746\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/found-mediums\/deb-crothers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/deb-crothers.jpg?fit=1000%2C970&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,970\" 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=\"deb crothers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/deb-crothers.jpg?fit=430%2C417&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-15746\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/deb-crothers.jpg?resize=430%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"417\" align=\"left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/deb-crothers.jpg?resize=430%2C417&amp;ssl=1 430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/deb-crothers.jpg?resize=200%2C194&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/deb-crothers.jpg?resize=350%2C340&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/deb-crothers.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>Our last look at using polymer and other materials this week will be with Debbie Crothers.\u00a0She posted this lovely assemblage of elements this week on Facebook and I just had to share it.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie is well known for her surface design work and posts tons of her experiments and beads but it can take a while for her to come around to putting the pieces together into finished jewelry. I understand inclination. The textures revealed and the blooming of colors that happens as you manipulate and add to the polymer on your worktable can be intoxicating. I know I just want to keep trying new things but at some point we gotta do something with the elements we&#8217;ve created.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been excited to see this whole slew of finished work popping up on her social network feeds right now. But she isn&#8217;t just using polymer elements. This dynamic piece includes polymer spikes, recycled beads, and a recycled ring.\u00a0Debbie is also a thrift store hound (something else we have in common!) which can be such a fabulous way to find additional bits and bobs to add to polymer jewelry and other assemblage work.<\/p>\n<p>Take a closer look at Debbie&#8217;s recently\u00a0assembled finished necklaces and earrings on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/debbie.crothers.7\">her Facebook page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debbiecrothers.com\/gallery\">her website<\/a>.\u00a0And don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debbiecrothers.com\/tutorials\">stop by her shop<\/a> for some fun tutorials to keep you busy and entertained this winter.<\/p>\n<p>(Right after I wrote this, I found that Debbie wrote her own post about her &#8220;Upcycling Jewelry&#8221; so for more on the subject, jump over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debbiecrothers.com\/2018\/12\/upcycling-jewellery.html\">her blog here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie Crothers created a striking necklace from polymer spikes, recycled beads, and a recycled ring, as seen on The Polymer Arts blog, www.ThePolymerArts.com <\/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":[1058,1639,294,29,640,6023,6123],"class_list":["post-15745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-bead","tag-debbie-crothers","tag-mixed-media","tag-necklace","tag-polymer","tag-recycled-materials","tag-spike"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-45X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15745","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=15745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15767,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15745\/revisions\/15767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}