{"id":415,"date":"2016-03-25T11:28:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T15:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2016-03-25T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T15:28:36","slug":"think-pink-when-you-think-spring-beads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/think-pink-when-you-think-spring-beads\/","title":{"rendered":"THINK PINK WHEN YOU THINK SPRING BEADS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pink-beads-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"pink beads\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pink-beads-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pink-beads-768x624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.woodstocktradeco.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pink-beads.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seth and I have had a passion for beads almost our entire lives.\u00a0 Beads of all kinds from all over the world.\u00a0 It was a natural for us to add an extensive bead collection into the equation when we started to formulate what we wished to showcase in our store.\u00a0 The Woodstock\/hippie phenomenon certainly included art music and crafts.\u00a0 What would the 60\u2019s be without love beads.<\/p>\n<p>Our interest spurred us on and we not only collected beads for our store from every corner of the world and type but to make beads of our own.\u00a0 We have become lamp workers and have and have slaved over our torches to produce hand blown beads for Woodstock Trading Company.<\/p>\n<p>The key words for pink are love, passion, romance, purity, kindness, power, tolerance, compassion courage, loyalty, faithfulness, happiness, protection and softness.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts today have turned to spring colors and one of the most interesting colors to use in the torch is pink.\u00a0 One of the major colorant for pink glass is erbium for light transparent pinks.\u00a0 Neodymium can be used for purple pinks.\u00a0 The most famous is the use of Gold in glass to produce that cranberry pink called \u201cgold ruby\u201d However they are hard to use in the flame and must be heated very gently or they \u201cpop\u201d\u00a0 Seth who usually sits to my left when we blow glass can tell you, mom has not patience and very often sends particles of beautiful pink glass every which way.<\/p>\n<p>The meaning of the color pink (4<sup>th<\/sup> chakra) and an air element is the universal color of love.\u00a0 Emotional love of self and others,\u00a0\u00a0 It is a color of friendship, affection, harmony\u00a0 and inner peace.<\/p>\n<p>We have brought in a large supply of natural stones both polished and rough for wire wrapping or other uses.\u00a0 Pink stones are calming, soothing, relaxing.\u00a0 They attract increases in love for yourself, family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Pink stones include pink agate, rhodochrosite, pink tourmaline,\u00a0 rose quartz, rhodonite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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