{"id":388,"date":"2009-07-31T10:59:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2011-01-25T08:10:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T13:10:11","slug":"august-contest-perseids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2009\/07\/august-contest-perseids\/","title":{"rendered":"August Contest – Perseids"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am fascinated by the night sky. I’m also consistently amazed at how little I understand about it, but that’s another topic.<\/p>\n

I live far from the madding crowd, so the sky offers itself to me easily. Every August we have a meteor shower called Perseids, so named because it appears to originate in the constellation Perseus. If I knew what that constellation looked like or where in the sky it was located, it’d finding those meteors easier, but my yard offers a limited view of the sky before trees & hills block my view, so I simply pay attention to the sky I can see.<\/p>\n

Anyway, a few years ago we had a stellar event of a lifetime. The Perseids shower was remarkably active, and it was during a new moon (e.g. no moon), so the sky was dark enough to see them all. It was easy to see several shooting stars every minute for hours on end. <\/p>\n

\"Perseids

Perseids earrings<\/p><\/div>This remarkable Perseids shower inspired jewelry in me. And since this is August and that’s when the Perseids occur, this month’s contest winner will get a free pair of my Perseids earrings. They’re sterling silver with little stars of manmade hematite (the gray ones) and cat’s eye (the white ones).<\/p>\n

So how do you enter?<\/p>\n

Simply leave me a comment about your life this summer. Talk about whether the weather has impacted on your enjoyment of this season, or the best summer moon you ever saw, or whether you’re taking a vacation or a staycation, or just about anything that tickles your fancy. I’ll put the names into a hat, and draw the winner on August 22. You won’t have your lovely earrings in time for this year’s Perseids peak (August 12), but they’ll be fun and starry in your ears year round.<\/p>\n

If you can’t wait for the contest and MUST have the earrings, with or without their coordinating necklace, in time for the Perseids this year, contact me <\/a>to purchase them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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