{"id":1422,"date":"2013-06-29T09:03:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T14:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2013-06-29T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T18:24:06","slug":"snail-nutcracker-concept-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"Snail Nutcracker &#8211; Concept to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few posts back I posted pictures of an idea I had for a Snail Nutcracker that I sculpted in clay. I carved him out of Black Walnut and it came out great!<\/p>\n<p>This piece was a huge hit at the 2013 Nutcracker Collector&#8217;s Convention. I&#8217;m proud to report that the <a title=\"Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nutcrackermuseum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum<\/a> curator, Arlene Wagner, bought it at the convention&#8217;s auction to be put on display at the museum and enjoyed by all who visit the museum.<\/p>\n<p>I will be posting more on the 2013 Nutcracker Collector&#8217;s Convention soon. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1429\" style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1422]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1429\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1429   \" title=\"Snail in clay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail1-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snail concept sculpted in clay.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1430\" style=\"width: 417px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1422]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1430\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1430  \" title=\"Snail Nutcracker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web1.jpg 707w, http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web1-150x61.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web1-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Walnut screw type Snail Nutcracker<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1422]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1431\" title=\"Black Walnut Snail Nutcracker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web2.jpg 712w, http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web2-150x56.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web2-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1422]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1432\" title=\"Black Walnut screw type Snail Nutcracker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web3.jpg\" alt=\"Snail Nutcracker - Bottom\" width=\"426\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web3.jpg 763w, http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web3-150x60.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/snail_web3-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few posts back I posted pictures of an idea I had for a Snail Nutcracker that I sculpted in clay. I carved him out of Black Walnut and it came out great! This piece was a huge hit at the 2013 Nutcracker Collector&#8217;s Convention. I&#8217;m proud to report that the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum curator, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11,14,100,102],"tags":[310,35,303,51,68,305,118],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carving","category-figural-nutcracker","category-nutcracker-collectors-club","category-original-works","category-recent-work","tag-carving","tag-convention","tag-figural-nutcracker","tag-hand-carved","tag-nutcracker","tag-nutcracker-collectors-club","tag-walnut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}