{"id":40763,"date":"2018-05-29T06:46:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=40763"},"modified":"2018-05-29T00:47:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T07:47:35","slug":"diy-the-kintsugi-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/accessories\/diy-the-kintsugi-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY: The Kintsugi Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know about kintsugi, or kintsukuroi, right? It&#8217;s the &#8220;Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum,&#8221; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kintsugi\" target=\"_blank\" >Wikipedia<\/a>. Well, now you can try your own hand at the art, by using this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/239215748\/diy-the-kintsugi-kit\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Kintsugi kit from Etsy<\/a>. Of course, you could also just mix gold dust with an epoxy you find at your local hardware store, and then try to repair a crack or break on a dish using your own mix*. Good luck, either way!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n*May I suggest trying to make the bead of glue slightly smaller than in the pictures below? <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/kintsugi-kit.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"DIY Kintsugi Kit\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/diy-kintsugi-kit-3.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"DIY Kintsugi Kit\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know about kintsugi, or kintsukuroi, right? It&#8217;s the &#8220;Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum,&#8221; according to Wikipedia. Well, now you can try your own hand at the art, by using this Kintsugi kit from Etsy. Of course, you could also just mix gold [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[120,478],"tags":[140,450],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/kintsugi-kit.jpg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40767,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40763\/revisions\/40767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}