I am a nurse and previously worked as a Health and Wellness Planner for a company. So the reason for this day has a great place in my heart. To know that most heart disease and stroke is preventable, yet still kills 1 in 3 women, shows how important education and awareness is! And I can attest that a lot of women don't know their risks nor that it is big killer of women.
Part of my plug for National Wear Red Day ties into jewelry (of course!).
I've been working on a beadweaving kit. I know that kits are not real popular for people who design jewelry - because really, there is no designing, just making in a kit. But I'm NOT a beadweaving designer and still trying to figure out techniques - which I think kits are great for. I learn a new technique and produce a beautiful wearable piece of jewelry - without the pesky annoyances of picking colors that go together and figuring out if I have all the right seed bead sizes (and seed bead brands) that will work in a pattern (and, boy, does that matter - as I'll write about in a future post!).
So, here is the Poppy Beadwoven Bracelet. This one is by Glass Garden Beads, and I purchased it from Fusion Beads (but they don't have it on their website anymore). The picture on the website was very over exposed and it was hard to tell how it was actually going to turn out. Here it is in real life:
I originally planned on making it for Christmas. The colors are quite lovely for Christmas but life took me to other things in December and instead the bracelet got finished in January. It actually worked up a bit faster than I had first anticipated and is really quite a lovely design. Eight flowers fits my 5 3/4" inch wrist perfectly and it stays put when I wear it - which is what I like.
And the best part -was that the bracelet went perfectly with my red outfit for National Wear Day!
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