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Happy New Year

Video Update

 

Finger. Lakes. Film. Festival.

On a complete whim I decided to enter the One Bead Project Video into the Finger Lakes Film Festival. 

I was burning the DVD and writing an address and directions for my parents to mail it in for me Five minutes before walking out the door.  I knew that the video was a rough draft, and would be made better, but for the time being, why not see if I could spread the word just a little bit more. 

EVERY little effort is important. Every time you talk about our project, every time you walk out of the door with a bead around your wrist or neck you are making a difference. So please talk! This is honestly the best way you can help be a part of this project. 

I was honored to find out that my film was selected to be one of the final films screened last thursday night. My friend Dana went to see it since I could not be there and she said people were really enthusiastic about the whole thing. That makes me so happy. More soon...

Tag, You're it!

   My lovely sister, Margot, working on the tags. We have had some technical difficulties making the stamps work. I have learned that it is a game of luck when ordering such a detailed stamp and hoping that design will look the way you want it. With that being said, the creation of these tags marks a huge turning point for us! The tags, which are cut from a brown paper, have the logo in white on one side and the link to the blog on the other. Along with our catch phrase "One Duty. One Life. One Bead." Each bead will come with it's own handmade tag. Now that the tags are finished we are ready to send out bracelets and beads to our representatives around the country! Keep an eye out for more on this later..

Too Many Circle's for ONE Night

Blurry Picture of Beads and Posters

Another late night! (as demonstrated by the blurry quality of this picture...)
      For those of you who don't know me, I am a junior in college, and this semester I am actually studying abroad in England at the University of East Anglia. AND I LEAVE TOMORROW. Yes, it was all exciting when I signed up and was accepted, only now it seems like almost the bad timing! To tell you the truth, it has not even really sunk in that I am leaving for England in less than 24 hours, because I have had so much to do.  Cutting leather, tying knots and gluing paper takes a lot longer than I had anticipated. Of course this is all good and exciting stress, but stress nonetheless :) 
      Anyway, this is a poor quality cell phone upload I took after working all day on kits for my amazing representatives. Each kit includes 15 bracelets, 10 necklaces, 3 beads, extra leather, about 30 posters, tons of ribbon, and tags. The representatives will be in charge of selling and spreading the word about our project at their own schools. I am so excited to see how everything turns out. Keep an eye out for a page about the representatives in the near future! OH, also made it to the bank today and opened my very own business checking account! So now people are able to make check's out to "One Bead Project" when purchasing a bead or making a donation. I decided against uploading a picture of the checking account as it would definitely not be a good idea, so you'll have to trust my word on its existence!
    Ok, it's about time I look into my own luggage!

158

Pictures for you of the first 158 beads from Kenya. 

This set will be sold at $20 a bracelet as it is the original collection. 

 I'll let the pictures do the talking on this post...

Beads with black leather in background

So many beads! 

Close up 

Beads on leather 

Detail of the Bead