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| Well it has been a challenging weekend being with out power due to a wind storm that hit on Friday. With the storm taking out our power for 3 days made me think of when storms REALLY hit families and how their lives are changed forever. We take for granted our daily routine of getting kids off to school, cleaning house, grocery shopping, making dinner, helping with homework, baseball practice and then bed time, day in and day out that we forget that these days are blessing. When children get sick has to be the biggest storm that can hit a family. The daily routine now changes to dr. appointments, hospitals, treatments and taking care of a very sick child. Beads of Courage is a program that helps children endure the treatments that they have to go though to get back to their daily routine. I was blessed to be asked by Beads of Courage to bring a child's bead to life for a really great fundraiser, please go check it out. There are 10 beads to choose from 10 different bead artists designed by children and a really cool book that will be ready for purchase soon, my bead is the LIFE Heart bead. These are a limited edition beads that will not be reproduced. Please support BOC if you can, Here is a cut and paste link to where you can purchase the book and beads: http://www.beadsofcourage.org/category_8/jewelry-and-apparel.htm
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| I was super excited to be included in The Women in Glass Issue of The Flow Magazine again this year. This is a really nice glass magazine that I love!
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| This past month I have been having a blast with my new torch. It is the Bravo torch by Bethlehem and my son Josh nick named it the Beast! Here are a few things I have been making.
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| | This past week I was blessed to spend time with some pretty awesome kids at Hurley Hospital for the Beads of Courage in Space Tour. The Space tour traveled to 10 U.S. cities with Flints Hurley hospital being one of them.
BOC Children and families were invited to see handmade Beads of Courage space beads that flew 4.8 million miles at over 17,500 miles per hour aboard the NASA Atlantis Space Shuttle Mission STS-132 and Endeavour Space Shuttle Mission STS-134 and to participate in the Beads of Courage Bead Design Challenge.
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| | Check out this CD from The Flow Magazine! What a blessing to be in included with such wonderful and talented glass artist. The Flow Bead & Jewelry 2 - CD All of the Tutorial and Articles are by and about leading glass artists and industry experts such as: Kimberly Affleck, Carmen Anderson, Dolly Ahles, Dolores Barrett, Rocio Bearer, Nadia Belfrage, Stephanie Bonniwell, D, Lynne Bowland, Dawn Ceccacci, Lauri Copeland, Carolyn Earley, Leah Fairbanks, JC Herrell, Susan Hood, Kevin Ivey, Wil Menzies, Gail Crosman Moore, Joanna Mueller, Kirsty Naray, Jenny Newtson, Teri Sokoloff, Lisa St. Martin, Leslie Thiel, Hayley Tsang, Helen Tsang, Patricia Trout, Nicole Valentine, Nita Van Til, Lucie Kovarova-Weir, Lezlie Winemaker, Margaret Zinser, Janelle Zorko. Here is the direct link: http://www.theflowmagazine.com/cd2.htm
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| | Publications:
The Flow Magazine, Beads of Courage, Fall 2011
Living County Press April 1st, 2011 Beads of Courage
Reactive Twisties 2011, EnVision
The Flow Bead & Jewelry 2 - CD
2009 Glass Bead Calendar
The Flow Magazine, Gallery of Women in Glass Winter 2008/2009
Bead Review 2 A Year of Exceptional Art Glass Beads
The Flow Magazine, Wigwag Article, 2008
1000 Jewelry Inspirations, Rockport/Quarry Publishers
The Flow Magazine, Gallery of Women in Glass, Winter 2007/2008
Step By Step Beads, Interweave Press, March/April 2007
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"Trust
in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall
direct thy paths." (Proverb 3:5-6 KJV)
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