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Pink Ribbon jewelryPosted by Bent Warped And Twisted on 8/1/2007Since October is only two months away and October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month I was inspired to create a series of pink pieces in honor of the Pink Ribbon campaign. I never met my maternal grandmother because of breast cancer, I lost the only Grandma I ever knew in 1990 to metastatic cancer after two radical mastectomies and right now my cousin's metastatic cancer after a double radical mastectomy and five remissions has returned and has reached her bones. She'll be 41 this month.
In what may be the ultimate irony I don't have the genetic predisposition for breast cancer from both sides of the family because I'm adopted, but I also don't know my medical history, so I know the importance of self-checks and mammograms. These jewelry pieces are my tribute to the Pink Ribbon campaign, to breast cancer awareness and to cancer awareness in general. I plan to do other colors of jewelry for awareness for other causes that are important to me. Images
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I made this piece for myself with the primary lampwork beads from GlassValley, lampwork spacers by Bits Of Glass, fire polished Czech glass rondelles, rose quartz, rhodonite, fancy jasper, 14K yellow and white gold beads, clear iridescent Delica beads and 14K yellow gold 20 gauge square wire from H. Schmidt & Son. It's my tribute to both my grandmothers, who died of breast cancer, and to my cousin, who's fighting the good fight right now. |
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This bracelet is crafted of 18 gauge sterling silver wire with .999 fine silver Thai Karen Hill Tribe beads and .999 fine silver 22K vermeil beads, rhodonite, clear quartz crystal, rose quartz and Miracle Beads®. The focal bead is by Three Muses Glass, the lampwork spacers are by Bits Of Glass. Major, MAJOR props to Three Muses Glass for the faboo focal beads! |
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This bracelet is crafted of 18 gauge sterling silver wire with .999 fine silver Thai Karen Hill Tribe beads and .999 fine silver 22K vermeil beads, rhodonite, clear quartz crystal, rose quartz and Miracle Beads®. The focal bead is by Three Muses Glass, the lampwork spacers are by Bits Of Glass. Major, MAJOR props to Three Muses Glass for the faboo focal beads! |
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This bracelet is crafted of 18 gauge sterling silver wire with .999 fine silver Thai Karen Hill Tribe beads and .999 fine silver 22K vermeil beads, rhodonite, clear quartz crystal, rose quartz and Miracle Beads®. The focal bead is by Three Muses Glass, the lampwork spacers are by Bits Of Glass. Major, MAJOR props to Three Muses Glass for the faboo focal beads - they're the perfect center of attention for these pieces of jewelry and I can only hope she makes more soon! |
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This bracelet is crafted of 18 gauge sterling silver wire with .999 fine silver Thai Karen Hill Tribe beads and .999 fine silver 22K vermeil beads, rhodonite, clear quartz crystal, rose quartz and Miracle Beads®. The focal bead is by Three Muses Glass, the lampwork spacers are by Bits Of Glass. Major, MAJOR props to Three Muses Glass for the faboo focal beads - I couldn't have made these without them! |
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This bracelet is crafted of 18 gauge sterling silver wire with .999 fine silver Thai Karen Hill Tribe beads and .999 fine silver 22K vermeil beads, rhodonite, clear quartz crystal, rose quartz and Miracle Beads®. The focal bead is by Three Muses Glass, the lampwork spacers are by Bits Of Glass. Major, MAJOR props to Three Muses Glass for the faboo focal beads! |
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This bracelet is crafted of 18 gauge sterling silver wire with .999 fine silver Thai Karen Hill Tribe beads and .999 fine silver 22K vermeil beads, rhodonite, clear quartz crystal, rose quartz and Miracle Beads®. The focal bead is by Three Muses Glass, the lampwork spacers are by Bits Of Glass. I have this piece listed on eBay, my (new) account is artbybentwarpedandtwisted. I will be listing several more similar pieces in sterling with .999 fine silver and fine silver vermeil beads and some fine silver with fine silver and silver vermeil beads. Major, MAJOR props to Three Muses Glass for the faboo focal beads - they're the perfect center of attention for these pieces of jewelry and I can only hope she makes more soon! |
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The focal bead in this piece was made by Melanie Carey of GlassValley, the lampwork spacers were made by Bits of Glass, the bracelet was made for my doctor, so that when she wears it she can remind her other patients that EVERY month is breast cancer awareness month. |
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I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! My jewelry is Bent, Warped & Twisted - just like me ;) My website and forum and online gallery are still sort of under construction but the chat room's open for business, feel free to drop by! Many of the pieces you see here are available in my Etsy store, if there's a piece you're interested in that isn't in my Etsy store drop me a line and ask about it, I may just not have gotten around to listing it yet! I do try to put "sold" signs on the pieces that are no longer available :) I LOVE WORKING WITH LAMPWORK BEADS. It's not just a love, it's therapy. Marrying my love of jewelry with the art of lampwork glass and wire work is cathartic, relaxing and compared to a shrink, it's CHEAP! It's also something I can do with ALL of my kids that really makes our family time especially fun, and it fosters the importance of crafting and artistic expression in them in a time when an appreciation for true quality work and attention to details seems to be falling by the wayside. When they see the work that goes into it they have a much deeper appreciation for it! I wish I could take up the torch myself but I have fibromyalgia and the meds I take for it would make playing with fire not only dangerous but kind of stupidly irresponsible. Besides, someone has to BUY the pretty beads that all you wonderfully talented torchers make! I try REALLY hard to give props to the glass artists who make the beads that I use in the pieces I make and put in my gallery but if you recognize your beads in my work and for some reason I had oatmeal for brains when I did the writeup and didn't acknowledge you PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I believe in giving credit where it's due and I couldn't make a bead out of Play-Doh and I'm not going to let anyone think I made these beautiful glass jewels that permit ME to put them in pieces of jewelry. I'm very fortunate to have had just the right beads tell me to come and get them, it's a moral imperative that I give their creators the proper respect! Amy Bozarth 2605 Union Point RD Union Point GA 30669 US Phone: 800-759-6869 http://www.bentwarpedandtwisted.com |
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