Thursday's Bead Party was a huge success. I had no idea how many people would come. I told Cody it could be 5 people or 50 people. We had lots of ladies in and out the whole evening. A whole bunch of people showed up right at 6 o'clock and I thought a few of them were going to duke it out over a couple of pieces. So funny! Subtracting my overhead costs, we made more than $1000. Amazing! I can't wait to see people all over town wearing their gorgeous beads supporting Mercy and supporting the hard-working women of Uganda.
Here's a picture of me and the bead-makers at the market.
Lucky for all of you we have some leftovers! All of these pieces are made out of magazine/paper beads. Strips of paper are wrapped over and over to make these amazing designs and then varnish is put over the top to seal them.
I have 11 of the long necklaces. These are great worn doubled over and are some of my favorites because they go with so many things. They are approx. 24-28 inches long. They are all multi-colored, but some of them have some "base" colors. I have 2 black-based, 0 pink-based, 2 brown-based, and 1 blue-based, and 6 all multi-colored ($15 each).
Then I have single strand necklaces in mostly solid colors. They are approx. 17 inches long. I have a peach, dark green, yellow with yellow accents, and yellow with black accents, sky blue, and red. ($10 each)
Then I have two necklaces approx 13 inches long. One is smaller beads that are brick red, and the other is seafoam green with black. ($10 each)
Then I have one necklace 16 inches long with black pony beads and multi-colored paper beads ($12 each).
Then I have one necklace with larger beads that is approx 18 inches long. It is bright green ($15).
Then for bracelets, I have one green wrap around style ($7) and vertical bead stretch bracelets in black ($5). And then a single strand stretch bracelets in yellow($5 each).
Just send me an email (melissabusby@ hotmail.com) or Facebook message if you are interested in any of these pieces. It will be first come, first serve. All out-of-towners will need to add a couple of dollars to your total for shipping. And it looks like I will be buying more jewelry to bring home with me, so if you can't buy now, there will be a chance later too. Thanks!!
