“A Charmed Life” has returned “home”
Only its temporary home though! In about a month, our collaborative charm necklace will be auctioned off to support breast cancer research.
For those who never heard our story, or who don’t remember it, here’s the summary:
Over the course of a couple months, a small group of my friends and I collaborated on a charm necklace project. None of us had ever met in person, but this project certainly made us feel closer in so many ways. The artists who participated with me were Wendy Van Camp, Illaya Brown, Bobbi Chukran, Leah Hitchcock-Ybarra, Dorothy Lueloff, Ellen Chasse, Amy Fraser, and Dulcey Heller.
Each of us made a charm in an “ocean” color palette that we all agreed upon. The charms were sent to me last July (2006), and it was my responsibility to get them all to play nicely together! Since we had spent quite a bit of time discussing palette and size issue, this did not turn out to be a problem at all.
Our necklace then made the rounds to all of us. We each wore it to a special event and had shared pictures and stories with each other. Some wonderful experiences resulted from the travels of the necklace. In the midst of this, Belle Armoire magazine put out a call for collaborative necklaces…could there have possibly been any better timing? As soon as we finished passing it around, I packaged it up and shipped it off to be photographed for the magazine. “A Charmed Life” should appear in the Sept/Oct issue of Belle Armoire!
So now it has temporarily come back to live with me until it’s time for the auction!
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August 6th, 2007 at 11:07 am
How lovely a piece. I love the colors, And the idea of the colaberation was great! the piece is excellent! I certainly hope you raise alot of money for it. My husband and I make glass beads, If you ever do another project like this again please let me know and I will donate you some lampwork beads!
August 6th, 2007 at 11:09 am
How sweet of you! I’d rather have you become a collaborator than merely a doner though
August 6th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Wow, this is a great project! I’ll look for it when it’s out in the magazine. Congrats and what a wonderful way to support a great cause.
August 6th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I can’t wait to see the article when it comes out
August 6th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Cyndi,
Thanks so much for sharing your creation with us. This weekend my family will celebrate my mother’s 5th year as a breast cancer surviver. I have been thinking about how to express my gratitude for her good health, and you have given me a great bit of inspiration! I’ll have to get busy - quick.
Thanks again, not only for sharing the picture and story, but thanks in advance for the money you will raise for the continued fight against cancer.
- Elaine
August 6th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Thank you for all the support! We had such a fabulous time together making it and passing it around! May it do a lot of good in the future as well
October 25th, 2008 at 3:55 am
Hello,
I’ve been thinking of doing exactly the same thing for a fund raiser. I also make jewelry, and my cause is lupus.
I was wondering if you’d care to share how you made out in your auction? I’m thinking of possibly doing a monthly auction. Any thoughts, feedback of yours would be most appreciated. (I don’t know if I’ll find my way to this site, so if you would be so kind as to answer me by email, that would be great: psychscribe@myway.xom
Sincerely,
Psychscribe
October 25th, 2008 at 3:57 am
oops- sorry for the typo- its psychscribe@myway.com