{"id":89,"date":"2007-10-19T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T21:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2007-10-19T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T21:26:14","slug":"beads-for-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Beads for a Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/im_beadingdaily.jpg\" title=\"im_beadingdaily.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/im_beadingdaily.jpg\" alt=\"im_beadingdaily.jpg\" height=\"83\" style=\"width: 114px; height: 83px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0 you&#8217;re addicted to designing jewelry,\u00a0 you may have already\u00a0heard of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beadingdaily.com\/\" title=\"BeadingDaily\">BeadingDaily<\/a>. \u00a0 Beading Daily is a new beading community e-newsletter with loads of\u00a0great information.\u00a0 I\u00a0usually do a quick glance through their email\u00a0articles, but today one really caught my attention.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I was taken to the <a href=\"http:\/\/refugeecrafts.blogspot.com\/2007_10_01_archive.html\" title=\"A little something blog\">&#8220;A little something&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0blog written by ESL teachers who, together with volunteers, are making a difference in the lives of refugee women in Denver, CO.\u00a0 <em>Beads <\/em>are actually making a difference in these women&#8217;s lives.\u00a0 The women meet regularly in an effort to learn new skills, self-sufficiency, and to learn a craft which they then sell.\u00a0 What a great idea!\u00a0 I was especially touched by the story of a 53 year old woman whose family has fled Iraq, and is now starting a new life here in the United States.\u00a0\u00a0 You can read how this program has made an impact recently on her life <a href=\"http:\/\/refugeecrafts.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/eight-dollars.html\" title=\"Eight Dollars\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 This really puts things in perspective.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I know I have mentioned that I like to give my extra beads to the boys to make their own treasures.\u00a0\u00a0 Now I know a great place to send spare beads!\u00a0 Maybe you have extra beads too that you are not using.\u00a0 Why not send them to\u00a0this women&#8217;s group\u00a0~ a Wish List as well as a mailing address is on the site&#8217;s home page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have a great weekend!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 If\u00a0 you&#8217;re addicted to designing jewelry,\u00a0 you may have already\u00a0heard of\u00a0BeadingDaily. \u00a0 Beading Daily is a new beading community e-newsletter with loads of\u00a0great information.\u00a0 I\u00a0usually do a quick glance through their email\u00a0articles, but today one really caught my attention.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I was taken to the &#8220;A little something&#8221;\u00a0blog written by ESL teachers who, together with volunteers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fab-finds","category-good-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}