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Breast Cancer Awareness Earring Drive Total: As of 9/29/08 50 Pairs turned in! We have reached our Goal. Thanks to each of you who donated earrings! Next Meeting - Saturday October 18th 10:00-12:00 At our September Meeting we worked on learning how to make Quilt Squares for the Breast Cancer Awareness Quilt. Patterns were given out for the heart squares and each participant started their square. Breast Cancer Awareness Earring Drive: The Rutherford County Bead Society is sponsoring an Earring Drive. A few months ago Kelly had a customer who came into the store and a had the following great idea but she wanted us to do this for Cleveland County. As a Bead Society we discussed the idea but think we need to work on helping women in our community and then branch out to other communities. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is coming up and what we would like to do is to ask people to make a pair of earrings with a Breast Cancer Awareness Theme and donate them to the Bead Society. We have a goal of 50 pairs of earrings that we would like to collect. Once they are all collected then the Bead Society will then donate them to the Look Good Feel Good Program. This is a program that helps women with cancer look their best! Sometimes a small thing like earrings can make us feel so much better so we want to help women in our community with Breast Cancer Feel Better! Please bring all earrings to Off The Beaded Path in Forest City. They will have a box set up in the store so that you can drop them off. We would like to exceed our goal! Any earring beyond 50 pairs will then be donated to the Cleveland County Look Good Feel Good Program. Please help us meeting and exceed our goal! Cancer Awareness Beaded Quilt: Jeanette Shanigan of http://shanigansbeadshenanigans.homestead.com/ asks beaders all over the world every year to stitch squares with a theme and donate them to her. Once all squares are received, she stitches them together and makes them into a quilt. Once quilts are complete she then auctions them off at the Bead and Button show in Milwilkee and all money raised goes to Cancer Research. Jeanette has released the theme of the quilt for 2009 and it is "Bead Artists have the HEART to take on Breast Cancer." If you go to her website she has some patterns that you can print off. We have a goal of 75 bead squares that we would like to send her in April of 2009. As a group we have a goal to #1 learn how to make the squares at the September meeting. #2 is that we are challenging all of our members to make a square a month until April. And, #3 is to meet and possibly surpass our goal of 75 squares. To do this we need your help. The Bead Society is challenging the Customers of Off The Beaded Path to make squares to that we can surpass our goal! You can go to Jeanettes website listed above to print off the square patterns. If you need help learning how to make them then please come to our next meeting in September! Once you have a square complete simply drop it by Off The Beaded Path. Kelly will be keeping a running total of how many quilt squares we have and she will be updating this page every week on our progress. PLEASE HELP US AND GET THE WORD OUT! |