NZGBA – New Zealand Glass Bead Artists

Hello,

We stumbled across your website and I must say your beads are so beautiful; I just love the photos on your blog of the workshop you held.  Wow, I sure wish I was able to do this.

Anyway, I noticed you are making beads for the Beads of Courage programme and my little girl who is now 6 has been collecting beads since she was diagnosed in June 2007.  She is now nearly done with her leukemia treatment and to date she has collected probably around 1,000 beads.  I’m not really sure as I haven’t counted them recently.  She simply loves her beads and have taken them to school for a show and tell and we recently started with sibling beads for Bianca’s little sister.

Thank you for the wonderful work you are doing!

Here is a link of Bianca at the age of 4 talking about her beads:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF2oNBRVWw4&feature=channel

Here are some links for you to look at with photos of Bianca and her beads, you’ll have to scroll down to see some of the photos:

http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2009/06/looking-back.html  (You’ll have to scroll down the entry to see the photos)

http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2009/03/signing-car.html  (scroll down) 

http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2009/02/show-and-tell.html

 http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2008/12/day-started-just-like-any-other.html

 http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2008/10/wish-come-true.html  (scroll down)

 http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2008/09/girl-power.html

 http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2008/08/introducing-fire-chief-bianca.html

 http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2008/03/admitted-to-hospital.html

 http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2008_03_09_archive.html

 http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2008/03/tv-appearance-at-start-of-ccf-appeal.html

 http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2007/11/day-11-delayed-intensification.html

http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2007/10/collection-of-beads.html

http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com/2009/07/because-siblings-are-cool-and-special.html

So anyway, we just simply love the beads programme!  Thank you for being part of this.

Lea White (Bianca’s mum)

Our blog:  http://whitesinnz.blogspot.com