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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.beadingdaily.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Question of the Week: Why Are You Thankful for Your Beads?</title><link>http://www.beadingdaily.com/blogs/daily/archive/2011/11/25/question-of-the-week-why-are-you-thankful-for-your-beads.aspx</link><description>It&amp;#39;s Thanksgiving weekend here in the U.S., and now that we&amp;#39;ve got the leftovers in the refrigerator and are settling in to decorating for the holidays, I thought I&amp;#39;d ask our panel of artists and experts why they are thankful for their beads</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Debug Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>re: Question of the Week: Why Are You Thankful for Your Beads?</title><link>http://www.beadingdaily.com/blogs/daily/archive/2011/11/25/question-of-the-week-why-are-you-thankful-for-your-beads.aspx#128807</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:09:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">e599e337-6bb7-4670-8e80-180f614937ac:128807</guid><dc:creator>Swirl2941</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m thankful for my beads because I haven&amp;#39;t been active in any crafting projects for quite some time and my job doesn&amp;#39;t offer any outlet for my inner artist. &amp;nbsp;I could feel my creativity slipping away day by boring day. &amp;nbsp;I received a bracelet for my birthday and it popped off my wrist in a parking lot. &amp;nbsp;When I realized it was gone I drove back only to find that it had been crushed by a car and it lay broken on the ground. &amp;nbsp;I decided to look for a pattern to see if I could reconstruct the bracelet or make a new one from the old beads and that search opened the door to the wonderful world of beading. &amp;nbsp;I find that when I bead all of the worries of the day fade into the background and those little glass treasures have a soothing and calming effect. &amp;nbsp;They have rekindeled the flame of my crativity!&lt;/p&gt;
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