Sparkle

I recently come across a list of ribbon awareness colors. I’ve also had this bauble pattern waiting to be created when I had time. As I was looking through the awareness colors, the two ideas come together. I would create my own awareness bracelet. Even if no one realized what it was, it would help me feel more open and honest. And so I created.

This has turned into a really special project for me. It has kept me busy over the last couple of days which were really difficult to get through.

The main color is green, for depression. The secondary color is orange for self injury. I know the beads look sort of brown, but they’re meant to be orange. Tertiary is yellow, for suicide awareness. It’s really hard to tell that they’re yellow because I had to choose a really light bead color to match the green, but there’s yellow in there. The fourth bead type I have in there is a clear crystal, meant to be white. I read somewhere that orange and alot of white was a recovered self injurer and that orange and one white was still in recovery. I can’t remember where I read that, so I can’t reference it, but I included it anyway.

It turned out really well. It’s a little bigger than I would like due to an extra row for finishing, but it’s very shiny.