Bead for life....

Innovation is what seperates the spectacular from the ordinary. It requires someone to question the norm, the well trodden path many take and dont wonder if theres a short cut or even a scenic route.
Ive always loved the concept of turning something redundant into a Masterpiece, or turning nothing into something, like a fosil fuel for a creative outlet. It just takes that fleeting moment in the mundane Monday mind to change your world, maybe THE world or the world how weve all agreed to view it but certainly your own and how you interact within it.
Which brings me to Bead for life (  http://www.beadforlife.org/ )

The picture above is an example of the Jewelery they make, all colours, shapes and sizes, they make other products but here im focussing on the jewelry.
Beautiful you may be thinking and not give it another thought but the difference between these beads and the ones you can get in topshop are that theyre made from old magazines and papers. Innovation at its strongest and most charming.
I wont go into too much detail, as you can find out everything you need to know on the link in this blog but the beads are made in Uganda, in extreme poverty and sold on our shores independently by people hosting Beadforlife parties, where the host is encouraged to invite guests and sell the beads, sending the profits back to the people that made them. Whole villages have been built and lives changed because of one innovative woman named Millie, who discovered this creative outlet, little did she know how many lives she would be changing.
If the world had more Millies and everyone thats involved in this project, it would be a better more comfortable place to be.
Weldone http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/ and keep up the amazing work to basically save peoples lives.
Go have a beadforlife party!!!!