What brought tears to our eyes that evening was the meaning of the butterfly beads they have in this project. Parents, who lost their child after a long fight against the cancer, get a butterfly bead, that their own kid chose for them when they knew that they won't be cured.
The most amazing butterfly beads I have ever seen are done my Margaret Zinser.
I guess many beadmakers tried to make butterflies once in their beadmaker career. I just checked through my old Flickr gallery and discovered that I made them too (I thought I never did): Butterfly sets, in the middle of the page.
It's always fun for myself to look through those old pictures, I am always surprised how many beads I already made. I started in 2003, which is nearly 7 years, but it feels more like two or three years. Time flies by so fast when you enjoy what you're doing.
