1.0 link 65967 <![CDATA[You Are What You Wear]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lesley-m-m-blume/you-are-what-you-wear_b_65967.html At first, the beads looked like regular beads to me. Pretty, but nothing wildly out of the ordinary.

"Look closer," advised jewelry designer Lisa Salzer.

So I did. I noticed that the beads were delicately ridged, like a shell. There was something unusual and beautiful about the color of them.

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Lisa Salzer of Lulu Frost Jewelry


"That's because they're made from magazine and newspaper strips," Salzer told me. "By women in Rwanda. They collect the paper, cut it...

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