“Help me set a World Record and

I’ll Make Your Business unforgettable...”

Leave your legacy by sponsoring a specific section of the Neverending Necklace and get exposure for life!

The Neverending Necklace was started in 1998 to become the world’s longest and most valuable necklace. It is made from beads which people have dedicated to dear friends and family.

With currently being almost 800 feet long the necklace is divided into sections. These are beautifully mounted on framed panels, just like the ones you can see above. All these sections draw much attention and admiration during events everywhere.

Soon I will exhibit them around the country and the world. Each section is displayed with a plaque bearing the sponsor’s name.

Include your business now and be one of the Charter Sponsors!

For more information including all your sponsorship benefits, go to www.addbeads.com.

Now a little bit about me and how the necklace was started.

When our son was just a few months old, I visited a very big gem, mineral, fossil and jewelry show which was organized by our local Gem and Mineral Society. Since I was always fascinated by rocks, minerals and fossils I joined that organization immediately and found myself buying some hematite beads, a clasp and a pair of pliers.

Later at home, that purchase turned into my first "professional" necklace and bead stringing was about to change my life forever.

With such a wonderful medium in my hands, I would not stop designing and creating necklaces and more, and soon the hobby became too costly to not try and sell some of my pieces. Which I did, and it was very encouraging. That was almost twenty years ago.

What followed can only be described as the big adventure of beading. Better yet: the many attempts of using my love for beads to shape it into a profitable business.

With too much creativity to manage, and the lack of proper guidance and focus, I spent many resources just to keep the tiny enterprise afloat. Which was fine at the time, being a full time mom and still new to the country and its inner workings.

I loved beads, though. And they made me happy.

My technique became refined and I taught myself how to knot pearls. I am very meticulous and always have been good working with my hands, so things went rather well. I started teaching "Fine Jewelry With Beads" to other people in many different places. There were probably more than thousand people who took my classes and shared their newfound passion. Among them: the mother of a New York Senator, one of the very first Ziegfeld girls, a man who used to dance with Mikhail Baryshnikov, the mother of a TV series actor, the first female administrator in the White House under JFK, and many many more wonderful and dear people.

For a dreadful short time, I owned a store (before the big beading craze) and did not get enough traffic, so I never gained the momentum needed to keep it going. But it was during that time when I envisioned a charity project made with beads. So the Neverending Necklace was born. Back then, it was called the Love & Peace Necklace and later the "Love & Peace Project", which is still my business name today.

An item in our daily newspaper in 1998 featured a local Veteran's charity, and it inspired me to start the world's longest necklace. The idea was simple: dedicate beads to people you care about, which will be added to the necklace. The dedication is manifested in the "Love & Peace Journal", and each dedication is $1.00 donation, which goes to the charity.

That was nice and good, and it brought dedications for a while. My shop closed, and the necklace had nowhere to go. So it sat at home, and I tortured myself as to what I could do to get more dedications.

You know what happens after a downfall: you sit at home and feel sorry for yourself, with your life having turned into a road that became more and more a dark alley. Not where I wanted to be.

I started beading and teaching again, and did a direct mail for pearl restringing to the jewelry trade as well as high end fashion stores. It was explosive. Within a year I had three dozen accounts, hired one and a half stringers and a delivery driver, and still put in 10 to 14 hour days. With Palm Beach in my back door, there are few society ladies who don't own at least one piece that went through my hands. (They don't know that, but to me it's a cute and halfways satisfying fact.)

A couple of years ago, I was forced to retire when joint problems in my hands crept up. I was unable to tie a single knot without tremendous pain. Easy tasks such as showering, driving, even writing became unbearable. (Fortunately, stopping nearly all that work made it almost completely better, except when I try to knot another necklace, which I can't seem to live without.)

Throughout the years though, I started to attend a variety of different events with the Neverending Necklace, and many promoters donated a space for the Project to be displayed and beads being added. It was a hobby for my weekends, and it was always a welcome distraction from my deadlines and seasonal stress.

However it kept nagging inside of me. Not enough dedications to really make an impact for charities, and an enormous amount of time and expenses needed to be spent to collect the growth of a few feet for the necklace. It went steady yet at a snail's pace.

The logical choice was, if the necklace was to survive and maintain it's web presence, to turn it into a business. A real business with income, 10 to 14 hour workdays, business expenses, web site maintenance, booth fees, cost of material and everything else that comes with the territory.

This is where the necklace is now. I am selling sponsorships for the unique sections of the necklace to make its survival possible. To make it grow and prosper, and to create a sensational display that will eventually contain hundreds of framed panels that will travel to be exhibited and enjoyed by people around the world.

And as always, $1.00 per bead of the sponsorship fee will go to a charity, which you can choose from on the website.

Above it all the philosophy behind the necklace stands guard, and it never lets me forget those who it serves: of course the charities, but the true beneficiary of the necklace is you! This is the string of love and peace, and to remember a special person and show it to the world will make you and that dear one unforgettable. All your positive feelings for who you dedicate beads to are manifested on that string.

To me, being the guardian of this marvelous object is an honor, an obligation which I very well understand. I am committed to it, and it is very clear that I will make it truly the most precious necklace ever. It contains your love.

It is the rope that ties us together!

Go to my web site: http://www.addbeads.com and enjoy!

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