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Jewelry, toys found hazardous
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette, IL 

Parents, you might want to take a look at what’s in your child’s jewelry box or toy chest. Consider:

– Some SpongeBob Squarepants fishing poles sold in stores across the country from 2001 to 2005 were discovered to have been coated with lead paint.

– Reebok charm bracelets given to shoe customers contained 67 percent lead by weight.

– Some American Girl earrings, necklaces, bracelets and hair accessories sold from 1999 through February 2006 were found to contain high levels of lead. Read more about Jewelry, toys found hazardous …

Unique Christian Jewelry Combines Fashion, Faith, and Witnessing
PR Web (press release), WA

A Sterling Performance features Kay Zoretic’s unique faith based jewelry. Witness Bracelets and other pieces of her Quietly Christian line help hesitant Christians practice their witnessing skills.

Bowling Green, KY (PRWEB) May 31, 2006 — More and more people are embracing their Christian faith, but they want to share it rather than shout it. Silversmith, Kay Zoretic has found a way to help them do that. A somewhat shy Christian herself, Zoretic remembered a little bracelet made by children learning about the Christian faith in Vacation Bible School. She recreated the Witness Bracelet, but Instead of the little plastic beads, Zoretic fashioned the bracelet using handmade silver beads from Indonesia and Thailand, along with gemstones in the seven teaching colors Read more about Unique Christian Jewelry Combines Fashion, Faith, and Witnessing …

Thailand : Tourism Authority supports jewelry sector April 1, 2006/Fibre2fashion.com, India  Thai ornament and jewelry attract everyone visiting Thailand as it is the major source of revenue for the country. Looking at strong popularity of jewelry sector, the Tourism Authority of Thailand has started to support this industry. Country’s jewelries are popular because of its high quality at […]

The hole truth
Kansas City Star, MO

Savannah Leonard was 16 when her best friend got her tongue pierced. Immediately fascinated, she thought, “Hey — I could get a facial piercing that wouldn’t look tacky because I’d just keep my mouth shut!”

Several years later Leonard still likes the notoriety of looking a bit different. She works at a drugstore, serving an elderly clientele. “I’ll be talking to them, and they’re like, ‘What is that in your mouth!’” If they only knew. “Once I turned 18, I went all out. I’ve got them everywhere now. Piercings are addictive.” Read more about The hole truth …

Local woman brings feral attitude to performance and jewelry
Ferndale/Berkley Mirror, MI

Rio Scafone wants women to unleash their feral sides.
The Royal Oak-based performer has designed her own line of Feral Apparel jewelry and items, but she’s selling more than products. She’s selling a philosophy.

Scafone comes from a performing family (her uncle is rockabilly pioneer Jack Scott) and splits her time between acting, modeling, designing and recording music.

She created Feral Apparel last year while in “The Smell of the Kill,” a three-woman play. Read more about Local woman brings feral attitude to performance and jewelry …

Art to Wear offers jewelry, handbags, pottery, etc.
Northwest Herald

CRYSTAL LAKE – Residents can buy jewelry, pottery and other original works from more than a dozen area artists Friday at an event to help benefit a local animal shelter.

“They’re all one-of-a-kind things that you can’t find in a department store,” said Mary Telfer Holden, who helped to organize another Art to Wear benefit after its successful debut last year. Read more about Art to Wear offers jewelry, handbags, pottery, etc. …

BWWMH Auxiliary to hold jewelry sale The Thomasville Times, AL The $5 Jewelry Sale returns to Bryan W. Whitfield Memorial Hospital’s classroom April 6 and 7 just in time to fill your Easter baskets. Sponsored by the BWWMH Auxiliary, the event has become one of their most popular fundraisers as shoppers take advantage of the incredible […]

Photos fade, but DNA jewelry is forever
Japanese company offers people a unique way to remember loved ones
MSNBC

TOKYO – People hoping to remember deceased loved ones with something more permanent than a lock of hair or faded photo can now have a piece of their DNA saved in a pendant.

Eiwa Industry Co. recently began selling pendants for preserving genetic mementos of the dead.

The company, which mainly manufactures decorative metal fixtures for houses, entered the DNA pendant business last August with a line of products for saving the DNA of bygone pets. Quickly, the company started receiving requests for pendants for human DNA, said general manager Morihito Ikai Read more about Photos fade, but DNA jewelry is forever …

MPCA gives guidelines for disposing of lead-containing jewelry
West Central Tribune, MN 

ST. PAUL
Jewelry and other products believed to contain high levels of lead should be disposed of at a household hazardous waste site, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said.

The MPCA issued this week’s advisory after a 4-year-old Minneapolis boy recently died from lead poisoning. Jarnell Brown, 4, of Minneapolis died of lead poisoning Feb. 22 after swallowing a charm from a bracelet distributed by Reebok. The charm was found to be 90 percent lead and has since been recalled. Read more about MPCA gives guidelines for disposing of lead-containing jewelry …

American Girl recalls unsafe kids’ jewelry KARE – CBS 5 The Associated Press Published March 30, 2006, 9:59 AM CST Wisconsin-based American Girl is recalling about 180,000 pieces of children’s jewelry because they contain high levels of lead. The jewelry was sold at American Girl Place in Chicago and New York and at the American Girl […]