March Madness Giveaway – Beaded Jewelry
March 4, 2009 by Michelle Smith
Filed under Accessories
We at Splendicity are extremely excited about our re-launch and in order to properly mark this event with you, our readers, we are holding a month-long March Madness giveaway celebration. 
Each day, during the month of March, a Splendicity blog will host a day-long giveaway. If you’d like a chance to win the prize, you will have until 11:59 Eastern time to leave a comment on the post. A random commenter will be chosen and the winner will be announced the next day.
On to the prize of the day………
Leaky Life Zulugrass Jewelry is beautiful, made of sustainable resources, and helps a community to thrive.
Philip and Kay Leaky wanted to develop a way to help their Maasi neighbors, support their families, after drought substantially changed their way of life. They came up with the Leaky Life Zulugrass jewelry company as a way for the local Kenyan bush women to earn money. While the Maasi men drove the cattle hundreds of miles farther afield, the women used grass to craft lovely bead jewelry.
Soon the women were harvesting grass, one blade at a time. The long grass was dried and cut into bead-size pieces and dyed lovely hues – blues, greens, reds, yellows, pinks, purples, earth and natural tones – which were then strung into necklaces and bracelets. The Leakeys added brilliant Czech glass beads to their designs, mixing them with the soft luster of the grass beads and giving sparkle and a contemporary flair to the jewelry. Zulugrass was born.
To read more about Leaky Life Zulugrass jewelry, click here. In addition, 5% of all Leaky Life Zulugrass jewelry sales go back to supporting the infrastructure in the Rift Valley of Kenya.
The March Madness giveaway prize for today is this lovely multistrand beaded necklace and bracelet. It was made my the Maasai women.
For more March Madness fun, please click here.
Image credit: Leaky Life Zulugrass Jewelry
Beautiful necklace.
Lovely! What special jewelry; please enter me.
Thank you for offering this giveaway! eyeslikesugar [at] gmail [dot] com.
This jewelry is lovely. How creative of these women to use a natural material to make it.
Beautiful jewelry.
Leaky Life Zulugrass Jewelry is splendid – it radiates a distinctive vitality and energy! And I love the background story – and that 5% goes back to support the local infrastructure in Kenya. (BTW – I lived in Nairobi for for 4 months while I was an exchange student at the (then called) University of East Africa. I love both Kenya and Tanzania!
It’s so lovely! What a wonderful prize!
My twenty five year old daughter would love this set. She would love the story of the Maasi women too. Please let me win for her. Thank you, Jack
This would be a beautiful set for Spring.
I love this neckless. Good luck to all!
~WiteNgtOwl
Beautiful necklace – and what a great cause!
i would give this to my fiance’ if i won it. the jewelry is beautiful. thanks in advance if i win and have a blessed day.
Wonderful prize. Pick me and I’ll luuuuuuurrrrrrvvvvvvvveeeeeee you!
Many thx.
Leaky Life Zulugrass Jewelry
Beautiful set and very nice colors
This would be perfect for Easter. Thanks for a chance.
ooo, this is soooo pretty! i’d love to show it off!
What a fantastic jewelry set and a wonderful cause.
Their jewelery is beautiful. Thank you for the chance to win
Looking at this gorgeous necklace and bracelet tells me one thing for sure… I’d have a terrible fight on my hands with my daughter.
She’d love it as much as I do so we’d have to take turns wearing it… the colors are great and the story behind it is even better!
Lovely giveaway!
would love to win this
That is really interesting and quite unique!
Very nice jewelry! It looks like Spring on a string!
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nice colorful jewlery:)
Beautiful necklace
I love ethnic goodies, please enter me, this is gorgeous!
I love this set
lovely colors.
The necklace is gorgeous!
Great jewelery!
Leaky Life Zulugrass Jewelry is beautiful
I really enjoyed reading the story behind these beautiful pieces of jewelry. What a wonderful entreprise.
Love the set – would be a great addition to my wardrobe.
just gorgeous thanks for the giveaway
Very nice, if I’d win I’d give it to my friend who is 84, to her Grand-daughter. I hope she would love it. skyxsky27(at)gmail.com
I love these beautiful pieces! What a great way to help these women!
This jewelry is very beautiful. I have just the dress that would go with it that i can almost fit in. Thank you for having this giveaway.
Very interesting, I love it!
Count me in, thanks
Very lovely. Looks like a beautiful spring/summer jewelry set.
How nice. It would be nice to wear this, knowing the story behind it.
These are truly unique pieces of jewelry….I love the colors!
this is beautiful and what a great thing
This jewelry is beautiful and truly unique! Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!
These are beautiful! I would love to have them!!
Awesome some natural necklaces hope I win the contest
I really love this necklace,it is a nice islander necklace.Would
be great for the summer with a cute sleeveless dress.Please enter
me and thanks for the nice giveaway
Please enter me into the contest. Thanks!
Wow! This necklace rocks!
pick me pick me pick me!!
Great match for the colors I wear. Love the looks!
i fell in love with this jewelry, so earthy and alive, ty so much for the giveaway