Shortly before leaving Lima for their service assignments, Goshen students had a chance for individual creative expression during a jewelry workshop with Eliana and Ricardo Mauriola Carrasco, long-time host parents and friends of the Peru Study-Service Term program. Eliana and Ricardo make jewelry as a cottage business and sell necklaces, bracelets and earrings overseas.
Eliana Mauriola Carrasco helps Thomas, her host son.
Ricardo and Eliana described their Peru-grown materials, which included large and small seeds, carved and polished coconut skin and shells, dyed in many bright colors. Most of the materials come from the Amazon rain forest. Some have special meaning. For example, some Amazon people believe the Hauyruro seed, with its black and red ying-yang pattern, brings good luck.
Jake and Maria select beads.
With patient instruction, the students spent a morning making beautiful necklaces and bracelets for family members, friends and themselves. After choosing their materials and picking out their favorite colors, they strung the beads through colored thread and learned how to space them with knots and braiding. Eliana and Ricardo hopped from table to table, guiding the students through the steps.
Students show off their new bracelets.
The students were pleased with their creative efforts – as their smiles clearly indicated.
A jewelry-making workshop was led by Eliana and Ricardo Mauriola Carrasco, long-time host parents and friends of the Peru Study-Service Term program.Eliana and Ricardo Mauriola Carrasco led a workshop on making jewelry.Ricardo Mauriola Carrasco.Eliana Mauriola Carrasco shows Jackson, April and other students a finished piece of jewelry.Natalie examines beads.Students gather beads for their bracelets.A handful of colorful beads.Aimee and Caleb work on their bracelets.Neal, Gretchen and Derek work on their jewelry.Jake and Maria select beads.Gina, Natalie and Malaina.Jonathan works on a necklace.Colorful beads.Ornamental beads.Thread used for bracelets and necklaces.Jackson and April.Neal.Malaina.April.Thomas and Jackson.Caleb.Maria selects more beads.Aimee.Dean.Derek and Gretchen work on a bracelet.Ricardo Mauriola Carrasco helps Neal and Malaina.Swirls of beads.Jake.Eliana Mauriola Carrasco helps Thomas, her host son.Eliana Mauriola Carrasco helps Gina with her bracelet.Dean shows off his new necklace.April shows off her new necklace.Jonathan and his new necklace.Thomas, Jonathan, Jackson, Dean and April with the necklaces they made.Malaina, April, Gretchen, Natalie and Maria with the jewelry they made.Students show off their new bracelets.Students display the jewelry they made.
