VOA慢速英语 珠饰者通过双手结交朋友

　　And she loves bringing people together. For example, she says a group of students who met in her classes now get together two times a week to talk and to bead.

　　VOICE TWO:

　　Ila Lewis makes and sells beaded jewelry but not as a full time job. She is a retired California state employee who lives in Sacramento, the state capital.

　　She enjoys choosing beads in a variety of colors and shapes, then putting them together. The most difficult part, she says, is creating a good design. That takes the most time.

　　She decides which colors to work with, then places each bead on a board covered with cloth. She changes colors, shapes, sizes and placement of beads on the board until the design pleases her.

　　Ila Lewis and other jewelry makers say combining the materials into a finished piece generally takes less time than the design process. But the design process is what she really loves.

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　　VOICE ONE:

　　Interweave Press did a State of Beading Survey in two thousand four. The survey found that the United States had at least five hundred fifty thousand active beaders. They spent an average of about eight hundred dollars a year on supplies. More than half of them sold their work or gave it away to family and friends.

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