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The most beautiful things often come from the most broken places.
My friend Sara transforms discarded everyday objects into stunning works of art. She salvages discarded items from yard sales and thrift stores — dishes, vases, trinkets, jewelry — things most people have already deemed worthless.
She spends hours in her workshop carefully breaking the glass, dismantling the jewelry, and turning fractured remains of trinkets into one-of-a-kind wall pieces. She creates these pieces for charities and friends and to brighten spaces like hospital lobbies. Even though the work is tedious, she never charges any money for the pieces. Her joy comes from someone’s face lighting up when they see the treasure she made from discarded pieces. I always find it amazing how something broken can be transformed into something whole, something beautiful.
What if the broken pieces of your life could become something beautiful, too?
Maybe you feel it now, that quiet ache deep in your chest. The weight of being unseen, unheard, unloved. It’s like carrying something so heavy yet so familiar you forget what it feels like to set it down. But what if those broken, fractured parts of your story were the very pieces needed to create something breathtaking? What if beauty really could rise from the ashes?
