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Residents at Morning Pointe of Chattanooga on Shallowford Road string together some time for creativity once a week to make jewelry out of all kinds of beads.
“It’s the designing, the putting together, the colors. ... It’s fascinating,” said Ruth Moore, who told Morning Pointe staff she’d only move in if they started a jewelry-making program.
Moore, 94, said her sons bring her beads to make jewelry and Morning Pointe provides supplies, too. Right now she’s working on a Christmas tree necklace. Other creations feature lustrous purple beads or Tennessee Vols beads.
Morning Pointe of Chattanooga residents Anzie Moates, left, and Ruth Moore are jewelry-making buddies.
Resident Nellie White made a jeweled watch band.
“I like fancy things, and this jewelry is fancy,” she said.
Residents use needles and bifocals kept with the beads to string their jewels together. Morning Pointe life enrichment director Dana Smith said their gossip, chatter and laughter rings down the halls as they work.
“You should see them at dinner,” Smith said. “They all come down wearing their jewelry.”
The women are also making necklaces and bracelets to donate to the Forgotten Child Fund, sponsored by local fire and police departments.
Kim Nichols, whose husband Chuck is fire chief of the Catoosa County Fire Department, began volunteering at Morning Pointe when her mother moved in two and a half years ago. She helps coordinate the jewelry donations for the Forgotten Child Fund.
“I just thought about a little girl getting those in her stocking,” Nichols said.
The women will sell some of their jewelry at Morning Pointe’s fall festival Friday, Nov. 20. The money they make will be put back into the jewelry program to buy beads, string and tools.
For more information call Morning Pointe of Chattanooga at 296-0097.
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