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Just finished this Our Lady of Guadalupe chaplet with deep red rose beads inspired by the roses of Tepeyac. The Guadalupe medal lights up and changes color.

Any rosary makers interested in some Our Lady of Guadalupe beads?

I bought these wholesale for projects and ended up with WAY more than I can use. They’re acrylic beads with an image of Our Lady on each bead.

I have about 4 bags with ~1,800 beads each. Happy to sell some to fellow makers if anyone wants them.

Just finished a handmade Crown of 12 Stars Chaplet inspired by Revelation 12:1 and the Woman crowned with twelve stars. The stars and crosses glow in the dark, with a Latin Miraculous Medal and a small glowing Our Lady statuette at the center.

I was blessed to be at Lourdes for the last feast of the Immaculate Conception.

Just finished a rosary based on the words Our Lady spoke to St. Bernadette:

“I am the Immaculate Conception” which is spelled throughout the rosary.

I used deep blue beads to represent the Lourdes grotto waters, a centerpiece containing Lourdes water, two golden rose beads inspired by the golden roses on Our Lady’s feet, and three blue water-drop beads symbolizing the miraculous spring.

Here’s a photo from my visit there earlier this year.

This rosary took me months to design and find all the components but it’s something close to my heart since I’ve been to almost every apparition represented.

The rosary represents all nine Vatican approved Marian apparition.

The crucifix is a reproduction of the one held by Our Lady in La Salette, France.

The first Our Father bead represents the crucifix held by Our Lady in Pontmain, France.

The 3 golden hearts represent the apparitions of Our Lady in Belgium which occured in 1932 and 1933 in Beauraing and Bannuex. Our Lady’s title in Beauraing is Our Lady of the Golden Heart.

The center medal is Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal which represents the Rue du Bac apparition to St. Catherine Laboure and also the one to Alphonse Ratisbonne in Rome.

The Rosary then goes in chronological order. The first decade represents the Guadalupe apparitions with teal beads with stars on it, resembling Our Lady’s mantle on the tilma.

The second decade is made of blue globe beads, representing the world, the globe Our Lady held at Rue du Bac, Paris, France.

The next decade are water drop shaped beads representing Lourdes water.

Then next are rose shaped beads representing the Golden Rose given by Pope John Paul II to the Knock Shrine and also alluding to the beloved hymn “Lady of Knock” sung at the Knock Shrine daily.

The last decade represent the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Fatima. The medal has Our Lady of Mt. Carmel as she appeared during the Miracle of the Sun and the Sacred Heart of Jesus as a golden statue of the Sacred Heart towers over the center of the Fatima Sanctuary.

Every decade is has medals representing each apparition in between each decade and all decades are united by a different shade of Marian blue.