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MAKER: Deanna Dionne

BUSINESS: makes jewelry out of the shattered glass from car break-ins.

HOW STARTED: 鈥淎 week after I moved to Cleveland, my car was broken into.  And my neighbors just said: 鈥榊eah, that鈥檒l happen. That鈥檚 just a part of living here. 鈥樷��

IS GLASS SWEPT FROM THE STREET SANITARY? 鈥�Sometimes people ask me if the glass is clean, if I鈥檝e cleaned it?  Through the process it definitely gets cleaned several times.  No more traces of cigarette butts and rocks.鈥� 

WHERE DO YOU FIND THE GLASS? 鈥�It鈥檚 often right around where I live. I live between a couple of homeless shelters, and it鈥檚 not the homeless that are an issue so much as it is drop-off, early release criminals who have no home, no money, nothing.  So, if someone鈥檚 inclined to break into cars, there will just be a rash of car break-ins every once in a while. Well, not every once in a while.  Pretty often.鈥�

IS THERE A FUTURE IN THIS? 鈥淚 am making a living from this.  During the summer months it鈥檚 about 80% of my income.  In a couple of years, I am certain that I will fulltime be doing Cleveland Street Glass.鈥�

SHATTERED, BUT STRONG: 鈥�There鈥檚 so many layers of how you can interpret the glass metaphorically.  The glass itself is not beautiful, until it鈥檚 broken and the light just shines through it.  I find that, in a lot of us, we often find our strength and our power when you hit a moment in your life that could shatter you, but that鈥檚 when you are sometimes your most beautiful.鈥�