My name is Jennifer Sinclair and this is Miracoli Rosaries.
Married to my beloved for seventeen years, we've been blessed by our three wonderful children with us and five little saints waiting in Heaven.
We are an Army family and Catholic home educators as well. We've weathered years apart through field time and deployments; lived in a foreign country speaking a new language; and have met good people everywhere we've ever been. I've learned how to be a teacher to my children as well as their mother; what works in our home educating and what doesn't; and what it means to try and live out the will of God, and to live for God. Neither home educating nor military life is easy, but they'll stretch and grow you like nothing else. We like to think of it as a holy pruning (John 15:5).
Bead-wise, I've been enamored with beads longer than I can remember. When I was very little, I remember my Grandma Jeanie's sparkling brooches and earrings and how she let me play with all of those jewelry box treasures. I loved seeing the explosion of rainbows all over the room when the sun hit those gems just so (and still do!). There is just something about a beautiful piece of ornamentation that lifts the soul to things higher than this time and place.
I received my degree in Art and Education from Gonzaga University, having studied all the classics: drawing, painting, ceramics and design. I love to experiment with color, design and texture, juxtaposition and the element of surprise (sometimes). Making the most of every design choice--from materials to colors to devotions--to impart the deepest meaning for each piece is absolutely required; the finished work must be deeply personal. But I love it the most when everything comes together and becomes more than simply the sum of its parts. It's the shift from synthesis to catalyst that is the mark of any good work of art: it reminds us of the glory of God; transports our human condition upward; and inspires us to become better people than we think we can be. In a small, inexplicable way, glorious works of art draw us to the Divine and become food for our pilgrim journey.
But what brings me to the bench every day is our Catholic faith. Being able to create beads that help to feed the soul through praying the rosary is a privilege and a joy that I take to heart. Every chaplet, every rosary and every client mean so much to me. It is my greatest hope that every Miracoli Bead will be counted, prayed and cherished for generations, and that hearts will be transformed, lifted and perfected through a lifetime of prayer and service to our Lord through the intercession of His mother. To be even the smallest part of that is a gift that I could never fully measure, and for that, this rosary maker is both truly humbled and thoroughly blessed.
Blessings,
Jennifer
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