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Cancer survivor creates jewelry out of medication

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Susan Braig survived breast cancer, but she’s still fighting to pay off the piles of medical bills. Her creative solution? Selling drugs. No, she hasn’t set up a pharmaceutical drug ring in her Altadena, California home. Braig refashions old prescription drugs into eye-catching costume jewelry.

The 61-year-old former grant writer got the idea in 2007, three years after first being diagnosed, at a medical-themed art exhibition. At first she modeled pieces after a Tiffany & Co. Advertisement, but then expanded her collection to include necklaces, pendants, earrings, and tiaras.

Braig is now cancer-free and hopes her Designer Drug Jewelry line will pull her out of debt.

Full story at LA Times.

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