Sweet Inspiration

I'm Filipino and I've been to Jolly Bee exactly two times. On both occasions, we went to the Jolly Bee in Vallejo, CA. That weekend, it was very hot, around 90 degrees. After we ate our Chickenjoy, we ordered halo-halo for dessert. It's my favorite Filipino dessert and I would eat it every day if I could, especially during the hot Summer weather. The shaved ice and milk, ube ice cream, and fruits and beans was perfect for cooling us off.

If you ask anyone familiar with culinary arts, the color of your food has to be attractive to make it more appealing to others. The same applies for jewelry. You have to match your colors in a way to make it appealing to other people. If halo-halo is appealing because of its colors, why not use the same colors to make jewelry? So this is what I came up with:


And this one, too:

These are my halo-halo-inspired bracelets. I didn't have all the colors on hand that I wanted, so this is what I came up with using the beads I had on hand. If I wouldn't have eaten a halo-halo at Jolly Bee, I probably never would have thought to put these colors together.

So what do you think?