{"id":686,"date":"2024-09-02T21:37:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T21:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tweez.me\/?p=686"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:02:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T13:02:40","slug":"whats-your-bodega-order-vi-nguyens-beaded-bites-evoke-the-spirit-of-nyc-corner-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tweez.me\/index.php\/2024\/09\/02\/whats-your-bodega-order-vi-nguyens-beaded-bites-evoke-the-spirit-of-nyc-corner-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Your Bodega Order? Vi Nguyen\u2019s Beaded Bites Evoke the Spirit of NYC Corner Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The familiar rustling of an aluminum-lined potato chip bag is almost inseparable from the universal experience of eating the salty, crispy treat. But when you pick up Vi Nguyen<\/a>\u2019s snack packs, the sensation is replaced by the soft rattling and cool touch of glass beads.<\/p>\n Nguyen found beading in a transitional time when experiencing serious health obstacles and career changes. The meditative, rewarding technique became her happy place, and she eventually found herself creating embroidered pieces that allotted for up to 40 hours of meticulous work threading hundreds of seed beads, most of them only about two millimeters in diameter.<\/p>\n