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A pay-it-forward movement is underway in Brevard. Bodies are decorating rocks for others to find. The goal? to brighten someone's day Wochit

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Brevard Rocks is a pay-it-forward accumulation whose Facebook folio has over 1,000 members.The abstraction is for associates to acrylic rocks, and abode them about town, for added associates to find. In these photos are Jennifer Justiniano and her babe Aubrey, 11, and son Liam, 5, at Wickham Park, Melbourne.(Photo: TIM SHORTT/ FLORIDA TODAY)Buy Photo
It’s a movement growing actuality in Brevard, and you never apperceive aback you ability blunder aloft it – literally.
Painted rocks are bustling up above the county, some with motivational sayings, others with appealing pictures. And yes, they were placed there on purpose cat-and-mouse for you to find. The rocks are allotment of a pay-it-forward accomplishment started on Facebook alleged Brevard Rocks.
With added than 1,200 members, the accumulation is growing anniversary day, said Jen Justiniano, who started the movement actuality in Brevard. And that agency added and added painted, adorning rocks will be broadcast from Titusville all the way bottomward to Malabar and beyond. With associates all over the county, rocks can be begin aloof about anywhere: accessible parks, alfresco stores, in parking lots, in libraries, you name it.
How it works is if you acquisition a rock, you either accumulate it and accomplish addition to leave about else, or bead the bedrock off in a new area already you’re accessible to allotment with it. On the aback of the rocks, associates of the accumulation usually acrylic the name of the Facebook accumulation “Brevard Rocks,” so that those who acquisition the rocks can see what the movement is all about and allotment area they begin the rock. In the group, there are pictures acquaint about every day of associates painting rocks or of those who accept begin a bedrock and ambition to allotment their experience.
“If you accumulate it you’re encouraged to acrylic added or abode more, but you don’t accept to,” said Justiniano. “The accomplished abstraction is to advance joy and happiness. The ambition is whoever finds the bedrock it, it brightens their day or gives them joy.”
There are no absolute rules to the pay-it-forward movement, aloof that participants accumulate it family-friendly, as abounding accouchement are complex with the group. Justiniano additionally emphasized that those who leave rocks abaft accomplish abiding they don’t leave it central stores, abnormally food that advertise corrective rocks, such as Michael’s, she said.

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Justiniano said it all started during Hurricane Matthew. The storm was affirmation her out, so she started painting rocks as a way to affluence her mind. She acquaint some pictures of her rocks online and was told about a pay-it-forward bedrock accumulation in Canada.
Brevard Rocks is a pay-it-forward accumulation whose Facebook folio has over 1,000 members. the abstraction is for associates to acrylic rocks, and abode them about town, for added associates to find. In these photos are Jennifer Justiniano and her babe Aubrey, 11, and son Liam, 5, at Wickham Park, Melbourne, area Liam begin a bedrock as they were agreement ones that they had corrective and is proudly assuming his acquisition in this photo. (Photo: TIM SHORTT/ FLORIDA TODAY)
“We don’t accept annihilation like that about actuality so that’s how I came up with the Brevard Rocks Facebook group,” said Justiniano. “That weekend, I corrective I don’t apperceive how abounding rocks and we started agreement them.”
Justiniano, a Melbourne resident, alone off her aboriginal set of rocks throughout Wickham Esplanade with her two children.
“We affective the bag and placed them randomly,” she said. “And from there, I kept the bag with me and placed them anywhere. Food we go into, alfresco of restaurants, appealing abundant anywhere.”
And from there, the movement took off, she said. Bodies begin the rocks, abutting the accumulation and started to participate themselves, painting rocks and abrogation them behind.
It’s become a ancestors activity for associates like Kat Poteet of Titusville and Monica McCraney of Palm Bay. Poteet says she consistently paints rocks with her two grandchildren and they accomplish a day of it. They accompany a ability kit to the park, acrylic the rocks and afresh adumbrate them, oftentimes authoritative accompany in the process. McCraney said it’s a abundant way to band with her daughter.
“It's so abundant fun for the kids especially. I adulation painting with my daughter,” she said. “We do mommy and me rocks. I acrylic one and I will see her painting one absolutely like I did. We adumbrate those calm and those are sometimes adamantine to allotment with.”

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A lot of associates said they accumulate a bag of corrective rocks in the block of their car and bead them off whenever the affection strikes, they leave one behind.
“For us we don't absolutely adjudge a place. We accumulate them in our car afterwards they are accomplished and aback we get out to run assignment we aces a few and bead them off,” said Samantha Finch, a Malabar resident. “There were a few we did that we acquainted should be apparent by the appropriate crowd. Like a plumbers able rock, we larboard that at Home Depot area plumbers would acquisition it.”
And conceivably the fun isn’t consistently in award a rock, but in abrogation them behind. Spreading the affection against accepting it.
“You get a little access of action aback you leave a bedrock about and you get that activity afresh aback you go by and see that it's been found,” said Jennifer Decker of Palm Bay. “Sometimes bodies will column their acquisition in the accumulation but sometimes they don't. It’s air-conditioned to see the acknowledgment from those who column that they begin a bedrock you hid.”
As for painting the rock, annihilation goes. From awkward toddler art to intricate details, the rocks can arise in abounding forms.
“We aloof use our acuteness we attending at the Bedrock and think, ‘Does it attending like something?’ If not, we ability acrylic flowers on it or words of advance or attributes scenes rainbows,” said Poteet.
Justiniano recommends those who participate use acrylic acrylic and allowance the bedrock with article baptize resistant, such as Modge Podge or aerosol acrylic sealer. However, there are no requirements to participate, she said, and you can adorn the bedrock with whatever or about you want. The alone affair she hopes is that bodies booty pictures of the rocks they acrylic and allotment them in the group, forth with announcement pictures if you acquisition a bedrock to accumulate the movement going.

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“There’s so abundant negativity and anguish it’s nice there’s these little glimmers of beatitude advance in amid that,” she said.
For those absorbed in participating, appointment Facebook.com and chase “Brevard Rocks, or bang here.
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