National Invisible Awareness Week has ended but it’s still National Pain Awareness Month and right now I’m well aware of my pain so I thought I’d blog instead  In honour of my Crafting for Causes charity program (which has NO donations yet *sniff sniff* — whatcha waiting on people??) I thought I would list just [...]

Tags: beading, charity, chronic illness, chronic pain, chronically ill, crafting, crafting for causes, crafty, crocheting, invisible illness, knitting, loom knitting, national invisible illness awareness week, national pain awareness week, papercrafting, quilting, toiletries
Filed under: Healing Arts Charity Program

My walk is tomorrow!  Please consider donating!  I lied about wearing my sequinny All-Stars, it’s a bit too hot and t managed to fix my broken Z-Coils (sandals with springs in the heel, much easier on the back) so that’s the plan. I’ve started making thank-you cards.  Not quite satisfied with the design yet but [...]

Tags: baby alpaca, beading, Daddy, felting, Florida, Homestead Wool and Gift Farm, Mom, North Carolina, packing for trip, quilting, raw alpaca fiber, raw fiber, spinning, walk for fibromyalgia, ZCoils
Filed under: General Housekeeping, Projects and Plans

I mentioned these last week so here are the pix: The upper bracelets are plastic beads on elastic cord, the lower (for their mom, Valerie) is glass beads mixing the girls’ favourite colours with a silver awareness ribbon charm, strung on 49-strand silver-plated Beadalon.  The colours here aren’t great since I photographed them on my [...]

Tags: beading, Beadlon, bracelets, project superstar
Filed under: Show and Tell

Thanks to everyone who wore blue shirts and wished the girls well.   Their grandmother says that the transplant went smoothly, but now Marian has two weeks of feeling very rough while her bone marrow hopefully converts to be like Audrey’s. I finished the bracelets (3 each for the girls in plastic beads on elastic cording, [...]

Tags: beading, bracelets, project superstar, spinning
Filed under: Projects and Plans