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

I’ve been trying to make a list of everyone who has publicly acknowledged that they have a chronic illness and who also are crafters.  Maybe they make their living crafting or just use it to cope with the everyday stresses of living with illness.  However, this is obviously an impossible task — there are millions [...]

Tags: charity, chronic illness, crafting, IIWeek09, invisible illness, invisible illness awareness week
Filed under: Announcements, Healing Arts Charity Program

My computer is still dead, the hard drive died entirely and after almost two weeks of trying to get life of it (and luckily getting all the data) I had to admit defeat and take it to get a replacement.  It should be fixed sometime this week. Meanwhile, my father is back in the hospital [...]

Tags: buying craft supplies, chronic illness, father, Florida, looming socks, road trip, sock knitting, update
Filed under: General Housekeeping, Randomness

I know I have been very remiss in my blogging endeavours, but I have to plead illness.It’s been a very hard month+ for me and talking to people is one of the most difficult things at times so I’m afraid I have just been hibernating away. But today, perhaps because of the spring weather (oh [...]

Tags: chronic illness, Daddy, depression, Juliann World Tour 2008, jwt2008, Knifty Knitter, knifty knitter long loom, knitted scarf, loom knit scarf, loom knitting, Mom, spinning, Trendsetter Yarns, trendsetter yarns blossom, USA, visiting America
Filed under: General Housekeeping, Projects and Plans