Holy smoke batman! Can you believe that 2009 has come and gone and 2010 is here and will surely fly by just as fast if not faster?
Looking back at 2009 I am proud of the new relationships I have been blessed with, the continued family bonding and support, the opportunities to continue working with my Young Marines youth and staff and more recently my girls from Girls to Young Ladies. I can also add that I picked up a new hobby - knitting, to my earlier passion of crocheting.
The last part of the year brought several wonderful announcements involving my son, the love of my life, honoring him for his committment, hard work, and abilities as a leader in the Milton Lewis Young Marines. He was 1st recognized as Young Marine of the Year for the Unit, then was selected by the 1st Florida Regiments as YMOY (for the state of Florida), and then before Christmas we were surprised with the announcement that he had been selected by the 3rd Division (6 states). This is such an amazing honor and brings with it many wonderful opportunities for him this coming year. More about all of this later.
For 2010 I look forward to staying involved in volunteering with both of these organizations, increasing my involvement with my church, finding ways to improve on my current skills and learning new ones, and working on a few other goals I have running around my head.
I would love to hear from others (you) about your plans for the new year and/or your reflection of last year, what are you proud of, what would you wish to change or forget about last year. Feel free to discuss here.
Happy New Year to each of you!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Monday, October 19, 2009
How can my addiction help others?
Addiction? Relax, don't get too worried. My addiction is to yarn and things to knit and crochet. Ever since I started learning how to crochet in January of this year and now knitting, I love to buy yarn and find things to make. Well I've found myself attracted mostly to hats and scarves and small projects. Funny thing is, I don't really care to wear hats. I have sold a few in my shop, but I have many waiting for new homes and I haven't stopped having the urge to make more.
So, recently I've been asking myself, how can this addiction to yarn and making things from them help others? Well, I believe a few ideas have been revealed to me recently. Why am I sharing this info with others, why not keep my addiction in the closet and deal with it in secrecy? Well that just wouldn't be any fun at all and those hats are looking for heads to keep warm.
My goal is to reach out to a cancer center and donate hats to them for the patients to pick out one of their liking to keep their heads warm and hide the effects of treatment - loss of hair. The second idea running through my head is to provide some items to our local homeless shelter. They are always in the need of hats, scarves, mittens, coats ( now I don't make those, but can find donations), blankets, and many other items that can be made by hand or donated.
Girl you have lofty goals, how are you going to do all this by yourself? I don't plan on doing this alone. I know there are many people locally who love to knit, crochet and sew. I am hoping to get pledges from folks with amount of items they would like to make and donate. The weather is already turning cool, so I don't have a lot of time to complete my goal, but with the help of others I know I can get it done. I would like to have at least 50 items available for donation to both a cancer center and St. Francis house by the end of November. Please help me spread the word. Do you like to knit, crochet or sew? Would you consider making and donating at least one item to the cause? You can designate if you would prefer the item to be given to the cancer center or to St. Frances. If it's for cancer patients please make your items very soft. There are several patterns online that can give you ideas of what to make and what materials to use. For the homeless, please consider making the items gender neutral and/or making something that young people would be proud to wear.
If you would like to contact me with your pledge please reply here or email me at designsbyjenai (at) gmail.com.
I believe with a little help from others within this community I can reach my goal by the end of the month. For those of you who don't do any of those crafts but would like to contribute, I would also accept new, unused or gently used (in good condition) hats, scarves, gloves, jackets, and blankets.
Thank you for helping me with this challenge and spreading the word.
So, recently I've been asking myself, how can this addiction to yarn and making things from them help others? Well, I believe a few ideas have been revealed to me recently. Why am I sharing this info with others, why not keep my addiction in the closet and deal with it in secrecy? Well that just wouldn't be any fun at all and those hats are looking for heads to keep warm.
My goal is to reach out to a cancer center and donate hats to them for the patients to pick out one of their liking to keep their heads warm and hide the effects of treatment - loss of hair. The second idea running through my head is to provide some items to our local homeless shelter. They are always in the need of hats, scarves, mittens, coats ( now I don't make those, but can find donations), blankets, and many other items that can be made by hand or donated.
Girl you have lofty goals, how are you going to do all this by yourself? I don't plan on doing this alone. I know there are many people locally who love to knit, crochet and sew. I am hoping to get pledges from folks with amount of items they would like to make and donate. The weather is already turning cool, so I don't have a lot of time to complete my goal, but with the help of others I know I can get it done. I would like to have at least 50 items available for donation to both a cancer center and St. Francis house by the end of November. Please help me spread the word. Do you like to knit, crochet or sew? Would you consider making and donating at least one item to the cause? You can designate if you would prefer the item to be given to the cancer center or to St. Frances. If it's for cancer patients please make your items very soft. There are several patterns online that can give you ideas of what to make and what materials to use. For the homeless, please consider making the items gender neutral and/or making something that young people would be proud to wear.
If you would like to contact me with your pledge please reply here or email me at designsbyjenai (at) gmail.com.
I believe with a little help from others within this community I can reach my goal by the end of the month. For those of you who don't do any of those crafts but would like to contribute, I would also accept new, unused or gently used (in good condition) hats, scarves, gloves, jackets, and blankets.
Thank you for helping me with this challenge and spreading the word.
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