Getting Started

Hi Everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog! Since most of my crafting is now working on project for the charity i've started here in Troy, NY that will be the primary focus of this blog. However there will probably be posts stuck in here and there about projects for friends and family as well!

So about this charity, I contacted the local health care center (the have several hospitals and nursing homes in the area) and they said they never have enough blankets for the elderly to keep warm in the nursing home, or enough to send home with the less well off families who come in seeking assistance. They also are always in need of comforting objects for children who have been subjected to abuse and removed from there families.

Since I'm a fan of a big challenge i've decided to make this a three tiered charity project.

My Goals are:
1.) Provide lapghan sized afghans for the elderly to keep warm in their wheel chairs and in bed while they watch TV. Since circulation decreases with age and sickness many of these people cannot stay warm no matter what the temperature, and I always find they keep the temperatures too cold to begin with.
2.) To provide blankets, hats, scarfs, anything to make peoples lives a little brighter when they can't afford the items themselves.
3.) Often times the hospital is the first place children who are victims of abuse are taken when they are removed from their homes, So I would also like to provide bright colored comfortghans for the children.

If anyone would like to help with this project in any way please contact me!