The CF Rainbow Tree is again for the 2023 Christmas season! It’s as soon as once more that point of the yr that I ask to your assist in making all issues come collectively for the great of Cystic Fibrosis sufferers each younger and outdated at College Hospitals in Cleveland Ohio.
I want your assist and your polymer clay Christmas decoration donations.
If you can also make polymer clay ornaments, I’d positive admire it. Final yr we didn’t hit our objective. We want 500 ornaments per yr for this challenge. What does that imply? It signifies that I want you to make ornaments and ship them my approach for the great of Cystic Fibrosis sufferers of all ages this Christmas season. Please see the data beneath for particulars on making your clay Christmas decoration donation.
Why is that this Essential to Me? As a result of I Have Cystic Fibrosis.
Often I take a second (only a fast one thoughts you) to jot down about my life story and dwelling with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). I took my longest hiatus [almost four months to be exact] from polymer clay in 2011 after I had half of my lung eliminated as a direct results of my CF. My second longest was in 2023 for 8 weeks because of main surgical procedure and problems from CF. Should you’re sitting right here questioning what CF is, your greatest clarification is to go to our basis web site.
I’ve about 4 hospitalizations a yr. 5 years in the past I even obtained to spend a portion of Christmas hospitalized, being launched the day earlier than Christmas; and this wasn’t the primary time it has occurred to me. Being within the hospital is dangerous sufficient, being there over the Christmas season is worse.
Yearly that we come collectively as artists, our Christmas timber and ornaments are an enormous success! The sufferers love them and love receiving small items, and the employees that additionally obtain ornaments from the timber are blessed by them as properly.
That is our sixth yr giving ornaments to CF sufferers, let’s proceed to like!
What to Make:
Make as many ornaments as you wish to assist me enhance our tree. You may make “cookie cutter” type ornaments, 3D ornaments, or no matter your coronary heart needs. They’ll comply with any theme you’d like: snowmen, llamas, sloths, Santas, reindeer, elves, seahorses, gnomes, lights, it doesn’t matter – however be artistic! Make no matter your coronary heart needs. We’re making ornaments for each kids and adults.
A very powerful: Make an decoration that YOU wish to obtain.
Should you don’t know what to make, select both Christmas-themed ornaments or purple and purple ornaments. Why purple and purple? Each illness has a ribbon, ours is purple with a purple rose within the center. Why? As a result of CF is all about “65 Roses”. Learn all about 65 Roses right here.
Please Be aware: Because of the post-pandemic hospital restrictions, all ornaments have to be acquired in a plastic baggie. Please ship your ornaments in small ziplocks luggage.
College Hospitals, Cystic Fibrosis Heart Restrictions
When Are They Due: They should be within the mail to me by Nov. 1st, 2023.
Mail ornaments to: KatersAcres, PO Field 296, Newton Falls, OH 44444
Different Info & FAQs:
What Will Be Accomplished with the Ornaments? The ornaments will probably be used to embellish a tree within the outpatient CF heart as CF sufferers as hospitalized all all through the hospital. For each affected person (baby or grownup) that comes via the doorways for his or her check-ups in the course of the season, they are going to be given an decoration by way of the employees at their appointments. Your heartfelt decoration will probably be a token of affection they will treasure. After Christmas, nurses, docs, respiratory & bodily therapists, researchers, and different employees who deal with sufferers with Cystic Fibrosis and have devoted their lives to their care, may even be allowed to decide on an decoration to take residence from the remaining ornaments on the Christmas tree.
Overflow ornaments will probably be used the next yr to embellish the meals pantry tree on the church I work for and given to the individuals who come there for his or her meals wants.
Could I Ship a Card with My Decoration? You might ship a card along with your decoration. Should you ship a card along with your decoration, be sure you connect your decoration to your card ultimately so the 2 stay collectively.
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Will I Get to See the Completed Tree? Sadly, no. As a result of hospital rules, I now not enhance the tree(s) myself. I’ll drop off all the ornaments and the nursing employees will enhance for us.
From the underside of my coronary heart, from all of us within the CF neighborhood who battle CF every day, we thanks to your time, vitality, & thought you’ve got put into making an decoration to provide to somebody who will spend their Christmas vacation away from household and within the confines of a hospital. Bless you.
Please SHARE this CF Rainbow Tree publish along with your teams, pages, and social media to assist unfold the phrase to the polymer neighborhood about this endeavor. Thanks a lot to your participation and ornaments made and despatched to me.
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