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 on your assist in making all issues come collectively for the great of Cystic Fibrosis sufferers each younger and previous at College Hospitals in Cleveland Ohio.
I want your assist and your polymer clay Christmas decoration donations.
If you may make polymer clay ornaments, I’d positive recognize it. Final yr we didn’t hit our aim. We want 500 ornaments per yr for this venture. What does that imply? It implies that I want you to make ornaments and ship them my method for the great of Cystic Fibrosis sufferers of all ages this Christmas season. Please see the data under for particulars on making your clay Christmas decoration donation.
Why is that this Essential to Me? As a result of I Have Cystic Fibrosis.
Sometimes 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 once I had half of my lung eliminated as a direct results of my CF. My second longest was in 2023 for 8 weeks as a result of main surgical procedure and issues from CF. If you happen to’re sitting right here questioning what CF is, your finest clarification is to go to our basis web site.
I’ve about 4 hospitalizations a yr. 5 years in the past I even bought 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 presents, and the workers that additionally obtain ornaments from the timber are blessed by them as nicely.
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 beautify our tree. You can also make “cookie cutter” type ornaments, 3D ornaments, or no matter your coronary heart wishes. They will comply with any theme you’d like: snowmen, llamas, sloths, Santas, reindeer, elves, seahorses, gnomes, lights, it doesn’t matter – however be inventive! Make no matter your coronary heart wishes. We’re making ornaments for each youngsters and adults.
Crucial: Make an decoration that YOU wish to obtain.
If you happen to 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 Observe: Because of the post-pandemic hospital restrictions, all ornaments have to be acquired in a plastic baggie. Please ship your ornaments in small ziplocks baggage.
College Hospitals, Cystic Fibrosis Heart Restrictions
When Are They Due: They must 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 Carried out with the Ornaments? The ornaments will probably be used to embellish a tree within the outpatient CF middle as CF sufferers as hospitalized all all through the hospital. For each affected person (little one or grownup) that comes by the doorways for his or her check-ups through the season, they are going to be given an decoration through the workers at their appointments. Your heartfelt decoration will probably be a token of affection they will treasure. After Christmas, nurses, medical doctors, respiratory & bodily therapists, researchers, and different workers who deal with sufferers with Cystic Fibrosis and have devoted their lives to their care, may also 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 could ship a card along with your decoration. If you happen to ship a card along with your decoration, you should definitely connect your decoration to your card indirectly so the 2 stay collectively.
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Will I Get to See the Completed Tree? Sadly, no. As a result of hospital laws, I now not beautify the tree(s) myself. I’ll drop off the entire ornaments and the nursing workers will beautify for us.
From the underside of my coronary heart, from all of us within the CF group who battle CF every day, we thanks on your time, vitality, & thought you could have put into making an decoration to present 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 submit along with your teams, pages, and social media to assist unfold the phrase to the polymer group about this endeavor. Thanks a lot on your participation and ornaments made and despatched to me.
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