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Butterfly Cards for Cockayne Syndrome
Just finished up this set of butterfly cards for my Etsy shop for CS Research. Knox is doing better! He sure gave us a scare last week as his intake fell to barely 8 ounces a day. Thankfully, his appetite seemed to return on Sunday, and he’s been back up […]
A Home-Made Puppet Theater
Two cardboard boxes from the garage became the framework for our home-made puppet theater. I used a knife to cut out the opening on one side of the top box, and then taped up one of the flaps in back. I think the photos do a better job of explaining […]
Love
This is one of my favorite pictures because it’s a picture of LOVE. Knox, on the right, is my special little angel with Cockayne Syndrome. Currently, there are about a dozen children with his type of CS in the United States. His big brother adores him and wants his picture […]
Autumn Colored Butterfly Cards
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Newspaper Challenge for Somerset Life
When I was a little girl, I remember giving and receiving many gifts wrapped in the “funny” papers. Cute comic strips like “Ziggy”, “Peanuts”, and “Garfield” were some of my favorites. Not only was it economical, it was an added treat to […]
Happy Sweet Sixteen
Here she was at 2 and a half. She had had brain surgery at 18 months to remove a large tumor in the back of her brain, and began chemotherapy treatments for 2 additional tumors on her spine around the same time. Her diagnosis was ‘medulloblastoma’ , a childhood brain […]
“It’s a Zoo Out There” ATC Swap
I’ve never had such a struggle to come up with ATCs as I did for this swap! The theme was, “It’s a Zoo Out There”. I couldn’t find anything in my stash o’ stuff with animals. Then I thought of professional working women wearing animal print fashions…so that’s what I […]
Super Art Friday- “Sun Prints”
If there’s one thing we have lots of these days in Texas, it’s bright, hot, sunlight. It’s the perfect time for making sun prints! Today we tried out a small kit that came with everything we needed to make our very own sun photos. The kit came with 12 sheets […]