Merry Christmas From Us on Bridge and Beyond

Merry Christmas from my family to yours.  This is last years picture taken right before we left for the Christmas Eve family gathering.  Hubby, Darling Daughter, and Me with our tree in the background.

This can be a very difficult time of the year for many.  Sometimes we loose site of that with our shopping, baking, cleaning, and travel.  Many find it a hard time of year without a roof over their heads, warm clothes to wear and food to eat.  We hear at Bridge and Beyond can not take care of everyone, but we do our best day to day providing warm items to donate to those in need.

If you look at our goals, we're falling well short of our goals, and have in recent years.  Charities go through up's and down's.  People find charities closer to home to help in order to minimize postage costs.  All of this is understandable.  Please know that even though we will fall well short of all of our goals, what we do does matter.  It matters to those who receive our hats, scarves, mittens, personal care items, cotton washcloths, and our afghans.

No doubt our numbers will climb yet a bit before I close out the year, so please keep checking in.

Merry Christmas one and all.  If you're traveling for the holidays, travel safe.

**The counts on our progress bars are current. All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Sunshine and More Donated from Florida for Ohio's Homeless

 Please join me in being excited...see those mittens?  Of course you do, and hats, and scarves from our good friend always generous supporter, Sandra R from the sunny state of Florida.  Always wonderful to get a box of sunshine from Sandra.  Great Colors and a nice mix of sizes to warm lots of folks in need.

 But...as you see, that was only one pouch, there are more.

And another awesome corner to corner afghan.  Love these colors, I find it very restful.  Sandra do you eat, and sleep?  Your crochet hook must be smokin at times with the amount of stuff you're able to get done.  Plus the knitting of the mittens and hats etc.  All are wonderful.  As always, thank you for all you do.  We're thrilled to have you on board here at Bridge and Beyond helping Ohio's Homeless in need.

**The counts on our progress bars are current. All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.

Loomed Wrist Warmers Help Ohio's Homeless

Wanted to do a follow up on a previous post, regarding loomed wrist warmers.  Please click the above link to take you to that post where you can see the wrist warmers I'm talking about.  What's particularly nice about them is the length.  They go well up the arm, therefore providing extra warms.  Likewise they cover a larger portion of the hand than some wrist warmers do.  Both of these are real pluses.  I asked Anna W to share the pattern she used to make her wonderful loomed knitted writs warmers.  She provided the link for this awesome how to u-tube video and here's the link to the pattern on a blog.

Click here

So many of you use those looms to make hats, and scarves, I wanted to share this with you.  Hope it's of help.

 


**The counts on our progress bars are current. All donations regardless of size and number are valued. All donations are appreciated. The Power of One is awesome, and when we work together The Power of One becomes The Power of Many.