New Helping Hands Makes Special Delivery for Ohio Homeless

 Thank you Laura J from Ohio for this bountiful donation.  Laura is our newest pair of helping hands.  Thrilled to have you join our group.  Special thanks for delivering this to my door.  Hopefully next time we can meet face to face.  I always enjoy that, but my schedule didn't permit it this time round.  Laura has included lots of person care items from lip gloss to shampoo, soap, conditioner, tooth brushes, folding cups, hand sanitizers, mouth wash, lotion, soap containers, toothbrush containers and more.  The folks under the bridge and the shelters are always in need of these items.  Many thanks.  I collected some on my recent travels that I tossed in the collection bag with your goodies.

 She's knitted hats and scarves in many colors and many sizes.  AND she's tagged them with size for children, adult men, and adult women.  Perfect!

 She's also knitted some pretty awesome poncho's with Lion Brand Homespun yarn in some fantastic colors.  Here's one spread out....very lovely.

 Another different colored poncho on left and a beautiful shrug on the right.  Those who receive these will be thrilled not only to be warmer but to wrapped in such lovely creations.

Cotton Crocheted Washcloths, and more personal care items.  Truly a wonderful donation.  There are more poncho's and hats and scarves but, my camera's battery died as I was taking pictures, so it's currently plugged in and I will post more pictures of these poncho's once it's charged.  Please stay tuned.  

Thrilled to have you join us Laura and look forward to seeing you here often on Bridge and Beyond.  Keep up the good work.

2014 Donations:
Hats: 361+13=374
Scarves: 239+4=243
Socks: 49
Afghans: 11
Slippers: 39
Rain Ponchos: 5
Mitten: 16
Cotton Washcloths: 130
Shawls, Sweaters, Vests, Poncho's, Skirts, and Shrugs etc. : 5+3=8
Neck warmers, cowls, gators, wrists warmers and other misc items aren't tabulated; as well as personal care items

**Did you see yesterday's post?  If not please scroll back.

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.

Black Magic Woman, Magnificent Marcus Malone

As I'm reading trying to catch up with bloggers and friends on Facebook, I came across this story...again about homelessness and thought it worth a share.

Click HERE for the story

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.

Caring for Homeless

I've been away, traveling outside the country and am in need of catching up.  I want to thank those who visit daily, checking to see if there's a new post; that is appreciated.  I want to thank Linda J from Texas, Janis F from LA, Kathy Banasik from MI, RoseMarie from TN, Sandra R from FL and Laura J from Ohio for your recent donations.  Hopefully boxes will be opened in a day or two, photo's taken and blog posts written.

In the meantime, I thought you might enjoy reading this article...it certainly touches on our mission of caring for the  homeless and given this special time of year, seems an appropriate post.  Please click here to read the article.

The news reporting of the story is here

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.

Danting Crocheted Scarves

Scarves......we always need scarves.  We donate scarves to men, women, and children.  NOT toddlers or babies.  The scarf tab has important information regarding dimensions, colors, fibers etc.  Please check the tab and measure your scarves folks.  No scarf should be less then 4 feet 6 inches long; and certainly longer for older kids, teens and adults.   We want them to be large enough to be warm.  Most folks wrap a scarf around twice.

Scarves are our last item to compare the numbers in terms of donations.  In 2012 we donated 105 scarves by March 26th, in 2013 we more then doubled it!  In 2013 we donated 226 and thus far this year.........still growing we donated 239.  Well done folks.

Scarf tab HERE

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.

Hats!  Hats are needed by men, women, children, and teens.  Hats are needed by those living in the shelters as well as those living out in the elements.  We also supply hats for many schools with kids in need.

Knitted hats, loomed hats, and crocheted hats have been donated through the years.  Hats probably make the single biggest difference in a person's comfort.....worn inside and out.  Many with limited heat where hats and scarves in doors.

In 2012 by March 26th we had donated 212 hats, in 2013 269 hats and thus far this year 361 hats.  As we've been comparing our donations these past several days for socks, slippers, mittens, afghans, rain poncho's and washcloths HATS are the only item where we've consistently knitted, crocheted, loomed and donated more hats each year!!

Awesome work!

Thinking of making a hat..........click here for the hat tab.  There are patterns and LOTS of information regarding size, so ALL hats should come tagged with the size, (child, teen, adult s-m-l etc.).

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.