Knitted Warmth for Ohio's Homeless

Thank you Yvonne S for this awesome donation.  Look at all the variety in color, size,and style of her beautifully knitted hats.  8 more warm heads!  She's included lots of personal care items that are always needed by everyone; those on the streets and those in the shelters.  A cute pair of warm cozy slippers to make someone's feet happy and 2 really nice warm pair of gloves.

What a thoughtful and generous donation Yvonne.  Many thanks and please keep up the good work.  You've made an important difference for folks in need.  The temps as I type this are bone chilling, so the homeless truly need our help.

I'm going to try something a little different with keeping our stats.  I'm listing our end numbers from 2015 and will subtract our current number as means of keeping our goal in front of us.  I'll show the goal number in Red.  Let's strive not match last years numbers, but.........work towards even more.  Thank you for all you do.  As time goes on, we won't see the year end numbers, we'll see the previous goal and subtract the new donation from it.  Hopefully we'll find this helpful and not too cumbersome...if so, we'll return to our previous format.



2016 DONATIONS:
Hats: 443 -8= 435
Scarves:184
Mittens/Gloves/Wrist Warmers: 123 -2= 121
Slippers: 105 -1= 104
Rain Poncho's:  105
Cotton Washcloths: 448
Afghans: 22
Socks: 201
Cowls/Hoody Combo's, headbands:  11
Shawls and shrugs 1
Misc: items like personal care and things don't fit into above categories aren't counted

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.

Afghan, a Sunny Donation from the state of Florida

Look at this awesome crocheted afghan from our good friend Sandy R in sunny Florida.  She always includes some sunshine in her donations...see it!  Yes, the day this donation was opened, there was some sunlight streaking in through the windows.  But, don't be fooled, it was anything but warm that day.  It was 3 degrees that morning when hubby and I got up, and by the time I was willing to leave the house to run errands, it had warmed up .................all the way to 8 degrees!!

Sandra has been such a long time and very generous supporter of Bridge and Beyond.  Her work is always fabulous and this is no exception.  Many thanks Sandra, this ghan will be perfect for anyone who receives it.....the colors work for men and women alike.

As always, please keep up the good work.

**Folks, be sure and pop back in, this isn't her whole donation!

I'm going to try something a little different with keeping our stats.  I'm listing our end numbers from 2015 and will subtract our current number as means of keeping our goal in front of us.  I'll show the goal number in Red.  Let's strive not match last years numbers, but.........work towards even more.  Thank you for all you do.  As time goes on, we won't see the year end numbers, we'll see the previous goal and subtract the new donation from it.  Hopefully we'll find this helpful and not too cumbersome...if so, we'll return to our previous format.



2016 DONATIONS:
Hats: 443
Scarves:184
Mittens/Gloves/Wrist Warmers: 123
Slippers: 105
Rain Poncho's:  105
Cotton Washcloths: 448
Afghans: 23 -1= 22
Socks: 201
Cowls/Hoody Combo's, headbands:  11
Shawls and shrugs 1
Misc: items like personal care and things don't fit into above categories aren't counted

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.

Donations and Throw Back Thursday

Throw back Thursday, something started long ago in the blogging world has been adopted and used on Facebook.  I'm not sure how old I was in this picture, have to go look at the year.  It's a class picture of me way back in the dark ages.  I think I was perhaps in the 4th grade?

The picture has nothing to do with Bridge and Beyond, but since it's Thursday, I decided to that because I sadly don't have a picture to share of a generous donation from our friend and long time supporter Sue S.  I've been having "issues" adjusting to my new computer, transferring pictures and not being able to find them afterwards.  This windows 10 is very different it seems to me from my old Vista (what was that 3 or 4 operating systems ago).

Sue donated 2 scarves, 6 cotton washcloths, some always needed personal care items including those chemical hand warmers,  a hat and a handband.  I wish I could show you.

Thank you Sue and please keep up the good work.  Folks as I write this blog post it's 25 degrees, that's the warmest it's been in about a week.  Yesterday morning when I got up, it was 3 and really warmed up to 8, by the time I had to leave the house.  Please keep our homeless in your thoughts and prayers and do what you can with you knitting needles and crochet hooks.

I'm going to try something a little different with keeping our stats.  I'm listing our end numbers from 2015 and will subtract our current number as means of keeping our goal in front of us.  I'll show the goal number in Red.  Let's strive not match last years numbers, but.........work towards even more.  Thank you for all you do.  As time goes on, we won't see the year end numbers, we'll see the previous goal and subtract the new donation from it.  Hopefully we'll find this helpful and not too cumbersome...if so, we'll return to our previous format.



2016 DONATIONS:
Hats: 444 -1 = 443
Scarves:186 -2 = 184
Mittens/Gloves/Wrist Warmers: 123
Slippers: 105
Rain Poncho's:  105
Cotton Washcloths: 454 -6 = 448
Afghans: 23
Socks: 201
Cowls/Hoody Combo's, headbands: 12 -1 = 11
Shawls and shrugs 2-1=1
Misc: items like personal care and things don't fit into above categories aren't counted

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.