A couple of additions

Healing Expressions

Charm By: Lani Kent

Tie and Charm By:

Donna Engstrom

Thanks all you selfless people!

As the due date draws to a close for the charms and ties to be sent in, I am so touched by the amount of people that have eagerly and selflessly wanted to be part of this project, thank you! I am also acutely aware of just how many have been effected in some way by this quiet disease! Now more then ever Ovarian cancer needs to be brought to the forefront of public awareness and more dollars raised to help fight this silent disease. Please continue to promote awareness and help us stamp out this disease!

Charm By: Tim Holtz

Tim originally had sent a charm way back in the beginning, unfortunately it was lost in the mail. Tim graciously sent us a second charm (thanks Tim!).

Hope Comes From Within

Charm By: Lynn Roberts

Charm By: Shirley McCutcheon

Charm By: Shirley McCutcheon

Charm By: Patti Crump

Altered Tie By: Cat Dodt-Ellis

Charm By: Opie & Linda O' Brien

Altered Tie By: Lorri Scott

Charms By: Kari McKnight

Heartwarming

Feels like Christmas again with all these wonderful gifts of art! The outpouring from so many artists giving their time up selflessly is heartwarming!

Thank you everyone!

Altered Tie By: Jo Anna Pierotti

Altered Tie By: Brenda Wampler

Charm By: Mary Beth Shaw

Charm By: Alicia Edwards

Charm By Di Barton

Charm By: JoAnna Pierotti

Gift of Hope

Birdcage for doll to hold by:

Kris Henderson & Aileen Roberts

Altered Tie By: Aileen Roberts

Blog Candy!

Charm By Michael deMeng

Altered Tie By: Ruth Rae

Charm By: Ruth Rae

Altered Tie By: Debbie Overton

More love floods in...

Altered Tie By: Natalie

Charm By: Maija Lepore

Charm By: Terri Hadji-Gauthier

Charm By: Jill Thompson

Charm By: Jill Thompson

Altered Tie By: Joanne Thieme Huffman

Charms By: Joanne Thieme Huffman



Charms By: Debra Abel

Charm By: Margot Potter

Charm By: Terri Hadji-Gauthier

A Gift of Love

Thomas Ashman recently shared photos of his amazing charm and tie he made for our project Ties That Bind. Talk about a beautiful heartfelt gift of love WOW! Please read the story Thomas shared with us below...

I'd like to begin by saying how grateful I am to have been a part of this project. It started with Kris asking me to make just a charm, but then a couple of people had to drop out, so she said I could go ahead and make a tie too. This ended up being unexpectedly cathartic for me. See, my dad died from complications following surgery while being treated for esophageal cancer a few years back, and I happen to have a few neckties that were his still hanging in my closet. I just can't seem to throw them out, but he was a much taller man than I, so his ties are simply too long for me to wear (not to mention our very different style choices). So, I figured I might as well start with one of his old ties for this project. What I didn't expect was that I ended up thinking of him the whole time I was making the piece. For hours, as I worked on his tie, I recalled how much he loved building and making things. We did model cars and rockets, decorated cakes, assembled all the Christmas toys ("When all else fails, read the directions!", he used to say), we worked in his shop together, and he never stopped me from getting into his tools, even when I left them outside and they got all rusty. Thanks Dad, I still have some of your wrenches and your sockets. Projects like this one are so very important, for cancer invades so many of our lives, and we must never stop fighting it any way we can.
Thomas Ashman
http://www.blacksheepartist.com/tiesthatbind.html

Close up of Tie

By Thomas Ashman

Charm By: Thomas Ashman