Hello and welcome to the 2011 Hop for a Cure blog hop. We are running this fun crop and hop to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Every hour of every day, someone is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, the most severe form of a disease that annually accounts for more than $100 billion in health care costs in the U.S. alone. Usually striking before the age of 30, type 1 diabetes takes a harsh toll on people. Not only will they be insulin-dependent for life, but devastating life-limiting and life-shortening complications such as blindness, amputation, heart disease and stroke, and kidney failure are an ever-present threat. Insulin is not a cure for the disease—it is merely life support.
Type 1 diabetes is destructive both to children and to childhood. Controlling the disease requires 24/7/365 vigilance and imposes a grueling regimen. It includes eating a carefully calculated diet, checking blood glucose levels several times each day (by lancing a finger) and insulin injections—as many as six per day—or delivery of insulin through a pump just to stay alive. It means children and families living by the clock, day and night, for the rest of their lives—lives that turn out to average about 15 years less than normal.
You can't outgrow type 1 diabetes. As JDRF International Chairman Mary Tyler Moore has said, "Diabetes is an all too personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or ten years from now—a time bomb affecting millions...one which must be defused." The only solution is a cure. That's why JDRF has a singular mission: to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research as soon as possible.
Taken from: http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=101307
We want to thank you for joining us in the fight to find a cure!!!
Now...onto the fun stuff:
How it works:
1. Donate to JDRF using our donate button which can be found on all participating blogs. (A minimum donation of $5 is required to be eligible for prizes)
2. Start at www.cropoutdiabetes.blogspot.com and follow along the hop. If you get lost each blog will have a list of the participating blogs so that you can get right back in on all the fun!
3. Complete the challenges and take a photo of your completed project.
4. Link a photo of your completed project to the linking tool at the bottom of each corresponding blog hop post by February 5th at midnight.
5. Winners will be chosen randomly using random.org and be posted by February 12th, 2011.
My challenge is to alter something! While swapping scrap supplies with the awesome creator of this blog hop, Sara, I recieved a repurposed "Novolog" tin with some goodies inside. I planned to use it for "something" for a long time. When I heard about the "Crop out Diabetes Blog Hop", I knew it was time.
Thanks for stopping by!
Alicia
thanks for the challenge, it really was a challenge for me as I have never done something like this before! Thanks again!
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Brenna, I have actually struggled with altering for a long time. When I got my first jar of Mod Podge, I was hooked! Glad you enjoyed it! Good Luck!
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize Novolog came in a tin. I love it, we have always used Humalog. I do have one altered item on my post. I will see if I can come up with another for your challenge. So great to have found you. Who in your family is diabetic? Lisa
ReplyDeleteLisa, I actually got the tin from Sara in a swap. It was full of tiny scrapbook goodies! My son got to use it the other night and the tooth fairy left him some money inside!
ReplyDeleteOh very cute about the tooth fairy. My girls and I altered the test strip vials during our snowstorm here in Maine yesterday. I have more pics on my blog. Thanks for a fun project with the kids. Blessings, Lisa
ReplyDeleteAlicia I love the tin, great idea, I plan on making a tooth tin for my sister. Thanks for the great challenge, I made a little notebook for my daughter, hope you like.
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