A post by Melanie (Pierce’s mama): Each day is exciting at our house as we are waiting for the mailman to arrive, arms full of boxes and envelopes all packaged with love. We have opened some of...
I had over six hundred guests for the holidays. Six hundred sock monkeys hung out in my house until just a couple of weeks ago. Six hundred sock monkeys for six hundred kids who need them. Sometimes ...
One of the most beautiful things about Craft Hope is the community. The community we help, the community we bring together, the community. Families, youth groups, craft groups, friends new and old ge...
In our last post, Project 16 :: The Littlest Warriors, I mentioned that Melanie would be guest blogging over here on Craft Hope. What a blessing to have her writing in this space and sharing her stor...
You never know when your life is going to change forever. In one subtle moment you can be stopped in your tracks. Uncertain. Scared. Devastated. For a close friend of mine, her life was altered three...
We have been as busy as Santa’s elves collecting, opening, counting, and sorting sock monkeys. I wanted to pop in and show you a few more pictures of the monkeys on Thanksgiving day. Behind the...
There are 256 sock monkeys in my dining room. Each and every sock monkey was handmade for kids who lost their home to wildfire here in Texas this past summer. Monkeys have come in packages of one and...
Did I lose you in the title of this post? Think about it for a second. Unintended consequences equal blessings. When we dive into a project we have a purpose and a goal. And sometimes, just sometimes...
Let me start this post off by saying that I hate asking for things. I don’t want to burden or bother anyone really ever. I’ve been able to run Craft Hope in such a way that there hasnR...
My youngest, Chloe, likes to sing the alligator song. You know, the one about the monkeys sitting in a tree and the alligator snaps that monkey right out of that tree. Well, Chloe likes to sing it at...
For Halloween, seventeen sock monkeys showed up on our front porch. I have a sneaking suspicion it’s because word got out that we were passing out chocolate. It’s a pretty big deal when a...
I have this little website. A website that started back in 2009 with the idea of spreading hope to others. The idea behind the website was that there had to be something more with this blog crafting ...
Just a few days after I announced Project 15 :: Sock Monkeys for Texas a package arrived in my mailbox. My kids check the mail so it was a BIG DEAL that there was a package inside. How soon they forg...
Many of you have written in asking for sock monkey patterns and/or tutorials for Project 15 :: Sock Monkeys for Texas. Thanks to my friends on the Craft Hope facebook page, I have compiled a quick li...
Here in Texas we have had the hottest summer in history. I don’t even think that the word hot adequately describes what a scorcher Texas has been. The crops have died. The yards are brown. The ...
In my free time I craft hope. I plan projects. I upload pictures of projects past. I am a shuffler of Craft Hope goodness via the internet around the world. I upload, I organize, I coordinate. I craf...
I really don’t think most people know how amazing you all are. I want to shout it from the rooftops for you. You take your free moments to make something for someone in need. As a working mom, ...
Would you believe me if I told you? Would you believe me if I told you that we have already collected 753 HANDMADE stockings for Project 14 from all over the world? Would ya? Believe it. Christmas in...
With just three days left until the deadline for Project 14 :: Christmas in Dixie, the stockings have been coming in by the mail truck load. Handmade stockings made right here in the USA and stockin...
Over 137 people have signed up to make stockings or lead groups to make stockings for Project 14 :: Christmas in Dixie. The stockings have started arriving in Alabama and we are incredibly grateful f...
Today the bracelets YOU made leave the United States headed straight for Russia. Approximately 35,000 bracelets were handmade. Handmade by children and adults. Handmade around the world. Handmade wit...
There is no better time than the present to start thinking about cooler weather. With record setting temperatures all across the nation, many of us have taken to hibernating with curtains drawn behin...
We have been working behind the scenes opening boxes, counting blankets and bracelets, delivering blankets and bracelets, and planning the next project. There are three of us that have coordinated th...
Really. Any time now I will be buried in an avalanche of beautiful blankets. It’s kinda cool. I have taken way to many pictures, so I have just made them into a bunch of collages. The girls and...
Hello out there in Blogland! It’s Jessie checking in with you on Project 13. The blankets are piling up, and I thought you might like a little peek. A while back the first of the blankets arriv...
The power of social media is quite a force. It truly shows how one person can make a difference. I read a facebook status the other day that made me laugh. She said “What does it say about me t...
We are going to do something never done before here at Craft Hope. We are going to run two projects at the same time. The response to our bracelet project has been overwhelming and we are fired up to...
Did you know that with the delivery kits you made for Konbit Sante you will possibly save 5,200 lives? That’s 5,200 women and their newborn babies that you helped. You sewed bags, made handmade...
There really is not enough time in the day. I’ve recently gone back to work and these days I work on Craft Hope on my breaks and late into the evening. I am thankful to this community for keepi...
When gathering information for a project launch I scour the internet looking for statistics. I found one this time on Orphan Outreach that stopped me in my tracks completely. “There are more th...
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