Loving with Looms Award 2013

I am happy to announce the First Annual Loving with Looms Award. Join me in honoring someone who has used this awesome art to express their love and care for others and their plight in life. The award, along with a $50.00 Amazon Gift Certificate is to be presented to a humanitarian loom knitter. Too often people dig into their own resources to knit their treasures with no thought to personal cost or gain. I just want to give them a little bit of love and a small tangible reward.

Hey, don’t be so humble, nominate yourself and use this opportunity to introduce others to your favorite charity. Some of us would love to know where we can send our loom knitted projects. We can also make a donation in your name to the charity instead of the Amazon Gift Certificate.

If you can not think of a single person to nominate would you please consider voting for my nominee listed below.

Here are the Loving with Looms Award RULES:

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1. The Nominee must be an Individual. Not a Website, Organization or Group.

2. The charitable work must have been done with a knitting or weaving loom within the current year.

3. The charitable work must be verifiable, like a website, letters or pictures.

4. You can nominate only (1) one person, it can be you. Give a brief description of your nominees charitable work and the recipients. Links are Great. Use the comment box below.

5. The winner must have a valid email address and be willing to be featured on this site.

6. PLEASE only vote once. This is to reward charitable giving – Let’s play nice.

7. This year the number of votes will decide the winner Winner will be announced on November 22, 2013 before Midnight

* Vote in the Comment Section *

 

My Nominee is: Pali, One of the Founding Members of Knitting Rays of Hope.

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Pali along with a group of friends loom knits hats for cancer patients. She always writes for the groups blog, Facebook page and Pinterest.  I don’t know how she has enough hours in the day considering that she is a wife and mom. Please visit the site and get to know the great humanitarian.

The About Us Page says: With this blog, we strive to raise awareness about Cancer, babies in the NICU and a few other causes that are dear to our hearts.  We have always struggled with finding a way to help others, and this was the obvious answer for us, having been so affected by this horrible disease, Cancer  We hope that the hats we create impact the recipients and their families to show people really do care. We started this effort and blog in the Spring of 2012 and have grown immensely with our awareness, skills and spiritually.  It feels great to do our little part in providing hope to those that are struggling with some pretty heavy issues. We actively pursue new recruits and can teach just about anyone how to loom knit a cute hat.  By no means do we think of ourselves as “crafty” or “artistic”, at all, but this form of knitting allows for anyone to hand create a beautiful hat. Please feel free to comment on our posts or contact us. ~Pali & Vanessa

I only wish I could vote for two ( Vanessa is awesome ! ) but I have to follow the rules too.  🙁

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Nomination and Voting Ends 11/19 at Midnight

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The Start Date in 2013: On This Holiday: The Sweetest Day – Third Saturday of October the nominations begin.

According to Wikipedia: It is described by Retail Confectioners International as an “occasion which offers all of us an opportunity to remember the sick, aged and orphaned, but also friends, relatives and associates whose helpfulness and kindness we have enjoyed.”

For Subsequent Years: The Loving with Looms Award will be Announced on The Sweetest Day Good Luck winning the Loving with Looms Award 2013 to Everyone Nominated!

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  For Official Announcement: Click Here

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Loving with Looms Namination Count

Thank YOU - Thank YOU for voting.

Nominee	Loom Knits for:	Nominated by:	Nomination Count
Pali Wilson	Knitting Rays of Hope	LoomaHat.com	443
Emily Kubin	Emily's Hats for Hope Initiative	Sue	384
Nikki Casey	The Period of PURPLE Crying	Monica	96
Shawn Barrick	Children's Justice Center	Shawn	89
Aracelis Mata	Looms for Lupus	Kamrin	1
Jackie A.	Operation Christmas Child	Sally	1
Lucy Wallace	Knit-a-Square	Anonymous	1
Gina Barrett	St. Jude Children's Hospital	Matt Guthrie	1

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