Cowl Love

Anything that makes me look less than the exhausted mother I am is great in my book.  I have always been envious of my husband who can put on clothes and look ready for the day.  I instead must go through a daily beauty routine before I'm presentable.

So here comes my cowls, I ADORE them.  They make me look elegant and well but together, no matter if I'm wearing coat or T-shirt.  That's a big help for all women.  I've been happily making some infinity cowl because I love the way they curl over the top of a coat but are also tucked underneath~~~ hence NO drafts of cold air!

I especially love to make the trim on my cowls.  I try to make it a something a little different.
Thanks for stopping by and leave some feed back!

Kim & Family =)

Thank you!

I will keep saying thank you to many people for many things for as long as I live. But today a special thank you to my cousin who helped me come up with this idea....

An Internal Cochlear Implant Brooch / Pin...ta da.
It's a little bit funky and different, educational too! (just study the picture!)

And most importantly it will bring us closer to the ACTUAL cochlear implant.
So pick up yours today. Click on the picture to take you to the store. My personal favorite is wearing it on your hat!

Take a look =)
And the actual implant from {http://www.bcm.edu/cms_web/407//Implanted-device.gif}


More to come!

Informing the Family and Friends

Hello everyone enjoy this bit of news.....
Almost a year ago Chris said he wanted a cochlear. It's possible at the time he was just trying to say sorry for our fight. I didn't take him seriously. Then a few months later he told me again he wanted a cochlear and I replied that's great do you really want that? He said yes but again I let more time pass.

Almost a year passed and he was still saying he wanted a cochlear so we went for testing and confirmed he was an excellent candidate for surgery. Then we got a quote on how much surgery would cost. Not impossible but it would require more patience and saving on our part. (It's around 3500 to 4000 out of pocket). I checked out scholarship opportunities but nothing really exists for a 30ish father of three. So I decided Chris wasn't getting any younger and neither were our kids. If he wanted to hear then I wanted him to hear all the great, weird, funny bits that come out of our kids mouths (the screaming parts too).

So here is my attempt at fund raising. It will be a long journey. If you are not familiar with a cochlear basically they enable hearing for the deaf by inserting a long skinny tube into the snail like part of your ear called the "cochlear." It changes sound into electronic stimuli for your auditory nerve to transmit to your brain. It is an outpatient procedure.

We will raise the amount little by little. I have started a blog so you can sign up to follow and see our progress. and an etsy store where all the saving happens!

blog: http://dirtcomesclean.blogspot.com/

store: www.dirtcomesclean.etsy.com

Please visit both and share this journey with us. Say prayers!!! Leave comments, suggestions, words of support. Our journey will not end with surgery as this will be a whole new experience for Chris. The cochlear device we are looking at is the cochlear 5 (which comes with a remote I might add...evil grin...just kidding....but Chris wants to hide it from me anyways).

More to come!
Kim =)

Special Delivery

Designing packaging for my scarves has been exceptionally fun! As fun as making the scarves. I am using recycled materials. Can you guess what this blue one is made out of?

I have just started selling them so we have a longgggg way to go to raise our portion of the surgery. All in all we can expect to pay around 3500.00 to 4000. That includes paying for the surgeon and the hospital portion. It will be an outpatient procedure but must be performed in the hospital. Not to worry I'm all for that!!

I mailed out 3 scarves today. In total we have sold 5 (thank you very much). Our journey continues with each crochet stitch.
For those of you who can't read my chicken scratch (grin). Here is what the note says:

This is just a simple scarf
But it has so much work to do.
Keeping your neck warm
And making you look great too!

Yours was just a simple purchase
But your gift has so much to do
It will give the gift of hearing to a man,
a father, a husband too!

Thank you for your purchases and I hope you enjoy these scarves for many years to come.




Please leave comments on what colors you would like to see or what kind of scarves (long,skinny, short, chunky) below, at www.dirtcomesclean.etsy.com,
or email me at dirt_comes_clean@yahoo.com

As always thank you from Kim =)