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Sponsors play an important role in the development of any company.  Project Blooming is grateful to each sponsor . . . each a Champion of Hope that makes our mission possible. Botanical Interests' website is a joy to behold. We discovered them when we decided we wanted to include a zinnia seed packet in our welcome bags. The Victorian Word for Zinnia means friends and thinking of friends. Botanical Interests graciously volunteered to send us packets of zinnia seeds. Project Blooming is honored to have them as a Champion of Hope. www.botanicalinterests.com We are so much more powerful together than alone.  In my own walk in those...

 Sun Prints Posted on August 25, 2016 by Botanical Interests Turn your blooms and foliage into permanent works of art by making sun prints! Sun prints capture the imprinted shadow of foliage and blooms on a piece of paper that can be framed and displayed long after the garden has entered the compost bin. To create your sun prints, you’ll need the following: Light-sensitive paper (we used Sunprint paper) Acrylic or glass sized to fit paper A full basin of water Paper or cloth towel Foliage and blooms (We used zinnia blooms and cosmo foliage.) In a low-light area away...

  The uplifting release which transpires from the expressionistic, mixed media process applied to a playing card quickly calls forth playful creativity. After a brief period, the cards are passed to another participant who will add the next layers of creative expression. On the third and final pass to another person words and finishing touches are added. This collaborative, the the artistic process is the catalyst that builds accord between each other.  In the end, something incredible results!  Encouragement, amazement, freedom, tears, and surrender surface from letting the pain out and hope to emerge from within.  Hope

The funny thing is, until just now when I looked up who the artist was so I could credit the above quote, I honestly never knew the word was “bread.”  You see, as I listened to my husband and the group sing, I heard “Fill me up, breath of heaven, fill me.”  I wonder if I didn’t make the mistake because subconsciously, I knew I needed breath.  I wanted so badly to be filled with breath.  At that time I was on the lung transplant waiting list due to end-stage pulmonary disease caused by cystic fibrosis.  Cystic fibrosis is a...