World Alzheimer’s Day is Wednesday, September 21st.
And in support of my own beloved mother who is now 86 years old and in the 6th year of Alzheimer's Disease, I have changed my FaceBook profile picture temporarily to her photograph.
If you have or have had, a family member or someone special in your own life who suffered from Alzheimer's, please do the same. Simply change your FB photo status and profile photo to theirs and include this statement in your status update:
I support the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative
at www.AlzQuilts.org
If you make a $5 donation to the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative before midnight on Wednesday, post the invoice number generated by your donation to the AAQI FaceBook page at: http://www.facebook.com/AAQI.
AAQI will capture the image of your loved one from your profile picture and add it to the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative 2011 Virtual Wall of Remembrance where it will remain for one year. Names will not accompany photographs.
If you are not on FaceBook, or wish to make multiple donations to honor more than one person, email one photograph of each of your loved ones and the invoice number generated by your donation ($5 for each photo) to Diane at diane456@gmail.com. Pictures may be cropped and sized to fit the wall.
*If you’ve never been there before, you may have to click the “LIKE” button. What’s not to like?! I love AAQI and I love my little mama and the other 15 members of my family who have, or have had this vile disease.
"Heartbreak to Hope" Exhibit In Laconia, NH
"Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope" continues its five-year journey across the United States with a stop at the Belknap Mill Quilters Guild Quilt Show, October 1-2, 2011.
The exhibit will hang in the Conference Center at Lake Opechee Inn and Spa, located at 62 Doris Ray Court in Laconia, NH.
Show hours 10 to 5 on Saturday and 10 to 4 on Sunday. Parking is free. There will be a shuttle bus running from the lower parking lot to the Conference Center. Admission is $5 per person.
For more information, please contact Michelle Plourde at mplourde@laconia.k12.nh.us.
"Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope" is an exhibit of quilts about Alzheimer's sponsored by the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI). Fifty-four small format art quilts (9" x 12") illustrate the disease from a variety of perspectives. They hang among 182 "Name Quilts," each 6 inches wide and 7 feet tall, which carry the names of more than 10,000 individuals who have/had Alzheimer's or a related dementia. The names of loved ones, written on fabric patches by family members and friends, honor the 5.4 million Americans in the United States struggling with Alzheimer's disease.
Michele Bilyeu of With Heart and Hands quilts for AAQI and runs the AAQI Liberated Challenge..won't you join in all of our fun...donate or buy a quilt, today!To see all of our quilts to date, check out our AAQI webpage at http://www.alzquilts.org/liqublliqume.htmlMichele Bilyeu of With Heart and Hands quilts for AAQI and runs the AAQI Liberated Challenge..won't you join in all of our fun...donate or buy a quilt, today!To see all of our quilts to date, check out our AAQI webpage at http://www.alzquilts.org/liqublliqume.html
