Hello! and welcome to another week, I hope it’s going well for you. This week I’m adding a something extra to my Handmade Monday post, I’m sure you will forgive me when you find out what it is.
I want to introduce you to Hannah.
Hannah is 27 years old, and is the best friend of Louise, (who next year becomes our daughter-in-law). At the beginning of this year, Hannah was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Despite an operation, Hannah still needs life saving treatment not available in the UK, and so her boyfriend has start a campaign to raise the £150,000 needed to send her to the USA and the specialist who has helped others as ill as Hannah is now.
If you follow the link to Team Hannah you can meet Hannah and Pete, understand exactly what Hannah is coping with, and also find out some of the inspiring things people from all over the country are doing to raise the necessary funds to reach the target figure.
As there is an Auction for Team Hannah.com site I decided to make a needlefelted item to sell, and as Ducks are apparently a special favourite it gave me a bit of a change from the sheep and cows, and I’ve had a lot of fun making this little chap…
Tim is worried that he looks a little tipsy…
…but I just think he’s just coming home from a really good party and it’s just too much jelly and icecream!
Over on That Elusive Line you can follow the link for another fund raising Auction. Thomas Taylor is a writer and illustrator who created the cover for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, I probably don’t need to remind you what that looks like…
Thomas has signed a new hardback copy of the book and added a sketch of Harry and it is currently being sold on Ebay for the Team Hannah funds.
I wanted to share this with all the people who visit Planet Penny because …well, I don’t need to explain, do I? I know you are a lovely caring lot, if you can send a little donation to Team Hannah, that would be wonderful. But also, we are a big bloggy network, and we can spread the word. If you can mention Hannah on your blog, link to this post perhaps which has all the links, Tweet about it, just tell your friends… it would be amazing.
If you want to find out more about what is going on for Handmade Monday over on Ist Unique Gifts follow the link where you will find all the other participants.
Thanks for listening, I’ll see you soon….x
Edited to add: The Harry Potter book, signed by Thomas Taylor the cover illustrator, sold for £330! Well done William Taylor, who organised the sale for Team Hannah, I’m SO proud of my sons!
Your duck is superb – a very special duck indeed.
Very best wishes to Hannah – such a difficult thing to deal with. Yes, we can all help raise awareness and get involved even in some small way. Good luck with the fundraising xx
A heart wrenching story, such a pretty girl. Love your little duck he is so sweet
He is a ducky little duck isnt he. Love him already.
I lost one of my big brother to a brain tumour, so you have my whole hearted support for Hannah… I will also retweet this in the morning. Love the duck
Wonderful duck, sad story. I hope the treatment is successful.
Hi Penny! I’m so sorry to hear about Hannah! I do hope that she can have that treatment and get well!
Your duck with the heart is so sweet!
xxx Teje
As ducks go, well, he is just ducky! What a special thing you are doing. Marigold will link to your post tomorrow. Are you ahead or am I behind?
A very brave lady no doubt, hope the fundraising goes well will link back to this post.
Your little duck is very cheery and cute
Shared with all my facebook friends, and I have asked them to share it with their friends … that’s a lot of people. Hopefully that will at least make a little difference and we are having a whip round here right now. Hannah is the same age as my beautiful older daughter and her plight has truly touched me.
Love the duck Penny
Hope the fundraising goes well. The duck is lovely
Mich
I have put a bit in my handmade Monday post about Hannah and the link to her site, I love the duck! x
What a beautiful girl Hannah looks and how sad for her. Good luck with your fundraising.
Your duck is absolutely gorgeous.
Its amazing what the internet can do to help fundraising. Such a cruel disease and it really touches your heart to hear her story. I hope everything works out for her.
The duck is lovely, and theres nothing wrong with looking a bit tipsy! x
Retweeting your blog as soon as i finish this comment. I really hope you raise the funds you need x
I love the duck to much jelly and ice cream can give you a tipsy look
I think it’s great that you are spreading the word for your daughters friend I hope she gets the treatment she needs.
Penny your duck is absolutely lovely. My dad died of a brain tumour in 2008 at the age of 52, I thought he was too young to have had to go through everything that he did but poor Hannah is not much older than me and I can only imagine what must be going through her and her partners heads. I would like to help by donating something to their auction. Please can you email me nikki@butterflyblossom.co.uk and let me know how I go about doing this please.
Have blogged – hope enough is raised soon x
The duck is lovely
I really hope she gets the treatment she needs, and gets well. Good luck with the fundraising.
Love the duck! All the best with the fundraising for Hannah.
What a lovely idea and the duck is just gorgeous.Hope lots of money is raised.
Chris
xx
The little duck is lovely, he certainly looks like he enjoyed plenty of jelly and ice cream.
Well done in your fund-raising endeavours, it’s always good to raise awareness.
Jan x
So very sad, and I wish you lots of luck with the fund-raising. The duck is gorgeous
What a lovely duck – so cute. Good luck with your fundraising.
Jo x
Your little duck is megga cute.Hope the fund raising manages to hit its target for the treatment needed. Hugs Mrs A.
I saw the heart & duck this morning he is just tooo cute. Good luck with the fundraising.
Anita
Consider it done. I will blog about the very gorgeous Hannah at some point this week xx
Good luck with the fundraising. The duck is so cute
[...] very first one must be the wonderful response that I had from my last post about Team Hannah which you can read in the comments there. I know Hannah has been very [...]
Good luck with the fundraising – hope it goes well and Hannahs treatment goes well.
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