Cystic Fibrosis Fundraising

At the bequest of many, here is an update re the CF Fundraiser I am organising.

SCRAPPING FOR CF

I am organising online classes, generously donated by the lovely and talented Marion Werren, Jen Hall, Chris Millar, Roz James and Janine Kaye.  Matt will hopefully have the home page for the website ready in the next couple of days, with info about the classes on it - and then we should have it all ready to go shortly after.

The classes will be downloadable and ALL monies made are going to CFNSW (who I might add were very excited by the idea!). 

65 Roses Day

Friday 23rd May is 65 Roses Day and if you are near an LJ Hooker or Big W, please purchase some Red Rose merchandise.  CF does not have the support or the awareness of some of the bigger charities, and yet it is the most common genetic disease in Australia.  If you would like to learn more about CF, please go to Cystic Fibrosis Australia and click on About CF in the bar at the top of the page.

The term 65 Roses, comes from the song by The Wolverines who are the CF ambassadors - the song was inspired from a true story of a boy who thought his parents were saying his sister had "65 Roses" instead of Cystic Fibrosis.  Here are the lyrics....

Wolverines- 65 ROSES
When I was just a small child, my mum and daddy came to me,
They sat me down and told me of the flowers my sister received.
Sixty-five roses with yellow and red,
Made her so tired she had to stay in bed.
I just couldn't believe the flowers my sister received,
Made it so hard for her to breathe.
Why did she have sixty-five roses?
Must be her birthday today.
She must have been good to get sixty-five roses,
What can't she come out play?

Sixty-five roses, with yellow and red,
Made her so tired she had to stay in bed.
I looked all around, but I couldn't find,
The sixty-five roses were all in my mind.
I've thrown up and I see that,
The only one thinking of roses was me.
And the reason that the sixty-five roses came,
Was because I was too young to understand the name.

Sixty-five roses, cystic fibrosis,
Made her so tired, she had to stay in bed.
Sixty-five roses, cystic fibrosis,
I wish she had roses instead.
Sixty-five roses, cystic fibrosis,
I wish that she could come out to play.
Life, one suppooses, is no bed of roses,
I wish she had roses instead.

Wish she had roses instead,
(Sixty-five roses, sixty-five roses,
Sixty-five roses, sixty-five roses).
Wish she had roses instead,
(Sixty-five roses, sixty-five roses,
Sixty-five roses, sixty-five roses).
Wish she had roses instead,
(Sixty-five roses, sixty-five roses,
Sixty-five roses, sixty-five roses).

I'll be back with an update on the fundraiser soon - please support it if you can - CF is a nasty disease.  A lot of the money that is raised is mostly by hardworking parents of CF children, and will help with research to improve and lengthen these kids lives. 

Comments

[JaneB]

great idea Kell - can't wait to find out some of the finer details :).

and reading the lyrics to the song brought tears to my eyes!!!

hope all is well with you and your family.

[Carol Dillon]

Kell I had never known why it was named 65 roses day, a very touching song.

Look forward to the online classes and will do an update on my blog to send people over here.

Looking forward to MD fundraiser day
Carol :-)

[Melanie]

Thank you for sharing that song Kell, I never knew the reason behind the 65 Roses name.

I hope you make lots of money for CF.

[Chris M]

It is such a beautiful song.
I'm so glad that I can be a part of helping to raise some money for this cause.

[Alli]

I will watch out for when the site goes up, this is a great idea kell

[Liz]

Stumbled across your site today, while looking for the Wolverines song to post to my myspace page...no luck, can just find a video (which is incredibly slow). Anyway, just wanted to say, love your layouts. I am a scrapper and a CF mom (my daughter passed away almost 5 years ago at the age of 17). I enjoyed looking at your layouts and will be back (to possibly scraplift some ideas).