I am living with Fibromyalgia (FMS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Celiac & Thyroid disease. These have prevented me from working since 2005. Then I began teaching myself different crafts to keep my mind occupied and distracted from the pain I felt from my illness as well as the sadness from not being able to work. Finished projects began piling up and I really had no use for them myself, so I decided that I would begin to seek out various charities that could benefit from them. Each month I have chosen a specific charity to personally work on projects for while promoting others by listing them on this blog & tweeting about them on Twitter. Recently I read the story of Nick and decided that his story was the only project I was going to do for the month and in asking for help for him.. Crafters with Love exploded with attention. I always believe that things happen for a reason, and even though I spent a lot of time questioning why I would be given the gift of being a nurse to have it taken it away.. I now see that my love of people is being used in another way. I look at it as paying it forward. Someone was there to help me when I needed it most and now I get to give it back.