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Stamford BOH Workshop in October

The Ferguson Library in Stamford CT was the meeting place for a BOH workshop on October the 28th. Carole Monahan was assisted by Debbie Goodrow, Dorion Boddy, Jackie McKinney and Debbie Jett.

BOH Workshop in Guilford 10/7/17

Diane Villano held a BoH workshop, October 7, 2017, at Christ Episcopal Church, 11 Park Street, Guilford, CT. “We had a great time at our Bottles of Hope workshop on Saturday! People ages 11 to 99. Yes, 99! Such nice work and everyone except one person was new to polymer. Thanks, Episcopal Church Women for … Read more

Workshop Pictures To Come

We had some wonderful Bottles of Hope Workshops the past few months! Pictures will be posted shortly. Some pictures are also under the Gallery heading. Come check them out! Maybe you’ll see your picture here, or someone you know!

Bottles of Hope Teaching Event

BOH Teaching Workshop – or how to conduct a BoH workshop. Saturday Nov 8, 10-12, Hobby Lobby, 68 Frontage Road, East Haven, CT Sponsored by members of the Southern Connecticut Polymer Clay Guild

Emails From Chris

Here’s an email sent to our BOH Coordinator: (first email from Chris) I just stumbled upon some articles about the bottles of hope program and would love to make some for my mom who is a breast cancer surviver and several other people I know who are also battling different cancers. As a blind individual, … Read more

BOH on Flickr

Hi! I was just visiting Flickr to see if there were pictures I could add to the gallery and I found this photostream http://www.flickr.com/groups/bottlesofhope/pool/with/2949786957/#photo_2949786957 Some pics to get you started[nggallery id=5]

Email from South Africa

From: jean(at)maxprof(dot)co(dot)za To: bottlesofhope@hotmail.com Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:25:06 +0200 Good day I represent a cancer group called People Living with Cancer (www.plwc.org.za) here in Pretoria South Africa. We have just had our first Bottles of Hope workshop and had such positive feedback from all those who attended. We had 72 people attending and … Read more

Bottles of Hope @ glassattic.com

The below post was taken from the Bottles of Hope messageboard on Delphi. Posted by Diane Black from www.glassattic.com

There is loads of information on making BOH (and stoppers, etc) and on obtaining bottles, etc.,  as well as many-many examples for inspiration on the BOH page of my website:
http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/BOH.htm
Here is the “Table of Contents” for that page:
General info re BOH
explanation of BOH concept
donating (BOH or canes) to others for distribution

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Bottles of Hope

Bottles of Hope are small glass bottles covered with polymer clay and given to cancer patients. They symbolize a wish and a hope for health This project was started in 1999 by a Rhode Island cancer survivor and has spread internationally. Bottles are made by artists, students, survivors, seniors and many more who volunteer their … Read more