Just to explain.. I watched a TV program the other day about the lasting effects of humans on the planet. One of the things that particulary got to me was something called the "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch". This is basically a huge area in the middle of the pacific ocean where literally tons of human rubbish is trapped and dumped buy the ocean after being swept away from the asian and american coasts. This patch is so big it can even be seen from space! This rubbish will be very slowly broken down and will eventually form the sedimentary rocks (and therefore the cliffs) of the future! Imagine.. Your walking along the beach and you look up at the cliffs to see little pieces of coke cans and car tyres sticking out from the cliffs. And this is where the birds are choosing to raise their young! This absolutely appauled me.. To think that our rubbush will be the fossils for the furture "Time teams" to discover..
So... (And if I haven't lost you yet... Although you may think I have lost it...) I felt inspired to try and do something to promote awareness of what we are doing to our beautiful planet. The only thing I am any good at is cross stitch (and even thats debatable!!! haha), so I thought why not find an epic project like an HAED, of the Earth, complete it and then auction it! The money raised can go towards cleaning our mess up plus it will (hopefully) increase awareness. I can set up a blog to record my progress. I could even rope in some of you guys to help out by doing like a stitch-a-relay or something.... Everyone doing a page or something...
I have seen that Schim Schimmel on HAED does some really great Earth with cats charts which might be quite good. I quite like the one called "Cuddle time" (link here)
Any input would be appriciated
Phew... sorry for the essay... *gets of her soap box and dusts herself down"
I'd be willing to volunteer my stitching ability to a page in the stitch relay
