MAGNETIC COLORING BOARDS.  Dual sided (Sky and Ocean) magnetic boards with fish and bird magnets for kids to color using the markers inside a small backpack.  Read the whole story below. See how it transformed and grew.

The Healing Power of ART. 

By helping others heal, you help yourself heal.  
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After a severe accident and while in the hospital, I was inspired by my youngest daughter to create a children's magnetic coloring board aquarium when she’d cut out paper fish shapes, color them and tape them to the wall at the hospital telling me that aquariums are relaxing. She made a small aquarium on the wall in front of my hospital bed.  This inspired me to work on making something special for pediatric burn patients once released from the hospital. This art project expanded as a two-sided framed metal board aquarium with a land/sky scene opposite side.  One side for flat fish shaped magnets and the other side for birds shaped magnets. Each set comes with ready-to-color flat fish and bird shape magnets with crayons/markers inside a small backpack. I now make these only by request from hospitals for children admitted and being treated for severe burns.  Since my accident with fire, I've met many other survivors and have found that adult burn survivors are also in need of encouragement.  To better serve the adults, I have been creating artwork connected to engraved plates with encouraging messages attached to the framed art.  I have been sending these paintings to hospital burn centers nationally hoping that the messages engraved on each painting will encourage others going through the difficult burnt healing process.  Some recent artwork is 3D and is centered around helping those that were suddenly rendered visually impaired learn to read braille.  Please click on the WORD.DOC attached for the complete story of how all of this transpired.  Also, I have written a presentation designed for medical professionals (plastic surgeons and other medical staff for burn patients) in an attempt to help them learn how Art can help their patients heal.  The goal is to help medical professionals better communicate options other than pain meds to their patients. Burn survivors heal faster when medical professionals encourage their patients to tap into their healthy passions and then use those passions to help others.  That's a proven and documented fact! It is in helping others where I have found "The True Healing Power" and hope that others will support these efforts  and endevors.

SOME PHOTOS BELOW ARE MEDICALLY GRAPHIC.  PROCEED WITH CAUTION.