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Ceramic Travel Mug with Black Silicone Lid - $15
 
iSupport
Original artwork by Alex Addesso

2011 Poster Contest Winner

Item Description:
  • 10 Oz.
  • Double Wall Ceramic
  • Travel Mug
  • Black Silicone Lid


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Tote Bag - $10

Hope Blossoms with Organ and Tissue Donation
Original artwork by
Michelle Hoang
2010 Poster Contest Winner


Item Description:
  • Heavyweight 600 Denier Polyester Canvas
  • Size: 16.5" x 15" x 3"
  • Cream colored bag, featuring black bottom panel with matching polywebbed shoulder-length carry handles


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Donate Life Connecticut Holiday Keepsake - $15 

Item Description:
  • Quality crafted porcelain ornament
  • Measures 3" in diameter
  • Donate Life Connecticut logo with "Happy Holdays!" message
  • Includes gold cord for easy hanging
  • Presented in a handsome velvet drawstring bag making it ready for gift-giving and providing protective storage year after year


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T-Shirts - $12 short / $15 long

Item Description:
  • 100% cotton
  • 5.4-ounce
  • Double-needle neck, sleeves and hem
  • Taped neck and shoulders
  • Original artwork by poster contest winners on front (see designs and available sizes below)
  • Donate Life Connecticut name on back

Help Another Life Bloom
Original artowrk by Rosanna Bernardo
2009 Poster Contest Winner

Helping Hands Save Lives
Original artowrk by Kimberly Hentz
2008 Poster Contest Winner

Light Up the Lives of Others
Original artowrk by Amanda Sihabout
2007 Poster Contest Winner

Help Another Life Bloom

Helping Hands Save Lives

Light Up the Lives of Others

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Bedside Yoga - $30 + tax & shipping
w
ith Carol Shwidock of Harmony Yoga
(DLC Volunteer)
 
Check out a clip from Bedside Yoga DVD
 
Order your copy here: http://harmonyogastudio.com/products/
A portion of the proceeds are being donated to Donate Life Connecticut.
 
Overview
 
Bedside Yoga was conceived out of the grace of giving. After Carol donated 60% of her liver to her husband who needed a Liver Transplant, she realized she also had another gift to give. Whether you are pre op, post op or simply looking for a Gentle Kripalu Yoga practice, Bedside Yoga instructs you in gentle yoga both sitting on a bed on a chair or wheelchair and also a supine laying down practice. Also included is instruction in simple pranayama or breathing techniques and a Restorative Yoga practice. Ultimately, Bedside Yoga will facilitate your healing in your own time and your own way.

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Heartfelt - $13.95
A Journey Through Transplantation

By Joseph Panza (DLC volunteer)


Overview

Heartfelt, is an intimate look at love through the eyes of a man who is forced to ponder losing the love of his life. It is through the medical miracle of heart transplantation that he is spared that eternal pain and his beloved wife, Jean, is saved by the grace and heroic gesture of an unknown family.

Experience first-hand heart transplantation. This is the remarkable, moving true story of two families brought together through tragedy and triumph. One loses a family member; one regains a life. See how it happens, as it happens. Be there bedside, through the waiting, through the wondering as Joe brings you through the days, weeks and months leading up to and following Jean's transplant. Learn how circumstances beyond anyone's direct control come to intersect, changing forever all those who experience it from their own perspectives spoken in first person language.

See too how life connects us in ways never imagined. This book reminds us that we are never really alone. We always have others. We simply have to have faith, hope and love--with them, we can make it through anything.

This book can be purchased by going to http://www.humanactionassociatesllc.com/

Proceeds from the sale of this book are being donated to Donate Life Connecticut.

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Plain Vanilla with Rainbow Sprinkles
An Inspirational Story of Faith, Hope and Love
By Tom P. Kasprzak with Joanne M. Kasprzak (DLC volunteers)

Overview

Mary Kasprzak (1988–2003) was an amazing youngster and an inspiration to hundreds of people with whom she interacted. In Plain Vanilla with Rainbow Sprinkles, her father, Tom, brings Mary’s inspiration to you. This heart-wrenching, incredible journey chronicles how Mary’s family and friends were strengthened and motivated to more fully understand the importance of every life, regardless of the labels we apply to one another.

Mary Kasprzak was born with Down syndrome. Initially, her parents battled a multitude of perplexities and fears that spun through their minds like a hamster on a wheel. Defying all the predictions and labels—both cultural and medical—Mary transformed everyone she touched with her innocence, unconditional love, humor and ability to forgive. Through her daily unassuming deeds of kindness and compassion, Mary became the greatest of all teachers.

Mary’s life, punctuated by miracles and her death, surrounded by mystical events, served to strengthen her parents’ faith. Mary added a final exclamation point to her life by saving the lives of five other people through organ donation. Her father’s intimate portrait of faith, love and compassion, accompanied by an epilogue from the woman who received Mary’s heart, will motivate you to see the world differently.

This book can be purchased directly through the author's website http://www.tompkasprzak.com/ or the following retail stores:

Amazon
Barnes & Noble
iUniverse

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book are being donated to Donate Life Connecticut.

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