Monthly Archives: June 2025

Butterfly Blessings for a Beloved Sister

Last week, my beloved, precious sister in law (sister of my heart) died.

While she was navigating the medical system, I was tatting many many little butterflies, as a way of meditating/prayers of the hands and sending her love…

I love tatting butterflies and then I give them to people as a way of saying thank you to them for their presence.

I thought that she might like to have a bunch of the little butterflies to give to people who have been with her on the journey, but she said that no, she no longer was able to receive physical things.

Instead, she asked me to write a blessing for her that she could print out and carry with her and read it whenever she needed it.

So I wrote her this Butterfly Blessing:

Noreenie’s Butterfly Blessing for her Precious sister, Aleksa:

Dear God, Goddess, All That Is, 

All That is Sweet and Tender, and Ever Renewing,

Ever Blooming,

Ever Returning to Source…..

May the gentle ease, the balm and loving touch

of Your Presence

lift the suffering from our Aleksa….

May she be filled with 

the lightest of lightest of knowingness

and like the Butterfly

may she rest easily 

in the loving 

Breath of the Divine.

with all my love

Noreenie

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Tiny Kindness Angels to Make on the Kindness Loom

When I was a little girl, I adored one of my grandmother’s best friends, Mrs Wall, who was kindness incarnate. She was the perfect Granny, exuding comfort, sanctuary, and gentleness. She taught me crafts from her childhood, which made them a precious legacy. I was thrilled when she taught me how to make ‘Yarn Babies’.

When I was designing Tiny Angels for the Weaving Kindness Project, I decided that they needed to be made using wrapping and stitching and not weaving as an homage to darling Mrs Wall, and all the kind people who make the world a better place.

Happily, I have figured out how to use the ‘Yarn Baby’ technique on the Kindness loom.

I am thrilled with these Tiny Angels.

They’re less than 2 inches (5 cm) tall with my signature ‘Hugging Arms’.

I’ve designed two variations- one with a skirt and one with legs. Their wings are shaped like  the infinity symbol.

It’s so soothing to make small things that bring a feeling of connection and community.

Making small Kindness treasures to bring comfort and hope can be incredibly healing.

That’s what the Tiny Kindness Angels are all about. I hope that you’ll make lots of them as gifts of compassion and kindness for yourself and for the people in your life.

We are all in this together, and are not alone on our journey. May we all, like Mrs Wall, but each in our own way- weave a legacy of kindness, compassion, generosity and healing love.

The link to buy the pdf pattern for the Tiny Kindness Angels is:

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4314662495/tiny-angel-dolls-to-make-on-the-kindness?

All the links for the Weaving Kindness Project by Noreen Crone-Findlay are at:

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