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Amy partners with other artists to created amazing mixed media decorated rocks. She starts with an acrylic pour to get the marbled affect on the backgrounds, or occasionally leaves a pretty rock unpainted. Then she finds line drawings from coloring books or other artists and gets permission to use them for these charity sales.

Images sized to specific rocks are printed on tissue paper, so the thin paper will mold to a curved rock. She colors them carefully on the fragile paper. Then they are meticulously cut out. The design is traced onto the rock so Amy can paint white under it to make the colors pop. Then the paper is glued on. Often details are added with metallic paint. Then the rock is coated with water- and UV-resistant sealant.

Spoonies are people with any chronic illness that affects their energy. The term “spoon” is used to indicate extremely limited energy reserves. It originates from an allegory, “The Spoon Theory”, by Christine Miserandino where she uses actual spoons to explain how most healthy people get a large enough reserve of energy “spoons” that they don’t need to notice how little things like taking a shower or getting dressed uses up a spoon.

Spoons to Spare empowers spoonies by donating crafting supplies and working together to raise money for research toward a cure. Giving spoonies the resources to be able to do what limited artwork they can do helps give them a sense of purpose and brings beauty to their lives.

Spoons to Spare is a group of spoonie crafters. We are sponsored by Evergreen Bible Church in Washington state, who donates all our supplies. This way 100% of the proceeds from Etsy sales can go to the nonprofit Open Medicine Foundation, who is doing biomedical research on ME/CFS, a severe energy metabolism disorder. OMF is seeking an effective treatment or cure, and they hope that info will lead to helping many other chronic illnesses as well, including post covid19 conditions.

Spoons to Spare also participates in local bazaars and craft fairs. The money raised from those is donated to a spoonie in need once a year.