{"id":4643,"date":"2013-02-09T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T08:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2013-02-08T00:17:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T00:17:57","slug":"clothing-kindness-idea-4-pocket-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/clothing-kindness-idea-4-pocket-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Clothing&#8221; Kindness Idea #5: Pocket Surprises!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those just joining us, the <a href=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/kindness-word-of-the-week-prompts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project 52 Word of the Week<\/a> is &#8220;Clothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m attempting to post a new idea each day for how you might approach this week&#8217;s theme in case you&#8217;ve run short of time for brainstorming (of course the BEST way to approach this project is to get the kids involved and see what amazing ideas THEY come up with!).<\/p>\n<p>So far we&#8217;ve focused on clothing donations for specific types of clothing. \u00a0We&#8217;ve seen a need for old jeans to make <a href=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/clothing-kindness-idea-of-the-day-old-jeans\/\" target=\"_blank\">quilts for wounded warriors<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/clothing-kindness-idea-2-teensforjeans-with-aeropostale-and-dosomething-org\/\" target=\"_blank\">gently used jeans to be donated to homeless shelters for teens<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/clothing-kindness-idea-3-soccer-jerseys\/\" target=\"_blank\">soccer jerseys being collected in Leesburg to be taken to Honduras<\/a>. \u00a0I also posted doll clothing (<a href=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/crochet-together-a-colorful-coat-for-dolly\/\">a crochet pattern<\/a>) that my crochet friends out there could use to bring a smile to a special little girl&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>Today I thought it might be fun to <strong><em>think outside the donation box<\/em><\/strong> and come up with a creative way to tie together clothing and kindness. \u00a0And this one is spreading some joy and kindness within your own family.<\/p>\n<p>Why not write tiny notes of love and encouragement for members of your family and hide them in all those empty pockets in the closet. \u00a0Coat pockets, jeans pockets&#8230; \u00a0The next time they wear that coat or pair of pants they&#8217;ll have a completely unexpected surprise to brighten their day. \u00a0It&#8217;s okay if the whole family is involved because even if everyone knows about it there are bound to be hidden notes that aren&#8217;t found right away. \u00a0In 2 weeks or 2 months when a note pops up it&#8217;ll be a lovely reminder of time spent together spreading joy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those just joining us, the Project 52 Word of the Week is &#8220;Clothing.&#8221; I&#8217;m attempting to post a new idea each day for how you might approach this week&#8217;s theme in case you&#8217;ve run short of time for brainstorming (of course the BEST way to approach this project is to get the kids involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[521,511],"tags":[544,548,515,550,549],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focus-on-kindness-2","category-kindness-with-kids","tag-clothing","tag-intentional-acts-of-kindness","tag-kindness-with-kids-2","tag-notes","tag-surprises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}