Paintings by: NO LIMIT ARTISTIC DESIGN
Make-A-Wish Foundation® - Braydon's Wish 2011
I am a big believer in the Make-A-Wish Foundation®.
They grant wishes to children with serious medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope strength and joy. www.makeawishsa.ca
I was contacted by a family and the Make-A-Wish Foundation® to paint a mural for a beautiful
3 year old boy named Braydon. He is diagnosed with Mitochondrial Desease.
Braydon LOVES hockey and especially the Calgary Flames and Iginla and Kiprusoff!
He stands with his hand on his heart looking at the ground and singing 'Oh Canada' getting progressively louder as he sways back and forth like the players do and as soon as the song is over he rushes off to play hockey with books on his feet as skates!
He mimics their every move and is a joy to watch him play.
We had the 'grand reveal' on Saturday, May 28th and Ollie Jokinen of the Calgary Flames came to see Braydon making him very happy to have a hockey player in his new room. I painted the mural, Ikea provided and set up the furniture and Make-A-Wish Foundation®
did the rest of the work.
The family wanted a room where he would be comfortable and could see hockey all day long when it is time for him to spend many hours in his room.
They grant wishes to children with serious medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope strength and joy. www.makeawishsa.ca
I was contacted by a family and the Make-A-Wish Foundation® to paint a mural for a beautiful
3 year old boy named Braydon. He is diagnosed with Mitochondrial Desease.
Braydon LOVES hockey and especially the Calgary Flames and Iginla and Kiprusoff!
He stands with his hand on his heart looking at the ground and singing 'Oh Canada' getting progressively louder as he sways back and forth like the players do and as soon as the song is over he rushes off to play hockey with books on his feet as skates!
He mimics their every move and is a joy to watch him play.
We had the 'grand reveal' on Saturday, May 28th and Ollie Jokinen of the Calgary Flames came to see Braydon making him very happy to have a hockey player in his new room. I painted the mural, Ikea provided and set up the furniture and Make-A-Wish Foundation®
did the rest of the work.
The family wanted a room where he would be comfortable and could see hockey all day long when it is time for him to spend many hours in his room.
Calgary Sun Article
Flames' Olli Jokinen teams up with Braydon Holowa
Little Braydon Holowa’s bedroom refuge lacked what consumes most of the time he spends when not in hospital: The Calgary Flames. It’s a team the tyke's developed a love for in a short life medical experts say will only last two to six more months.
Thanks to several partners organized by the Make A Wish Foundation, the three-year-old Calgary boy who suffers from a rare condition known as Mitochondrial disease, scored a new one brimming with tributes to and from his rink heroes, as a late birthday gift.
His mother Tasha watched quietly as her youngest son opened the door to his new domain, a bedroom fit for a fledgling diehard complete with new furniture provided by Ikea, lifelike portraits of Jarome Iginla and Mikka Kiprusoff painted on his walls, and Flames gear everywhere.
If the pizza, party and new bedroom weren’t enough surprises, the visit and bedroom inspection by Ollie Jokinen was. The Flames centre gave Braydon a new stick and followed the boy upstairs to view his new digs and chat with mother and father, Darren, about his own kids and pledge to have the family meet the Flames at the squad’s home opener.
Outside the home, Jokinen said he was only too happy to visit. “I’ve got three daughters at home and they’re all healthy, so as a parent you know how hard it is to deal with sickness,” he said.
Braydon, the curious blonde kid who wakes up every morning to shoot pucks with his five-year-old brother Dylan, was diagnosed with a fatal form of Mitochondrial Disease, a genetic disorder, as an infant.
He was picked as a candidate for the Make A Wish foundation on advice from his doctor.
The foundation grants wishes to kids who suffer from life-threatening medical conditions between the age of 3 and 17 — they waited until the day after his third birthday to set his wish in motion.
MWF volunteer Sarah Van Gilst, who helped make Braydon’s wish a reality, said through her involvement, she was struck by the boy’s keen intellect and personality.
“He sings O Canada at the top of his lungs,” she said.
Tasha suspects her little boy has spent two of his three years in hospital rooms.
His new room, she said, will be a quiet place for him to relax and enjoy life, more of which will be spent at home in the coming months.
“He’s finally got a safe place, away from the hospital with all the poking and testing and surgeries,” she said.
michael.wood@sunmedia.ca
Little Braydon Holowa’s bedroom refuge lacked what consumes most of the time he spends when not in hospital: The Calgary Flames. It’s a team the tyke's developed a love for in a short life medical experts say will only last two to six more months.
Thanks to several partners organized by the Make A Wish Foundation, the three-year-old Calgary boy who suffers from a rare condition known as Mitochondrial disease, scored a new one brimming with tributes to and from his rink heroes, as a late birthday gift.
His mother Tasha watched quietly as her youngest son opened the door to his new domain, a bedroom fit for a fledgling diehard complete with new furniture provided by Ikea, lifelike portraits of Jarome Iginla and Mikka Kiprusoff painted on his walls, and Flames gear everywhere.
If the pizza, party and new bedroom weren’t enough surprises, the visit and bedroom inspection by Ollie Jokinen was. The Flames centre gave Braydon a new stick and followed the boy upstairs to view his new digs and chat with mother and father, Darren, about his own kids and pledge to have the family meet the Flames at the squad’s home opener.
Outside the home, Jokinen said he was only too happy to visit. “I’ve got three daughters at home and they’re all healthy, so as a parent you know how hard it is to deal with sickness,” he said.
Braydon, the curious blonde kid who wakes up every morning to shoot pucks with his five-year-old brother Dylan, was diagnosed with a fatal form of Mitochondrial Disease, a genetic disorder, as an infant.
He was picked as a candidate for the Make A Wish foundation on advice from his doctor.
The foundation grants wishes to kids who suffer from life-threatening medical conditions between the age of 3 and 17 — they waited until the day after his third birthday to set his wish in motion.
MWF volunteer Sarah Van Gilst, who helped make Braydon’s wish a reality, said through her involvement, she was struck by the boy’s keen intellect and personality.
“He sings O Canada at the top of his lungs,” she said.
Tasha suspects her little boy has spent two of his three years in hospital rooms.
His new room, she said, will be a quiet place for him to relax and enjoy life, more of which will be spent at home in the coming months.
“He’s finally got a safe place, away from the hospital with all the poking and testing and surgeries,” she said.
michael.wood@sunmedia.ca
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