notwhatitseems

I've uploaded some new stamps today, namely some memorials.

It's coming up on the 1-year anniversary of Eva Markvoort's passing. I was lucky enough to come across her story completely by chance back in the fall of 2009, and had the joy of following her blog over the last months of her all too short life. I was so touched that I sent her a box of goodies for Christmas that year, and that I'm tearing up while I type this now.

Eva was a champion for Cystic Fibrosis awareness and fundraising, the very disease that took her life, and organ donation, the very thing that gave her two more years to fulfill her dreams and create her legacy.

I had wanted to get a memorial tattoo for her birthday this year, but my lack of employment has put a hold on that. I will get it eventually, but if I can spread the word a bit this year...I owe her that much.

Love, love, love.

In memory of Eva Dien Brine Markvoort, March 31, 1984 - March 27, 2010.