Word In Your Hand project for World Diabetes Day, Nov. 14

As a prize for the photo of the week in the “Word in Your Hand” project, you will have a choice between these two books authored by two of our members:

-Know Your Numbers, Outlive your Diabetes by Amy Tenderich (visit the book’s blog)
-When You’re a Parent With Diabetes by Kathryn Gregorio (visit the book’s website)

Thanks to Kathryn and Amy for donating the copies of the books that will go to the winners!!

BTW, if you guys want to nominate photos for the best of the week, cast your nominations here. Take a look at the photos posted in this topic as well as the ones posted in the Flickr Group:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/tudiabetes

If you haven’t posted your photo yet, you still have a chance to do so before Sunday, when we will be picking the first winning photo.

Hey Manny I don’t think I did my photo right it is not on the www.flickr.com

Denise

neither is mine?

No worries (Denise, Heidi): “Thunderstruck” and “Expensive” are in here, so they are getting counted. The Flickr thing is optional.

However, if you HAVE a Flickr account and want to add the photo to the TuDiabetes.com group there:

  1. Make sure to join the Fliickr group: http://flickr.com/groups/tudiabetes
  2. Once you have, go to the photo you want to add and above it you will find an option labeled “Send to Group”: click on it and you will find TuDiabetes.com in there. Just select it and hit OK.

DONE! :slight_smile:

Just added the project to the World Diabetes Day Events List (pending approval):
http://events.worlddiabetesday.org/events/view/108

Drum roll… Winner(s) to be announced shortly (yes: there will be more than one winner this week!) :smiley:

OK, this week the selection was very hard. We went back to the start of the project and took a hard look at all the submissions and here’s what we came back with.

We picked a winner from the start of the project to date and four other second runner-ups.

The winner for this period is Beth (with the word “Balance”):

You can choose between one of the two books or a limited edition fine print by Andreina, who gracefully volunteered it. The piece will be printed on Somerset Velvet fine art paper and can be as large as 18x12, depending on the proportions of piece you choose among the following: http://andredav.deviantart.com/art/gReen-55372498 http://andredav.deviantart.com/art/bLur-66338057 http://andredav.deviantart.com/art/vAlores-zoom-55373102 http://andredav.deviantart.com/art/bLue-pEace-altered-colors-63230747

The second runner-ups for this period are:

Chuck Lin (with the word “Humor”):

Lea B (with the word "Scary"):

Tracey Wilson (with the word "Draining"):

AND

Sarah Russo (with the word “Growing”):

The second runner-ups have a choice among the same limited edition fine prints listed above, but the pieces would be 9x9 or 7.5x10, depending on the proportions of the piece selected.

All the photos will be highlighted on a collage to appear in the home page during the entire week. Congrats to the winners and to EVERYBODY who posted!!

Let’s keep those photos coming, people!! We have four more weeks of excitement before the end of the project. We’re over 1,000 members and we’ve only seen less than 100 photos so far, and some members have contributed more than one already.

Gorgeous.

Wow! Thanks so much!
Sorry I haven’t been around much. So many things have been going on. I’m going to make a blog entry- but my hubby is going through a lot with his diabetes and just had a nerve conduction test and cat scan. Things aren’t looking too good- any positive thoughts and prayers would be greatly appreciated.

I hope you all had a great weekend. Thanks again, for such an honor :slight_smile:

How awesome to be selected! Thank you Manny and Andreina :slight_smile:

Now, which beautiful piece of art to choose?

Here is mine. I don't have any good image editing software on here so the word was "handwritten" via mouse. :)

Cool! Really like the background :slight_smile:

I just uploaded another that I edited (has nicer writing).

As we approach the end of the second week, since we started giving prizes away for the best photo of the week, let’s continue to spread the word about the project.

If you have a digg account, please digg this:
http://digg.com/health/Show_the_World_How_Has_Diabetes_Touched_Your_Life

Craziness is the One word how I feel about Diabtes!
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The second Photo of the Week winner is Tom (with the word “Fearless” -using Kanji):

Tom: You can choose between these two books authored by two of our members:

-Know Your Numbers, Outlive your Diabetes by Amy Tenderich (visit the book’s blog)
-When You’re a Parent With Diabetes by Kathryn Gregorio (visit the book’s website)

There were two words this week that deserve special mention:

Cleo (with the word “Humbling”):

Hannah (with the word "Testing"):

All three photos will be highlighted on a collage to appear in the home page during the entire week. Once again, congrats to the winners and to EVERYBODY who posted!!

We’re doing better but we sure have more photos to see, don’t we? Today, we got to 1,100 members, so make sure to participate in this great project before the time runs out.

I posted my word (finally) this evening. It’s endurance.

Diabetes365 day 8 Oct. 15th 2007 - Diabetes is...Endurance

What is Diabetes?
It’s knowledge that I’m missing,
a void that needs to be filled.
Yet, it something within my grasp.

Here’s mine: