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The January winner of the Show Us Your Hands! Picture Project is announced: " 2015 - A new year with new beginnings for Show Us Your Hands! We now have a brand new website that we hope will bring greater benefits to you.   Also, we are now offering a second edition of our photo book “Our Hands Can” on Amazon at a more affordable price. The new website and book offering are intended to bring awareness to all inflammatory arthritis diseases as well as a place to display all the amazing things are community continues to do with inflammatory arthritis.  To coincide with both the New Year and the new things happening at Show Us Your Hands, January’s Our Hands Can Picture Project theme was NEW.   We asked the community to share photos of something NEW along with their hand.   We appreciate the feedback and inspiration.   Here’s a little sampling of what we received." Hop on over to the Show Us Your Hands! site to see the winner and learn how you can p...

Last week, I mentioned having been immersed in Something Special as a reason for having been rather absent lately. Today, I am proud and very excited to share that Something Special with you: the new website and photo book for Show Us Your Hands!: "To celebrate our third anniversary, Show Us Your Hands! is proud to present our new website at www.suyh.org and the new, revised edition of the Our Hands Can photo book , now available on Amazon. These represent a new direction for the organization, one that respects our history while branching out onto an exciting path to unite the inflammatory arthritis community and raise awareness about these serious diseases." You can read more about our new path, check out the beautiful brand-new Show Us Your Hands! website .

Gratitude. Every November (and October in Canada), we all pay a little more attention to what we are thankful for. It makes you feel better to realize those small moments of quiet joy. In November, the Show Us Your Hands! Picture Project asked the inflammatory arthritis community “What are you thankful for?” We got lots of wonderful submissions. Tia Maria showed us an impressive bruise, saying “ I'm thankful for this bruised hand because it signifies finally getting my Remicade infusion and hopefully feeling this flare slip away soon.” Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful perspective with us! Several people in the community are thankful for their pets. Among them were Trisha and her “cuddle buddy, Chuck … He loves me so much.” We all agree that he has a wonderful face! Jill was thankful for her cat, who in the true (and kind of endearing) spirit of all cats, turned its head just when the camera went off.   Christina submitted her photo on Twitter...

Change in the air this time of year. Whether it’s leaves that change colours, wardrobes changing from summer tank tops to sweaters (or vice versa in the Southern hemisphere), or the temperatures, there is a shift going on. At Show Us Your Hands!, we got so excited about change that we decided to update a number of the things we do. This includes our logo and, even more excitingly, we’d like you to design it for us! Are you interested? Click here to read more about the Show Us Your Hands! logo contest and send us your design! We got some great contributions to October’s Picture Project. Our theme was Change of Seasons. We’d like to thank Daniel P. Malito for donating the October prize: a signed copy of his book So Young: A Life Lived With Rheumatoid Arthritis . Read on to see who won! It’s not just our community members who contribute photos to the Picture Project. The members of the Board do, as well. Over the coming months, we’ll show you some of their contribution...

Unite and Inspire.  These concepts are key components of the mission of Show Us Your Hands!. We aim to unite and inspire the inflammatory arthritis community through creative programs that focus on what our hands can do. We're planning some exciting changes and want to involve you in the process! We invite our lovely followers to create a new logo for Show Us Your Hands! that captures the essence of who we are and what we do. The winning design will be used as the official logo of Show Us Your Hands! and the designer will be displayed on our new website, currently in development. If you’re interested in submitting a design, it’s important that you read the official rules (see below). Send your submission to logo@suyh.org and post it on the Show Us Your Hands! Facebook Page by November 14, 2014 at 11:50 PM ET. It’s important to do both . NOTE: DEADLINE EXTENDED: submit by Monday, November 24, 2014, AT 11:59 pm ET.   We can’t wait to see what you ...