YOU ARE GOING TO BE GREAT. IN FACT, YOU ALREADY ARE.

YOU ARE GOING TO BE GREAT.  IN FACT, YOU ALREADY ARE.  

Children with limb differences and their families have a special place in my heart.  

Mittens that fit and stay on are a particularly big issue for children with limb differences.   

For several years, mimiTENS has made custom mittens and donated to organizations that support the limb differences.  Every pair of mittens we have made and donated has been paid for, with pleasure, by me.  

The ball really got rolling when mimiTENS earned its patents in Canada and the USA.  That is when I knew it was absolutely safe to be more proactive in talking about this project and even try to promote it.  

It has always been my intention to use my invention for good.  

We learn by doing, and these are the things that I have learned making custom mittens for kids with limb differences.

1) When parents would reach out because they needed special mittens, I always gave them the option for a mitten with a thumb or a flat mitten to accommodate their children's needs.  Half the parents chose mittens with thumbs.  Half the parents chose flat mittens.  I want to offer both.  

2)  I saw more left hands than right hands needing special attention.  This is a very unscientific observation but it made me realize that I need to come up with a way to be more efficient in manufacturing so that we could make more mittens! 

3) If a special mitten gets lost, uh oh, really no good.  

4) Parents feel shy to ask for the mittens.  They want to pay for them.  I feel bad taking people's money for this.  So I needed a solution.  

5) Shipping is really expensive.  Sending the mittens cost me about $20 a pair.  It gets in the way of how many mittens that I can make.  

Here are my solutions for 2023. 

If you order a pair of mimiTENS for a child with a limb difference, we will add the special flat mittens for free.

If you want to make a bulk order of mittens for kids with limb differences, please reach out to us. 

If you and your kiddo want to participate in creative and art classes this fall and winter, we are making arrangements for these.  COVID-dependent for sure but we are working on some in-person cool things. 

Finally, I have written a book -- one and a half, actually.  It is a book for parents and very specifically for the important moment when they find out their child will have a limb difference.  It is called, 'You are going to be great.  In fact, you already are.  

I am changing the name of my limb differences efforts to this universal message. 
I hope it becomes both a rallying cry and also a statement that brings peace and confidence in people's hearts. 

with all my heart,

Anna-Maria

PS:  There was a getIN PROJECT website.  I am having to take it down because it is just too confusing to have both.  Also, people know that it is a mimiTENS jam.