Coming Up Rosies
Coming Up Rosies was inspired by Rosie's dream to help "kids who look like me." At two and a half, Rosie was diagnosed with Alopecia, an autoimmune disease that attacks the hair follicles which results in baldness. Instead of focusing on fixing her baldness, we shifted to raising a little girl who loves herself unconditionally, hair or no hair.
The idea came out of the blue: why not transfer some of her most-prized paintings onto a head scarf? Not only would she have a beautiful head scarf to wear on days she didn’t feel like inviting comments or stares, but the scarf would be her own work. People would be commenting on Rosie’s scarf - her art -- instead of her loss. We surprised Rosie with a head scarf we’d had made using one of her more favored paintings. She was overjoyed, and quickly blurted out, “What about the other bald kids? We should make these for all the bald kids who look like me. Can we do that?”
Today, we are a non profit that donates Smile Kits to hospitals and charity organizations around world for children to create their own custom head or neck scarves. Our dream is to expand to all Children’s Hospitals in the US to restore confidence and pride to anyone struggling with low self-esteem, especially bald children. Our vision is a world where every child goes to sleep proud of their differences.
The idea came out of the blue: why not transfer some of her most-prized paintings onto a head scarf? Not only would she have a beautiful head scarf to wear on days she didn’t feel like inviting comments or stares, but the scarf would be her own work. People would be commenting on Rosie’s scarf - her art -- instead of her loss. We surprised Rosie with a head scarf we’d had made using one of her more favored paintings. She was overjoyed, and quickly blurted out, “What about the other bald kids? We should make these for all the bald kids who look like me. Can we do that?”
Today, we are a non profit that donates Smile Kits to hospitals and charity organizations around world for children to create their own custom head or neck scarves. Our dream is to expand to all Children’s Hospitals in the US to restore confidence and pride to anyone struggling with low self-esteem, especially bald children. Our vision is a world where every child goes to sleep proud of their differences.