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11 | Friday, December 2, 2016 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Gowns honour lives lost continued from p.10 several wedding dresses in the past. Over the last few months, she's been helping fellow Oakville Sewing Forum member Heather Albanese create `angel gowns.' Sewing group gets busy Albanese, who makes her home in neighbouring Burlington, had shared with the sewing group, which meets monthly at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre (Q EPCCC), how meaningful it was for her to create these smaller items that celebrates a child' s short life and brings comfort to the grieving parents. "It just seemed like such a wonderful idea taking recycled wedding dresses and turning them into bereavement gowns for preemies (who don't survive) and stillborns," O'Connell told the O akville B eaver recently. Forever loved "The dresses are donated, the time of the people who make the gowns is donated and then the gowns are donated to an organization called Forever Loved Angel Gowns," she said. Albanese is part of the Forever Loved Angel Gowns network of volunteers, O'Connell continued, which delivers the gowns, bonnets, blankets, vests and other similar items to hospitals to be handed out to parents free of charge. They've been made available to Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH), Toronto's Sick Kids, Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington and McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton. O'Connell, an accountant by trade and hobby seamstress, says she's been helping out in anyway she can, spending about 15-20 hours a week carefully deconstructing a wedding dress by removing beading, lace, ribbon, appliques and washing the fabric. She' s de-constructed about two dozen wedding dresses and given the materials to Albanese. Creating the gowns She has also created about a dozen of the tiny "angel gowns" herself. O'Connell says she gets satisfaction from helping. One dress typically makes about 20 tiny gowns. She said she also learned through research that more boys die than girls in these circumstances, so she's been trying to create more items for boys. "I never knew there was such a need for something like this, but when I found out that there was, any type of children's charity appeals to me so it seemed like a natural fit," she said. For more information, visit foreverlovedangelgowns.com. Dr. Arun Narang, D.D.S. Invisalign® or Traditional Braces: Which Is Better? Virtually anyone can achieve a strong, functional bite and beautiful, straight teeth with the orthodontic options that are now available. For optimal results, it's important to utilise the best method for your needs and goals. 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