When young lives are touched by cancer, a roller coaster ride of emotional highs and lows can deeply affect patients, families, and caregivers. Among the many challenges especially traumatic for ...

RIVER RIDGE – A group of local volunteers are spending hours upon hours on a labor of love after an Alaska woman created a special head of hair for her daughter battling cancer. Dozens of women and ...

Volunteers around the world are bringing smiles to children's faces with yarn. — -- What started out as one wig made for the daughter of a friend has become thousands of wigs made for children ...

PALMER — From a one-car garage in a tiny triplex, Holly Christensen helps run a worldwide wig-making nonprofit that tries to lift the spirits of kids with cancer. The Magic Yarn Project has gotten so ...

Holly Christiensen, co-founder of The Magic Yarn Project, creates magical yarn wigs by hand, and sends them to girls around the world battling cancer. Every little girl deserves long flowing locks ...

One nonprofit is weaving a major impact for children with cancer by creating handmade yarn wigs modeled after popular Disney characters including Rapunzel, Elsa and Captain Jack Sparrow. The operation ...

A former cancer nurse realized that her work helping those suffering from the disease wasn't quite done. Upon discovering that her friend's 3-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, Holly ...

Delivered by pirates to So Original Yarn Studio in Columbia, a large box filled with skeins of multicolored yarn was indeed a treasure chest for recipient Brittany Harrison. As the Baltimore area ...

Three organizations joined forces in Pismo Beach Sunday all to create a little magic for children fighting cancer. It was a community movement including a local Zumba instructor, Pismo Beach Cities ...

As a mother of three, Holly Christensen is well aware of how much little girls love Disney princesses like Elsa and Ariel. And as a nurse who has specialized in cancer, she knows just how hard it is ...

Janet O’Grady, a parishioner of Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Vienna, Va., makes an Elsa wig from “Frozen” May 9, 2019, for a child experiencing hair loss. (Credit: CNS photo/Zoey Maraist, ...

Maiya Lima was only 5 years old when her mother noticed a small bald patch on the back of her head. More patches began to appear in the weeks and months that followed in 2015. Her mother, Emmanuela ...