no hard feelings.

120 hours and a half of crocheting; 50,400 stitches; 2,9 kg of yarn. It measures 1.5mx2m. The most slavic thing I’ve ever made is finally done.

Helen Betty Osborne, a Cree Aboriginal, was born in Norway House, Manitoba. In 1971, she joined a government program in which families were paid to home Native students. She was sent to live with a Caucasian family, the Bensons, in The Pas, Manitoba, later on in the year when she was 19-years-old. She attended Margaret Barbour Collegiate nearby to study to become a teacher and settled in within the community and made numerous friends.

Sadly, her hopes of becoming a teacher were stolen from her on 13 November, 1971. She had spent the evening with her friends at a local cafe before deciding she would go downtown with her friends for a few drinks. At around midnight, her friends returned home without Helen. It’s unknown what happened to her between 12am and 2:30am, but at approximately 2:30am, Helen was abducted and brutally murdered - she had been raped, severely beaten and stabbed over 50 times with a screwdriver. Her naked body was discovered the following day by a local teenager.

CARNIVAL THE CLOWN @ THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | PART 1 OF 11 DOCTOR OF LAUGHTER Name : Dr Arthur Department : Laughology Specialty : Balloons

On September 5, 2015, Georgia police received a frantic phone call from a 50-year-old woman named Yvonne Ervin who told them, ‘’Please send someone to my house. My children are trying to kill me.”

It all started at dinner. Cameron (17) and Christopher Ervin (22), her two sons, spiked their cocktails with Xanax. Shortly thereafter, the parents went to watch a football game but came home shortly after because they felt drowsy. They soon went to bed in their groggy state, and the brothers lit candles around the living room, turned up the gas, and waited outside for their house to explode. When nothing ended up happening, they immediately resorted to plan B. They entered their parents’ bedroom and unleashed their brutal attack. They began to strangle and beat their mother and father with the butt of a shotgun to try and kill them. In an attempt to distract their children long enough for his wife to call for help, Zachary began stumbling out of the bedroom, through the kitchen and into the garage to try and blow the car horn. The brothers followed their father through the house and stabbed him a total of ten times. 

Soon, police cruisers were lined up along the street of the Ervin family’s middle class suburban home in Snellville, Gerogia. The brothers were immediately arrested. While sitting in the back of one of the police cruisers, the reality of his actions, and the severe consequences he was about to face, seemed to be sinking in for the youngest brother. ‘’Just kill me now,’’ said Cameron. ‘’I just tried to fucking kill my parents. Who does that?’’ Yvonne and Zachary miraculously survived the vicious attack that was inflicted upon them by their very own children with whom they gave life to and raised, but they didn’t make it out unscathed. Zachary suffered from multiple stab wounds and a severe head injury after being struck with the shotgun, and Yvonne sustained more than a dozen bruises and other related injuries.