Day 7 Giveaway!!!!!

Tina at Living Without Sophie and Ellie had a brilliant idea of how to spread some cheer throughout this Christmas season. She orchestrated this event called 25 Days of GIVEAWAYS. It has been such a blessing to see how everyone has come together in this. For my giveaway... Day 7... I would like to offer one of two things...

My first offer is a Hope Collage Box.

The box will be about the size of an adult's shoe box, so it would serve as a good memory box for your baby's keepsakes. I have a way to transfer prints and words to the box, so the child's name would be centered on the lid and the words would surround it on the lid and four sides. I know a picture is worth a thousand words, but I actually do not have an example.

This idea sprang from a book called The Christmas Box that Jill from Footprints on our Hearts lent me. I started reading it last night and and immediately I was drawn to it because my Jenna's name is in the book! Anyway I hope you get the visual that is in my head. If you have not seen it, please visit my Hope Collage website and you may get a better idea of what this crazy idea may look like.

my second offer is...

A Hope Collage poster print (sizes may vary since the dimensions of each collage varies).

 

 

The choice is the totally up to the winner which will be announced tomorrow at noon (central time). I will be using www.random.org to generate the winner for this contest. From there I will be contacting the winner and getting all the shipping details :)

Leave a comment telling which you would like, and anything else you'd like to say.

Best of luck!

Jenna Belle's Ornament

We finally moved into our first new home (YAY!) and setting up house has been a bittersweet experience. For the most part, it has been a nice - really nice - distraction. But on the other hand I shouldn't be even close to finishing the unpacking. I should be baby-proofing everything.

There should be a beautiful, almost-seven month old baby girl at my side, taking up my time. And I get to wondering if I will always look at this empty hole and wonder about all the what-ifs and should-have-beens...

*sigh*

But it is what it is.

Whether I like it or not.

We started the Christmas tree... it's crooked like our last one. I'd ask my husband to fix it, but after we tried to a few nights ago, I just decided that it makes life interesting :) And the need to be a perfectionist just isn't that important anymore...

At my church we have a Christian sorority for the young women. We each have secret sisters that we encourage through letters, pray for and give small gifts to. We have a special place where we leave these gifts in our church to keep it discreet.

Well I have no idea who she is, but my secret sister is just FABULOUS. She bought me this ornament...

Sorry the picture is kind of dark, but isn't it beautiful!!!! So my Jenna has three ornaments now... my beautiful, beautiful Jenna Belle.

(It is from Things Remembered if you are looking for that perfect ornament :)

Thank You, April

Thank you, April for this Christmas ornament! I absolutely love it. It was incredibly thoughtful. I will definitely be hanging it on our (hopefully) real tree this year! =)

Hand-painted with love by April, so perfect just like my Jenna!

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