It's Time....

Losing someone you love is always painful. Losing a child can be unbearable....Several of my friends & family members have lost a young child to miscarriage, stillbirth, or complications from significant prematurity. My husband & I have 6 babies in Heaven waiting for us. 

I have even more people in my life who had to deliver a child into the world early & learned very quickly the special needs of a preemie; my niece, Ashley, was born 10 weeks early. She weighed a little over three pounds at birth & was the tiniest thing I had ever seen. I remember feeling so helpless as I sat with my sister in the NICU watching Ashley sleep & being surrounded by all the sweet, innocent babies fighting for themselves in one way or another....

I experienced several months of pre-term labor with our second daughter, Owynne Faith,  & was so very grateful when she was born last November at 39 weeks. I have always enjoyed making things; being crafty. Wynnie was a gigantic surprise, especially since I had my sixth miscarriage a few short months before she was conceived. The room that once held all my crafting items had to be turned into a nursery, so my crafting time & space fell by the wayside. It wasn't until Owynne was about 3 months old that I began to feel this intense desire to create once more, so I began making clothing items & things for my girls & others.  I consider myself to be creative, but haven't been able to pinpoint until today why this has become so important to me:

I recently opened a shop on Etsy, Hope & Faith Creations. But it wasn't thought through well so I closed down to rethink my plan. Today, after hearing of some friends' devastating loss of their son, I believe the true reason for the creation of Hope & Faith has been given to me by Him: Hope & Faith Creations will reopen in late August in honor of our children, Karsen Hope & Owynne Faith. God has blessed my husband & me with two amazing, wonderful, beautiful girls & now it is time to pay it forward. So we will honor all children by donating a percentage of sales to an organization helping & protecting children each quarter.

To honor the babies that were born too early & have gone Home & the babies who fought so hard to stay here, Hope & Faith Creations will collect 10% from each sale in August through December to donate to the March of Dimes. 

Please consider visiting the shop upon its reopening & help support our futures....