Time for a little early CELEBRATION!!!! A couple more hours till the new year and already ALL of the ONE HUNDRED children in the Miracle of Adoption Campaign have met or exceeded the $1,000 grant goal! That means in the past two months people from all around the world have rallied to raise more than […]Read Post ›
I hoped to have a full collage of all the babushkas I’ve made so to share with you, but while scanning through my saved photos I found to my great sorrow that alas I forgot to take pics of one entire round of babushkas 😦 The completed ones from An Afternoon Embroidery are nowhere to […]Read Post ›
I have about 20 pre-ordered ornaments in the works right now with the plan to have them all mailed by next week. This had led to some intense days. I have been waking up at 4:15 AM to snag a couple hours of embroidery time before mom-day starts. Insane? Yes. Awesome? Yes, that too.
I poured a cup of tea and settled down to work on batch #3 of the babushka dolls with lupines, lavender, and periwinkles dancing in my imagination.
You may have noticed that when I advocate for orphans with special needs, I rarely talk about their actual diagnosis. Let me take that back, early on I did talk about the medical side, in fact that was almost all I talked about, and it almost always summed up to me saying “it’s not that […]Read Post ›
All these babas have been claimed! Check back in a few days for the next batch!!! As promised, today is the second batch of hand-embroidered babushka doll ornaments I’m making for my Miracle of Adoption child, Donnie. I’ve completed 9 out of 10 but figured I’d throw in the 10th in her current state and […]Read Post ›
So much is happening (fodder for future blogs) that I didn’t even realize it’s been so long since my last post. I was hoping to give my monthly homeschool update on Nov 2nd or 3rd, but the super supportive response to the babushka fundraiser currently finds me flooded with orders, which is AWESOME, but has […]Read Post ›
Update! All these babushkas have been claimed! I am working hard to make another 20 ornaments within a week though I’m not sure it’s humanly possible if I still want to do things like feed, dress, bath, change the kids. Priorities are hard, right? Folks, it is November 1st which means today is the day […]Read Post ›
I’d like to introduce you to Donnie, my Miracle of Adoption child. Over the next two months I am going to be fundraising for his Reece’s Rainbow adoption grant with a goal of adding $1,000. (At the moment his grant is $54.) This is the little boy I’ve been making all those ornaments for. Starting […]Read Post ›
Tomorrow I’ll be introducing you to my Miracle of Adoption Christmas Child! Today I’d like to introduce you to Princess Bubble Love Glimmer Star Rose Flower Heartsong. Most the dolls have lovely little names like Hazel and Olga, but my four-year old asked to name this lady. She will be joining the other nesting doll […]Read Post ›
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