Valley Children's Hospital

Below is a letter from a staff member at Valley Children's Hospital. She sent it to me via email the day I dropped off the two baby scrapbooks:

Hello Heather,
We received the lovely scrapbooks for families at Children's Hospital
today. Families with a dying newborn babies lose the future with their
child. The only memories they will have are those at the hospital during
the precious hours to days before the baby dies. These times are so
tragic and sad that any joy in these moments is often eluded. How
wonderful for these families to have a scrapbook in which they can look
back and have something beautiful to remember their baby. Thank you for
your thoughtful blessing. Marie


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Thanks to Angela

My friend Angela is an AMAZING and probably one of the most talented women I know. Instead of donating pages I asked her to create a logo for Heartfelt Blessings. It turned out AWESOME!!! Now I will use our logo for tags to attach to the scrapbooks that we are giving. Thank you so much Angela! Click on the link ANGELA under "Caught Being Good" to go directly to her blog where she has done tons of logos for different businesses.

Upcoming Months CHANGES included

My sister-in-law Misty is a photographer and did pictures of this beautiful and sweet 3 month little boy who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy. He passed away on July 14th and his mom and family are having a really difficult time. Visit: http://www.legacy.com/recordnet/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=113529414 for Michael's story. I thought it would be awesome to do a scrapbook that Misty can give to Michael's family. She is going to find out some information from the Grandma so we can make it more personal. I would like to get the scrapbook to her sooner than later so, I am going to push the ABC book to November/December. Also, I have been communicating via email with the local chapter of the Make a Wish Foundation and they said they would love a scrapbook. They said most wishes are Disney theme park wishes so I thought we could do a Disney book... that
one will stay for the month of October.
I hope everyone is o.k. with the change :)

Below are the NEW themes and due dates.
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September: Baby Boy Book

Recipient: Michael's Family

Due Date: September 20th



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October: Disney Theme

Recipient: Child from Make a Wish Foundation

Due Date: October 20th


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November/December: ABC Book

Due Date: December 20th

Most people have emailed me and told me to give them whatever letters I have left so here are the letter assignments:
Stephanie A.: Letter L P
Marissa B.: Letter M
Julie: Letter N
Misty: Letters D Z
Kathy G.: Letter H
Kolette: Letter A
Kim: Letter F
Dawn: Letter T
Darlene: Letter B C E
Michelle M.: Letter R
Michelle S.: Letters J G V
Sylvia: Letter S
Amber W.: Letter W
Heather: Letters X K

I have letters I Q O U and Y left if you would like to do one of these instead of yours or along with yours let me know. If you are unable to do the scrapbook page this month let me know asap. The only thing that I ask to be on the page is the letter... it can be a sticker, chipboard, you can write it or whatever creative way you would like. You can include things that start with the letter if you want it is totally up to you... it is your page :) I know that some of you do two page layouts for me, but this time one page will be perfect :)
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Thank you again for all your help and support with this project! I am blessed to have so many thoughtful and giving people in my life.

Special Thanks!

I wanted to thank Judy H. from Turlock for donating four 8 x 8 scrapbooks and some scrapbook embellishments. She is someone who thinks she can't scrapbook, but still found a way to help Heartfelt Blessings!! Thank you!

Last of the June Baby Boy Pages

From Top to Bottom:
Misty B. - Stockton, Darlene M. - Manteca, Me (Heather) - Fresno

More June Baby Boy Pages

From Top to Bottom:
Stephanie A. - Fresno, Marissa B. - Rio Vista, Julie - , Kim H. - Manteca, Misty B. - Stockton

June Baby Boy Pages

From Top to Bottom:
Kolette H. - Fresno, Michelle S.- Fresno, Dawn K. - Fresno, Stephanie A. - Fresno