Friday Fun: Birthday Blessings
2:31:00 PM
Yesterday was my birthday. I didn’t make a very big deal
about it. Actually, I just went to work, had a diaper leak on me, made dinner, planned
out the next craft project, and hung out with the lovely ladies of my Bible
study. You know, a normal day in Architecture of a Mom style! My little family
celebrated on the 4th, with my parents coming by my house to hang
out for a little while, and my husband and my four-year-old (to whom birthdays
are a very big deal, thank-you-very-much) gave me presents and sang happy
birthday. My husband knows me well: lots of books were involved in the gift
giving, with a coffee travel mug thrown in for good measure! But my favorite
present was a beautiful necklace. You see, I’m a necklace girl, I have since I
was really young. I feel naked if I don’t have a necklace on. I had dropped
some pretty broad hints that I wanted a necklace with all my little ones’ names
on it. I did research for him, and sent him links and images of things I liked.
He settled on a local woman—who happens to go to our church!—that hand stamps
custom jewelry. She has loads of designs, and her website, The Spirit Factory
states that if you have a special idea in mind, just email her!
This is the design that I received:
(Note: this is a picture of the design from The Spirit Factory's facebook page, and not my kids’ names—obviously, since y’all know I have girls!)
I love it because in addition to the names, it has the tag
that says, “my blessings.” I think all of us get frustrated with our kids…like
when they take their diapers off in the middle of the night (yes, I was greeted
by a bare bottom this morning)…or when they just simply won’t obey. But truly,
how blessed am I to have 3 little princesses, and how wonderful to have a
reminder that they can see. The twins love the necklace—after all, it jingles!—and
Lil Bit just adores that she can spell out her name on it! I love having a
reminder of my blessings right on my neck. I think we can all use a little
reminder of our blessings sometimes.

Disclaimer: I received no compensation for this post. In fact, I just posted on her facebook page to tell her I blogged about her product. I just love her work.
Sometimes I link up at the following places: 413 Sparrow Lane, 504 Main, A Little Tipsy, Blessed with Grace, Crafty Scrappy Happy, Eat at Home, Finding Fabulous, Gingersnap Crafts, House of Hepworths, How to Nest for Less, Made in a Day, MomTrends, Not Just a Housewife, Organizing Junkie, Positively Splendid, Simply Sugar and Gluten Free, Six Sisters Stuff, Sugarbee Crafts, Tidy Mom, The Finer Things and I Dream of Clean’s Spring Cleaning Challenge, The Finer Things in Life, The Grant Life and The King's Court IV.
1 comments
Rachel, I am so honored to have you blog about the necklace I made for you! Thank you so much!!! I have now added YOUR necklace to TheSpiritFactory FB page! Feel free to tag yourself!
ReplyDeleteI am adding a link to your blog on my blog!! :-)
Thank you so much!!
Hugs!!
~~~rhonda~~~