My giveaway!!! Only open for a little over about 36 hours!!

Hello everyone!! Welcome to my giveaway for the 25 days of giveaways!!

I am starting this early because I like to sleep in and I want to give my overseas readers a chance to see this too! I participated last year and greatly enjoyed it! My giveaway items are small but I hope the winners enjoy them nonetheless. Though small they do take a long time to hand paint! I wanted to do more this year but I am SO overwhelmed this Christmas! There will be FOUR giveaways!

I am giving away 4 personalized ornaments and one of the winners will also receive a necklace with the pregnancy & infant loss ribbon on it! All winners will be chosen using random.org.

The winners will get to choose how they would like to personalize their ornament with their angels name(s)/date(s).... please only enter if you are a baby loss parent!

This can also be personalized - but nothing too long as the ribbon charm is small

Sparkly Present (can be personalized in various areas)

Santa - will be personalized for winner

Stocking - will  be personalized for winner

Snowman - will be personalized for winner

To enter to win one of these prizes please leave a comment telling me how you remember your angel(s) at Christmas. Please also mention which items you would like to win if you randomly win this giveaway. If you want to be entered for all just state "I would like to be entered to win any of the prizes"

Good luck to you all <3

HALFWAY THERE !!! (and upcoming giveaway)

Thrilled to say that today I am 20 weeks pregnant!!! :) 


This is twice as long as I have ever been pregnant and our little boy is doing GREAT! We had our official anatomy scan/ check for birth defects on Friday and everything is great :) He is measuring ahead by about 5 to 6 days and weighs more than average too (which I expect as both me and my hubby were big babies).

I had no idea I was nervous beforehand but my blood pressure showed I was because when they rechecked it after the scan it went way down. Guess I worry even when I think I don't! Little Logan has become quite the little fluttering breakdancer lately :) I LOVE feeling him move! Can't wait till I can feel kicks and my husband can feel him move when he touches my belly!

 I have also received some really cute clothes lately :) Here are a few pictures :)

I have other shoes and stuff too - can I just say baby shoes are the CUTEST!

This is a cute picture of my cat Gabby! She still tries to lay with me but to her dismay when I lay on the couch there is no longer room next to my belly LOL so the other day she was practically laying in front of my face the little stinker!! Can't wait till she can be near my belly when Logan kicks - that'll flip her out LOL! The other day I was watching Parenthood and a baby cried on the show and Gabby was laying with me and her shot up and her ears went crazy LOL it was TOO funny - she reacts the same when she hears a dog lol! I said oh Gabby you are in for a wide awakening ;)

Keep your eyes peeled cause I am having a giveaway on Thursday!! You will find it on here of course and it will be mentioned HERE too :) 

It's a .........??? (and giveaway winners)

Soooooo we are having a .................... BOY!! :)

Logan Charles Malloy

Needless to say I am thrilled but I think my husband is very proud of himself for helping to create a boy to carry on his family name :) Hehehe! 

We had a lovely time out afterwards and went to eat at Joe's Crab Shack :) Then we went to look at baby stuff :) We went to Babies R Us, Target, and Carter's - halfway through our shopping I was getting really sore. Geesh. Round ligament pain SUCKS! I feel like I was punched down there and that I rode a horse for a long time yesterday --- neither of which happened LOL. Ehhh it's all worth it for little Logan :)

Here's the clothes we bought :)

Aren't the outfits just so darn cute!!??!!

And on to the giveaway winners :) :) :) 

I decided to choose two winners randomly :)

First winner is Sarita Boyette - $20 gift certificate to my Etsy Shop

Second winner - Emily Hughes - $10 gift certificate to my Etsy Shop

Congratulations to you both :)

17 weeks 2 days!

Check out this photo belly progression! Wow what a change since last week! 

I have been checking the baby's heartbeat everyday and it has been steadily strong and I will never get sick of that wonderful sound :) The post before this has a video of the heartbeat - in case you missed it :) We find out the gender on Monday!!! I am SOOOO excited! I still really feel like I am having a girl but I will not be upset if it's a boy either :) I just want a baby on Earth! That is all :) I can't wait to buy the babies first outfit :)

Gabby has been especially cuddly lately I decided to take some pictures and a really short video of her today because I think it is so cute how she gets as close to my belly as possible no matter what position I am sitting in :)

Holiday Ornament Swap / Video / ABC paintings

First off make sure to check out the Remembering Together Swap for the ornament exchange! If you didn't participate last year you should this year! It is a true blessing to receive something for your angel(s). You can fill out a form for each of your angels if you want (just realize you will make the same amount of ornaments as you receive). Click on the button below to go to the page - the form to fill out can be found there!

Deadline is Nov. 18th to sign up! 

Sorry for the rush but a group of us took this on as the lovely BLM who ran it last year was unable to this year. 

Thought I would share a video I made of my sweet babies' heartbeat :) Hope you enjoy it! He/she had a nice and strong heartbeat!!





So funny that even though I made that long VLOG post the other week I STILL hate the sound of my voice on video even when it's just a couple times on this video LOL ;)

Here are the ABC paintings I have completed so far :)

Alphabet Paintings for Tater Tot's room :)

FIRST OF ALL! Check out my BLM discounts in my Etsy Store by clicking HERE!

So I bought these 4 inch x 4 inch canvases in packs back in July. They were normally $40 (for 9 canvases) and I got FOUR packs of them for $40 !!! Yeaaaa! I had NO clue what I would do with Cornerstone Pay them but then I remembered my cousin's kids LOVE the alphabet. Obviously were not babies when they started loving the alphabet - they were like 2 - but still it will be art that can be used in our child's room for years :)

So I had 35 canvases which is obviously PLENTY to do the alphabet! I was THRILLED when I thought of my idea! Sooo I drew up all the ideas and then painted the backgrounds of all the canvases. Here's what I have so far!

Airplane, Balloons, Crab, Dog, Elephant, Frog, Goldfish, Hamburger

Ice Cream, Jack-O-Lantern, Kite, Ladybug, Moon, Nest, Owl, Penguin

Queen, Robot, Snail, Turtle, Umbrella, Viper, Watermelon, Xylophone

Yellow jacket, Zebra

The end goal is to attach the 7 letters in each of the 4 rows with a thin piece of board that the canvases will be screwed into. The last 2 openings will contain one little canvas that says "Now I know my ABC's" and another that says "next time won't you sing with me" :)

As I get more finished, I'll post more pictures!!! 

What does everyone think!??!

If you would like a hand painted canvas I am always willing to do custom art - email me through here or check out my Etsy store and remember - BLMs get a discount on some pieces: check them out here!

Giveaway! Take a guess: team blue or pink?

Sooo yesterday I entered my 15th week of pregnancy and on November 21st we will find out if we are having a boy or girl :) It will be an unofficial ultrasound just to find out the sex - it will be confirmed with the official anatomy scan on Dec. 2nd.

So comment on whether you think I am having a boy or a girl and you will be entered into the giveaway. If you are correct you will be in the running to win a $20 gift certificate to my Etsy shop :) I make baby loss items and many items that are not baby loss related so anyone can enter this contest!!

Instructions for entering the giveaway (please do all these things) :

1) Enter the Expectnet game and make a guess to to be entered into the contest! (there will be a FUTURE giveaway - once the baby is born - for whoever gets other parts of their guess right!)



2) Leave a comment here for boy or girl and mention in the comment what you would like from my shop if you were to win the gift certificate :)

PLEASE leave your email if I can't contact you through your blog/Facebook!!Check back on Dec. 2nd/3rd to find out the winner! :)

(I know, I know much to do to enter but humor me I am bored and unemployed!!)


People have asked me questions to get a better idea of what they think I am having so here are some things that may help :) including a baby bump picture from a couple days ago :)

- I have had some heartburn but not much
- no morning sickness
- baby had a strong heart beat last Thursday of 153 :)

Oh and I DID do a VLOG last night for Angie's Still life with circles - video blog round up. It was terrifying but feel free to check it out if you like - it was the post before this one :)