Flitterbugs For POPPY DIP!

Not too long after starting our adoption journey, I met Sallee. From the start I have loved following the Couch family......and have so much in common with Sallee. We both love to sew, homeschool our kids, have twins, love adoption and both of our hubbies are cabinet builders.

Sallee and her husband have 6 children....3 bio and 3 adopted from Ethiopia. (Aren't they beautiful!) Sallee runs POPPY DIP, and over the past 2 years has sold something like 2,000 POPPY DIP dresses to bring their precious Samson Jude home. Isn't that amazing?!?! This lady can sew!

Only a few short weeks after bringing Samson Jude home, Sallee unexpectedly found out she has cancer. She has undergone several surgeries, hospital stays, complications and now chemo. Tough, hard chemo. Not only has the Couch family had to deal with the emotional, physical, spiritual and logistical details of bringing a little one home just weeks before discovering cancer........now the medical bills are piling up. Piling up high. Can you imagine? In a way I think none of us can imagine.....but in a way I think we can let ourselves imagine this situation. We just don't want to, because it is gut wrenching and terrifying.

Would you like to help the POPPY DIP family?!?!

You can!

Flitterbugs for POPPY DIP!

From today until Wednesday, June 20th (or until I get so many orders I can't keep up:)

All profits from the sale of Flitterbugs will go to Sallee's family!

Pop over to my HOME page to choose your style, them pick your favorite fabric (I will be posting new fabrics throughout the week).  Hopefully many, many people will order a Flitterbug for POPPY DIP.....I'll sew as fast as I can and hope to have all order shipped to you within 3 weeks!

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This is my first "fundraising" endeavor other than our adoption....and I have no idea how much it will raise. Maybe a little, hopefully a lot....guess it depends on you:)

If you don't have a little girl....pop on over to Sallee's site and leave her a word of encouragement. Please pray for Sallee. Her blood levels are so low at the moment that they have had to postpone her current chemo treatment. If you do not want to order a Flitterbug but would like to make a donation to Sallee....let me know and I will help you get it to them!

Praying for you Sallee!!!!!

SALE!

(So thankful for my little family.....I can't imagine being more blessed! Later this week we will head down to the courthouse and stand before the judge......the twins adoption will be final,official, complete!)

SALE!
Clearing out fabrics....making room for more!
All Flitterbug Dresses and "Katie" style dresses.....
$25 Shipping included.
Pop on over to pick your fabric.
This sale will run through Friday!

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(And thank you to all who have emailed me and left comments about fundraising with Flitterbugs! I am working on a few details, and will let you all know soon!)

Interested in Fundraising with Flitterbugs?!?!

Eliana's new "cheese" face. I could just eat this baby up!

We are a week away from finalization and the end of our (first:) adoption journey.
So many of you have been a part of our twinnines journey home.
So many have prayed, celebrated....and purchased a Flitterbug!
I have prayed and thought for a while now about using Flitterbugs to help others in their adoption fundraising journey. I have some ideas rolling around in my head on how to make that work.....but am wondering if any of you in the fundraising process would be interested??!?!
Leave a comment or send me an email if you would like to partner with Flitterbugs in your journey........
I'll see what the interest is like and let you know what we come up with!

6 Months Home

I can't believe that today marks 6 months since Jordan and Eliana were placed in our arms.

For 6 months we have had the joy and privilege of loving them.

For 6 months now we have had the blessing of watching them grow and thrive....

...of hearing every coo and soothing every cry.

For 6 months, the sacredness of life and the divine ways of the Lord have been a constant presence in out home.

My heart today is full of joy.....but also sadness.

Sorrow that today, not every child in America will be viewed as sacred.

Not every child will be "worthy" enough for life.

Young women will be threatened, coerced, pushed and even bribed into a "choice" of convenience.

"Doctors" will pocket money, parents and boyfriends will be spared "embarrassment" and responsibility, politicians will pridefully debate their "protection" of women.....

and those women will be haunted by a life time of hurt and guilt.

Today, close to 3,800 children will be denied their right to life.

Close to 3,800 will not take their first breath, but will succumb to the abortionist's knife.

That's a lot of Caylee Anthonys.

Is our society really so surprised when we say that life has no value, and then people go and de-value life?

Today, we celebrate 2 precious lives that have great value!

We celebrate a birthmother who fought for the right of those lives!

I long for the day when we as a nation celebrate 3,800 precious lives each day who are given life......

what a celebration that will be!

SALE!!!

Eliana and Jordan will be 8 months old on Saturday.....can you believe it?!?!

They want to celebrate with a little sale:)

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The "Katie" Dress and all Short Sleeve Flitterbug Dresses

$25 shipping included

I just posted some cute, new fabrics.....only have enough to make a few dresses of each.

*Choose your fabric

*Email me with the style dress, size and fabric you like!

*The SALE price is only good today and tomorrow! (Friday and Saturday)

Funny Face

Just a quick picture for tonight....
I whipped out the camera and told her to smile,
and this is what I got:)
I love my little girl!

Some Cuteness:)

Jordan loves to chew....on anything. His favorite? To gum a zucchini:)

If the twins are near each other, they hold hands, touch faces......it is so sweet. They have also started "talking" to one another, and act like they know what the other is saying! Precious!

Miss Evangeline would sew continually if I would let her. She loves it! (Hummm....wonder where she gets that from?!?!) I may have a little Flitterbugs helper before too long:)

My bumbo babies.

Samuel is such a good big brother. He loves to play with the peanuts!

Lately, the kids are all into making lemonade. In other words, the kitchen floor is constantly sticky:)

We have a birdhouse near in our garden which is home to several different sets of bluebirds each summer. We love peeking in and seeing the precious little ones. It is amazing how quickly they grow!

The garden......just the sight of it makes me happy! (Or hot......a few minutes in it and I feel like I may combust:) It is a dry, hot summer in Georgia......

Yum.....breakfast from the garden!

Eliana loves her big brothers, and they have fun dressing her up:)

Sweet Landis and Samuel.....they are inseparable these days!

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the kiddie pool.

Love it when the kids are out giggling and splashing....the inevitable tracks of water, mud, freezer pop plastic, towels and heaps of wet bathing suits...not so much:) The kids are loving it, and we are definitely getting our money's worth out of this one! I love, love to swim in a "real" pool, but 5 littles, 2 of them babies in a pool? Not happening this year! :)

We are so in love with these precious children the Lord has blessed us with....and so thankful for them!

Happy Tuesday to you all!

Free Shipping, Sales and Shirts!

(No...this picture has nothing to do with anything.....but have you ever seen such precious feet? I could just eat them up!)

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I am caught up on all sewing orders......and have some cute new fabrics in. Have you wanted to order a Flitterbug but just haven't yet? Wellllll....
Place any order today and get Free Priority Mail Shipping!

Free Shipping is only good on orders placed before midnight today, June 1st! If you have any questions, you can pop on over here, or read how to place an order here.

I have been posting regular sales of ready to ship Flitterbugs over on Facebook. If you would like to follow and get in on the fun......you can follow here. (Sweet Evangeline modeling a sale Flitterbug from earlier this week!)


Many of you probably follow Andrea from Babe of My Heart. (And if you don't...you are missing out!) Andrea and her husband helped to start an organization called Wiphan, which ministers to widows and orphans in Zambia. Andrea will be traveling to Zambia in just a few weeks to love on and minister to these precious women and children. Among other things, she will be putting on "True Love Waits" style retreats for the women and teens. I'm not sure if I've ever heard of someone doing this on a missions trip.....and think it is so neat the way the Lord has placed this on Andrea's heart! Andrea is selling tee shirts to help fund her trip and to put on the retreats. You can go here to read more about Wiphan and Andrea's upcoming trip....and to purchase a shirt.

You really, really, really should pop over........see the fabulous shirt design, AND the giveaway you will be entered for if you win.

Curious? Find out more at Babe of My Heart.

5 Little Faces

Such precious gifts
And great responsibilitiesLittle hearts which we cannot save

but we are entrusted to mold

Beautiful lives which we have done nothing to deserve

But the Lord has chosen to place in our arms.

May we honor Him with these gifts! May He grant us the wisdom, patience and perseverance to train them in the way they should go. May they stand upright in His sight one day. To Him be all the glory!