Creating a Remembrance Gift for Grieving Parents

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Gifts Remembering Deceased Angels

When my baby Tanner passed September 28, 2003, sympathy flowers were delivered almost every day for a month. Scruggs Florist in Greensboro, North Carolina delivered the most because they were located less than a mile away from our house. 5 1/2 years later I am helping the florist create an appropriate sympathy basket for bereaved [...]

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Scrapbook Store Says No to Baby Loss Product

A friend of mine called a local scrapbook store asking to carry Just a Cloud Away Remembrance Kits on consignment, meaning, I would leave the kits in the store and only be paid when they were sold. He said no, I don’t want anything depressing in my store. Shit no, did he just say what [...]

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Scrapbooking and Memorializing Infant and Pregnancy Loss

Our children who have died as a result of miscarriage, stillbirth, SIDS and other tragic pregnancy losses are still a part of our family unit. There are so many beautiful ways to keep their memories close to our hearts through the art of many crafts. Remember your angels by creating something just for them.  Poems, sky journals, [...]

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Easy Scrapbooking Ideas for Memorial Pages

  The art of Scrapbooking should be relaxing and therapeutic. Documenting pregnancy loss and other baby related deaths through scrapbooking is an activity bringing people together to share thoughts, feelings and love for children always in our hearts. If you are not an avid scrapbooker, these freestyle techniques and ideas may motivate you to start a few pages for your little angel. The craft [...]

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Handmade Pregnancy and Baby Loss Magnetic Ribbons

If you have lost a baby or early pregnancy loss, spreading awareness is recognized by displaying pink and blue ribbons. I will show you how to create magnetic handmade ribbons, honoring your precious baby. This craft is not difficult and could  be given to grieving parents as a remembrance tribute or Love Memorial™ for their baby. Materials needed: [...]

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Building Shadowboxes for Pregnancy & Baby Loss

When your child becomes an angel, gifts of sympathy, keepsakes, Love Memorials™, and mementos are given to comfort bereaved families of pregnancy and infant loss. Shadowboxes can easily be constructed to place all of your deceased child’s special and unique keepsakes. I never wanted to put anything away after the stillbirth of our son Tanner. [...]

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The Season your Baby Has Died and Became an Angel

Not only is the date of a baby or child’s death an emotional time for bereaved parents, also the season. Anxiety is usually present long before the tragic angelversary. The colors, the temperature, the amount of daylight, the landscape and possibly the holiday (songs and music playing on the radio) that are associated with the infants [...]

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Giving Daffodils for Remembrance Gardens

I cannot think of a more appropriate sympathy gift for families grieving the loss of their baby. The holidays have come and gone without the patter of little feet or cries coming from the nursery. The cold of winter not only effects us physically, but psychologically for bereaved parents. We tend to stay indoors, the sun [...]

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Grieving Death as Parents of an Angel

My husband and I had completely different styles of grieving after the stillbirth of our angel Tanner. You don’t ask your spouse before you make your way to the altar “How will you grieve if one of our children dies?” “Will you respect the way I choose to honor our children after they pass on?” For some reason I [...]

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