Awwwweee....

I have the best friends and family... Take a look!!!

My friend Karen has sent me many gifts over the last couple of months and I'd like to share them... She is in my DTC group and is another "single momma" waiting to meet her daughter.... She spent some time visiting family in Singapore over the holidays and picked up these lovely gifts for me... She is so thoughtful and it overwhelms me with how generous she is. And it always comes at such an appropriate time... just when I need the pick-me up!!



This is a box full of Chinese New Year toys for a child... so cute!




This one made me cry... My girls name, & mine, in a beautiful pencil drawing of Chinese calligraphy... I can't wait to get these framed and hung on the wall! Thank you Karen... you are tooo thoughtful!! click it to see it big!



And these she sent a couple of months back... and I forgot to post them.... She made this amazing bracelet! SOOOO talented you are Karen!!! sorry for the terrible photography... I can't even begin to capture the beauty of this bracelet.




And this was the rest of the X-mas box....



Thank you again Karen for becoming my friend and thinking of me so often!!

And now... Pressies from my Mother.

She made this bracelet for Julia a couple of weeks ago. I cried, yes again!! You can't see it from my terrible photography but besides the ladybugs.. it has her initials in white gold... click it for a closer view!!



And this doll...

A little background... I saw this doll the first day that I started my job at the baby boutique. It's a Madame Alexander Asian "pussycat" doll. I fell in love with her. I would take her out and stroke her hair and love her every free second I had. Well one day I went into work (back in June of 07) and she was gone. I searched the store for her frantically. I asked everyone if they had sold her. Not that I could afford to buy her... but she was mine and she was gone. My boss, (my mothers BFF) told me she could always re-order her, but I informed her that she was discontinued and the new replacement just wasn't the same. I was sad, but got over it eventually. Well to my surprise, as I began opening my X-mas presents, there was the familiar MA box. My heart skipped as I opened it and saw my babydoll. My boss had sneakly taken her home and gave her to my mother to give me for X-mas.... here she is!!! She is a soft bodied doll that will be PERFECT for my girl.. I can't wait to hand her over!!
Click on her to see how pretty she is...



I love my friends and family... THANK YOU!!!!