December Giveaways!

In hopes of sharing a little bit of happiness during this emotionally tough holiday season, I am hosting a December Giveaway:





First Prize: a Custom Engraved Footprint Heart Pendant
Second Prize: $50 Gift Certificate to any item(s) at MyForeverChild.com
Third Prize: $25 Gift Certificate to any item(s) at MyForeverChild.com
Fourth Prize: Always In My Heart Charms -Ten winners will be chosen to receive a charm!

Enter the Giveaway via one (or more!) of these methods:
a) Post a comment on our blog post at https://myforeverchild.blogspot.com (be sure to include your email address)
b) Post a comment on our Facebook Page in the designated giveaway post at https://www.facebook.com/myforeverchild
c) email at resources@myforeverchild.com

Each of these items count as 1 Entry for the giveaway. There is no limit on how many entries you place, but please keep your entries to any of the following:
1) Testimonial/Review of a My Forever Child product
2) Testimonial of how My Forever Child has touched your life
3) Send a picture of your My Forever Child keepsake, or you wearing your MFC jewelry
4) How would you spend your gift certificate?
5) If you won the Custom Footprints pendant, whose footprints would you be using?
6) Share what your favorite My Forever Child product is
7) Product Suggestion

Extra Entries:
~Suggest our Facebook Page to your friends
~Tweet about the Giveaway
~Post on your Blog about the Giveaway
~Place the My Forever Child "Button" on your blog or website
~Email others about the Giveaway

The Giveaway runs from December 9th - Dec 17th. Winners will be announced on Monday, December 20th. All entries count and will be chosen at random. The more entries you post, the better your chances for winning one of the great prizes. Good Luck and thank you for your support of My Forever Child. We truly appreciate it!










Faces of Loss, Faces of Hope is a new website that is only a few months old, but quickly gaining attention. This is an excerpt from the Founder, Kristin Cook:

There are hundreds of women bravely and openly sharing their stories of miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss on personal blogs, all over the world, and others who are looking for a way to share their stories with others. Faces of Loss, Faces of Hope is a place for us to come together and share our stories and our faces with others who may be looking for reassurance that they are not alone. My hope is that Faces of Loss, Faces of Hope becomes a place for new members of this "babyloss club" to come and read hundreds of other stories, and see hundreds of other faces like theirs, all in one place.

It is also my hope that Faces of Loss, Faces of Hope brings awareness to the issue of pregnancy/infant loss. I hope that by telling the world we are not afraid to show our faces and tell our stories, barriers will be broken down. Taboos will be broken, and lines of communication will be opened.


In reading many of the stories of loss and the uplifting stories of hope, I knew I had to participate. Although I've written pieces of my story several times over the last eight years, I haven't shared it in much detail with the world. I procrastinated on writing the stories and honestly, it was an emotionally tough few days going down that dark road of grief again. But I am excited to share my story of loss and story of hope with you now. Reader Discretion is advised, please do not read the stories if you think it would be too upsetting. You can read these stories here:

My Story of Loss
My Story of Hope

And this is a recent post on Still Life 365 about my own personal charm bracelet in Matthew's memory. Click Here to view.

VACATION NOTICE: Nov 1-Nov 7

We will be on vacation and out of the office from Monday, November 1st through Sunday, November 7th. We will be back in the studio and catching up on orders on Monday, November 8th.

Any engraved or personalized orders placed after Wednesday, Wednesday October 27th will not be shipped until we return. We will do our best to ship out all simple orders before we leave.

You can still place online orders during November 1 - November 7. They will be completed in the order that they are received in, when we return. Express orders can not be shipped until after November 9th.

Thanks for your patience!

Holiday Ordering Dates

UPDATE 12/23/10- all orders placed by 6pm on December 22nd and custom engraved handprint/footprint jewelry orders placed by December 17th HAVE SHIPPED and are en route to their destination. We are now closed for Christmas Vacation and will be reopening on Monday December 27th. Merry Christmas!


November 10th will be the last day to place an order of Custom Engraved Handprint & Footprint Jewelry for guaranteed Christmas delivery (in the USA only).

December 1st is the last day to order for guaranteed Christmas delivery of personalized, engraved, and hand stamped jewelry (in the USA only).

Please note that we can only guarantee Christmas delivery within the United States. We can't predict delivery dates on International shipping, and this time of year may require extra shipping time to reach it's destination.

After the dates noted above, you may possibly receive your order before Christmas, but it is not guaranteed. Due to the very high volume of orders received during the holidays, our lead time increases 1-2 weeks above the normal processing time stated in the product descriptions. When placing your order, you may want to choose the Express Shipping option to expedite delivery once your order is made and ready to ship. Every year we have numerous last minute shoppers who need to have their custom handprint and footprint, or personalized jewelry item before Christmas. These will be subject to a rush processing fee if we are physically able to accommodate their request. Please place your order by the stated cutoff dates if you definitely want it to arrive before Christmas. You can use the Add to Wish List feature when browsing our website products and then email your Wish List to others. Please also inform the email recipients of the cutoff dates as well.

If you are ordering one of our unique keepsakes after these stated deadlines, you can print out a Gift Presentation Card to let the gift recipient know that a handcrafted treasure is on it's way.

While we love working individually with customers to create the perfect keepsake just for them, customized orders (specialty charms, different engraving layouts, and products not listed on the website) can not be accepted during November and December.

Also, we will be closed for vacation and out of the office from Monday, November 1st through Sunday, November 7th. We will be back in the studio and catching up on orders on Monday, November 8th. Any engraved or personalized orders placed after Wednesday, Wednesday October 27th will not be shipped until we return. I will do my best to ship out all simple orders before we leave.

You can still place online orders during November 1 - November 7. They will be completed in the order that they are received in, when we return. Express orders can not be shipped until after November 9th.


Thank you for your continued support and patronage of My Forever Child. We are truly appreciative, and we wish you peace, comfort, and strength for the upcoming Holiday season.

New Products & Website Updates

We have several beautiful new jewelry pieces that have been added to the website recently. I enjoyed designing and making them over the past few months and am happy to have them be part of the regular product line. They have become some of the best selling items already! Click on the image below to be taken directly to the item.

Our New Baby Footprints Personalized Small Charms:

Baby Footprints Personalized Small Charm

Thinking of You Customized Footprints Charm

Thinking of You Customized Footprints Keychain
Shown with our new Roman Hand Stamped Font

Our New Hand Stamped Jewelry:

Hand Stamped Small Round Charm Necklace

Hand Stamped Medium Round Charm Necklace
Shown with genuine gemstone dangles

Believe-Hope-Miracles Necklace to benefit the Mercy House

Bear Angel Square Charm to benefit Bear for an Angel Charity organization to fund memorial teddy bears for bereaved parents of miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death, and SIDS.

New Custom Engraved Handprint & Footprint Jewelry:

Small 14K Gold Heart for Custom Handprint or Footprints

{only available in yellow gold}

Sterling Silver Money Clip for Custom Handprints or Footprints

Sterling Square Bangle Bracelet for Custom Handprints or Footprints
{only 1 left available}

Sterling Round Bangle Bracelet for Custom Handprints or Footprints
{only 2 left available}

Sterling Oval Bangle Bracelet for Custom Handprints or Footprints
{only 6 left available}

New Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Items:

Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Silicone Bracelets
{New Design}

Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Ribbon Pin with Butterfly
{New Design}

In honor of October being Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, all of our pink and blue ribbon jewelry is 20% off for the month of October. Click Here to view all sale items.


Other Cool New Stuff:

Over the past several months, I've been working on improving my product pictures and the website aesthetics. Thanks to my wonderful graphic designers, Maggie and Shannon, the main website and social networking sites have a beautiful new look that I absolutely love! If you haven't visited recently, please stop by and check out the new "facelifts" on:
~My Forever Child Keepsakes & Jewelry
~Our Blog
~Our Twitter Page
~Our Facebook Page. Our Facebook page is where the latest product photos, links, and free giveaways are posted. There is a free giveaway going on right now thru Sunday for a Forever In My Heart Dog Tag Pendant with free personalization. There will be 1 more giveaway next week in honor of Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month.

~We have a cute new avatar for the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Androids and other smart phones so that you can bookmark our main website and add it to your home screen. Simply open our website http://www.myforeverchild.com in the internet browser on your hand held device. Then add the bookmark to your homepage, as you normally would do (see the instructions manual for your individual device if you don't know how to bookmark a website). The MFC logo should appear. Next time you want to check out our website while on the go, just touch your MFC avatar and the main website will load right up!

October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. My Forever Child has been donating the Always in My Heart lapel pins to numerous organizations that are distributing them to newly bereaved parents. We also make frequent monetary donations to our favorite pregnancy and infant loss charities in order to fund research and support to those touched by infant loss.

October 15th is the Worldwide Recognition Day. Please light a candle at 7pm on October 15th. Leave it burning for at least an hour, so that there will be a continuous wave of light around the globe in remembrance of our precious little ones, gone too soon.

To view a downloadable pdf brochure of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Info, please visit http://myforeverchild.biz/Oct15.pdf

To view remembrance events taking place in your area, please visit http://www.october15th.com/activities_walks.htm

Miscarriage.about.com has some great info about how you can spread awareness of pregnancy loss and miscarriage. Be sure to sign up for the email newsletter for all the latest articles.

MiscarriageHelp.com is a wonderful site in which Ellen DuBois answers letters of readers struggling with the grief of miscarriage and child loss.

PregnancyLoss.Info has a lot of great info on frequently asked questions regarding pregnancy loss.


October 15th You Tube Video Part 1 *Viewer Discretion is Advised*
October 15th You Tube Video Part 2 *Viewer Discretion is Advised*
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Videos
These videos are in memory of all angel babies gone too soon!
Please take the time to watch this and light a candle
for all angels on October 15th @ 7pm (your time zone)
Thanks to all the angel parents and Robyn Bear @ www.october15th.com
Video made by www.myangelicmemorials.com

IAmTheFace.org is an October 15th, National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day campaign. 2,000 women in the US alone lose a baby… every single day. Our goal is to raise $2,000 for the 2,000 women who lose a baby each day. Take a couple of minutes to upload your photo and donate $1 to their campaign.

Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss Resources- I have a large number of online resources listed here. I continuously add more as I discover them. Do you know of a website that should be listed here? Please list it in the comments section of this post, or use the Contact Us form Here.


In order to raise awareness during this special month (and beyond) I am running a new Free Giveaway each week in October, starting on Mondays and ending on Fridays. The giveaways will be run on our Facebook page, as that allows for the most flexibility and interaction with our "fans". If you haven't already done so, please head over to our Facebook page and click on the "Like" button on top. You'll be subscribed to all the latest happenings at My Forever Child.

Also, our pink and blue ribbon awareness jewelry is now 20% off for the entire month of October. Click here to visit our  Sale Page. Thank you for supporting our mission to bring acknowledgment and remembrance for our littlest angels, gone too soon.

September is Childhood Cancer and Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. As we do every year, My Forever Child is making a donation to Cure Search and the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance from our September sales.

This year we are also making a donation to the Layla Grace Foundation. This is a little girl who passed away 6 months ago at 2 years old from neuroblastoma. Her story, pictures, and videos shatter my heart to pieces and brings to reality what a devastation childhood cancer is on the child and the family. But in her short time on earth, Layla Grace made a big impact on the world and her parents and supporters are continuing on her legacy with her foundation. Here is their mission statement.

The Layla Grace Children’s Cancer Research Foundation exists to:

~Find new treatments for childhood cancers with the lowest survival rates.
~Spread awareness about childhood cancer.
~Touch the lives of children in treatment.


Please visit one of these great organizations above for more information, to spread awareness and to make your own donations.


We are giving away two charms for awareness of these devastating cancers. They feature sterling silver support ribbons and message beads with gold color crystal for children's cancer and teal color crystal for ovarian cancer. The charms have our Zipper Pull-Lanyard Clip attachment so it can be worn on a bag, backpack, jacket or keychain.


To enter to win one of these charms above, post a comment in this blog post. Or visit our Facebook Fan Page and leave a comment under the September Awareness Charm Giveaway post. Two winners will be chosen at random on September 30th.

The winners of the Ovarian Cancer and Childhood Cancer charms are Gayla Roman and Jessika Anne. Thank you to all who participated.




I have several new and updated designs to share with you in the upcoming weeks. Right now I am giving away this design in a KEYCHAIN version. The winner's completed Keychain will be photographed as a sample piece for my website www.MyForeverChild.com

To enter the giveaway:
-> use the comment box for this blog post to state what you would have written on the front and back of the round disc, and on the back of the Baby Footprints Charm.
->Please be specific in your details.
->Please only post your entry in the blog comment box or through our Facebook Giveaway link, only these entries will be considered.
-> Please do not email your entry.
-> Please forward, tweet, share this giveaway with anyone who might be interested.
-> Winner will be picked on Monday, Sept 27th
-> Thank You and Good Luck!!

The winner of the Thinking of You Customized Footprints Keychain is Christy Braatz.
Thank you to all who participated.

Gift Certificate Winners

Thank you so much for the outpouring of love and compassion the last week. I was in tears reading all of the comments on Facebook, our blog, twitter, and email, it was overwhelming and humbling. In appreciation, I changed the give away to (1)$100 AND (2)$50 gift certificates.

It was quite a job to number all the entries for the random generator, there were over 300 entries! The lucky winners are:

$100 Gift Certificate to:
Kelly @ Sufficient Grace Ministries: "I have been wanting to get a piece of jewelry in memory of my Faith, Grace, and Thomas for a long time. Maybe this is my chance! I've also thought of getting something to represent all of my children."

$50 Gift Certificate to:
Mindy Bugby: "My Caidyn drowned just 16 days after his 2nd birthday May 4, 2008. I miss him every day, and a group of ladies purchased a My Forever Child necklace for me and I absolutely love it. After hearing about a little girl that drowned not long after Caidyn died I felt the need to pay it forward and purchased a similar necklace for her mom. All the jewelry offered here is beautiful. Thankful to have a piece in remembrance of my baby boy."

$50 Gift Certificate to:
Andi Soergel: "I have wanted a pendant with my son, Haven's, footprint on it for a long time! How wonderful that you have turned your loss into something that has truly blessed so many!!"


Although not chosen by the random generator, I have to give an honorable mention gift to Holly Haas for sharing these phenomenal photos of her custom pieces, and the following comment "Sue, words can't even begin to describe how grateful I am to have met you and be blessed by My Forever Child. Your generosity the first day of Carleigh's visitation really touched me and I never expected to receive such a wonderful gift. Truly amazing!! You showed me how much it means to have someone show they care with a gift from the heart. It means so much to be able to wear something that represents my daughter and some day I'd like to get something to represent my other child and all of my children. I definitely wear your jewelry proudly!"


"Carleigh's footprint bracelet wrapped around a figure of a mommy and her angel baby created by Dana of The Midnight Orange."


"Carleigh's handprint/footprint pendant on her necklace with her baby ring. It's the necklace I wear almost every day. It's hanging on a toy box made for Carleigh by my aunt and uncle."


Thank you again to everyone that participated in the One Day Sale and Gift Certificate Giveaway in honor of my son Matthew's 8th Angelversary. Each the entries were a blessing and will be forever remembered as an instrumental part of my healing journey. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.