LOVE in a Giveaway...

I take pictures

lots and lots of pictures

I would say I am a passionate amateur photographer

I remember the day my mom took my down to the Pharmasave for me to buy my first camera with the babysitting money I had saved up.

It was 

"one of those days".

I love capturing 

moments

images

emotions.

It is a form of therapy and creative expression for me.

ourperspective photography

Just over a year ago hubby and I decided 

to open an Etsy Shop to sell our prints

we sold one

(thanks Gail)

Lots of admirers

not a lot of buyers

So after about a year

we closed shop.

I felt discouraged.

But as always Life brings you answers

in places you lest expect it.

...and  Trust

needs to be more than a word.

Each of these stones were 

hand picked

washed

and dried with love

Each word written with intent...

They were made for women

women like you and me

Brave Women 

Cherished Women

on the journey to recovery.

A dear friends husband is a builder...

a builder of recovery centres

for men and women 

who are walking out the journey of sobriety.

He just completed a brand new women's shelter

Hanna House

It is a beautiful facility.

But like most non profits 

there is not a lot left over for the extras.

So my girlfriend asked if we could help...

What an honour.

43 of our images will grace the walks of Hanna House

43

Bringing an other wise clinical building

to something with Life

and Beauty on it's walls.

Two prints per bedroom.

Offices and Councellour rooms will hold

the mystery of the Earth

on their walls.

There is something about seeing your prints 

enlarged and mounted.

It is like seeing them for the first time,

and as I stood alone in the room,

seeing these completed for the first time

 tears filled my eyes

and I realized

this was why,

why we had taken these pictures...

these images

these inspirations

were taken for this exact purpose

For the women of Hanna House

that they might find healing in the beauty

of the Earth

that She might touch their hearts

to believe

once again

in Themselves

in Life

in Living Free...

What a moment

What a gift...

And speaking of gifts

we were busy bees yesterday

turning our collected pollen 

into gifts of Love

My girlfriends heart led us to this place

again 

with funds being tight

She decided to start a program in which

she supplies the women coming into treatment

with a gift bag of goodness

these bags include

journals

pens

socks

toiletries

lip balm

those inspiration stones 

(pictured above)

hand made bookmarks

(with amazing inspiration messages)

Jill you are awesome!

hair accessories

an angel card

chocolate

candy

Some of the women come in from the street 

and have next to nothing

Some come from a world where many people around them

probably had no idea

"how bad it had gotten"

Either way

they are all deserving

Deserving of feeling 

Loved

Special

Valued

We poured 

our Love

our Hope

our Prayers 

into these bags

and with anonymous hands

blessed all who would receive these gifts

these humble gifts from us

that they would know

we are all the same

they are us

we are them.

I felt full.

I felt alive.

And with that lingering sense of 

abundant Love

I offer to you

the lovelies who come to visit me here

the women I learn from

am inspired by

an opportunity to win one of those prints

that will be hanging in Hanna House

and maybe when you look at it

you will think of these women

and all women

who are trapped in the cycle of addiction.

I had my work mates pick our their favourites

I picked out two...

Enter by leaving a comment...
let me know your favourite
and I will choose a winner 

or winners

at the end of next week

Love

it is a 

grand

mysterious

fulfilling

thing

and its always the best

when given away

Love and Light