Halo Hatz has a heart for Leigh's Blankies!!

(picture by Becca Lynn Photography)

Sweet Rhonda from Halo Hatz has designed this adorable Leigh's Blankies hat! On her website, she writes in her "Close to My Heart" section, her love for our organization and her desire for support for us.

 

She is donating 50% of the profit of every sale of this hat to Leigh's Blankies! I love Rhonda's designs and her servant heart! To purchase this hat, click here  and scroll through her favorites to find the Leigh's Blankies hat!

Thank you Rhonda, you're the best! :) I love this hat!!

Kate's Crazy Cool Christmas!!!

The McRae Family are dear friends of ours and we were excited when Holly asked us to help with Kate's Crazy Cool Christmas drive!  Kate McRae is 8 years old and she has been fighting a brain tumor since 2009.  Every morning and night my family prays that God would heal Kate "from her head to her toes". Many of you know this family, love them, follow their updates on Caring Bridge and pray for them regularly.

The McRae's adopt several families at Christmas time, that have either lost a child recently to cancer or are currently in treatment.  Hundreds of families from all over the world contribute gifts, gift cards and their support to make this drive a success.  The McRae family and a team of volunteers, have done an incredible job loving on these families at Christmas time these last 3 years, from organizing all the details of  the Christmas wish lists, to wrapping each item with lots of love.

Leigh's Blankies' goal was to make and give a personal blankie to each member of those families. We shopped, sewed and distributed football themed blankies, sweet prints for little ones, contemporary prints for teens and some Christmas Blankies as well!  Our team of sewers did an AMAZING job, they made 80 blankies!! And most of them were x-large!!

 Here are some pictures from our sew nights in Maricopa and Gilbert as we prepared for Kate's Drive!

 Our Maricopa branch!

Our Gilbert Branch!

Kate at the PCH Oncology Clinic for her own treatment, 

delivering some toys and blankies to the other children!

We adore you sweet girl!

Kate McRae has a full brain and spine MRI on Monday at 11. Please pray for a GOOD scan!!!

http://www.prayforkate.com/

Merry Christmas to Huruma Children's Home!!!

I just LOVE it when I can post pictures of kiddos receiving their Leigh's Blankies, this posting and pictures are very dear to my heart!!! If you remember back in August I had posted about our delivery of 75 blankies to Mama Zipporah from Huruma Children's Home in Kenya (read more here). Mama Z saved those blankies for Christmas gifts for all the boys at Huruma.  She has blessed us with some BEAUTIFUL pictures of the boys with their blankies AND their brand new dormitory where they each have their own bed! Praise God!

We love you Mama Z and thank you for doing God's work in Kenya! For more information about Huruma Children's Home, read here.

Lord, you are providing, moving, and loving us closely!

Malawi, Haiti x2, China x2, Mexico x2, Phoenix, Joplin MO, Kenya, Poland, Thailand, Philippines, Honduras, ...and India here we come!

A Christmas Blankie

This sweet little one was given a Christmas Leigh's Blankie, bought by his auntie at a special event- Cornerstone's Believe Boutique!!!

Precious boy!!!

Blankies headed to Honduras!!

My sweet friend called me this past week because a midwife from Gilbert Mercy Hospital is collecting blankies to send to an area in Honduras where newborn babies are wrapped in paper garbage bags.

Here are some nurses with Leigh's Blankies, I wish we could have sent thousands of blankies!!!!

Blankies at Nikki's Place in Thailand!!!

A few months ago I enjoyed a visit from the sweet Stowell Family.  Debbie and Matt Stowell had been in a couple's bible study with Greg and Leigh Ann (Tonkinson) just before Leigh passed away. They were very good friends and enjoyed sharing life and their families together. Debbie and Matt felt God's calling to do work in Thailand and moved there this last year.  I was so thrilled to be able to see Debbie and the kids when they came for a visit, and upon that visit they picked up a batch of Leigh's Blankies to distribute back at their home in Thailand! It was touching for them to be a part of something that honored Leigh's life as they love the Tonkinson family dearly.  This was another opportunity for them to make an impact on the children in their community as well.  

Debbie and her kids picking out their special blankies for the kiddos in Thailand.

They decided to donate the blankies to a very special place called

Nikki's Place-Agape Home, which is a home that provides love and care to abandoned or orphaned babies and children with, or at risk of, HIV/AIDS.
Below are amazing pictures of the little one's at Nikkie's Place with  Leigh's Blankies!

Debbie and a sweet one from Nikki's Place

 The Stowell girls lovin on the little girls.

I'm thankful for Debbie and Matt's friendship and

their willingness to be the hands and feet of Christ over in Thailand!!