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"But just because they can't feel it, too, doesn't mean that you have to forget" (from "The Call")

Two Songs

crystalAugust 29, 2015August 29, 2015 10-Day "You" Challenge, Honor & Remember, Life, Music & Songs, My Babies 0

(Day 9 of the 10-Day "You" Project) "The Call" by Regina Spector "I Will Carry You" by Selah

March for Babies Pendant Giveaway

crystalMarch 10, 2015March 10, 2015 Honor & Remember, News, Updates & Announcements 0

Update: We have our winners! Congratulations to Melissa C. for being the first person to donate and to Anrey B. for winning the random drawing. Please send me a message via the Dandiewinks Facebook page, so we can get started on your custom glass pendants. I'd also like to give a shout

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Custom Calvin’s Cupcakes

Custom Calvin's Cupcakes are now available for $7 each. With a custom remembrance cupcake, you can fully customize the cupcake by adding your child's name and choosing the cupcake flavor, frosting, cupcake wrapper, background color, and candy toppers. You may also make special design requests. The cupcake will be posted on

Capture Your Grief – Day 14: Light and Dark

crystalOctober 16, 2014October 27, 2014 Calvin Phoenix, Capture Your Grief 2014, Gaelen Evangeline, Grief & Loss, Honor & Remember, Louie, Pixel Clementine, Projects, Rainbow Baby 0

The white "One Who Soars" and black "In Mourning" wristbands are from the MISS Foundation. The March of Dimes wristband (purple) is from the March for Babies. Capture Your Grief is an annual, 31-day mindful healing project that consists of photography and reflection. It is for “anyone who is grieving the death

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Capture Your Grief – Day 15: Community

crystalOctober 15, 2014November 19, 2014 Capture Your Grief 2014, Grief & Loss, Honor & Remember, Poems, Projects 0

Like Songbirds Born of the first mother to ever outlive her child, it wrote itself into our DNA like songbirds. It rang through my insides and buried itself inside my belly the morning my son passed from liquid to air, from inside to outside. Passed down by mothers whose children have

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Calvin's Cupcakes: Made for Heavenly Babies

Capture Your Grief – Day 9: In Memory

crystalOctober 12, 2014October 12, 2014 Calvin Phoenix, Capture Your Grief 2014, Grief & Loss, Honor & Remember, Projects, Resources & Support 0

I started Calvin's Cupcakes in memory of my first son Calvin Phoenix. It has been such a humbling honor to abide with other families who have experienced child loss, to share part of their stories, and to create these virtual remembrance cupcakes for their children. To make a request, please

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Capture Your Grief – Day 3: Before

crystalOctober 3, 2014October 5, 2014 Capture Your Grief 2014, Grief & Loss, Honor & Remember, Life, Projects 0

I took this picture on November 1, 2008. A little over a month after Louie and I were married, a few days after backpacking in Emigrant Wilderness (my first time camping!). I remember how I felt: content, centered, light, open, confident, sure of myself; and it took me a long

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Capture Your Grief – Day 2: Heart

crystalOctober 2, 2014October 5, 2014 Calvin Phoenix, Capture Your Grief 2014, Gaelen Evangeline, Grief & Loss, Honor & Remember, Pixel Clementine, Projects, Rainbow Baby 0

Because I cannot hold them in my arms, I carry them in my heart: Calvin Phoenix (03.05.2009) Rainbow (12.10.2009) Gaelen Evangeline (03.24.2011) Pixel Clementine (11.27.2013) Capture Your Grief is an annual, 31-day mindful healing project that consists of photography and reflection. It is for "anyone who is grieving the death of a baby or child at any