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Memorial Charcoal Portrait From Our Latest Giveaway

hanamipapa — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:39:43 +0000

Noah Memorial Charcoal Portrait by Jason Marti

Today I’m excited to share with you the final charcoal portrait from our latest giveaway. He is a beautiful baby boy and a joy to memorialize for his parents. I know he will always be loved and missed.

What do you think about the portrait? Have you ever considered commissioning a charcoal portrait? Share your comments with the artist below.

Capturing a Short Life Documetary Film Trailer

hanamipapa — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:49:30 +0000

Capturing a Short Life is a beautiful documentary about families dealing with infant loss and how important it is to remember and celebrate all of the tiny lives lost so soon.

Originally airing in December 2008 in Canada, Capturing a Short Life is powerfully moving. Shows people who haven’t experienced a child loss why it is important to for us to remember and talk about our children. One father said it best in the trailer “we love to talk about her because she was a person.”

Having known first-hand the pain of losing a child so young, we started Hanami Prints to provide bereaved parents and families the smallest of comforts through meaningful and personal keepsakes. We understand how important it is to remember and know of few places to find quality and thoughtful items to mark our childrens’ short lives.

Useful Links:

Capturing a Short Life– if you missed the documentary you can purchase the DVD from their site.
Hanami Prints– Our products

What did you think of the trailer? Did you watch the documentary? How was it received friends, family and the media?

Faith’s Lodge: A Place Where Hope Grows

Charcoal Portrait Giveaway Winner Announced

hanamipapa — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:25 +0000

TGIF! Monday we announced a charcoal portrait giveaway and the time has come to announce the lucky winner.

Drum roll please….

…and the winner is Donna!

We would like to thank all of our readers for participating and for making our relaunch such a big success. I am truly humbled by the number of people who participated–the feedback we received was wonderful.

We invite you to subscribe to our feed via email or RSS reader to easily stay up-to-date.

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We enjoyed putting this giveaway together–let us know your thoughts. Did you enjoy this giveaway? Would you like to see us offer this on a regular basis?

The Gravity of Infant Loss

hanamipapa — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:06:14 +0000

“Pictures from a cemetery, featuring the headstones of over 50 little angels. A tribute to all children who are gone too soon, and especially to my boys, Jacob and Zachary.”

This is a beautiful tribute created by foreverloves74. The photography is fantastic and has inspired me to go out and take some of my own photographs. I love the different perspectives and how the story is told. If you enjoyed this video I invite you to visit foreverloves74 YouTube profile and leave a comment.

Are there any videos you would like to share or recommend? Feel free to leave them below.

It’s Here! Hanami Prints Blog Redesign

hanamipapa — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:54:31 +0000

Today I am proud to announce the redesign of Hanami Prints’ Blog: Learning to Live Without Our Children. For months we have been struggling with how to approach the redesign and what would be the best way to gather and distribute all of the helpful information and resources scattered across the Web.

Our goal is to provide grieving parents and family members, honoring the lives of their children, a safe place to share information, news and musings on miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant and child loss. Not much has changed in our philosophy but our approach is much different.

So what has changed?

The biggest change and one I am most proud of is in the look and function of the blog. As a traditional and digital artist the first design bothered me due to the lack of visual interest and organization. So this time around I decided to be creative and design all of my own elements and use a theme created by a great company called WooThemes–I highly recommend this company if you are looking to redesign your WordPress blog and don’t want to get your hands dirty with all of the programming.

The next big change is in the information we will be offering and how it is presented. There are a lot of websites and blogs out there that offer helpful information to our community, but many of them are difficult to navigate or hard to find. We will search the web and bring the information straight to you.

Medical Resources
Grief Support
Random Thoughts
Blogs
Videos
Photography and Art
Quotes and Poems

If there are any subjects that you would like to see or think that may be helpful, please feel free to share them with the community or email us.

Other ways to communicate with us

I invite you to join us in building and sharing our community through social media websites:

Facebook
Twitter
Posterous

Conclusion

We are so excited to share our new site with all of you and hope that you find Hanami Prints a valuable resource and a welcoming place to share your experiences with an understanding community.

We would love to hear your thoughts about the new design!

Hanami Season