Baby Steps

I am a real gift person.  Not the receiving of, but rather the giving of!  I love fussing over presents and making them super personal.  I value my friends and want them to feel treasured and important.  At the moment I also feel as if my life is exploding (excuse the possible pun) with pregnant people.

Having been inspired by one of my friends who does felt work, I decided to look for some patterns.  To my unexpected delight I found a pattern for baby shoes.  I was trying to think of unique and personalised gifts for my pregnant friends and this seemed to be the perfect solution.  I eagerly dashed out to buy the necessary supplies and got to it.

After just one day I was addicted!  Yesterday I was sitting and making a little pair for my cousin's daughter, Grace, who will be joining us in January when a lady asked what I was doing.  I explained and she asked if she could order a pair!!!  She also asked if she could take a sample pair to her gift shop to take orders and sell.  How exciting - a random idea for a new hobby could have me rolling in the money.  Ok, maybe not really, but I can at least dream of a lucrative future funded by crafting and creativity.

I have decided to call the little shoes 'Life Steps'.  This was inspired by a course I did a few years ago that really changed my life.  The course looked at the importance of words and how they can become self-fulfilling prophesies that you speak over people.  So say for example a child fails a test and the parent responds by saying "I was expecting this", the child builds his or her identity based on the perceived truth behind the words that have been spoken over him or her by the parent.  So - through speaking affirmation and life-giving words over people, we can help to release them into large destinies and futures.  What better time to start than when you are a wee tot.  So - the shoes will have the baby's name on one foot and then a life-giving word associated with that name on the other foot.  For example: "Gideon" and "Strength".  I will post pics of my very first pair as soon as I have got my head around how to upload photos here.

I'm excited!