Janessa & Hopes Prayer Flags

Janessa & Hopes Prayer flags are on their way to Australia for Carly Marie's Oct. 15th Beach Prayer Flag Project.  I have been staying up until midnight the past couple of nights creating and sewing their flags.  It has been exhausting, stressful, and so rewarding.  I finished them yesterday afternoon and I am so happy about how they turned out!  It brought me great joy to be able to create something that represented my 2 angel babies. 

This was part of the note I sent with the flags to explain what the symbols stood for:

These flags were made in remembrance of my angel babies Janessa Shauna Cox and Hope Abigail Cox.  Janessa was stillborn on 3/09/2010--I carried her for 36 weeks.  Hope Abigail was my rainbow baby that I loss on May 7, 2011--I carried her for 10 weeks. 

Symbolism on Janessa's Prayer Flag:  Butterflies, because Janessa was my precious butterfly that flew away too soon.  The feet butterfly is Janessa's footprints.  There are 3 balloons and 6 pinwheel  stamps to stand for 36, the number of weeks I carried her and because releasing balloons and creating pinwheel pictures has brought me peace since her death.  The angel stands for Precious Angel which is what we had put on her grave marker.  On the back (I'm not sure the little stars and heart jewels will survive the journey)  there is a J for Janessa which is what I would do when it snowed is go out and make a giant snow heart and then put a J in it so it was a personal message of  love to Janessa from me and the stars represent the lanterns from the movie Tangled and that every year on Janessa's birthday I will light candles in memory of her.

Symbolism on Hope Abigail's Prayer Flag:  Rainbows--because she was suppose to be my rainbow baby, hearts--because she allowed me to have courage to have another baby and to love another baby despite the fear and because she broke my heart again, ladybugs--my symbol for Hope because on a dark winter day when I was feeling down I found a ladybug inside my house and it brought me joy and hope, the ladybugs also have 7 dots for Hope's Angel Date, also that she is my 7th daughter and there are 10 ladybugs to symbolize the 10 weeks I carried her and also that there are 10 people in our family.  The hearts in a circle symbolize eternity and that I believe I will see my angel babies again and we will be together for eternity.

Hugs,

:`( Shauna :`)

:)Janessa & Hope's Mommy:)