Welcome to our new and improved website! Here you will find lots of information on our organization, and the latest information and news on any recent happenings.
*******To our new volunteers who are interesting in sewing - thank you so very much for volunteering!! Please leave us your contact information here. Someone will be in touch with you after the cookoff - sometime in late March or April. Also, if you could, it would be best to attend a workday to receive instructions and pick up patterns. Our next sewing workday is April 3rd from 9am-1pm. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
Want to participate in the Gumbo Cookoff and looking for the application? Click and print here.
For a preview of the items up for Auction, click here.
You can see photo previews of the Auction Items on our Facebook page here.
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***NEWS***
Our February workday was a huge success. Thank you to all our volunteers and thank you to all who stopped by and turned in raffle tickets, picked up more to sell or purchased some. And thank you to those who dropped off Silent Auction items! We appreciate all your hard work to continue our mission to help our smallest miracles!
Deliveries were made within the last week to Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, Women's and Children's in Lafayette, and LGMC in Lafayette. We got lots of smiles this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our second annual Gumbo Cookoff Fundraiser is March 13, 2010 at Crawfish Town USA in Henderson, LA.
We are in immediate need of volunteers to sell raffle tickets. We are also in need of Silent Auction items - it's a tough economy so we have to work twice as hard to keep it going for our smallest miracles. Unique, handmade items to sell in the auction are also very welcomed.
Our next workday is March 6th - we are using this workday as a dropoff/pickup date for raffle tickets and Silent Auction items. You can also volunteer to help at the event at this time. The hours are 11:30-1:30 and no lunch will be served this time. Please email us at heartstrings_angelwings@yahoo.com for more information or directions! Our next sewing workday will be on April 3rd from 9am-1pm.
See our interview on WAFB in Baton Rouge here.
Read our article in The Daily Advertiser here.
Our Mission
Heartstrings and Angel Wings is a non-profit charity organization which provides clothing and other handmade items for babies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units. The items aid in comforting the babies and uplift the spirits of the baby's family members.
Angels Coming Out to Play
(Author Unknown)
Angels coming out to play
Angels touch our life each day.
Though we may not know they're there
There are angels...everywhere!
Angels can cause a heart to sing...
Angels give our spirits wings!
An angel's touch can bring God so near
An angel's smile...can dry a tear.
Have you felt a tug on you heartstrings?
Chances are it was caused by angel wings.
They flutter softly in the light...
Shimmering with edges so gold so bright.
We mere mortals to earth are bound,
Angels trod on holy ground.
So next time you are feeling low,
Remember...angels are there...
Wherever you go!