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. 

The 2nd Annual Gumbo Cookoff is THIS WEEKEND, MARCH 13th!!!!  Please join us at Crawfish Town USA!

**Deadline for registration of teams is March 13th.  So as long as you know the rules and prepare accordingly, you can sign up and cook even on the day of the cookoff.

**Raffle tickets will be available for purchase at the cookoff.  As well as Cookoff t-shirts, Heartstrings t-shirts, Car decals, and koozies.

*******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.

Be our fan on Facebook by clicking here.

***NEWS***

Our second annual Gumbo Cookoff Fundraiser is March 13, 2010 at Crawfish Town USA in Henderson, LA. 

We are working hard to make this fundraiser a huge success.  There's a possibility this year for expanding our giving, and the amount new volunteers we have plus the success of this fundraiser will determine whether or not we will be able to do so.  So please join us and support our cause to clothe our smallest miracles!

Read our article in The Daily Advertiser here.

Read our article in the Teche News 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!