are you ready for one-of-a-kind-wednesday?!

Why purchase items made from OOAK yarn?

OOAK yarn stands for ‘one of a kind’ and is unique that it is hand-dyed and handspun and cannot be recreated. Each OOAK piece will be your unique item that NO ONE else will have, and I know every photographer loves to be unique and special. In my opinion, items made from OOAK yarn are some of the highest quality photography props available. Most of my pieces are constructed using 100% merino wool yarn, some of the softest, squishiest yarn available, and perfect for baby’s soft skin.


What is one-of-a-kind-wednesday?
one-of-a-kind-wednesday is your once-a-week opportunity to purchase photography props made with OOAK yarn from bekima knits, usually newborn beanies and other varieties of hats, and sometimes a cocoon or hammock! Unless noted otherwise all hats will be newborn size, for a baby less than 4 weeks old.


How do I participate in one-of-a-kind-wednesday?
one-of-a-kind-wednesdays are scheduled for WEDNESDAY nights at 8:00pm CST on my Facebook fan page. At that time I will post a photo album with OOAK items that are ready to ship. The price of each item will be shown on the photo, and if there are multiple items pictured in a photo then each item will be numbered. To purchase an item, you need to leave your Paypal email address in a comment on that photo, along with the item number (if applicable). The first person to comment with their email will be invoiced for the item.

How do I pay?

I will typically send out invoices within an hour after one-of-a-kind-wednesday is completed. Payment is expected within 24 hours or the item will go to the next person who left their email. Please contact me at tanya@bekimaknits.com if you are unable to pay within 24 hours. Items usually ship within 1-2 business days of cleared payment.
I will NOT hold items. Please provide your payment in a timely manner or your item(s) will be forfeited.

How much is shipping?

I ship all my items through USPS Priority Mail within the US and USPS First Class International Mail for all international orders. Shipping is $6 for up to three hats, plus $1 for each additional hat. Cocoons are $6 plus $1 for each additional item. Shipping overage for international orders will be refunded through Paypal.


Please let me know if you have any questions! And the order that items are purchased are under the discretion that Facebook uploads them, I do not have any control over this!


Happy Shopping!
Tanya
bekima knits

Grand Opening Sale Today!

The day is finally here! If anyone were to tell me 18 months ago that I would have my own business, knitting hats for the cutest little babies and opening my OWN website...I would've laughed in their face. I can't believe where bekima knits has come and cannot even begin to fathom where it is going to go, and it's all because of awesome customers and fans like you!


So today I am celebrating you...this Grand Opening Sale is in THANKS to all of you that have started this journey with me, joined along the way, or maybe you're just beginning. Either way, I'm glad you're here!


www.bekimaknits.com - Grand Opening Sale - All day March 23rd, 2011

**Every customer that purchases ANYTHING from our shop today during our Grand Opening will receive one of our newest SweetP Headbands (that haven't even made it to the shop yet!!) ...valued at $8-$10

***For every purchase of $75 or more, you will also receive a free bekima knits beanie :) ...valued at $18-$20

****For every purchase of $200 or more, you will also receive a free bekima knits hammock!! ...valued at $40

****And all orders over $250 ship for free!!


Thank You all for making this day come about and I hope you have a fantastic time shopping on our new website!!

xoxo ~ Tanya ~ bekima knits


**All free items will be chosen by me...and I'm sure you're going to love them!**

WOOHOO!

AWESOME!!  We raised over $265 for CHD's!!!!  Way to go everyone and thank you to all of you that participated in our fundraiser or donated directly to a CHD foundation!

We've been busy here getting the new shop ready to be up and running!!

...more later!  Happy Hump Day!

Thank You and A Giveaway!

I just wanted to send out a HUGE THANK YOU to my friend Megan, over at In This Wonderful Life for helping me promote bekima knits' helping hearts...one hat at a time!!!!  ...and I know there are a lot more of you helping too...please leave me a comment and link below so I can recognize your awesome efforts!

Want to win $75 to bekima knits...head on over here and enter!!

Thank you Megan!!!

Feel free to copy and paste to help spread the word!

Shop HERE to help hearts...one hat at a time.



Did you know?

... that Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs) are the most common birth defect in America, affecting approximately one in one hundred, or 40,000 newborns each year?

... CHDs are responsible for one third of all birth defect-related deaths and sadly 20 percent of children who make it through birth will not survive past their first birthday.

... that although a child is born every 15 minutes with a CHD, research continues to be grossly under-funded in America.

... of every dollar the government spends on medical funding, only a fraction of a penny is directed toward congenital heart defect research.


What is a Congenital Heart Defect?  A CHD means a child is born with an abnormally structured heart and/or large vessels. Such hearts may have incomplete or missing parts, may be put together the wrong way, may have holes between chamber partitions or may have narrow or leaky valves or narrow vessels.

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I have come to know and follow, in the blogging world, some really great families (especially the mamas) and heart babies.  Some, are no longer here on this earth with us, and some are living very wonderful and fulfilling lives here, even with their bandaged hearts.  I hope to never have to endure what these children and families have and continue to go through, but peacefully realize that if I am ever placed in their shoes, I will have the BEST support group.  These people are courageous, bare-to-the-bone, hopeful, faith-filled, all-loving, raw, emotional, loving, and totally real.  And they make me cry and laugh and hope and dream...sometimes all in the same blog post.

Here are just a few that I follow, and I know there are SO many more out there.
Bowen, Cohen, Ewan, Joshua, Luke, Logan, Annabelle, Laken, David, Ella, Owen, Emma, Preston, Radcliffe, Field, are just to name a few...

I have so much admiration for these children and families and that is what I feel like I'm being called to help.  Why do parents sometimes not find out there child has a CHD until after it's too late?  Why aren't there 'sure' surgeries, since this is the MOST COMMON birth defect in America?  Why isn't this getting the supporting funding it needs to find solutions to such a huge problem?

In honor and memory of all the children living and lost from CHD's, bekima knits' helping hearts will be donating 20% off every sale, now thru everyone's 'Heart Day' - February 14th.

bekima's helping hearts fundraiser will help benefit, The Children's Heart Foundation, whom's goal is to bring health, hope and happiness to children impacted by congenital heart defects, the number one birth defect in the United States. They accomplish this goal by funding the most promising research to advance the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of congenital heart defects.  And also, Bless Her Heart, an organization founded after their daughter, Taryn, unexpectedly passed away from 2 CHDs.  Bless Her Heart is dedicated to promoting congenital heart defect awareness to families at the earliest opportunity possible, and all donations are used to maintain the website and for printing and distribution of CHD awareness pamphlets to various organizations, businesses, and doctors’ offices.

The Children's Heart Foundation is the country’s leading organization solely committed to CHD research funding, and dedicates itself to bringing health, hope and happiness to children and families impacted by a CHD. CHF has funded over $4.1 million of vital, life-saving CHD research since its inception, which includes approximately $400,000 in 2010.

I LOVE the work that both of these foundations have taken on, especially Bless Her Heart for bringing this birth defect into awareness before these children are born.  Before hearing and reading of these families and babies, I would have had no idea that this devasting defect even had a place on this earth.  God has definitely stuck this in front of me for a reason, and this is what is being called to me at the moment, and there may be more in the future.  All in His plan...and I'm sure there will be more and all for a reason.  And what better timing than our unofficial 'Heart Month'!!  If anyone else is interested in more CHD events and fundraisers, check out this site for Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week, which runs Feb 7-14, 2011.

I pray and hope that we can make a difference, and I know we can!!!  I also have some super special knits that I would love to be able to give both parents that have lost children due to CHD's and also children that are living with their CHD's.  Parents and/or friends and family...please email me and let me know about you and your child, and you will have a special gift from bekima knits at your doorstep soon.  It's just a bit of what I can do to offer some comfort and joy to those most in need.

Feel free to copy and paste to help spread the word!

Shop HERE to help hearts...one hat at a time.

And as always, feel free to donate directly to either/both of these foundations.  I can only imagine the benefits that these donations will bring the future of CHD technologies and awareness.

"For nothing is impossible with God"  ~Luke 1:37

You guys ROCK!

I just wanted to let everyone know that a week ago, for 4 days you guys helped bekima knits donate $245 to Nella's ONEder Fund for Downs Syndrome!!!!  WOO HOO!!!

...and a something new will be announced tomorrow...stay tuned!!

In His Time

I listen to the radio.  A lot.  What else is there to do in a house with 3 little people under 5, besides watch reruns of the same kid shows you watched yesterday.  And I'm not one to put on a 'nasty' station, at least when the kids are present.  Let me tell you, 4 year olds remember stuff...a lot of stuff, and not always at the most timely moment you want them to.  So here, it's always on the Christian radio station.

And I love it!  I love how the kids know the words to the songs and every song is their favorite song.  And I always hear listeners talk on-air about how the right songs are always playing at the right time, just right for them.  Well, I never heard the right songs for me?!  I mean I love every single message that is portrayed in any Christian song and I love them all...I actually do.  But, I never felt like that person that heard what they needed to hear from God at just the right time.  But in His time it happened today.  On my way home from a last minute husband-going-on-a-fishing-trip grocery run and what else, but Mickey-D's for the girls' supper.  He totally hit me and every song on my drive home was just for me.  First is my New Year's Resolution song...the one that hits home and is going to help me stick to it this year, You Are More by Tenth Avenue North

There's a girl in the corner

With tear stains on her eyes

From the places she's wandered

And the shame she can't hide

She says, "How did I get here?

I'm not who I once was.

And I'm crippled by the fear

That I've fallen too far to love"

But don't you know who you are,

What's been done for you?

Yeah don't you know who you are?

You are more than the choices that you've made,

You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,

You are more than the problems you create,

You've been remade.

Well she tries to believe it

That she's been given new life

But she can't shake the feeling

That it's not true tonight

She knows all the answers

And she's rehearsed all the lines

And so she'll try to do better

But then she's too weak to try

But don't you know who you are?

You are more than the choices that you've made,

You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,

You are more than the problems you create,

You've been remade.

You are more than the choices that you've made,

You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,

You are more than the problems you create,

You've been remade.

'Cause this is not about what you've done,

But what's been done for you.

This is not about where you've been,

But where your brokenness brings you to

This is not about what you feel,

But what He felt to forgive you,

And what He felt to make you loved.

You are more than the choices that you've made,

You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,

You are more than the problems you create,

You've been remade.

You are more than the choices that you've made,

You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,

You are more than the problems you create,

You've been remade.

You've been remade

You've been remade.

You've been remade.
You've been remade.

...and then our wedding song (only we had the Rascal Flatts version), Bless The Broken Road by Selah

I set out on a narrow way, many years ago

Hoping I would find true love along the broken road

But I got lost a time or two

Wiped my brow and kept pushing through

I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you

Every long lost dream led me to where you are

Others who broke my heart, they were like northern stars

Pointing me on my way into your loving arms

This much I know is true

That God blessed the broken road

That led me straight to you

Yes He did

I think about the years I spent, just passing through

I'd like to have the time I lost, and give it back to you

But you just smile and take my hand

You've been there, you understand

It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true

Every long lost dream led me to where you are

Others who broke my heart, they were like northern stars

Pointing me on my way into your loving arms

This much I know is true

That God blessed the broken road

That led me straight to you

But now I'm just rolling home into my lover's arms

This much I know is true

That God blessed the broken road

That led me straight to you

That God blessed the broken road

That led me straight to you

Then a new one, I hadn't heard before, shot right to me like it was written for MY LIFE.  Thank you God for writing this and bringing this to me...I LOVE IT!!  ...and thank you Francesca Battistelli for singing it beautifully!
 

You have to check this out!!!  Click HERE!!

 

...if you just passed over that link, go back up and listen to it.

 

God is GREAT and oh how his timing is perfect in His every way!  Have a great Friday everyone!

Sweet Nella

I have been following Kelle's blog for almost a year now, right after sweet Nella was born.  And Nella was born with a magical extra chromosome, along with the other 400,000 Americans living with Downs Syndrome.  And it hit my heart like a rocket.  I have to help.  The first words that mumble out of my mouth, I just have to help.

So the Hampton's are hosting their very first fundraiser to raise awareness to Downs Syndrome with Nella's ONEder Fund in honor of her FIRST birthday this Saturday!!

And...I just have to help.  So, all (and I mean ALL) orders from now thru Midnight on Friday, January 21st I will be donating 47% off ALL sales to Nella's ONEder Fund from bekima knits.  I can't wait to see how we can help out not only sweet Nella's family but ALL families affected by Downs Syndrome.

*Why 47% Tanya??  Oh, because I just roll like that...and read Kelle's words below if you're not familiar with Downs Syndrome...


A First Birthday Fundraiser for Nella's Rockstars

One year ago, on January 22, 2010, we welcomed our second daughter, Nella Cordelia Hampton. The thrill of her slippery little body being placed in our arms was quickly jolted when we were told she came with a little something extra...a 47th chromosome. And like many others who set out on this journey, we struggled through a range of emotions the following weeks. Support came though--through loving friends and family, through education, through falling in love with our daughter who turned out to be the greatest blessing and just what our family needed.
We are learning more every day, and, through Nella, we've discovered a new world of acceptance and opportunity for the many individuals in our world with Down syndrome.
To celebrate the anniversary of the beginning of this beautiful journey and our enchanting little one, we are asking you to join with us in supporting the NDSS. Please help spread awareness and create more opportunities for the world to understand that we are more alike than different.
The National Down Syndrome Society works to create a culture that fully accepts and includes the 400,000 Americans with Down syndrome. Your tax-deductible donation will help support the vision of a world in which all people with Down syndrome have the opportunity to enhance their quality of life and realize their life aspirations.


Rock it out Nella's Rockstars!!

New Freebie Giveaway!!

FREEBIE GIVEAWAY 2011 - Here's the scoop!

When we reach 400 fans (likers) on Facebook, everyone will go in the pool to win a newborn beanie like this one, but you get to choose the color)

Even better..when we reach 700, a free hammock (again, in your choice of color)

AND at 1000 fans - a FREE newborn nest!!!

Start callin' all your friends and photographers, they're not going to want to miss this one!!

New Year - New Projects

I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and New Years and didn't go too (oops) overboard on the eve of the new year!  Not that I know from experience, but a bottle and a half of wine gives a major headache the next morning, and all day for that matter.

Here's just some of the new pics I have to share from some new projects that I have going on...more to come! 

Thank you Lisa!!!!

It's been just a bit busy around here and some days I have to move new TOYS before I can even enter the family room.  Yea, 3 girls under 5 and their gifts, after Christmas, is a sight to see...

Wishing all of my readers a very blessed and bountiful 2011!!!!

Check it out this week for my new resolution list...