Military Leave Gift?

Thanks mom-in-alberta! I almost cry each time mom drops her off and talks about him leaving them, so sad :( This is the least I can do for them

I agree ladies ... the gift our Military families give to our country is truly amazing leaving their families and loved ones for months at a time to go and put their very life on the line in very scary and traumatic environments in attempts to protecting the rights and lives of others who are being oppressed in other countries .... the things my man has seen around the world, the treatment of women and children, the violence even though he no longer serves he carries that around in his head all the time one thing to see it on the news another thing to see it first hand and be powerless to stop if because you have 'orders' not to engage and what not :(

I am grateful that I met my man at the end of his active tours of duty due because the worry about him being gone so long would have done me in ~ they almost sent him back to Afghanistan in 2007 for one last tour and just the idea had me frozen and fortunately, if you can use that word, due to something going on in my health at the time he was able to get compassionate leave to stay back until we knew for sure what I was dealing with ~ and he retired the following year!

Could you make something with a small picture of her? Maybe a passport size, sewn into that little stuffed heart idea? Whatever you end up making....it will be greatly treasured by Dad!

Hand another idea while surfing my pinterest account for rainy day inspiration just now

Sort of building on the shrink dink hand print key chain and the pocket heart idea from Momof4 ... since turns out that dcg is really wee to help sew the felt heart you could make a 'long distance pocket hug' with two of her hands on shrinky dinky so those are from her and literally a piece of her and than measure a length of black jewellery cord for her 'arms' and create something like this only 'mini size' hands that would fit in his pocket and not get crumpled ... than whenever he misses her he'd have a little hug in the pocket?

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...psb78c2a18.jpg

You can also supposedly print a photo directly onto shrink dink paper to make 'charms' for bracelets so you could build on Wonderwiper's idea and make a 'photo charm' to go with the hand hugs?

I have never done this but the instructions are here ...
http://www.shrinkydinks.com/freepatt...ake-ornament-1