I Still Suck At Searching For A Bracelet

monday, karen and i visited the funeral home (keohane's) that we used for braden's service. like christopher columbus (it being columbus day and all, i figured i'd work him into the post), we made a happy discovery.

in my quest for a bracelet to remmeber my son (braden), both karen and i wondered about the possibility of acquiring the scanned image that keohane's took of braden. keohane's had scanned braden's footprints when he passed. they attempted to get his handprints as well, but braden's hands were too small (like the rest of him).

anyway, keohane's was kind enough to print out braden's footprints for us. as well, they even offered to send us the scanned image electronically. karen and i were quite excited about receiving the scanned image because we were not sure if they would offer it to us or not. it was nice to finally get some good news.

while we were at keohane's, we also got to view some of the sample jewelry that keohane's offered as a service. keohane's offers a service whereby they send scanned images (like a handprint or footprint) to another company called thumbies. from there, thumbies can create things like charms, rings, key fobs (i think that word is funny), tie tacks, etc. using the scanned image.

keohane's had earlier given us the website url so that we could see what thumbies offered. viewing the image on the website, however, is different from seeing them in person. hence, that was why we visited keohane's... to actually see samples of the items that thumbies can create.

needless to say, it was nice to see the charm. the charm definitely looked better at keohane's than it did on the website. in fact, i think i may simply have a charm created to remember braden as opposed to a bracelet. yes... i still suck at searching for a bracelet.

i currently wear a charm that my parents gave me. it has a tiger engraved on one side, with a chinese character on the other side. the chinese character is "fook", which means fortune/happy/lucky. (i sometimes wonder why i still wear the charm, because the chinese character has not exactly brought me any fortune, happiness, or luckiness the past month or so...) i will probably just attach braden's charm in addition to the existing one i have.

anyway, it was nice to see the sample jewelry offered by thumbies and keohane's. plus, it was good to know that keohane's will be sending the scanned image electronically to us via email. it definitely made it a good columbus day. throw in the fact that karen and i had dinner at her parents afterwards... and it definitely made monday a good day.