Another Marian Swap

A few weeks ago, 15 other moms and I swapped Marian pegs that we had painted.  This was my second swap (see first swap here), and it was such a favorite that I wanted to offer it to my local mom painter friends as well.  I wasn't planning on taking part in the swap, but sometimes God makes it clear when your supposed to do something.  This was one of those times.  A sweet mom from our homeschool group had signed up to do this swap (many months in advance) because the last one had filled up.  So when the time rolled around for this Marian swap, she had to back out because it was going to take place right when her baby was to be born.  So, the words just came out of my mouth (or email rather - lol!) - "I"ll do the swap and give you all the duplicates that I already have."  When all was said and done, I think I gave her 9 Marian pegs.  And when I gave them to her, of course, I had to let her know these were in exchange for a meal (since I always try to make a meal when moms have new babies), but have been SO crazy busy with pegs, Little Flowers, school, fall activities starting, and just surviving my own pregnancy, I haven't had an opportunity to get that meal to her.  She was so sweet and understanding and these beautiful pegs will last her much longer than any meal anyways.

Enough jabbering (lol!), here are the beautiful Marian peg dolls.  I have included both a front view and a back view.

Our Lady of Lourdes, Mary Undoer of Knots, Our Lady of Good Success, Our Lady of Hope

Our Lady of China, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Stella Maris, Our Lady of Ransom/Mercy

 Our Lady of  Vailankanni, Our Lady of Knock, Our Lady of Czestochowa, Queen of Heaven

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Our Lady of Siluva, Our Lady of Snows, Our Lady of LaSalette

Here are my two littlest getting out and setting up all our Marian pegs on the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary this week....

++Our Lady, pray for us!!++

Wordless Wednesday: Guess The Saint Peg....

A Saint Song

We love to live our faith liturgically and celebrate all the feasts in the church year.  Especially the saint feast days!!  Having saint peg dolls in house helps bring them to life even more.  Our sweet 3 year old, Rose, gets sung to every night and we ask for the intercession of 6-10 saints - whichever saint pegs she has chosen.  Last week was St. Zita's feast and she is one of Rose's favorite saints.  She has totally fallen in love with her!!  I know St. Zita is one of her special intercessors now too.  Here is sweet Rose singing to St. Zita, asking for her prayers...

7 Quick Takes - our peg doll collection

I have been painting peg dolls since I first saw them on one of my favorite blogs.  It was the perfect time to start creating our own collection because Ariel and Melody were doing the Alphabet Path as well and having a saint to go with every letter was ideal.  Ideal is the word here...  I only got through painting half the alphabet.  It was a great start though and I was such a newbie.  Who knew painting one doll at a time was actually harder than painting multiples?  I've learned now, by being in many peg doll swaps that painting multiple pegs and trading with a group of people doing the same thing is *the* way to go when adding to your peg doll collection!!

Today's quick take is a peek into our peg doll collection - either created by me, collected through swaps, or bought off of Etsy.  Enjoy!

#1 - our first Saint pegs - half of the alphabet - lol!  This is where it all started!  See how plain they were.  My sweet humble peg dolls.  Goes to show that "practice makes perfect".  Well, not even perfect, but much much better.  But still, oh so special, since these guys are where our collection all began.  (St. George was MIA during the "photo shoot")

#2 - Saint peg dolls (some I painted, some I bought, some I swapped)

#3 - super heroes - the big boys and I painted and gifted Max with a set of his own super hero pegs a couple years ago.  And, the next year, St. Nick brought some fancier painted ones (found on Etsy) for Pookey.

#4 - Star Wars pegs - I painted a whole bunch of the Admiral Ackbar pegs and traded in a character peg doll swap.  See close ups of all these guys here.

#5 - Marian pegs - I think out of all the swaps I've done, this is my favorite!!  We love Mama Mary!!  I painted over 20 Our Lady of Mount Carmels and then traded and received so many beautiful Mary peg dolls.  Click on over here to see our whole set and close ups of all our little Mary's.

#6 - Rose received these Disney Princess/Prince/Pair pegs for her birthday this year.  Aren't they adorable?!!! Well, she is too!  I painted Mulan/Shang and traded for the rest through a character peg doll swap on Facebook.

#7 - here are four sets of Nativity pegs that I recently received from a swap - one for us to keep and three to give away as Christmas gifts this year!!

Phew!  I think it's time to take a peg doll painting break, eh?!!

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Jump on over to view and/or take part in some more Quick Takes!!  

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Marian peg doll swap

Out of all our peg dolls, these are my favorite.  And, I'm sure you'll see why!  We love our Mother Mary, so having all these peg dolls to help us remember all her various titles, apparitions, and love for us are such a blessing!!!  I painted 25 of the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel pegs and swapped with 24 other moms.  (the other two I bought)

(Our Lady of the Assumption, Our Lady of Beauraing, Our Lady of Czestochowa)

Hail Mary, full of grace.

(Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Our Lady of the Rosary)

The Lord is with thee.

(Mary Mystical Rose, Our Lady of Kibeho, Our Lady of Guadalupe)

Blessed art thou among women!  

(Mother of Good Counsel, Our Lady of Lourdes, Mary Undoer of Knots)

And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.  

(Madonna of the Streets, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Immaculate Heart of Mary)

Holy Mary, Mother of God, 

(Our Lady of La Vang, Our Lady of Hope, Our Lady of Knock)

pray for us sinners, 

(Our Lady of Grace, Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal)

now and at the hour of our death.  Amen.  

(Our Lady of Ngome, Our Lady of Good Help, Our Lady of Snows)

(Our Lady of the Americas, Mary Queen of Heaven, Our Lady of Snows)

All Saints Day

++St. John, pray for us!++

++St. Matthew, pray for us!++

++St. Anne, pray for us!++

++St. Elizabeth, pray for us!++

++St. Mark, pray for us!++

++St. Luke, pray for us!++

++St. Therese, pray for us!++

++Fulton Sheen, pray for us!++

July Saint Peg Doll Swap

Yesterday afternoon I finished swapping and packing up 20 sets of saint peg dolls with 20 dolls in each set for some local moms (and a few out-of-towners), all for the children of the families to love, play with and treasure their Saint Friends forever.  Kids play with Barbies and Super Heroes, so why not play with their Saint Friends??

Here's a peek at the 20 Saint Friends that were painted and swapped....

(St. Brigid, St. Charles, St. Therese, St. Kateri)

 (St. Clare of Assisi, St. Cecilia, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Alexander)

 (St. Doroty, St. Zita, St. Augustine, St. Gemma Galgani)

 (St. Philomena, St. Peter, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Helena)

(St. Joseph, St. Anne, St. Nicholas, St. Faustina)

Now this is the first swap that I hosted and didn't participate in.  I took a break from the actual painting since there were new people that joined the group and wanted to participate in the swap, plus we have a nice sized collection from all my past painted dolls and two swaps from earlier this year.

++Lord, may our children learn to love and follow the example of their Saint Friends, who followed in Your footsteps, and we pray for their intercession always!!++