Home is Wherever I'm With You...but our blog moved

...but if you want to keep reading our blog, visit its new home here. 

It's finally found a home on our Company website, where it belongs, nestled between our See Beautiful Giving Initiatives and our Educational Outreach that both fuel the work we do. 

There's an RSS feed and space to comment and all the feels we dished up here just salivating for you to come drink in it's posts. This was a perfect rental space while we built the dream home, come to our housewarming and stay as long as you wish.

See Beautiful's new blog home: www.seebeautiful.com/blog

A Vision of Unity with Helping Mamas

We have a lot of caregivers, educational stakeholders, and families in our See Beautiful Community. We also have an amazing opportunity for you to get kids involved in an art project that leads to more beautiful for an extraordinary non-profit: Helping Mamas!

Short story: Your kid(s) creates a piece of art depicting "A Vision of Unity" and it will be on display at Helping Mama's Art Show!

More details: Helping Mamas is an amazing Atlanta non-profit doing incredible work to empower families and organizations in need. They're hosting an Art Exhibit called: A Vision of Unity. All of the art displayed will be student art work and YOUR kid(s) can create it! The art will be matted by Helping Mama's and on display at their event on Saturday, May 13th at The Hudgens Center for the Arts.

Please let us, or Helping Mama's, know if you'd like to participate and we can get you additional details!

Visit Helping Mama's invitation HERE.

A Park to Leave You Seeing Beautiful

A cancer Survivor's Park.

A space for Survivor's to see beautiful.

A place for families to come together & create beautiful.

A park within which people can rest, heal or just be.

See Beautiful is thrilled to support the Junior League of Greenville's efforts to contribute to the completion of a Cancer Survivor's Park for families to enjoy. We are honored to work with women to help create more beautiful for cancer Survivor's and their families.

Every purchase you make from See Beautiful where you select "Cancer Survivor's Park" we will donate $5 to meet our $1000 goal.

Learn more about our collaboration with Junior League of Greenville.

Seeing Beautiful in a #Home4Refuge

We're sharing Refuge Coffee Co.'s gift today. It truly is something to smile about.

If you don't know Refuge Coffee Co in Clarkston, GA, treat yourself and go there.

Now.

Seriously.

And when you go, be sure to meet Leon Shombana. His Congolese accent is like Christmas for your eardrums. Order the Nepali Chatpati (I dream about it). Clearly grab a coffee or tea because they're all divine. And take a load off in their home. You're always welcome.

Refuge Coffee is a special place for a lot of reasons. It's a dream that has been brought to life. It is a space where all are welcome and loved. Loved well, actually. Centered in what CNN dubs, "the most diverse square mile in America" Refuge Coffee celebrates the diversity that everyone brings to the table. You sit down with a stranger and end up engaged in an hour long conversation about historical significance of African boarder placement with maps drawn on the white board (that also serendipitously dons the words, "The world needs more of you.").

Take thirty seconds to disengage from the hustle of life and the scroll of social media to let Leon make you smile. I can watch this video on repeat.

To dangle the carrot, because it's beautiful written to, here's what Leon has to say about home, which is truly beautiful since it would be easy for Leon not to see beautiful. He was forced from his home in Eastern Congo and came to the US as a refuge. He's rewritten his definition of home after the life he has led. With Refuge Coffee, he's writing a beautiful story. We should all want homes like Leon has.

"My idea of home, is a place you live peacefully. Is a place you have good neighbors. Is a place you can interact with people. And if you look at what Refuge Coffee is doing, that is what you call home. It is a place you can find life. Is a place you have good neighbors. Is a place you can share your problems...and you rejoice with your friends or your relatives or your neighbors..." ...now hear it in Leon's voice.

And I would be remiss to share that Refuge Coffee is currently working to permanently find a #Home4Refuge and you can be a part of making that home a reality here: https://www.purecharity.com/createahomeforrefuge

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: https://vimeo.com/191002544

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To See Beautiful

Sometimes feel like you're not quite sure how to create more beautiful in the world? Here are a few ideas from nine & ten-year-olds in one of our See Beautiful Clubs. Turns out, creating beautiful can be as simple as smiling. We really love that reminder.
Smiles for days..all the days.

 

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Forever We (&) See Beautiful

Forever We (select FOREVER WE) from the dropdown box
United States of America

Forever We is 501(c)(3) organization delivering dolls and books to kids with cancer. They partner with families, schools, corporations, and foundations to create an experience to foster "purposeful play." They believe children use toys to tell stories. Their once upon a time is now. Every year, nearly 16,000 children are diagnosed with cancer. Another 45,000 are in treatment annually, not to mention millions of siblings, neighbors, classmates, and friends who are also affected and want to help. Federal funding contributes less than 4% of their overall cancer budget to childhood cancer research and treatment. If our kids are going to live happily ever after we have to find a way to work together to bring awareness and funding to their experience.

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Our huggable Forever We friend creates a conversation about a difficult subject. It provides comfort to a child in need and gives people who want to help a unique and meaningful way to get involved. Child Life at Cincinnati Children's Hospital has requested Forever We dolls for the families they serve. The world of childhood cancer is complex, scary, and often tragic. But in the midst of all that, it can also be beautiful. Stories of strength and hope continue to point toward a bright future that is only possible with your help. We invite the See Beautiful community to engage with families enduring an unfathomable diagnosis by communicating the message, "We are with you."

​How does your purchase help? Your purchase allows Forever We to partner with Child Life at Cincinnati Children's Hospital to deliver our Forever We friends to the kids being treated there.

Love the cause, but don't need the See Beautiful swag, that's okay. You can donate directly to Forever We HERE and celebrate their beautiful work alongside them on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter & Pinterest!

Bringing the Silenced A Voice

"Because we believe everyone has worth, even the residents of the most fragmented and impoverished communities, we start by listening to them.

But no one is listening to Beni right now.

Are you?" ~ Nathan Johnson, Mavuno

See Beautiful is listening. We stand with our friends at Mavuno as we mourn the loss of innocent lives in Beni, DRC. These are people who are so important to See Beautiful. Human rights are for everyone. Every. Single. Person. Everyone has great worth. Let's show that with love.

If you haven't heard about Beni and the repeated tragic loss of life you're not alone. In fact, if you google "Beni" the majority of hits on the first page are about a town in Bolivia, a Japanese cuisine, or a church in California. The fact that you can't read about a terrorist attack claiming the lives of at least 64 (and the number is still rising) with the use of a machete is evidence of the blanket the media has placed on the Eastern Congo. We must start talking. We must be a voice for those who are silenced - for those who devastatingly lost their lives. We must act from a place of love and we must honor the fact that every person has great worth. 

This article, The Difference between Beni and Brussels, written by Nathan Johnson, Mavuno's VP of Communications, does an excellent job providing historical and current insight into the injustice suffered by thousands. Please read it. Please share it. Please talk about it. Please keep googling. Please pray, love, and hope. Please don't feel helpless. We can all do something - and billions of little somethings aren't insignificant. They can bring about change. And change is necessary. 

Thank you, Mavuno, for leading with love.