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Mama Bracelets Re-Opens!!


We are very excited to announce the re-opening of our store.  We closed several months ago due to the fact that our youngest daughter, who has been diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 2 developed RSV and pneumonia.  She was admitted to the hospital for a week and returned home with many medical machines to help keep her healthy.  We have been spending our time since her hospital release learning how to best use these machines as well as developing a new daily routine for our family.  



Ella Sabine Casten
Born:  June 10, 2010
Diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 2:  August 12, 2011

As of late, we have also taken a good close look at what we wanted to do with Mama Bracelets.  We love our business.  We decided to keep going with it and renewed our LLC for another year.  We also looked at what our customers were purchasing since we opened and adjusted our product line accordingly.    From our research of Mama Bracelets' sales we noticed many people really enjoyed our hand-stamped necklaces...we love them too!  We also noticed that the "Support & Fundraising" part of our business was a big hit with many people across the country and in other parts of the world.  Making products that carried monetary donations to organizations proved to be very fulfilling for us.

With that information at our fingertips we have decided to continue making hand-stamped necklaces, as they were by far the most popular hand-stamped product we carried.  We also will continue to make the "Cure SMA" bracelets.  These hold a great personal value to us and help fund research to find a cure for SMA.
We are anticipating designing new products...please check our website frequently and/or "like" us on Facebook to keep up to date!

Our current product line consists of the following (pictures are link directly to the product page!): 



Hand-Stamped Necklaces (NEW!)



  


New "Cure SMA" Products




  












Discontinued "Cure SMA" Products (Limited Quantities!)







"Cure SMA" Update

We are very excited to let you know that through orders from across the country for our "Cure SMA" bracelets, since September (2011), we have donated $2214 directly to Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (FSMA) to help them fund research seeking treatments and a cure for this devastating terminal disease that strikes children!

Mama Bracelets will continue to offer the exclusive "Cure SMA" bracelets which carry a 30% donation directly to FSMA.

Links:

Learn more about FSMA at: http://www.fsma.org

Read about our daughter, Ella at: http://ellas-corner.blogspot.com

Purchase a "Cure SMA" bracelet at: Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

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