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Thankful for our Freedom and for Those who Protect it

Friday, July 1st, 2011

The July Fourth holiday is a time to celebrate America’s freedom.  This post expresses our thanks to those who are working to protect it.

Canvas on Demand has an initiative called Operation Hi Honey. It has been our way, over the years, of honoring our troops who are deployed overseas and their spouses who are holding down the home front in their absence.   Operation Hi Honey has awarded hundreds of our deployed men and women a free fine art canvas, printed from a favorite photo, which is presented to their spouse on their anniversary.   It’s a way for soldiers to say I love you… and it’s a way for Canvas on Demand to say to our troops, Thanks for a job well-done!

Here are just a few of those canvases and the stories behind them.

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Gordon explained his canvas and his love for his wife, Christin.  “I had a fellow airman take this while I was standing on a ladder to surprise my wife. I am always thinking about her and hate being away from her and my family. Her strength helps make my important job easier while I am away from home.”

Robert told us that “This picture was taken the day I flew out to Iraq–Me, Megan, and our son Christian James (12 months old). I met Megan my freshman year of college. She is loving and good to me and our son. She is always

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pushing me to do more than what I think I’m capable of doing. I could not be where I am without her.”

And David honored his wife, Taylor with the following: 

“This is a photo of my wife and I on our wedding day. I returned on R & R from Iraq for two weeks. During that time, we got married, honeymooned, and then I returned to Iraq to finish out the last six months of my tour. She’s a rock-star! This is our fourth deployment together. She’s a full-time teacher and a full-time graduate student. She also just bought us our first house in my absence, and put the whole move together without me.”

I have had the honor of delivering some of these canvases to spouses, and I have seen firsthand the sacrifices and work involved in being the one left at home to tend to the home and children…and to love unconditionally from such a distance…all the while being fully aware of the dangers.

Thanks to all those who serve and to all those who contribute from the homefront.  You are our heroes and we love you!  Let Freedom Ring! Mom

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Customers Show Thanks Through Canvases

Sunday, November 21st, 2010

With Thanksgiving coming up this week, it occurred to me that nearly every canvas that our customers order reflect their thankfulness!  As you prepare the turkey and all the trimmings and get excited about mall sales the following day…don’t forget the real meaning of this blessed family holiday.  And take time to tell those you love how thankful you are for them and why you love them so much!

Susan from Hermosa Beach, California asked us to create a canvas that showed us how much she appreciates her family.  It was taken of her entire family including all the grandkids on her father’s 100th birthday!

Then there’s this great art canvas we made for Bev that shows how thankful she is for a bright future a new little family member.  “This is my son and new grandson, Ashton.  It was one of those moments that you catch and are so thankful you did!”

And while Bev was thankful for the future of that new grandson, another customer, Glenda indicates how important her ancestors are to her life.  “This is a 1903 wedding picture of my grandparents, which I shared at the 83rd annual family reunion. The canvas was a hit and generated plenty of discussion about our family history.  And the group at Canvas on Demand was great, very helpful with details and suggestions that made the canvas exactly what we wanted it to be.”  

I was especially touched by a canvas we made for Kat from San Benito, Texas.  She is very proud of her mother who is a marvelous role model of strength and perseverance.  She told us that the photo “symbolizes the true face of courage. My mom is continuing with her battle against cancer, and so far, she is doing very well!  She has been so strong!”

A customer named Bradley had a canvas created for his wife of 18 years, Pamela.  “She is the love of my life and my best friend. This photo was taken in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii before my deployment to Iraq. It is one of my wife’s favorites of me and our two children.” All of us are at Canvas on Demand give thanks for those who risk their lives daily to keep us free and safe!

I hope these canvas examples inspire you this Thanksgiving to really count all your blessings.  And as you gather with family and friends, snap a few photos to capture those precious moments.  You never know; one of them may end up hanging as a lovely family heirloom canvas in your home!

As for those of us at Canvas on Demand—we are thankful for many, many blessings, but especially for all our wonderful customers.  Mom

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Feeling Thankful?

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away.  Now is the time to contemplate all the things in life that are meaningful.  And how about honoring those things by letting us create an heirloom canvas of those favorite image? 

Are you thankful for family?  Akeem selected a marvelous image of her dearest ones that captured outstanding patterns, colors, and family smiles.

Are you thankful for your heritage?  Images like the one we made into a canvas for Paulette from Rochester, Minnesota, remind us of our lineage.  “This is a high School graduation photo of my grandmother, Leone, taken in 1908.  It is an incredible image and one I will cherish forever.  Your customer service and the photo’s restoration rendered a finished product that is absolutely beautiful!”

Are you thankful for your freedom?  Lizette from Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania is!  “I just opened my shipment and got chills when I first looked at it.  Now I am in tears!  This is my husband inside a stryker vehicle in Iraq.  You guys are awesome.  I love the flag you used as a background.  I can’t wait until my husband sees it.  Thank you, thank you!”

Are you thankful for the future?   This is Kendall, our customer Joanne’s first born.  “I can’t imagine a more perfect moment!  This is hanging on my bedroom wall and makes me wake up with a smile every day!”

Are you thankful for peace?  Renee snapped this great photo.  It says it all!

If you’re thinking about a Thanksgiving canvas for yourself or some else, now is the time to order. 

Let the Thanksgiving blessings begin!  Mom

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