Be A Heart Blog

Christmas Presents.

14 days until Christmas and I am only making a Christmas list tonight. I’ve been searching on everyone else’s gift guides and here is what I’ve collected for mine: xo, Erica

The Christmas Novena

It’s November 30th again – one of my favorite days of the year. In high school, my Mimi gave me a framed prayer that my great Grandmother had written. It was for the Saint Andrew’s Christmas Novena...

Giving Back.

I missed Giving Tuesday (when you take an extra day for a holiday for travel – you end up thinking that Tuesday is Monday…) But I didn’t want to miss out entirely. Here is a list of the 3 places th...

Written By Hand Gift Pack.

We’ve been getting a lot of inquiries about what kinds of pens to buy with Written By Hand to make the perfect Christmas gift pack for friends/daughters/moms.  So I rounded up all my favorite thing...

Christmas Cards.

There are so many amazing options for custom Christmas cards around the internet, but something I find over and over again is that there aren’t enough Christian Christmas messages on these cards (t...

Written By Hand.

A year ago, my publisher at Quarto approached me about writing a book. I remember how excited and nervous I felt as I signed that contract. I was unsure of my abilities.  I rented a little house in...

Summer Favorites

I used to love back to school time because that meant updating my wardrobe and buying new school supplies! I still tend to shop in cycles and these are currently some of my favorite things! 1. I lo...

God’s Will is to Love.

My story is one of darkness and light, agony and joy, abandonment and hope.

It takes a village.

Tomorrow my friends get back from Paris. I’ve been watching their 3 kids for 8 days while they had the trip of a lifetime. I almost cried at Michael’s today. I needed some more watercolor paper for...

Upscale with Prentice Penny

Back in October, I got a call asking if I would be on a television show teaching a guy how to do calligraphy. Of course I said yes.