As you know some of us from Photo Express are participating in the Weekend To End Breast Cancer walk coming up in a few weeks on Doreen's Miracle Team. Doreen is such an inspiration to all of us and such a great friend and this is just a small thing we can do to help her in her battle with breast cancer.
I had planned on walking, but due to a foot injury, am not able to walk. So I am crewing and helping out as part of Doreen's Miracle Team. Our team has been assigned one of the pit stops and we will be handing out drinks and encouraging them and doing lots of "woohoooing!"
Our theme is Believe and Butterflies. We are going to decorate our station with butterflies and try to find some butterfly wings to wear (if you know where to get some, let me know). We also would love to place a butterfly on each walkers name tag as they come through as inspiration and encouragement. (Many walkers love to collect things on their name badge). We will Glue dot them on of course!
Here is where we need your help - we need you to die cut or punch out little butterflies in pink! We are hoping to have around 2000 of them or even more! QK has this die which would be a great size (this isn't actual size) and I know some punches would be a great size.
So if you would love to help spread some "butterfly kisses of inspiration", please die cut or punch out some butterflies and bring them to Photo Express by Wed Sept 3rd. We would soooooooooo appreciate it and I know the walkers will also.
And if you haven't donated to the Weekend yet and would like to do so, Renee and Ashlee (my little sister who works in the lab) from Photo Express still need a little help to get to their goals. They each have $1400 to post still from the crop so that puts them almost there, but a little extra help would be wonderful. And since breast cancer affects 1 in 9 women, it will also help someone you know. Another one of my sisters Rachele is also walking on the Doreen's Miracle team and she could use some donations also. Here is a picture of Ashlee and Rachele on one of their training walks (28km!) up at our cabin in the heat. It takes a lot of dedication to participate in this walk. I don't normally ask for anything like this, but this is such a wonderful and necessary cause to support. Just click on one of their names to donate (and get a tax receipt almost instantly) and thank you in advance very much!
Michele
I bet Turkey's Party palace would have wings...the dollar store by Superstore had butterflies done with yellow nylon, or decor.
Posted by: Tamara | August 20, 2008 at 12:54 AM
I'm on it!!! I have that QK die and that is no problem. I'll get some done in a 1/2 hr of tv watching or something.
Would you be able to tell me when the date of the crop is Michele?
Posted by: Thanh | August 20, 2008 at 08:02 AM
Thanks Thanh! Much appreciated.
Are you referring to Doreen's Cancer crop she usually does? She isn't doing one this year so we will be doing a simple type crop probably in Oct. The date will be finalized in the next few days so watch for details.
Posted by: Michele | August 20, 2008 at 04:47 PM
Ohhh just a small one, I had so much last year! Looking fwd to it still. Michele, do you want the base (antennae and body of the butterfly) black like the sample QK has?
Posted by: Thanh | August 22, 2008 at 07:08 PM