As October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Becka and I decided to create today’s color board and printable inspired by Pink Initiative. Founded by wedding photographer Emilie Sommer (whom I had the great pleasure of meeting last year at engage!08 the encore), Pink Initiative is a collection of wedding industry professionals and private donors dedicated to funding awareness, outreach, education and research for breast cancer. Pink Initiative also recently received its official status as a 501(c)(3) non-profit. For more information about getting involved or making a donation, visit www.pinkinitiative.org or follow Pink Initiative on Twitter.
Becka created this powerful “Shades of Survival” color board and we both really love the image on the right of the mother and daughter in shadow standing strong. Becka said, “That’s one of my favorites of ours so I’m really happy to let it be representative of such an amazing cause.”
Last year, a close a family friend of ours who years ago thought she had beat breast cancer, found out it had returned and metastized in her liver. In layman’s terms, it was likened to someone taking a cancer-bullet filled shotgun to her liver. Even though the diagnosis was that treatment would be more management than treatment, she began chemo. Her daughter had cut her hair a few months back and was saving it for Locks of Love, but never sent it in. Instead, she gave it to her mom to have it made into a wig.
I also found out that she had started to tape up all the cards, emails, etc. she was receiving on a wall in her house to read when she got discouraged. I decided to design a simple poster with an inspirational quote that she could print out and add to her wall. So for today’s printable, I designed a similar poster featuring a favorite quote of mine by Christopher Reeve: “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” You can download the letter-size poster right here.
We are some of the lucky ones, as our friend’s story is one of survival–by a true miracle, our family friend is alive and well today–but that is certainly not the case for many, too many, people. Here’s to the continued hope that all “pink stories” can be ones of survival.
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Beautiful. Thank you so much Tricia and Becka! I can’t wait to print this! Big hugs!
LOVE IT. Thank you SO much for doing this and for helping us raise awareness for Pink Initiative.
thank you so much for posting becka & trisha! this hits home for so many of us out here, and i can’t wait to put this on my office wall.
I tried to click on the link to print the poster, but it didn’t work? It says “page not found.” Please repost because I love this! Thanks!
thanks for the heads up, jessica! just corrected the link, so the download should now be available.
We love it! So inspiring – thanks for spreading the message!
love this! gorgeous. thanks for doing this and for the download.