OK, So ya'll must know how special this one is to me:) That's why this one is so late in the day going up...I knew it had to be special and I had to be in the right frame of mine...
Read: rested...
I have tried to do a lot of that this week, rest I mean...if you know me at all, or have stopped by at all recently, than you know that the last few weeks have been a little intense to say the least...AND it all culminated last weekend in our local Race for the Cure!!!
Of which I just happen to be the Survivor Tent/Activity Chair:)
SO...Here Goes...
Our theme this year was:
"The Cures...Our Road to the Sweet Life"
Cures is plural on purpose because breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease and so more than one cure needs to be found!
First of all I do not do it alone...I am sure that this does not surprise you...I have a great committee of dedicated women!
Here are a few shots of set up...We have a large race with over 2000 survivors and so a large tent...
The largest in the race village:)
I really love the fenced in area:)
Here is an example of the cards that we had made for our survivors to write on...the cards have our theme on them and then in the cupcake they say I race for___________and in the corner say
A smaller version of course...it is part of my email signature:)
We have them hang them all over the front of the fence out in front of the tent!
Hanging the banner:) It's a gingerbread house:)
A shot of the inside as the morning begins...in the forefront you see the portrait makers on the one side and survivors on the other...Students from MICA in Baltimore, volunteer their time to do this for us:)
We also have photo key chains, and coffee and food, we had a make it take it in the form of scarves! That was fun too.
We had a DJ that also donated his time...He kept the place rockin'
We even had three reigning beauty queens! One of them is a committee member:)
One of our committee members brought an empty poster in to the elementary school and the students signed it and sent their best wishes!
From the outside on set up day...
More setting up:)
Getting there!
It begins...In this one you can see the CUPCAKE truck parked inside the fence:)) yes, Icedgems donated 2000 of their pink ribbon mini cupcakes to our survivors and, as it turns out, to many others! You can also see the word IMPACT on a canvas in the front of the photograph...the fence has a bump out in the front of it that houses four canvasses each with a different word on them. The survivors are invited to sign them and throughout the year they are displayed at different functions. In fact, the ones from previous years are displayed inside our tent...
At the two entrances we are set up to hand out sticky Komen running ribbons to each survivor, one for each year of survival, pink mardi gras beads, and a Pink Rose to each Survivors also...This year we also included a book mark with our theme written on it.
The Parade of Pink culminated in the HUGE Survivor Photo as the Sun came up!
and so I will leave you with this...
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