Degage

Amy, Doug, Megan,Bailey and I went to Degage last Tuesday night to drop off the baskets to the women.   Degage is amazing! We (minus Doug) were able to bring the baskets up to the women.  The women who run it are woderful,  they had goodies and pedicures set up for the women.  We were able to have our pictures taken with the women and the baskets!  I cannot wait to start the spring drive for PINK..  I have big plans for PINK next year.  I could not do it without each and everyone of you. THANKS

Degage and mittens

Today is the delivery day for Degage.  We will be bringing 30 baskets to the women there.  I also found five wonderful women to make mittens for PINK for next year.  They make them as a group.  I am excited about next year and I have big plans for PINK.  Have a great holiday...Kelly

Making baskets

Amy and I started to put the baskets together for Degage on Friday night.. wow there was alot of PINK!!!! This morning  we took our daughters Bailey and Megan  and  delivered one of the baskets to a homebound person and spent an hour visting with her.  It is such a great feeling.  I gave Jenn  the  baskets for the family dealing with cancer. She created   paintings for the baskets . Jacque' Smith- Monje contacted me and asked if she could donate some of her products that have the pink breast cancer ribbon on them!  She paints bowling pins with faces or the pink ribbon and her mother makes pins with the breast cancer ribbon on them.  They made a huge donation.  We will be raffling off the bowling pin.. its a real bowling pin painted white with the pink ribbon on it!!  What a journey..

hats hats and more hats!

I was able to get 21 hats donated for the womens shelter!  I need 30! This has been a wonderful journey and I am looking forward to helping alot more people next year.  I plan on 3 big PINK events next year: spring/summer, breast cancer month and the winter/holidays. What started out six weeks ago is turning into a full-time job and I am loving it!!

Pretty in Pink or not!

As you may or may not know I DO NOT WEAR PINK!(its a redhead thing!) I will be wearing PINK when I make our deliveries..... it will be fun and for a good cause.  I am in need of items for just the womens shelter such as gloves,scarves,hats and tolietry items and socks. Have a great Wednesday............

Eight West!

Being on eightwest was an amazing experience! I am happy that I was given the chance to help alot more people.  The eightwest staff were warm and made the time fly by.  I was able to bring my daughter Bailey with me and she was able to have her picture taken with them.  Amy and I and will be making up baskets this weekend and baking cookies for the baskets!  We are looking forward to spending time with our girls and delivering the baskets. 

WOW!!! 4loveofpink is growing

I am so excited I will be on eightwest on channel 8 talking about 4loveofpink!  Eightwest contacted me and wanted to know if they could help and of course I said yes!! On another note we will be making deliveries to Degage ,it is a overnight shelter for women who are in  need.  We will need enough pink items to fill 30 baskets for these women.    We will need pink gloves/mittens,scarves,hats,scarves and other items.  I added a new drop-off location Vitales in Comstock.  I love the fact that all three drop-off locations are local businesses. So now we have Florentines in Kentwood, Arenas Pizza in Rockford and Vitales in Comstock.  I am still trying to find a location in Hudsonville/Grandville or Jenison area. 

Putting our delivery list together for the 19th.......

Amy and I are making our list of the people who are going  to receive our baskets. We will be visting a nursing home,sending a package out to a mother daughter who are in a safe house, a father who was diagnosed with cancer again (he has a little girl,2 teens and his wife).  We have several people in the community we will be delivering to as well.  Please put your request in if you know of somebody who you think may benefit from with a little extra cheer. Thanks and enjoy your snowy Thursday.

More donations and a wish

Somebody emailed me and asked if I could help a father and his family this holiday.  He was diagnosed recently with  cancer and they are in need of holiday cheer.  I said no problem!! We are able to help the wife and their daughters but since we are collecting PINK items I need to come up with another way to help the father and son.  I was thinking of gas giftcards due to the fact of the distance they will have to travel for cancer treatment.  I got a call from my mom today and she told me of a friend who would like to donate pink items...she also said that this friend told other people and they want to help too!! I am so happy.  My daughter and her friend have been making PINK bracelets with the words pink, hope and 4loveofpink...which my daughter told me stands for FLOP... that was a downer!!! I am not going to let this flop....just the opposite!!!!  I do not wear pink nor have I ever  due to the color of my red  hair somehow pink and red just doesnt work for me! But I do love the color pink and I will be wearing pink when I deliver the baskets!!!!

Deadline approaches!

The closer the deadline approaches the more excited I get!  December 11th is the last day for donations and the 18th of December is the delivery date(pink day as I call it).   If you know of someone that has a need  let us know so we can add them to our donation list.   I am looking forward to spending the time with family and friends putting the baskets together.