We are all in this together...

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When I was 6 years old, my Mom told me about breast cancer. That was the age she told me the story of her Mom, and how she passed away from this disease in 1951 (a few years before I was born).

My Grandmother couldn't overcome this disease and twenty years later, my Mom couldn't overcome this disease. However, my Mom often mentioned her care was so much more intensive than her own Mom's. My Mom passed away in 1971 of breast cancer, too.

Here is a favor to ask... could please help us with making this quilt. Please share a little bit of your creativity and make your own square for this digital quilt. Last year's was so gorgeous when it was finished.

Everything helps make it one more step closer to finding the cure! And, this quilt helps as one of those steps!



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To dream the impossible dream...

a younger martian cat...




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To my Dad, as little girl, I was always his Princess.

This is a scanned photo of me (martian cat) at the age of 6 years old.

My Dad always treated me like his little Princess.



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Together... let's light a candle of hope for the cure!

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Sock Monkeys in Japan "Think Pink for the Cure"

It is never too late to think pink. Think pink all year long!

Sock Monkey are (left to right):
back: Kei and Ko
front: Ken, Hana, and Miki



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Please do not overlook the examinations that everyone (men and women) should have to keep their eye on their own health conditions.

hugs...


memories...





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Give your smiles away... they create happiness...

Give your smiles away... they create happiness...
~ a friend


another lovely memory from my 2007 trip to the States...

Created with picnik.com.

Charms for a cure!

Let's work together to help find a cure...
Remember... October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.


The charms are from my Life's spirals set: cherry blossom angel, Speak truly..., My part, and Expressed....

These are flowers that were spun and now are reduced to appear as charms.



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Light a Candle of Hope for the Cure!

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Take time to dream -- it is hitching your wagon to a star.

"Take time to dream -- it is hitching your wagon to a star."
~ Old English Prayer

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Cancer has taken so many lives. My Mom passed away in 1971 (when I was only 17 years old) from breast cancer complications. In 1989, my father passed away from complications from skin cancer.

So, now... you know why this type of poster is so important to me. I only wished I had a chance to share my lovely photography which appears on flickr with my parents.

So... let's hope and pray that the researchers can find a cure for this horrible disease.


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The link to my original photo which is titled ~ Daily situations reveal our love of life.





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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Both, my Mom and her Mom had this horrible disease. My Mom passed away when I was 17 years old from breast cancer.

I never met my Grandma because she passed away 3 years before I was born.

I wish I could have shared this with both of these beautiful women. I can only hope, pray, and dream that someday, there will be a cure. The most amazing thing is that this is not just a disease that hurts women. Men can get the disease, too.

Keep praying for a cure because I pray every day for this to happen!

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This is a photo taken by me looking in a mirror at a hotel in Nagasaki (Japan). I thought that it shows that no matter how or what you look at on the outside, you can still pray for a cure. The prayer comes from within.





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Digital Quilting "Love from Martian Cat"

This is my quilt block for the digital Breast Cancer Awareness Quilt featuring a photo of my Mom on the ribbon. Two Flickr friends and fellow "quilters", helped me create my quilt block. These friends are both wonderful "Photoshopper artists".



Thank yous to two friends for their candle designs using my original candle photo.

One thing that a friend told me last week... "Isn't flickr wonderful!" And, I really believe it is!

Let's together keep saying prayers and hope that researchers do find something that can help with making a cure possible for breast cancer!



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My Mom's college photo

"One of the blessings of growing older is the discovery that
some things I once believed to be a flaw have turned out in the
long run to become my strengths."
~ unknown

This is a scanned photo of my Mom. The flaw that I mean above is because my Mom had breast cancer. She passed away in 1971 from breast cancer complications at the age of 44. The strength is that she gave me so much of herself that I treasure her ways now that I am an adult.

This photo is from her graduation from Syracuse University in 1949 and beginning her career at the New York State Health Department Laboratory.





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We support you! We are in this all together!

This is my advertising quilt block for the Digital Breast Cancer Awareness Quilt, featuring my image on the ribbon. A Flickr friend supplied the beautiful candle and the text imaging for me. She's awesome. .

And, thank you to a friend for her candle design using my original candle photo.





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This is dedicated to my Mom...

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go,
Some people stay for while and leave footprints
on our hearts, and we are never the same."
~ unknown

This is a photo of me (martian cat)...
My mom never had the chance to see me "as a woman". My mom passed away in 1991 because of breast cancer and I was only 17 years old. I wish I could share this with her...
My mom's mom (my grandmother) passed away in 1951 of breast cancer, too! And, I never had the chance to meet my grandmother.

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If you are interested with helping to support a cause, please visit...
Livestrong Flickr 2007

Here is my poster... Livestrong Flickr 2007. Please take a moment to spread the word...

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Livestrong Flickr 2007 - come and join the cause!

This awful disease has taken so many people from us, but there are amazing stories of hope, of support, of bravery and best of all, of triumph. This is for the people we've lost to the battle, the people still fighting the battle and for those who have proven victorious in the battle.

If you search Livestrong on flickr, you will see so many people who support this movement.

Please join us and support this cause!

LIVESTRONG Flickr 2007


This was not created by me. This poster was created by a friend. Yes, I'm helping to spread the word. Please add your own to one of your albums.

Thanks for your support!



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October... breast cancer awareness month

My mom passed away in 1991 because of breast cancer. I wish I could share this with her...



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