Easy Peasy Pink Face Scrubber Tutorial, Breast Cancer Awareness, October, and Pixie's Birthday!

Let's start from the end of the list and move forward.

Happy Birthday, my beautiful girl!  You don't know it, but you're 9 years old today, and that makes you an old dog.  Wait!  You don't even know you're a dog!  I love you, too!!!  You will get a cupcake today.  I know you love them, and I love you!!  Happy birthday, Miss Pixie Marie!

October:  Today is the first day of October.  Oh, my!

Breast Cancer Awareness:  October is breast cancer awareness month.  Ladies, check your boobies!  If you need a mammogram, get that mammogram.  Take care of your body and your body will take care of you!

Pink!  I resolve that during the month of October I will either wear or use something PINK to remind me and others that we need to get our boobies checked.  So, here's something PINK for you to make.

Easy Peasy Pink Face Scrubber
 Level of difficulty:  easy, beginner, easy peasy

I used sugar and cream 100% cotton yarn.

Use any brand you like, but you do need 100% cotton yarn.

I also used a size G/6 crochet hook.

Begin with a

chain 12
Row 1:  Skip 2 chains, 1 dc in each  chain  (10 dcs)

Row 2 - 11  - Ch. 3, 1 dc in each dc (10 dc)
(Your piece should be, approximately, 3" x 6")

Fold piece together and single crochet two sides together.
Leave one side open.

Weave loose ends into the scrubber.  Tie off.

Leave one side open and slip a small bar of soap inn the pocket.

Now,

use your new pink face scrubber 

and 

get your boobies checked!

Tomorrow is the First Day of October in 2013

Why is this important?

One of the most important reasons is that

October

is

Breast Cancer Awareness 

Month.

Ladies,

we have to take care of ourselves.

If we don't take care of ourselves,

who will.

Be sure to 

check your boobies 

and

if you are 40+

schedule your annual 

mammogram.

Now, how do we serve as reminders to each other?

Make this resolution with me.

I resolve, 

on each day of October,

to wear or use something pink.

I'll be posting ideas

starting

tomorrow.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Let us Carry them in Our hearts!  Let us honor those whom we have loved who have made this journey before us. Let us honor all those who were part of the pioneering research on breast cancer. Let us remember those fought the valiant fight but left this world too early. Let us honor  those survivors who still fight this disease yet live with love and enthusiasm! Let us honor those fight! 

October 10, 2009 What the?

So much for global warming!
It's our first measurable snow!

Are you Tuff Enough to Wear Pink?

Well, are you? Tough Enough to Wear Pink? I once bought my 6'4" son a shirt that said, "Real men wear pink." Well, I guess that not all real men wear pink because the next time I saw that shirt, Spike was wearing it! The true owner of that shirt would not even take it home with him. I don't know if Nick would be Tuff Enough to Wear Pink, if breast cancer affected our family. He might, then. I don't know. I would hope so. Pink is a symbol of hope, survival, and awareness. We pray that this disease will not touch our lives, but we have no promises. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Most of us have been touched by this disease, whether it be ourselves, our sibilngs, our mothers, grandmothers, or a friend. We all know someone who has had breast cancer. Many of them have survived for long periods of time. Some were unable and succombed to this disease. Now, in October, we remember those we lost. We applaud those who continue to fight. We learn. We schedule our mammograms. We take care of ourselves. Let's find some pink, and in some way or another wear pink one day this month. Be tuff enough. Wear pink.