Wow. March 5. Today is the anniversary of my cousin Yvette’s
death and the anniversary of our grandfather’s death. My grandfather died in
1957 from lung cancer. Yvette died in 2009 from adrenal cancer. They have both been on my mind all day. This evening ideas collided and probably much from a little poking by my beloved cousin, I
started to created greeting cards – for breast cancer patients. My sister
had been after me for a long, long, long time to make cards out of my
pictures. Her 29th again
birthday was in January and I surprised her with my very first prototype of a
thank you card. I made her cry, doesn’t
take much for us anymore. I even named
my “line,” Pink Chair Cards & Photography by Gina Marie. The Pink Chair comes from a picture I took on
my nieces farm of a dinning room chair, painted pink without it’s legs, and hug
from a chain to make a swing. That day I
spent with her I remembered her beautiful mother that had just passed from
breast cancer….
So last week I sat down and created 3 more designs, an Alamo one, a birthday one, and a sunflower note
card. They arrived in the mail today and
I was tickled at how cute they were.
When I got home today, I decided to try my hand at a full size folded
card since I got a coupon in my email. I
scrolled through my pictures and found one of the traveling pants, that young
stage four breast cancer ladies had signed from around the country. I had the privilege of watching a 28 year old
sign them here in San Antonio .
Right in the middle of the picture was a
pink ribbon and the word HOPE. That was it, I was on a role and 3 breast cancer
card designs later I took a break and checked my facebook.
My nephew, Yvette’s
son had asked for memories about his mom so I filled in my high school fun
memories. If my light wasn’t on in my room, the light bulb above my head would
surely have been visible! She’s poking
me again - Facebook, I thought. I’ll create a facebook page to promote the
cards – yes cart and horse and all that stuff – but I was excited. I created the page and had to, just had to
enter an address. Seeing that this is a
work from home thing, I wasn’t going to splash my address on facebook, so I
used San Antonio as my street address, and San Antonio , Texas
as the city and state. I had to enter a
phone number as well. I played around with
the page adding the picture of the pink chair and then hit edit on the
information tab. I was able to delete my
phone number, yeah, and then a red bar comes across the screen over the map of
my “address.” The message says it couldn’t pinpoint my address on the map.
The map point, the little red
bubble that shows where you are, is pointing almost exactly to the corner of
Guadalupe and Laredo
streets. These streets are not in my zip code, I’ve never mentioned them on
facebook, but at that very corner is the home where my grandfather lived until
1957. I almost fell out of my chair… my
pink chair.