The Reason For The Season In Pink

When my neighbors passed away a couple of years ago the family through out pretty much everything and this was one of those items.  It looks prettier in the photo then in real life. It's just a cheap print on cardboard but I liked the frame so I knew I would use it.

Loving to upcycle, I had several calendars with pretty illustrations that I saved for future projects.  Actually the whole calendar was a whopping 74 cents at Hobby Lobby.  I picked up several different artist calendars after season.  I adore this one for Christmas which is such a sweet reminder of the reason for the season.

I simply rubbed an old wax candle on the areas that I wanted highlighted in the original gold on the frame.  Then painted with some acrylic pink and white paint mixed to the right shade of pink.

I love the details of the gold peeking through.  And just in case I want to use that picture again, I glued the calendar to the back, so all I have to do is flip it over.

Not bad for a total of 6 cents.  Remember I paid .74 for the calendar and I still have 11 pages left.

 I love my new sweet picture of the Holy family.

I've linked up to the parties below. I  hope you'll click on the pictures and check out all the great creations.

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Hugs....Tracy :)

Freschetta is Proud To Support Pink with a Giveaway

Freschetta Pizza is Proud to Support Pink!

October is National Breast Cancer awareness month and Freschetta is proud to support pink and do their part to support research to fight Breast Cancer with project "Make This Pizza.  Make a Difference".  From September 25-October 31st when you purchase specially marked packages of Freschetta pizzas and Artisian Pizza Crusts you will be helping them reach their goal of a $50,000 donation to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  These specially marked pizzas packages are printed with codes that you can enter on www.ProudToSupportPink.com.  For each code entry, Freschetta will donate $1 to the support breast cancer research, up to $50,000.  How great is that!

Freschetta wants everyone to get excited about this and join the bandwagon to support research.  What a simple idea that can make a BIG difference.  You feed your family with Freschetta and $1.00 is donated because of it.

Not only are they donating $1.00 for each pizza, they're also giving away 50 pink iPod shuffle players each week in October as part of a giveaway on the site to encourage participation and continuous sharing of the program.  In addition, 50 pink iPod  Shuffle players will be donated every week in October to four cancer centers around America for the patients!

As an added bonus Freschetta is providing the goods for me to have a giveaway for Ya'll too!  One of my readers will win a coupon for 1 FREE Freschetta Pizza and 2 pink headphones that will be perfect for your own ipods.  That's right not 1 but 2 headphones.  One is for you to keep and the other is to giveaway to a friend or family member!

As a reminder girls, or guys you remind your girls,  early detection is so important.  I just had my mammogram last month.  It was fast and simple and painless.  I was one of the lucky ones.  Nothing was detected and I'm good for another year.  Many, way too many women aren't so lucky.  Please help support research for a cure for breast cancer any way you can.

 Now for the rules to enter the giveaway (you know we gotta have 'em):

How about some extra entries?  Just be sure to leave a separate comment for each one, telling me what you did.  If it says 2 entries, please leave 2 comments.

• {1 extra entries} Become a GFC follower of Cotton Pickin Cute.  If you are a follower just leave me a comment.
• {3 extra entries} Post a link back to this giveaway on your blog.
• {1 extra entry per tweet per day} Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter with @cottonpickincute. (see button at the bottom of this post)
• Follow Tracysuz (that's me) on Twitter (see button at the bottom of this post)
• {1 extra entry per post per day}Share this giveaway on your facebook page.
• Like or Friend Cotton Pickin Cute on facebook (see button at the bottom of this post)

Be sure to leave your email address so that I can contact you if you win.  Please don't forget to leave a comment for each entry.

Giveaway ends on Oct 7th, at 11:59pm EST.

Disclosure:  As a member of the Freschetta Fresh Connection Team I was provided the product to review and to share with my readers but all opinions are strictly my own.