What?

It is amazing to me how much one can remember when given time to sit in a quiet room and think.  I'd like to think I would be solving the worlds problems: ways to help the homeless, ways to solve the financial crisis, ways to get  my kids to even clean their room without asking.  But instead I find myself wandering back to 1986, sitting in a doctors office with my mother as she awaits her test results. Why she wanted me to come with her, I do not know.  It was the summer before starting 9th grade.  I remember it was a very sunny, humid day.  My mother and I never had the best relationship, but I guess at this time she needed me.  She could have asked her sisters to attend who have been there, done that, could ask questions during her speechless, head swirling moment.  But she did not.  I still will never understand, but I guess at that moment, God knew that I needed her as much as she needed me.  I was 14 at the time.  A time when I had to really grow up without realizing what was in store for our family. A time that things would steadily unravel and would not make any sense until I became 40 why it rained on a sunny day.

Taught myself to make a hat hugger...picture says it all~

Breast Cancer Awareness

Breast Self-Awareness

Your Breast Care: Helpful Hints for Women

Except for skin cancers, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, but it can be successfully treated. Screening tests can find cancer early, when it’s most treatable.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure® recommends that you: 

1. Know your risk  

• Talk to your family to learn about your family health history
• Talk to your provider about your personal risk of breast cancer

2. Get screened 

• Ask your doctor which screening tests are right for you if you are at a higher risk
• Have a mammogram every year starting at age 40 if you are at average risk
• Have a clinical breast exam at least every 3 years starting at age 20, and every year starting at age 40

3. Know what is normal for you
See your health care provider if you notice any of these breast changes:

• Lump, hard knot or thickening inside the breast or underarm area
• Swelling, warmth, redness or darkening of the breast
• Change in the size or shape of the breast
• Dimpling or puckering of the skin
• Itchy, scaly sore or rash on the nipple
• Pulling in of your nipple or other parts of the breast
• Nipple discharge that starts suddenly
• New pain in one spot that doesn’t go away

To see illustrations of these warnings signs please visit the Breast Facts section.  

4. Make healthy lifestyle choices 

• Maintain a healthy weight
• Add exercise into your routine
• Limit alcohol intake
• Limit postmenopausal hormone use
• Breastfeed, if you can

Breast Self-Awareness Interactive Tool 

We are currently updating this tool, please stay tuned for a brand new interactive breast self-awareness tool!

Breast Self-Awareness Cards 

Susan G. Komen for the Cure® offers a variety of breast self-awareness cards in different languages and for specific populations. You can download and print these cards for yourself.

Karma Head Bands

My attempt at making head bands....since not all people are into hats.... well then we will make head bands...Got to keep people guessing what is coming next~

Ada and her American Girl Karma Caps~

Ada wanted to sit and make a Karma Cap to raise more money for yarn, but since it is impossible for her to sit still very long she has decided to make Karma Caps for American Girl dolls and sell them since 1 American Girl doll hat would buy a skein of yarn to make a chemo cap~

How Karma Caps started

While home this summer, I was going through the attic looking for Christmas ornaments from my childhood.  While going though many boxes I discovered all of my mothers yarn that she had collect over the years. I emailed a friend who makes hats for chemo patients to see if she would like any of the yarn and I would mail it to her. However, I never heard back from her before I left to come back to Georgia.  On the way home from Ohio to Georgia, I decided that I would teach myself to knit and crochet and begin to make hats for those who were undergoing chemotherapy and use my mothers yarn.  I have only been at it since August 2011 and have already made 75 hats for those undergoing treatment.  I know how isolated and tired and at times hopeless a cancer patient can feel.  I believe that this is just a small gesture that I can do to encourage those who are undergoing cancer treatment to not give up.  There are many people out there praying for them and wishing them a safe recovery.  I know that my mother could have used a reminder that someone was thinking about her and praying for her recovery.  So in her honor and memory I am passing along these well wishes on her behalf~




Each hat is $10.00. When a hat is purchased, another hat is made to be donated to a local cancer center to those who are undergoing Chemotherapy. The cost of the hat covers both skeins of yarn and shipping.

I can make hats for adults, toddlers and babies. Please specify which size you would like~

If there is a specific person you would like a hat donated to you can let me know, if not the donated hat will go to a local Cancer Center.