Miss USA's Bottle of Hope (pink flower) pictured with Fight Pink's BOH to the right

Las Vegas, Nevada- April 4, 2009-  Fight Pink, Nevada Cancer Institute and the Miss USA organization came together at NVCI to create “Bottles of Hope”.  WIth the kind help from the Las Vegas Polymer Clay Guild, Fight Pink joined A Special Bottles of Hope Clay day with Miss USA contestants at Nevada Cancer Institute.   

For cancer patients and their families, hope now comes in a bottle thanks to the Las Vegas Polymer Clay Guild. These bottles are beautiful to behold and inspirational to the soul. They are molded by healing hands focused on sharing their love and support. You can’t buy them in a store, and they are created exclusively for cancer patients. NVCI welcomes patients, their loved ones and the Miss USA contestants to anartful morning dedicated to creating bottles of hope with guidance from guildmembers.

Fight Pink attended the event and sat with Miss. New Jersey Kaity Rodriguez, and Miss. Utah, Laura Chukanov.  With healing hands, the Miss USA contentants created beautiful Bottles of Hope exclusively for cancer patients.  Stacy Martello founder of Fight Pink said,  ”being a patient of Nevada Cancer Institute, I myself have my own bottle of hope that I was given when I came to NVCI seeking treatment for my Breast Cancer.  When you are diagnosed with Cancer, your world turns upside down, and NVCI offeres you your own “Bottle of Hope” to take home with you and keep with a note inside explaining what the bottle of hope is.” 

Miss USA, Crystle Stewart made a beautiful bottle with flowers, and is pictured with Fight Pink’s founder’s daughter Rachele Martello.  The Miss USA contestants had a great time creating such beautiful inspirational bottles.

The Bottles of Hope project was started in 1999 by a very special person, Diane Gregoire, a cancer survivor and polymer clay artist. Diane found a way to use her special talents as an artist to cheer up the lives of cancer patients going through the ordeal of chemotherapy.  She used clay to decoratively cover small glass medicine bottles and gave them to other patients as a symbol of hope. Polymer clay, is a colorful and versatile man-made clay that can be sculpted, textured, stamped and combined in a multitude of ways to produce unique designs in pieces of art.

Fight Pink was very honored to be a part of this event!  This event was the forth Bottles of Hope event attended.  Bottles of Hope is truly a labor of love!  

Our “Bottles of Hope” slide show