The Traveling Necklace for a great cause!

Check this out when you have a minute .... and you can still participate, this necklace is traveling the world! Warm Hearts Around the World Contest by Ngan from Enve Designs. She is raising money for St. Judes Hospital for children's charities and donating money for every stop the necklace makes - you can read up on her blog. The necklace just made a stop here in Dallas PA, before it heads on to Bethlehem, on to Lynn from Unaodd Here's our picture wearing the necklace. This is me, Kelly (my neice) from Sweetnessjewelry and my youngest sister Jenn, from JennReese7. You can read about us on Ngan's blog.... and ALSO on Lillyella's blog on new years resolutions - which Ngan was a guest writer for. Very cute article! Thanks Ngan, you're a wonderful person!!!

Also, check out teamepe (etsyprojectembrace) and the money they've donated to the American Cancer Society... almost $6,000 - WOW! What a great group of people i never actually met!!!! (Well, i met 2 of the team members, but the whole bunch of others I know only from the computer!!) I wish i could meet them all some day!!!!!

A HEALTHY New Year to all my friends, new and old... and my family, too! laura XXXOOO

Christmas card picture..... just a few days late!

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday! I'm thinking of being a little different and sending a New Years card - since i was a little late for Christmas! We had a great Christmas here at the Slocum house and Christmas cookies seem to be allowed on my new diet.............who knew??!! LOL
Oh... my beautiful and festive hat was made by Kristen from loveartworks.etsy.com! It was fabulous and comfortable...and very holiday, too! Thanks a whole bunch, Kristen!

What's going on?

Hi everybody! Thanks for all your well wishes, comments and prayers. So. I thought I'd give you an update. I'll try not to be boring....



1. Surgery ? No. The dr. wants to hold off till Feb. or March.

2. How did I manage not to have surgery? 10 days of ice chips at 2 different hospitals, (with an ambulance transport ride - when i totally felt fine - kinda funny.)

3. Weight Loss? yeah... like 2 pounds.... that's it for 10 days of ice chips. really.

4. Chemo? round 6 started last monday. Got out of the hospital ... JUST IN TIME - yay!

5. Weight Loss? yeah, a few pounds after i actually started eating. See, ......starvation diets don't work!

6. Low Residue Diet? That's the diet i'm now on til surgery - very low fiber - (totally how i DON'T eat. ) What happens is that i have scar tissue on my small intestines. A high fiber diet makes it kink and then nothing goes thru. You feel like you are dying. .....until you get to the hospital for pain medicine.

7. New favorite pain medicine: Delotid - more powerful than morphine! works wonders.

8. New favorite food: cheetos. most of the "good for you foods" will send me for trip 3 to the hospital.

9. information? just trying to get the word out. If anybody ever has questions- you can reach me thru my store. I'd be happy to help and answer any questions. I hope to help people get to their Dr. as soon as they possibly can if they suspect any problems.

10. Merry Christmas XXOO laura

Thanksgiving Hospital Stay

hi there, this is Jenn.
I just wanted to post a little pic of our little hospital dweller.
She is a trooper, let me say.
Kim (Kelly/Sweetness' mom) and I went to visit Laura last evening
and she looked great and was in good spirits too.

She will be having surgery within the next day or so,
which will hopefully relieve her pain and continuous vomiting.

Thank you so much for all of your love, support, prayers and thoughts!
We appreciate it more than you will ever know.

Hey thanks!

Thanks for voting for me - i had enough votes to make the member's choice gift guides: http://www.etsy.com/gift-guides/177. I appreciate that!!

So, I was pretty sick after round 5 of chemo - i threw up for 4 days straight. I'm still not 100% back on my feet yet, but doing much better. My dr. wants me to come for a 5th day from now on for extra IV fluids. (Like i don't spend enough time there...... LOL. )

And one more thing. My wonderful husband, who takes great care of me when i'm sick... and when i'm not, is turning 50 tomorrow, Nov. 5th. He's even more handsome than the day I married him. ~~~ Happy Birthday Bartt! ~~~

laura xxoo

etsy voter

Hey, if you have an etsy account and have a minute - i could use some votes in the "voter" . I was nominated for my lauraslocumpainted candy corn magnets. http://www.etsy.com/voter_list.php?ref=voter&room_id=76

thanks, Laura

Too Sexy

Hi, I finally have my slide show done! It took some time to get the song.... long story...., but I'm now ready for it! You'll see some items by a few favorite Etsians.... You'll have to watch close - some items were gifts and some purchases for Etsy Project Embrace! Most of the hats are by Jackie, MonarchDancer... (the brown one i wear in my picture)! The yellow one is from Bridget from BlueMoonRose and the black one at the end - with the Ginny felted flower, GinnyHubber is from my sister - Tattoo Tracey. The buttons sewn on are from Ginny of GinPins. I had some jewelry on - from Lynn of UnnaOdd and Cyd from Botanicalbird. I did have Amy's bracelet on - from adornbyamysingley - the "Laura" bracelet, but the slide show cut it off - but it is beautiful. We will pretend that we see it! .........and I have a little "buddy" with me at the end that's also wearing hats - he does have more hair than me, but I still love him!!!! :D

Oh, our lunch, from last week, was postponed - Lynn's daughter came down sick at the last minute (sad face), but we'll try to reschedule it again!

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