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!

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

ACS money!

Hey there! I wanted to tell you that my church did a special collection for cancer research after I told my pastor about all you great Etsy people participating in Etsy Project Embrace and donating to the American Cancer Society! We collected $389.00 - I think that is cool. We have a few ladies in the congregation that are great people and cancer survivors - I think I'm the only one undergoing treatment at the present time. When i get it situated, i will be applying that money to the "team gifts"! That will put us over the $3000 mark - we are currently at $2993, pretty amazing that we raised that much money in about 3 months...... !!!! For more info, you can click on the links on the right of my page.

Jenn and I are headed for my dr. appt. tomorrow and we are taking baby Chase (because he is so good - he can go anywhere - as long as he can suck on his fingers!!) We are meeting with Lynn at 1:00 pm for lunch at the cafe in my building. If you want to come - let me know!! We'll be taking pictures. I also have my hat pictures taken and when i get some time - I'll be doing a slide show as well -.......... so STAY TUNED! Love you lots. laura

Look who I met at chemo!

Lynn from Unaodd...from UnaOdd.etsy.com. She lives 10 minutes from where i do my chemo so she came to meet me and visit! It was so nice having her come!!!! Lynn had a very similar surgery as me, also in May, and she's lucky to escape chemo - Yay!!! Lynn is such a beautiful person and very talented. She's a mom to a first grader and a fourth grader and she took jewelry making in college,... and she paints, too! If you have never been to her shop, you need to see it! She's part of teamepe and she's officially the second Etsy person that i've personally met.......Kendra (teamzvonik and greenpost) being the first! I go for my next dr. appt on 10/21 and Jenn and I are going to meet Lynn for lunch! If you are in the Allentown PA area that day, you can come meet Lynn, too! She really made my day!

oh... and round 4 - a thing of the past! I start up again on 10/26, so i need to get myself up and running! love you guys. laura XXOO

Etsy Project Embrace is an official team

Hi there!
We have an official Etsy team called Etsy Project Embrace.
You can find our Etsy Team on the Team Profiles page here:
Etsy Project Embrace Team
Please go there to find out more about it, or go to ETSY and the scroll down boxes to "all items", type in "teamepe" or and those items listed are for sale and a portion of their proceeds goes towards cancer research - to the American Cancer Society. This group has raised approx. $2,500 already, with no end in site! I'm so appreciative of each and every one of you who participates, purchases, and just checks in with me.
It is so uplifting!
A special thanks to Kristin of loveartworks.etsy.com for organizing the team to get Etsy "team status"... alot of time involved! Also to Kathi of kathiroussel.etsy.com and 5gardenias.etsy.com for creating a banner for the team and to Kim of slinkymalinkicat.etsy.com - whose idea this was in the first place and none of this would've ever happened without her! Also, two honorable mentions and fellow cancer survivors, Ginny of ginnyhuber.etsy.com, who keeps us all up to date on all the new EPE treasurys - pretty much daily - in the forum thread and Amy of adornbyamysingley.etsy.com, who took all our team info to Facebook and Twitter.
Speaking of the thread - we have a new forum thread where people write in all the time with new info and treasurys, to share stories, and help one another. I have a direct link to the right of this post as well as the direct link to the ACS team.

One more thing as you read this. We have never met. I have never met Kim, or Kristin, or Ginny, or Kathi, or Amy, and most of these people have not met one another - they live in different states and different countries........
ISN'T THAT JUST INCREDIBLE!
Thank you ALL! laura XXOO