6 degrees of the Pope

This is a picture of the Pope receiving a prayer request from the captain of a US Navy vessel. One of the officers on that ship is the brother of one of my coworkers. The coworker's brother's son is 4. His name is Griffin and the prayer request was for him. Griffin has lymphoma in his stomach. Please join the pope in his prayers for Griffin.

Now it is my turn to ask for prayers. My aunt, who is 77, also has lymphoma. They have found 3 known sites of cancer and need to do a scan to be sure there aren't more. She lives in a small town and is in the hospital so she is unable to get to the larger city for this scan. When she went in for her first round of chemo they found that her thyroid level was wacko and her calcium level was WAY TOO HIGH. They are fixing that and when it's normal she will be able to go home [and hopefully won't need a walker (or cane) anymore] and to South Bend, IN to get her scan. Please pray for her recovery as well. My son just turned 5 and I would like for him to have some memories of this great lady when he grows up.

Thanks
Kate

Husband's beware

My Dad took this picture for me. I saw the building the last time I was in Plymouth, IN visiting my Aunt but my camera was dead - common problem. Thing needs to be replaced.

I promised I would post it and here it is.

It's all in the Packaging

I love designing and making packaging. My prize box has a bunch of little packages of pairs of individual stamps or stamps and colored spots with cute little toppers. For someone so large (5' 10.5") it seems strange to me that I would love to do miniatures. Lately I have been working on larger items like this raffle box.
The body is a Forget-Me-Not Keeper and the top is made from a sheet of Tempting Turquoise 12x12 textured paper. I added a pretties flower I died with reinkers and water between 2 sheets of waxed paper, some wide Chocolate Chip ribbon, a scrap of wide Certainly Celery ribbon for the leaves, stamped the word raffle with my Headline Alphabet stamps stuck 'em on with sticky strip and TA DA...a beautiful Raffle box.

What to do with an SU Box

My son's halloween costume this year was the runner up in his wish list of what do be. He wanted to be a tiger but I was unable to find orange sweats and my sewing abilities are buried along with my machine under all the paper crafts so... he was a robot. The body is a Stampin' Up! box, the head is a bulk cereal box from Costco. The calculator is the "colossal calculator" from Walgreens. There are lights on the head. I lined them up perfectly with the mat pack.

I've been overly busy getting ready for the Ladies Night Out for the Cure (which was last Friday night) and my camera is not happy so I don't have a lot of crafted items to show. But there are several.