Will you help with a gift for life?

Hello everyone!  Yesterday I encouraged you to join in with me for the Pay It Forward gift swap--and you answered...So many friends stopped by, I'm so thrilled!  I'm not sure which was more fun, joining in, signing up for the swap, of the making and giving away...Definitely the making of gifts and giving them away!  And our gift "winners" are: Alison, Teresa and Natalie!  Ladies, if you've not sent me your address already, please do, so I can send you your gift packages! :o) But it's still not too late to join in on this fun, though the gifts here are already claimed.  I do hope some of you will pick up the PIF spirit and create your own gifts to give away from your own blogs.  Let me know if you continue to keep the gift ring going round.

Today I ask you to join me again in some crafting, but for a very different reason...

Please take a few minutes today and visit my lovely friend Evelyn's blog Mother and Child.  There you will meet someone she knows, Krystal Glass, and Krystal's son, Alec.  You will also learn a little bit about Krystal, mainly that she has breast cancer.  For a time she had no health care coverage.  She applied for medical aid, which was approved.  But a lot of red tape is slowing her medical progress.  Getting the tests and treatments has been an ordeal.  And her own family has been trying to raise more funds so that Krystal can get the health care she'll be needing.  It has been a while since her diagnosis...and each day is crucial, each week...

Evelyn has asked me and some others to join with her in an effort that will hopefully lead to a craft auction, the money raised to benefit Krystal.  I will be helping in any way that I can.  Much is in planning stages, the wheels just turning...So more information will be forthcoming.  And I have yet to talk more with Evelyn about particulars.  But I wanted so much to get the word out about Krystal.

In America, there are many, like Krystal, who are missing the health care coverage they need.  There are so many who have no insurance/health care coverage at all!  It can be a tremendous hardship if something happens to compromise one's health and be without benefits.  As we sit here and contemplate the magnitude of this, it's easy to say there are so many in such a situation--that we can't help, or even save, them all.

But here is Krystal...There she is so lovely, smiling in that picture you'll see that Evelyn's posted of her.  Her sweet young son, Alec there with her, smiling too, he who depends on Krystal.  I think of Krystal's family, her friends, who are scrambling to help Krystal.  Here is Krystal...Will you help her too?

I ask you, my dear friends, to please come along with me and join in this craft auction for Krystal.  Please consider taking some time to make a handcrafted item for donation.  I see each of our crafts as a gift.  And our crafts collected could be turned into the gift of life.

Please contact Evelyn if you'd like to join us.  Or feel free to contact me as well, as I will be talking to Evelyn.  More details will be posted soon.  In the meantime, let's send waves of love, hope, and prayers of strength and health to Krystal and her family.

Here's a pink rose for you my lovely friends for being here today to meet Krystal.  A rose--a symbol of love.  A pink rose.  Pink, the symbolic color of breast cancer awareness.  This rose is for you, too, Krystal. :o)

P.S. If you are, or will be, in the Houston, Texas area next month, Saturday, August 18th, a breast cancer benefit in honor of Krystal is being arranged.  You'll find more details at Evelyn's blog about this.  Take a trip to the benefit if you can!

Comments

[Marie]

Tracy, sign me up!! I will be more than happy to donate a craft for the cause. I'll donate a hand crocheted Dishcloth and towel set, if you could pass my details on to Evelyn, I'd be most grateful! My mother is a Breast Cancer survivor and my gran died of cervical cancer. MY favourite Aunt died of Lung Cancer just a year ago. Thankfully they lived in a country with free medical care. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be to live in one that doesn't. Thanks for sharing this with us!

[Lissa]

Sign me up! Send me an email and let me know the particulars...date to send it by...where to send it to. That's so sweet of you to be helping out! Love ya bud!

[Tips Of All Sorts]

Thanks for informing about this effort and I want to be involved too! Please sign me up and I'll let you know what I can come up with. My mum's encounter with cancer was one of the reasons that led me to setup Tips Of All Sorts.
Clara

[Valerie]

I'm not what people would call a talented crafter... & I'm not famous like some, in the blogland...
But I'm sensitive about cancer, I lost some family members because of this crap -- I read the post about Krystal and this breaks my heart.
So, if you think it's worth for me to give something for the ebay auction, and this can be done in early Aug (I'm not available before this) I'll be part of it and will make & give a few crafted items to help.

[Grethe]

Sign me up, Tracy. See you tomorrow.
Hugs, Grethe

[Tiffany]

Thanks for letting us know about this women! We will all help out as much as we can. :)

[sara, the house of charm]

Hi Tracy! I can help.... I'm not very crafty, except for quilting, but I can dontate fabric and linens!!

[Evelyn Lum]

Thank God for Tracy! You are such a sweetheart! Together we will make it!!

[Natalie]

Yes. I wanted to be certain I could do something useful before I committed. If it's a case of 'every bit can help,' then I will be happy to do my bit.

[tea time and roses]

Tracy thank you so much... This is a subject near and dear to my heart. My sweet Mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer... I would be more than happy to be apart. Also thanks for the sweet e-mail... Tracy you are indeed an angel...

Hugs...

Beverly

[Morgan]

I'd love to help out in any way I can. Just let me know what I can donate!

xoxo
Morgan

[marie]

Hi Tracy,

I dropped by and left a comment on Evelyn's blog...just let me know how I make a donation.

Marie x

[Simmy]

Hi Tracy,

What a thoughtful person you are. I will TRY and see if I can find something to offer as I won't have time now to make anything before I go. I'm sending prayers though to Krystal.

BY the way I'm thinking of starting an old fogey's club for those of us who don't have mobile phones!

[Isabelle]

Oh, I would love to join in this effort, Tracy. (((hugs))) and thank you so much for emailing me about this. I have a lot of catching up to do on blogs and I could have missed this entry otherwise. Thank you! You are precious.

[Judy]

I hope you see this. I am late in reading it, but I would like to donate something. My older sister is a breast cancer survivor

Judy