Supporting Cancer Patients for 2015

I have decided to support those who are struggling through cancer for the year of 2015. I have researched some different needs that the Huntsman Cancer Institute has for their cancer patients. I am also going to reach out to the LDS Hospital Leukemia and Lymphoma area. I will be picking a different need each month and doing my part to fill that need. Anyone who wants to join me is welcome!! Most of these activity would be great for FHE, a roommate night, or a mutual activity. **Contact me if you chose to make any supplies to donate**

For the month of March, I am going to do handmade journals. There are a variety of ways you can make journals. I'll share a few links with directions. They are cheap and don't take too much time. I will mostly be doing mod podge  (decopodge) journals and creating old books into journals. See the links:

Decopodge Journal: this has good instructions but I would use colored paper and such instead of magazines. http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Decopodge-Journal/

Creating Old Books into Journals: There are many ways to do this, I prefer the first link with a few modifications. Others are good though too.

1) http://www.punkprojects.com/2012/04/salvaging-book-giveaway-guest-post-from.html I would only do steps 1-3 though. If you wanted to add some pictures or quotes on some pages that would work. But in general, I'd leave most pages blank.

 2) http://makezine.com/craft/how_to_new_journal_from_an_old/  

If you have an idea, Google it or look it up on Pinterest. It is probably possible and I'm sure you can make it look amazing!

If you take a look at the numbers below, these are cancer survivors. Think about those who weren't able to survive. Then think about out of all of those people connected to a loved one with cancer, that is a lot of people who are affected by cancer. This is something that most people can connect with. I want to reach out and make this difficult time a little bit more comfortable.

Estimated numbers of survivors for the 10 most prevalent cancer sites among males and females in the United States as of January 1, 2014

Males	Females
Prostate 2,975,970 (43%)	Breast 3,131,440 (41%)
Colon & rectum 621,430 (9%)	Uterine corpus 624,890 (8%)
Melanoma 516,570 (8%)	Colon & rectum 624,340 (8%)
Urinary bladder 455,520 (7%)	Melanoma 528,860 (7%)
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 297,820 (4%)	Thyroid 470,020 (6%)
Testis 244,110 (4%)	Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 272,000 (4%)
Kidney 229,790 (3%)	Cervix 244,180 (3%)
Lung and bronchus 196,580 (3%)	Lung and bronchus 233,510 (3%)
Oral cavity and pharynx 194,140 (3%)	Ovary 199,900 (3%)
Leukemia 177,940 (3%)	Kidney 159,280 (2%)
All cancer sites 6,876,600	All cancer sites 7,607,230

Sources:
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/cancer-prevalence