I am participating in my first giveaway. Katy of i'm a ginger monkey is hosting the Great International Stash Busting Giveaway with other participating blogs. This will take place on February 4th for one day, the drawing will be on January 5th. Just leave a comment and I will put you in the drawing. This is a variety of novelty fabrics all are fat quarters and have not been pre-washed. I am not good with coordinating fabric schemes, that where my sister comes in to help. *I Will stop taking comments at Midnight Central Time. I will draw tomorrow morning and update with the winner later in the afternoon. I have a funeral to go to in the morning so please check back later in the day on the 5th. I would like to Thank Everyone for the comments this has been fun. Please visit the following blog on February 4th for their giveaway. I hope you will like it.This is so much fun. Thank you again for come by and good luck to you all.
So a new year begins and with it comes the possibility of what can be achieved this time. Goals to be meet creative idea to exchange and aspire to. So I begin this year with open eyes, heart and with my soul outstretched to let the light shine in. I have joined a Tag Swap hosted by one of the very first blogs I read when I began my journey into the craft realm, Elizabeth of Bluebird Papercrafts with her gift for storytelling, vintage take on crafts has inspired me so much. Each month I will try my hand at a new tag to reflect my take on the months, but also a reflection of the journey I am taking. The rules are to purchase once a set of paper then use that and whatever you have on hand throughout the year. I am using the K&C Company Daydreams pad and I choose this because of the cartoon whimsy to collaborate with my women, kind of like something old and something quirky just like me. I also am using whatever I have socked away in my file cab...
I have hesitated to share this with everyone for some time, but decided to share today. On March 10th of this year I was diagnosed with Stage 3a Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) ER& PR Positive Grade 2 breast cancer on my right breast, I have two tumors that combined are 7 cm with one lymph node at 2.5 cm. I have been going every year since I was 40 to get my mammogram last year my mammogram was clear and one year later they found the mass and the biopsy confirmed it. I am not one to do my month self exam so ladies please make sure you do your monthly exams and yearly mammograms. After talking with my surgeon and oncologist we have mapped out a treatment plan which started at the end of March. I had a PET/CT scan to determine if the cancer had spread to other parts of my body, which it has not. I will have two different rounds of chemo each lasting 3 months; the first round is Taxol which I receive every week for 12 treatments. My second round will be Adriamycin and Cytoxan ...
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