a little tribute to a breast cancer survivor

Hi all,

I haven't personally been touched by breast cancer and hopefully, God willing, never will be - BUT i have been touched by other people's stories about there fight- notably the lovely Dawn Stan and recently a very talented scrapbooker by the name of Mardi Winen . I do not know Mardi personally - but know people who do, never met her, talked to her, or even seen her - BUT , I feel like i do know her a little from reading her story in the breast cancer edition (for want of a better title) of Scrapbooking Memories- the one that had the pink cover.

I read her story, or at least a part of it- on pages 74 and 75 of this magazine and I was TOUCHED. I then turned the page to see some of her beautiful scrapbooking. So as a little tribute I decided to scraplift one of her pages - tribute is perhaps the wrong word- but i felt so inspired by her story and her pages - that I simply created - thinking of her and me and my kids and how blessed i am as I did. Does this make sense to anyone but me  ????? Anyway ..... seeing as we are talking about breast cancer a lot this week- i thought it would be fitting to show you what I did and encourage you to read her story and think about how blessed we are if we haven't had any experience with this disease, and if we have - just that we are blessed to be alive and to have loved and to be loved. Sorry if this sounds corny - I guess i AM corny lol.

So thanks Mardi for the inspiration to live life and also to scrapbook it. I hope you don't mind :)

Here's Mardi's page

Loved it  and here's mine

I have used the Fiskars birthday pack paper- available at K Mart :) with some old Elsie paper and some buttons from spotlight.

Once again, thanks Mardi and i hope someone else gets blessed and inspired as well :0)

Smiles and stay happy

Mishellx

Comments

[Janet]

I have had a number of friends who have had breast cancer and thankfully all have survived although life was very tough for a while. It is made even harder for those who live in the country and have to travel daily to Brisbane for treatment. We had a car pool of local people who took turns at ferrying my friends down each day for 6 weeks..... Thankfully these stories so far have happy endings. Thank you for organising this wonderful project!!!!!

[Donna Meuli]

This is gorgeous Mishell! I'm sure Mardi will be chuffed. I love her work too.