Going into hospital

Just for the record..I go into hospital tomorrow to have a tumor removed from my left lung. I may not be able to put anything on here for a little while until I have recuperated. I am confident that all will go well.
Thank you all who have prayed for me. It has been so comforting and I have appreciated it very much. Thank you also for the wonderful encouring comments I always receive.
See you in a couple of weeks or sooner.

Update on my health

Hi Dear Followers!
Today I had to go to the hospital to see the Surgeon about the tumor on my lung. As a lot of you know I had a biopsy that had gone very wrong and it had caused my lung to collapse. My specialist told me I didn't have to have it again as the surgeon had agreed to do the operation without knowing whether the cancer I had was a lung cancer or a secondary cancer from the kidney cancer I had last year. (metastatic disease). He said he believed it to be metastatic disease. Not the best scenario as further down the line it will turn up somewhere else.
My faith has held me together. Without it I would not cope at all. He is going to do what is called a wedge resection where they will go in and cut the tumor out and surrounding tissue. I will be in hospital for about four days. He said it will take several weeks of pain afterwards. The hospital will ring me this week with a date that will be within the next two weeks. I came home exhausted and went straight to bed and slept like a baby. It has been a stressful time. My hubby Doug and I have had our share of cancer and were hoping to have a good year this year. Maybe next year will be a good one.

On a lighter note....here is a card I made with Tilda angel on it. The flower is a one I made myself. I colored Tilda with Promarkers. My little buddy Toby loves to help me craft.

 

The finished article. all in one piece.

Tilda with Hellebores Christmas card

Hi Friends!
The card I have made today is done with Distress inks on Water color paper. I have done faux stitching on it and distressed the edges with Antique Linen.
The Distress inks I used are Tattered Rose, Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Walnut stain, Black soot, Pumice stone, Lipstick and Barn Door.
The Magnolia stamp is from the new Christmas collection. She is called Tilda with Hellebores. The corner frames are by Provocraft. The paper I used is fromThe Paper shelter and it is for the Happy ccouple collection I hope you like it as I had fun making it.

 

I am entering this one in the Just Magnolia Christmas challenge

and Simon Says Challenge 

I will also enter this in the Paper Shelter challenge where they have anything goes.

Pink for Breast cancer

This card I made for Breast cancer month. Three years ago I had a double mastectomy for breast cancer. I am one of the fortunate ones to have survived.
It has been a quite tiring week with lots of visits to the hospital for tests.I will soon be having an operation on my left lung to remove a cancerous tumor that has spread from the kidney cancer I had last year. Having a strong faith has helped me a lot so I know I am in the Lord's hands.
This card I have made is colored with Promarkers. I am entering this one in the Just Magnolia challenge. Just in time I hope.
I have been having a really hard time getting a good photo lately so these are the best of a bad lot.

Special Edition Tilda

My card today is a Special Edition Tilda from a shop in Holland. I saw her on someones blog and wanted her. It was hard to work out in Dutch but I finally did it. I have colored her with Promarkers. The doily is a Cheery Lynn one called 'English Tea party'. The frame is a Spellbinder frame. The corners are Bosskut dies. Flowers are from WOC.

 

A close up

Chess Tilda on mushroom

Today I have made a card using the mini Chess Tilda and the full size magnolia mushrooms. The papers are Stampin Up ones. (I don't know what they are called). I used Promarkers to color this card.

Sorry about the quality of my pictures. I can't seem to get them as good as I would like.

I will enter this one in the Just Magnolia and Hanglar & Stanglar challenge blog

Just for You

At last another card. I colored this one with Promarkers...still learning.
Ihe little crochet flowers were made by my friend Tina. I won them in her blog candy. Thanks Tina. she also made the hat pin so you might say this card is a joint effort LOL. The heart DooHickey from Magnolia was a present from my dear friend Patti Jo for my birthday. I am so lucky.

I seem to be liking purple lately.

Birthday card made by my Darling

I thought I would share a birthday card that my DH Doug made for me. Now I think he is so clever. He got no help from me. In fact I didn't see it until this morning. The only thing he asked me was how to make the flowers. Yes! he also made the flowers. No brought ones for him. He wanted total handmade. I don't think I can even make them that tiny and my fingers are a lot smaller than his. I loved the way he cut around Tilda and put shading on the edges. Oh he is so clever. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it LOL.
I think he is looking for a DT post Hee hee.

Front view.

 

A close up of his flowers. Aren't they lovely?

Get Well judy

Today I have made a card for a friend who is starting chemotherapy this week. She has lung cancer  that has grown very quickly. I wanted to cheer her up by making some flowers. I haven't made flowers for a long time so I really enjoyed getting back into it. These flowers were made with the Retro flower punch and stained with walnut stain. The DP is from K& Company, designer Mat pad. I also used a Spellbinder frame. I did faux stitching as I can get it straighter than the machine LOL.

Front view

Side view

Close up of flowers.

Maori girl Tilda.

Hi friends!
First of all I have an update from my disasterous failed biopsy. I saw my specialist yesterday and I have to wait until the end of October and have another CT scan. This is to see how much the tumor has grown or even if it has grown more. Then he said they would operate. In the meantime I have to lose weight. I'm not hugely overweight but he said that it is a dangerous operation and it would be worse if I don't lose weight. After becoming anerexic when I had the kidney cancer I just loved the taste of food when I got better. So now I have to lose the excess. Talk about a see saw ride. At least I don't have to suffer another biopsy. I was so happy about that. Usually they need to know what sort of cancer it is before they operate. It is either a lung cancer or a metastatic cancer (secondary kidney cancer). I am believing for a benign tumor although that is not likely.

I still have a little air in my lung but he said that would come right by itself. Thank goodness for that because I didn't want another tube in my back. 

On to my card....
This card is for my nephews girlfriend who happens to be a lovely Maori girl from New Zealand. I tried to make Tilda's skin dark. I probably need a little practice with the skin tone. The purple flowers I made and the white ones I brought.
I have colored Tilda with Promarkers.

 

The color is not quite right on this card as I quickly took it at night before I gave it to Daina.

The picture of the flowers are the right color.