Lots Of News & A Project

I was thrilled to make it through to the second round of the "Embellish This" Challenge Competition at Scrap 'N' Craft with T.
Then I fell into the dreaded procrastination hole!.....lol
I changed my mind three times before I decided what I was doing for the second challenge and it took a bit of rummaging in the kids craft box to get the light bulb idea!
The details of the second challenge were:

HERE IS THE WEEK 2 CHALLENGE.....

• Create an embellishment to be used to decorate the outside of your gift wrapping, using the colours red, white and green and also using some wire.

• It is preferable to have it attached to your gift wrapping, whether that be a gift box or gift bag, or alternatively it can be attached to your layout or card.

• The embellishment will be judged only... not the wrapping/layout or card.

I found a polystyrene cone shape in the kids craft box and decided it would make a great xmas tree. I die cut some hearts using Spellbinders Nestabilities and turned them upside down to create the branches of my tree. I gave them a quick lick of Kindy Glitz and attached them to the cone. On the top of the tree I used some holly leaves and berries and topped it off with a gorgeous star charm from my2angels (thanks Tracy) attached with wire. I coiled some wire and attached beads to the end and placed these randomly on the tree. Then the whole tree rests on some more holly leaves and fibre base. All of this is attached to the lid of the box with one piece of wire through the bottom of the tree that can easily be removed if I wanted to use the tree as a decoration.


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Products Used: Bazzill : Spellbinders - Nestabalities Classic Hearts : My2Angels Star Charm : Kindy Glitz : Craft Holly Leaves & Berries : Jewellery Wire : Beads : Rhinestones : Fibre : Silver Craft Wings : Silver Craft Ribbon : White Gift Box

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Now onto other news.
Yesterday afternoon I got my subscription copy of Scrapbooking Memories Vol. 11. No. 10.
(Thank you again for the beautiful gift by the way. You know who you are!)
How excited was I to see 3 of my creations in this issue!
Plus if you check out the back page where the Sneak Peeks are you will see another creation of mine coming up in the next issue.
WOO HOO!
One of these publications features my gorgeous grandson Chay for the first time so needless to say I will be putting a copy away for him to keep....lol

Last but not least, my test results.
The good news is my Breast ultrasound showed the lump was nothing sinister.
Using my Doctor's words, I have "naturally lumpy breast tissue"....lol, so it means I have to be very aware of what is normal for me and do very regular checks.
The pap smear results not quite so encouraging.
All 3 showed consistently abnormal cells but they have not got worse so my Doctor wants to give me another round of tests in 6 months.
Not "ideal" news but I get 6 months to push it to the back of my mind and concentrate on other stuff.
I can live with that :)
Thank you for all the continued support & best wishes. Your kind words and positive thoughts mean a lot to me.

So that's another huge post. Hope you made it all the way through.....lol