What A Fabulous Surprise

What a fabulous surprise I received today. I don't know if you all know or not but I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in my right breast. I underwent partial mastectomy on May 31st to the right breast and a excisional biopsy of a suspicious lump in my left breast. I went back to see my breast surgeon on the 13th of this month for checkup and to get my pathology reports. The good news was the left breast biopsy came back benign. The bad news was 5 of the margins and all the tissue from underneath the nipple area came back positive for cancer cells. I was informed I now have to have a total mastectomy to the right breast. So now to try to get a plastic surgeon who will work on the reconstruction I am going to need done. . My breast surgeon told me I will have to have a tissue expander placed in. Not looking forward to any of this..At 43 this is the last thing I ever wanted to go through. Went through all of this 10 years ago with my baby sister had breast cancer & mastectomy with reconstruction of her right breast. I am still hard at work on the Breast Cancer Awareness Mug Rug Project for The Breast Care Center. 

Kathy over at Kwilty Pleasures http://kwiltypleasures.blogspot.com/ has been a great help to me . She was the first one to send me scraps to get started on this project. She is a sweet and very talented quilter . I have grown to think of her as a fabulous friend and mentor; since I first discovered her blog and started following her. She knows what all I have been going through emotionally. This diagnoses brings lots of ups and downs. And mostly downs here lately.  Well today I open my front door and what is setting their but this wonderful package from Kathy to me..And I'm like hmmm wonder what that is not expecting anything. Kathy has blown my mind with her loving and generous spirit. She sends me the most beautiful note. And a gorgeous quilt for me &  a beautiful scarf from when she walked in the Susan G Komen Race . And some more scraps for my project. All I could do was sit down and cry. She stopped me in my tracks ...To think this wonderful lady I have never even met in real life thought enough of me to do this for me. I couldn't believe she knew exactly how I was feeling and how emotional I am right now....Thank you Kathy for everything..You are an amazing and inspiring person.  May you be blessed forever and always for you have a loving and generous soul.      You have made a huge difference in my life Kathy. And you gave me what I needed most some good news and a huge pick me up.   Now I emailed Kathy right away to thank her. And I wanted to share what I told her.

    " My sister asked me recently what she could do for me . Was their any special thing I wanted that I couldn't have. I told her yes but she couldn't give it to me . She asked what was it. I told her I wanted a quilt. She has never sewn a stitch in her life and would probably poke her eye out if she tried.lol. Love her but she has no interest in this sewing and quilting that I love so dearly. . She's a fabulous geriatrics Nurse & has worked with her big baby's at the same nursing home for 16 years . Her first and only job. She said well can't you just buy one. I said no I wanted a breast cancer awareness quilt. And You can't just buy em. People only make em to donate to the various Charity's to auction off to raise money. And low and behold what do I have here. But a beautiful quilt that was made by loving hands just for me "  I can't wait to tell my sister and show her the gorgeous quilt Kathy sent to me today. 

 

 

Keep on sewing and quilting .

 

Tammy

 

Breast Cancer Awareness Mug Rugs Update

I have been working hard at my mug rug project.  I have completed a lot of them. With out counting them I am guessing I have about half of them completed that I will need for The Breast Care Center. I am gonna post a few pictures of some of the last ones I completed last week. Thank you to all of you who donated some scraps to  help with my project. I greatly appreciate your generosity. It will be what has made this project possible for me. So sending big hugs & thank yous to those of you whom have helped me out. Without further ado here are some pictures.

Breast Cancer Awareness Mug Rugs Project

 Call to all my sewing face book friends. I am looking for donations of breast cancer awareness fabric scraps & pink & white Or creme fabric scraps,& pink & white threads & scraps of quilt batting And or binding scraps . I want to begin a project to make mug rugs for the entire staff at a local Breast Care Center. Which I can not afford to buy all the supplies for this large endeavor. This is a division of the hospital where ladies go for Diagnostic Mammograms, Breast Ultrasounds, all types of Breast biopsies and radiation. They assit in the diagnosis process of breast cancer and breast diseases. They all so have Nurse Navigators; that follow all the breast cancer patients and help with the process from diagnosis to treatment and assure that irregardless of income or insurance that each patient receives quality treatment and care and provides access to all services needed. This project is very near and dear to my heart. This is an awesome team of ladies. If you could assist please let me know. No scrap donation is too small each piece will be used for this project. If you can donate please email  me for the shipping address Shipping will be going to South Carolina, USA.  Thanks everyone I really appreciate any  help to get this effort off the ground. I had originally posted this . But some how in trying to post today I totally lost this one...I've got to relearn how to do this blogging all over again.

Mailbox Surprise

A Mailbox Holding A Surprise
  Boy was I surprised today to open my mailbox to discover that my friend Kathy Gordon  who blogs over at  Kwilty Pleasures  http://kwiltypleasures.blogspot.com/ had sent me a lovely Ziploc bag full of white and pink scraps  to start on my project.   This was crammed full of goodies she shared with me. Kathy is a sweetheart. If you have never visited her over their, please go give her some love.  I also received another small  scrap bag gift from a new online sewing friend named Angie. Pinks left over from some girly projects. Thank you tremendously ladies.  I finished my husbands patriotic mug rug today. This one is for him to take to the office. The stripes are not  very straight. But oh well all he is gonna do is stain it with coffee anyway I bet..lol..

December 16,2010

Well tomorrow is my childrens last day at school. Then our christmas holiday officially begins...We still need to get our tree put up. We plan to do that this weekend..We have been so busy of late. Our tree is usually put up right after Thanksgiving. My children have been busy makeing out their list of gifts they wan't from Santa. Sometimes it amazes me the things they would ask Santa Clause to bring them. Needless to say as they get older the items on their list get more and more expensive...Well I can honestly say most of those items Santa will not be delivering...My son actually asked for a apple I Pad....I kid you not...ok so that is definitely not gonna be delivered. My daughter wants a new miniture longhaired female Dachshund puppy...Ok item 2 that Santa isn't gonna deliver...She has been scouring the internet looking at Breeder sites from all over and she has found several she wants they range from $200.00 to $900.00 dollars....Isn't it amazeing when 10 year olds are smart enough to search and shop online...lol...I'm just glad their is no buy it now button for puppies...lol are a whole slew of them would possibly show up on my doorstep...This is gonna be the first year we haven't bought her a new doll ...Now I am wishing I had ordered her one...I did make her a new outfit and a coat and purse for her American girl Dolls...And I bought her a trunk with some clothing for them...My son of course is all into electronic gadgets, gizmos and video games... I am hopeing the children do enjoy what they recieve...it isn't gonna be that much but I want them to really enjoy their Christmas Day and be able to look back fondly on the wonderful traditions and memories that will be made

A few of my old toys

9-8-2010 It has been so long since I last posted

Life has been so crazy. I seem to never have much time to post . The kids are growing up and are busy withtheir activities. Savannah wa sinductedinto her schools Jr. Beta club last night. We are so proud of her. She is also in the academically gifted program this year. She has decided not to play soccer this fall after her broken anckle late spring soccer injury. She will soon be begining her voice lesons and guitar lessons. I have searche dhigh and low and talked to many people and have finally decided on whom is going to teach her. Not an easy process. Connor is doing well in school and seems to be happy . We just returned form a 4 day mini vacation to Hilton Head Island. It was a wonderful getaway. We had a lot of fun. We even took our little Dachshund dog Daisy with us. All I can say is that it is one of the best getaways we have ever had and the first to ever take the dog with us. Needless to say she will be traveling with us more from now on. Savannah has been busy cleaning out her closet and dresser. She has grown so much and needed to get rid of tons of her outgrown things. So I am glad she took this major project upon herslef. All I had to do was bag it up and cart to where it needed to go.