It is a glorious morning here. The sky is bright blue, there is frost on the roof, the light is magical and I am sat watching a beech tree shedding its leaves like confetti in the gentle breeze. I love Autumn so much.
I have a leisrely day of scrapping planned. I have finished all of my DC class commitments for the next two months and have made my next class pages for the local crop and for UKS. I have made a start on my pages for A Trip Down Memory Lane and want to try and finish those today and then work on the next few Collectively Yours dares. THEN I am going to scrap more Canada pictures LOL.
We ordered calendars last week from Photobox and they arrived yesterday and I have to say, for £5 each they are fabulous. It is such a good deal and I am really pleased with them. We have one each for our desks with Canada pictures and I have bought a couple as Christmas presents but can't say what here as the people concerned read this blog!!!
Nigel has uploaded another segment of our holiday video to You Tube and the video should appear here. I like what he has done with this section a great deal.
We also had an e mail from our friend Rob Lean in Canada. He had had a few problems with his network service but is now up and running again and has added some new galleries to his albums. The pictures are wonderful, and the gallery of Moraine Lake with the snow is just magical. Do pop and take a look. I can gaurentee you will loose a very pleasant half and hour browsing through the pictures and enjoying the view.
Now, this page is an unusual one, and people of a sensitive disposition need to click off right now!
If someone had said that I would be allowing Nigel to take a picture of my boobs (even though he tells me it is no different to a bikini .... and heck .... I don't wear a bikini!) and then that I would scrap the picture and then that I would SHARE the picture I would have said they were mad. However, that is exactly what I am doing.
Over at A Creative World the girls are raising money and - just as importantly raising awareness - about breast cancer. It is a terrible disease and on a personal note I know numerous people who have suffered. My tutor at university passed away as a result of breast cancer, we have lost a colleague at work to the disease and I can think of at least 4 of our parents, all young women in their late 30's and early 40's , who have had breast cancer.
We all need to be far more aware and give our breats the TLC treatment. Early diagnosis is so important and hopefully the more aware people are the fewer lives we may loose to this killer.
Although I felt uncomfortable about doing this, I felt I needed to. To me scrapping is about the whole of your life, about things that matter and things that affect you, about every aspect, not just the cutsie pictures and the happy celebrations. So I rose to their challenge and made this page for my book of me. I hope and pray it is never a page I look back on and see something I no longer have and I hope and pray that that with enough people being aware and enough funds being raised, they can manage the disease, find even more successful treatments and stop breast cancer taking as many lives as it does. I offer a prayer for all who read this who have suffered through illness themselves or through the pain of watching loved ones suffer.
Whilst on this note, I also have to say that far greater awareness needs to be developed about prostate cancer. It makes me so cross that a very simple blood test for PSA can check for raised levels and alert to possible worries about prostate cancer. Nigel had problems a couple of years ago, resulting in lots of tests and a biopsy and was, thank goodness, clear of cancer, but he now has the test every 6 months as a matter of course. If more men over the age of 45 had the test on a routine basis, they could diagnose cancer sufferers so much earlier and save so many lives. It's just a blood test for goodness sake. Something so simple could save so many lives.
On that sombre note, and once again apologies for the shocking picture!!!, I am off to scrap.
Have a wonderful day everyone.
Fab LO Karen.
Support your comments about PSA - my dad had a scare last year and luckily he is clear - but this year he has had to ask and ask for a test as they don't do it routinely even when you have a past history.
Posted by: jo.bee | October 24, 2007 at 10:19 AM
Good for you! - great pic and LO.
Posted by: Sonja | October 24, 2007 at 12:35 PM
Another fab video, way to go Nij! Love watching these and your LO is awesome, could not agree with your comments more.
Posted by: Heather | October 24, 2007 at 03:19 PM
Great Layout, great boobs! Good on ya!
Posted by: Sharon Peters | October 25, 2007 at 03:08 PM
Well done on raising more awareness on such a terrible disease.
BTW I think they look fab!!
Posted by: Yasmin | October 27, 2007 at 07:54 AM