atc

this is my first fist handed attempt at an ATC...artist trading card...seems to be the favour of the month in the crafty circles.

I must admit I have never been interested in scrapbooking but having seen some of the scrapbooking shows on the TV, some of the techniques they use, excite me. So when I started coming across these ATC which bloggers were sharing with each other, I was more than a little intrigued. One of the things that really got me interested was the actual size of these treasures 3.5"x 2.5". Anyway this was my first try and wasn't that impressed, its actually not that easy to create an image that small

Apart from trying out my hand at being creative for a change, I have also managed to get myself way too worked up about this mole the doctor is removing on Tuesday. Sometimes having the internet and being a confessed hypochondriac is not a good combination.

I finally admitted to Gordon today that I was actually pretty concerned. I have to laugh because all in all he is the greatest husband in the world but subtle he is not. "So which mole is that the Doctor is concerned about?' So I show him and he looks and looks, "Yeah, it does look quite nasty."

Anyway, I am resisting really hard not to look up moles on the internet because what I have seen so far is just scary. I must admit to thinking you cut out the offending mole and surrounding tissue and that would be the end of it. My biggest fear was the disfigurement I had heard some people had endured, never realised it was one of the most deadliest cancer if it not caught early and not responsive to most cancer therapies.

So contrary to my previous post where I might have seemed a bit blase about the whole thing, I am not in the least but if I am going to succeed in getting to that Doctor's surgery on Tuesday, I need to kid myself it nothing to worry about, the mole has been there for x number of years, yes I had noted it seemed to be getting darker in the last year and should have listened to my head, rather my fears when Gordon told me it didn't seem any different to him. In my heart of hearts I know its a harmless mole but ......its lingers there.