Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page - scroll down for info on how the raffle works below my story.

I was diagnosed with a form of breast cancer - high grade DCIS - late in 2015. It's completely treatable, and not life-threatening - I'm considering myself so lucky that it was caught, and treating it now means that I'm hopefully going to be able to dodge chemo (I had hoped to avoid a mastectomy but that's a road I've had to travel). Even so, it all came as a bit of a shock and the last few months have been hard-going with the surgery being repeated 3 times and then the long slow recovery from a mastectomy and reconstruction. 

The support of the Macmillan breast care nurses through the whole process has been absolutely phenomenal and made everything so much easier to deal with, that I wanted to give something back by way of a thank you. I am a quiltmaker, so the obvious thing to do was to make a special quilt - in pinks for breast cancer - which I am going to raffle off to raise some money to help support the fantastic work that they do.

Special thanks are due to Isabella Denham of Izy Sewbuzy Creations for very kindly giving me permission to use her 'Scrap Happy Star' quilt pattern for this project.

For more information about DCIS, check this link out:
http://www.macmillan.org.uk/information-and-support/breast-cancer/dcis/understanding-cancer/what-is-dcis.html#164146

Here's how it works:

To buy a ticket for the raffle please make a donation of £5 to this page - every £5 increment over that will buy you an additional ticket (so, for example, if you donate £20 you get 4 raffle tickets)

Once your donation has gone through, tick the box alongside “I'm happy to be contacted" - that way I can see your email address to add you to the draw, and if you are lucky enough to win then I can contact you to arrange postage details.

When the raffle closes on 21st July 2016 (my birthday!), I will be using randompicker.com to select the winner (at around 7pm), who will be notified via email. An update will be placed on this page with the winner's name.

Please note that this raffle is open internationally, but I will be asking the winner to pay for the postage - this will be around £10 for UK Mainland winners. For international shipping, please contact me for a quote but expect it to be roughly double UK Mainland prices, depending on where in the world you are.

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