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Thank You @charlestonmuseum for your @madamemagar praise!
I’m so grateful to have my Healing Gown on display so that my story can be shared. This very difficult, painful;yet beautiful healing path is so sacred & spiritual. I’m sorry I’m not able to speak about my Gown during the artist talks, as I have been called to Hawaii for deep healing. The sacred sea, mountains, plants and flowers touch my heart so deeply. I’m dancing through this painful storm and know that rainbows and sunlight await me, until then Charleston.
with Healing Love & Light,
Leigh

Thank You @charlestonmuseum for your @madamemagar praise!
I’m so grateful to have my Healing Gown on display so that my story can be shared. This very difficult, painful;yet beautiful healing path is so sacred & spiritual. I’m sorry I’m not able to speak about my Gown during the artist talks, as I have been called to Hawaii for deep healing. The sacred sea, mountains, plants and flowers touch my heart so deeply. I’m dancing through this painful storm and know that rainbows and sunlight await me, until then Charleston.
with Healing Love & Light,
Leigh

Thank You @charlestonmuseum for your @madamemagar praise!
I’m so grateful to have my Healing Gown on display so that my story can be shared. This very difficult, painful;yet beautiful healing path is so sacred & spiritual. I’m sorry I’m not able to speak about my Gown during the artist talks, as I have been called to Hawaii for deep healing. The sacred sea, mountains, plants and flowers touch my heart so deeply. I’m dancing through this painful storm and know that rainbows and sunlight await me, until then Charleston.
with Healing Love & Light,
Leigh

Madame Magar
at The Charleston Museum

“Healing Gown”
cotton hospital sheets, hair,indigo, cotton thread & feathers.

Artist Statement:
The Healing Gown was created out of my experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer. After being healthy my whole life, this came as a shock and has changed my life forever. Many days are spent at the hospital and normal life is put on the back burner. I decided to transform pain into serenity through healing, with meditation, nature and art.

I live on Johns Island surrounded by Mother Nature and I cleaned my long hair out of my brush and put it in my dye garden to keep the deer from eating plants.
A few weeks before I was diagnosed, there was a wind storm and the next morning I discovered a hummingbird nest made with my hair beneath the oak tree.

As a dressmaker, textile artist, and natural dyer I began to create a Healing Gown. The gown is made with my hair that reached below my waist, and was shorn before chemotherapy treatment. My exploration of hair was born out of my hair loss.

The Healing Gown was created with hospital sheets, my hair, and indigo dipped cloth. Indigo flowers represent represent blossoms growing from the soil of suffering.
Hand stitched crosses represent my spiritual path through healing.
I hope to evoke some of my healing story into this Healing Gown.
Art Heals. Healing is a spiritual, sacred path, that, like art, comes from within.

Thank You:
@charlestonmuseum
@andreaserranocurates
@shopworthwhile for graciously loaning me the mannequin.
@thomasengelhart for his genius pattern making skills.

Oh! & the last image is of one of my hats, from my Magar Hatworks days; displayed in another area of the museum!

Madame Magar
at The Charleston Museum

“Healing Gown”
cotton hospital sheets, hair,indigo, cotton thread & feathers.

Artist Statement:
The Healing Gown was created out of my experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer. After being healthy my whole life, this came as a shock and has changed my life forever. Many days are spent at the hospital and normal life is put on the back burner. I decided to transform pain into serenity through healing, with meditation, nature and art.

I live on Johns Island surrounded by Mother Nature and I cleaned my long hair out of my brush and put it in my dye garden to keep the deer from eating plants.
A few weeks before I was diagnosed, there was a wind storm and the next morning I discovered a hummingbird nest made with my hair beneath the oak tree.

As a dressmaker, textile artist, and natural dyer I began to create a Healing Gown. The gown is made with my hair that reached below my waist, and was shorn before chemotherapy treatment. My exploration of hair was born out of my hair loss.

The Healing Gown was created with hospital sheets, my hair, and indigo dipped cloth. Indigo flowers represent represent blossoms growing from the soil of suffering.
Hand stitched crosses represent my spiritual path through healing.
I hope to evoke some of my healing story into this Healing Gown.
Art Heals. Healing is a spiritual, sacred path, that, like art, comes from within.

Thank You:
@charlestonmuseum
@andreaserranocurates
@shopworthwhile for graciously loaning me the mannequin.
@thomasengelhart for his genius pattern making skills.

Oh! & the last image is of one of my hats, from my Magar Hatworks days; displayed in another area of the museum!

Madame Magar
at The Charleston Museum

“Healing Gown”
cotton hospital sheets, hair,indigo, cotton thread & feathers.

Artist Statement:
The Healing Gown was created out of my experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer. After being healthy my whole life, this came as a shock and has changed my life forever. Many days are spent at the hospital and normal life is put on the back burner. I decided to transform pain into serenity through healing, with meditation, nature and art.

I live on Johns Island surrounded by Mother Nature and I cleaned my long hair out of my brush and put it in my dye garden to keep the deer from eating plants.
A few weeks before I was diagnosed, there was a wind storm and the next morning I discovered a hummingbird nest made with my hair beneath the oak tree.

As a dressmaker, textile artist, and natural dyer I began to create a Healing Gown. The gown is made with my hair that reached below my waist, and was shorn before chemotherapy treatment. My exploration of hair was born out of my hair loss.

The Healing Gown was created with hospital sheets, my hair, and indigo dipped cloth. Indigo flowers represent represent blossoms growing from the soil of suffering.
Hand stitched crosses represent my spiritual path through healing.
I hope to evoke some of my healing story into this Healing Gown.
Art Heals. Healing is a spiritual, sacred path, that, like art, comes from within.

Thank You:
@charlestonmuseum
@andreaserranocurates
@shopworthwhile for graciously loaning me the mannequin.
@thomasengelhart for his genius pattern making skills.

Oh! & the last image is of one of my hats, from my Magar Hatworks days; displayed in another area of the museum!

Madame Magar
at The Charleston Museum

“Healing Gown”
cotton hospital sheets, hair,indigo, cotton thread & feathers.

Artist Statement:
The Healing Gown was created out of my experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer. After being healthy my whole life, this came as a shock and has changed my life forever. Many days are spent at the hospital and normal life is put on the back burner. I decided to transform pain into serenity through healing, with meditation, nature and art.

I live on Johns Island surrounded by Mother Nature and I cleaned my long hair out of my brush and put it in my dye garden to keep the deer from eating plants.
A few weeks before I was diagnosed, there was a wind storm and the next morning I discovered a hummingbird nest made with my hair beneath the oak tree.

As a dressmaker, textile artist, and natural dyer I began to create a Healing Gown. The gown is made with my hair that reached below my waist, and was shorn before chemotherapy treatment. My exploration of hair was born out of my hair loss.

The Healing Gown was created with hospital sheets, my hair, and indigo dipped cloth. Indigo flowers represent represent blossoms growing from the soil of suffering.
Hand stitched crosses represent my spiritual path through healing.
I hope to evoke some of my healing story into this Healing Gown.
Art Heals. Healing is a spiritual, sacred path, that, like art, comes from within.

Thank You:
@charlestonmuseum
@andreaserranocurates
@shopworthwhile for graciously loaning me the mannequin.
@thomasengelhart for his genius pattern making skills.

Oh! & the last image is of one of my hats, from my Magar Hatworks days; displayed in another area of the museum!

Madame Magar
at The Charleston Museum

“Healing Gown”
cotton hospital sheets, hair,indigo, cotton thread & feathers.

Artist Statement:
The Healing Gown was created out of my experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer. After being healthy my whole life, this came as a shock and has changed my life forever. Many days are spent at the hospital and normal life is put on the back burner. I decided to transform pain into serenity through healing, with meditation, nature and art.

I live on Johns Island surrounded by Mother Nature and I cleaned my long hair out of my brush and put it in my dye garden to keep the deer from eating plants.
A few weeks before I was diagnosed, there was a wind storm and the next morning I discovered a hummingbird nest made with my hair beneath the oak tree.

As a dressmaker, textile artist, and natural dyer I began to create a Healing Gown. The gown is made with my hair that reached below my waist, and was shorn before chemotherapy treatment. My exploration of hair was born out of my hair loss.

The Healing Gown was created with hospital sheets, my hair, and indigo dipped cloth. Indigo flowers represent represent blossoms growing from the soil of suffering.
Hand stitched crosses represent my spiritual path through healing.
I hope to evoke some of my healing story into this Healing Gown.
Art Heals. Healing is a spiritual, sacred path, that, like art, comes from within.

Thank You:
@charlestonmuseum
@andreaserranocurates
@shopworthwhile for graciously loaning me the mannequin.
@thomasengelhart for his genius pattern making skills.

Oh! & the last image is of one of my hats, from my Magar Hatworks days; displayed in another area of the museum!

Healness Dance!

Like a Prayer
by Madonna
I hear your voice It’s like an angel sighing
I have no choice
I hear your voice
Feels like flying
I close my eyes
Oh God , I think I’m falling
Out of the sky
I close my eyes
Heaven, help me

Thank You @stephenathome for including @madamemagar in a delightful coastal culinary cookbook!
Does This Taste Funny?
by Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee Colbert
❤️🌊💙🦪🩵

Thank You @stephenathome for including @madamemagar in a delightful coastal culinary cookbook!
Does This Taste Funny?
by Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee Colbert
❤️🌊💙🦪🩵

Thank You @stephenathome for including @madamemagar in a delightful coastal culinary cookbook!
Does This Taste Funny?
by Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee Colbert
❤️🌊💙🦪🩵

This Autumn has brought shadows of darkness; the election, my “Healness”, and a passing of a friend, Randolph Martz.

Randolph was more than a friend, he was my landlord and a great mentor. His life made a deep mark on me. My husband and I, in our youth, fell in love in his wild, other worldly garden, draped with pointy blue Christmas lights and bamboo.
We lived in his charming cottage, an old sweet shop that he had rebuilt. To this day it’s my favorite Charleston dwelling, with its coral vine coated wooden walls and brick floors and is placed deep in my heart.

His Lust for Life openedmy eyes to another realm filled with fervor and passion for art, travel, beauty and, and just life!

Randolphs sanctuary of earth shattering beauty taught me how to appreciate the handmade in everyday objects and how to respect and live with them. He was the King of wabi-sabi and his style shaped me. There would be no Magar Hatworks,( my first hatshop was in the cottage), or no Madame Magar without his influence.

Randolph was such a gift to me and Charleston and as Thanksgiving approaches,
Thank You Randolph!
I am So Grateful that our souls path crossed on this awe inspiring Earth!

May your souls journey be filled with Peace, Love and light,(and a gin and tonic or two…!)
Shine On Great Star!💛✨🪷

This Autumn has brought shadows of darkness; the election, my “Healness”, and a passing of a friend, Randolph Martz.

Randolph was more than a friend, he was my landlord and a great mentor. His life made a deep mark on me. My husband and I, in our youth, fell in love in his wild, other worldly garden, draped with pointy blue Christmas lights and bamboo.
We lived in his charming cottage, an old sweet shop that he had rebuilt. To this day it’s my favorite Charleston dwelling, with its coral vine coated wooden walls and brick floors and is placed deep in my heart.

His Lust for Life openedmy eyes to another realm filled with fervor and passion for art, travel, beauty and, and just life!

Randolphs sanctuary of earth shattering beauty taught me how to appreciate the handmade in everyday objects and how to respect and live with them. He was the King of wabi-sabi and his style shaped me. There would be no Magar Hatworks,( my first hatshop was in the cottage), or no Madame Magar without his influence.

Randolph was such a gift to me and Charleston and as Thanksgiving approaches,
Thank You Randolph!
I am So Grateful that our souls path crossed on this awe inspiring Earth!

May your souls journey be filled with Peace, Love and light,(and a gin and tonic or two…!)
Shine On Great Star!💛✨🪷

This Autumn has brought shadows of darkness; the election, my “Healness”, and a passing of a friend, Randolph Martz.

Randolph was more than a friend, he was my landlord and a great mentor. His life made a deep mark on me. My husband and I, in our youth, fell in love in his wild, other worldly garden, draped with pointy blue Christmas lights and bamboo.
We lived in his charming cottage, an old sweet shop that he had rebuilt. To this day it’s my favorite Charleston dwelling, with its coral vine coated wooden walls and brick floors and is placed deep in my heart.

His Lust for Life openedmy eyes to another realm filled with fervor and passion for art, travel, beauty and, and just life!

Randolphs sanctuary of earth shattering beauty taught me how to appreciate the handmade in everyday objects and how to respect and live with them. He was the King of wabi-sabi and his style shaped me. There would be no Magar Hatworks,( my first hatshop was in the cottage), or no Madame Magar without his influence.

Randolph was such a gift to me and Charleston and as Thanksgiving approaches,
Thank You Randolph!
I am So Grateful that our souls path crossed on this awe inspiring Earth!

May your souls journey be filled with Peace, Love and light,(and a gin and tonic or two…!)
Shine On Great Star!💛✨🪷

This Autumn has brought shadows of darkness; the election, my “Healness”, and a passing of a friend, Randolph Martz.

Randolph was more than a friend, he was my landlord and a great mentor. His life made a deep mark on me. My husband and I, in our youth, fell in love in his wild, other worldly garden, draped with pointy blue Christmas lights and bamboo.
We lived in his charming cottage, an old sweet shop that he had rebuilt. To this day it’s my favorite Charleston dwelling, with its coral vine coated wooden walls and brick floors and is placed deep in my heart.

His Lust for Life openedmy eyes to another realm filled with fervor and passion for art, travel, beauty and, and just life!

Randolphs sanctuary of earth shattering beauty taught me how to appreciate the handmade in everyday objects and how to respect and live with them. He was the King of wabi-sabi and his style shaped me. There would be no Magar Hatworks,( my first hatshop was in the cottage), or no Madame Magar without his influence.

Randolph was such a gift to me and Charleston and as Thanksgiving approaches,
Thank You Randolph!
I am So Grateful that our souls path crossed on this awe inspiring Earth!

May your souls journey be filled with Peace, Love and light,(and a gin and tonic or two…!)
Shine On Great Star!💛✨🪷

This Autumn has brought shadows of darkness; the election, my “Healness”, and a passing of a friend, Randolph Martz.

Randolph was more than a friend, he was my landlord and a great mentor. His life made a deep mark on me. My husband and I, in our youth, fell in love in his wild, other worldly garden, draped with pointy blue Christmas lights and bamboo.
We lived in his charming cottage, an old sweet shop that he had rebuilt. To this day it’s my favorite Charleston dwelling, with its coral vine coated wooden walls and brick floors and is placed deep in my heart.

His Lust for Life openedmy eyes to another realm filled with fervor and passion for art, travel, beauty and, and just life!

Randolphs sanctuary of earth shattering beauty taught me how to appreciate the handmade in everyday objects and how to respect and live with them. He was the King of wabi-sabi and his style shaped me. There would be no Magar Hatworks,( my first hatshop was in the cottage), or no Madame Magar without his influence.

Randolph was such a gift to me and Charleston and as Thanksgiving approaches,
Thank You Randolph!
I am So Grateful that our souls path crossed on this awe inspiring Earth!

May your souls journey be filled with Peace, Love and light,(and a gin and tonic or two…!)
Shine On Great Star!💛✨🪷

I’m so Grateful for this@nytimes Indigo Praise!
I know this is a repeat, but I wanted to share the cover photo of the New York Times Arts & Leisure page.
💙🪷🌞

I’m so Grateful for this@nytimes Indigo Praise!
I know this is a repeat, but I wanted to share the cover photo of the New York Times Arts & Leisure page.
💙🪷🌞

I’m so Grateful for this@nytimes Indigo Praise!
I know this is a repeat, but I wanted to share the cover photo of the New York Times Arts & Leisure page.
💙🪷🌞

I am over the Moon;(Full Harvest Moon!) to be in The New York Times! (online is out & paper print will be the Sunday New York Times Art & Leisure section.) Thank You so much @nytimes for your interest in the South Carolina Blues!

The article touches on my indigo story over the past 10 years. I’ve worked so hard with my indigo vision and it’s time for me to let go of some of it and explore more of Mother Nature’sColor and culture,( but I still will dabble in the blues!)
If you’d like to read more about my indigo path; my full story is documented @madamemagarsblueschool Blue Booklet! Please see link in bio.

This article was written before my life turned topsy turvy, after being diagnosed with Breast Cancer over a year ago. Wow, It’s been a year! A year of Healness and going deep within my spirit and soul; filled with indescribable pain and beauty! I’ve learned so much…

One of the things that I’ve learned is that life is Short & Sacred! So the new me is planning to scale down a bit, travel, and take time to smell the roses!!! To Enjoy Life; to Just Be!

I’ve worked so hard for the past 10 years and this year of Healness has showed me that it’s time to explore and close my whole heartedly indigo chapter. I will still work with indigo, but not so intensely, as I want to use my energy to travel, teach natural dye classes, collaborate and create textile art.

I will continue to create and teach seasonal natural dye classes; incorporating local/seasonal flora, food and healing. I look forward to collaborating with artisans, chefs, farmers, movers & shakers!

If any of y’all want to collaborate please get in touch. Community is important, Collaboration is important, we are all one!

I’m in Remission, I’m in The New York Times-and life is so Darn Beautiful !!!
with tears of Healed Happiness!
💙🪷🌞

I am over the Moon;(Full Harvest Moon!) to be in The New York Times! (online is out & paper print will be the Sunday New York Times Art & Leisure section.) Thank You so much @nytimes for your interest in the South Carolina Blues!

The article touches on my indigo story over the past 10 years. I’ve worked so hard with my indigo vision and it’s time for me to let go of some of it and explore more of Mother Nature’sColor and culture,( but I still will dabble in the blues!)
If you’d like to read more about my indigo path; my full story is documented @madamemagarsblueschool Blue Booklet! Please see link in bio.

This article was written before my life turned topsy turvy, after being diagnosed with Breast Cancer over a year ago. Wow, It’s been a year! A year of Healness and going deep within my spirit and soul; filled with indescribable pain and beauty! I’ve learned so much…

One of the things that I’ve learned is that life is Short & Sacred! So the new me is planning to scale down a bit, travel, and take time to smell the roses!!! To Enjoy Life; to Just Be!

I’ve worked so hard for the past 10 years and this year of Healness has showed me that it’s time to explore and close my whole heartedly indigo chapter. I will still work with indigo, but not so intensely, as I want to use my energy to travel, teach natural dye classes, collaborate and create textile art.

I will continue to create and teach seasonal natural dye classes; incorporating local/seasonal flora, food and healing. I look forward to collaborating with artisans, chefs, farmers, movers & shakers!

If any of y’all want to collaborate please get in touch. Community is important, Collaboration is important, we are all one!

I’m in Remission, I’m in The New York Times-and life is so Darn Beautiful !!!
with tears of Healed Happiness!
💙🪷🌞

I am over the Moon;(Full Harvest Moon!) to be in The New York Times! (online is out & paper print will be the Sunday New York Times Art & Leisure section.) Thank You so much @nytimes for your interest in the South Carolina Blues!

The article touches on my indigo story over the past 10 years. I’ve worked so hard with my indigo vision and it’s time for me to let go of some of it and explore more of Mother Nature’sColor and culture,( but I still will dabble in the blues!)
If you’d like to read more about my indigo path; my full story is documented @madamemagarsblueschool Blue Booklet! Please see link in bio.

This article was written before my life turned topsy turvy, after being diagnosed with Breast Cancer over a year ago. Wow, It’s been a year! A year of Healness and going deep within my spirit and soul; filled with indescribable pain and beauty! I’ve learned so much…

One of the things that I’ve learned is that life is Short & Sacred! So the new me is planning to scale down a bit, travel, and take time to smell the roses!!! To Enjoy Life; to Just Be!

I’ve worked so hard for the past 10 years and this year of Healness has showed me that it’s time to explore and close my whole heartedly indigo chapter. I will still work with indigo, but not so intensely, as I want to use my energy to travel, teach natural dye classes, collaborate and create textile art.

I will continue to create and teach seasonal natural dye classes; incorporating local/seasonal flora, food and healing. I look forward to collaborating with artisans, chefs, farmers, movers & shakers!

If any of y’all want to collaborate please get in touch. Community is important, Collaboration is important, we are all one!

I’m in Remission, I’m in The New York Times-and life is so Darn Beautiful !!!
with tears of Healed Happiness!
💙🪷🌞

I am over the Moon;(Full Harvest Moon!) to be in The New York Times! (online is out & paper print will be the Sunday New York Times Art & Leisure section.) Thank You so much @nytimes for your interest in the South Carolina Blues!

The article touches on my indigo story over the past 10 years. I’ve worked so hard with my indigo vision and it’s time for me to let go of some of it and explore more of Mother Nature’sColor and culture,( but I still will dabble in the blues!)
If you’d like to read more about my indigo path; my full story is documented @madamemagarsblueschool Blue Booklet! Please see link in bio.

This article was written before my life turned topsy turvy, after being diagnosed with Breast Cancer over a year ago. Wow, It’s been a year! A year of Healness and going deep within my spirit and soul; filled with indescribable pain and beauty! I’ve learned so much…

One of the things that I’ve learned is that life is Short & Sacred! So the new me is planning to scale down a bit, travel, and take time to smell the roses!!! To Enjoy Life; to Just Be!

I’ve worked so hard for the past 10 years and this year of Healness has showed me that it’s time to explore and close my whole heartedly indigo chapter. I will still work with indigo, but not so intensely, as I want to use my energy to travel, teach natural dye classes, collaborate and create textile art.

I will continue to create and teach seasonal natural dye classes; incorporating local/seasonal flora, food and healing. I look forward to collaborating with artisans, chefs, farmers, movers & shakers!

If any of y’all want to collaborate please get in touch. Community is important, Collaboration is important, we are all one!

I’m in Remission, I’m in The New York Times-and life is so Darn Beautiful !!!
with tears of Healed Happiness!
💙🪷🌞

Congratulations to my Architect husband; Johnny Tucker & @angiehranowsky for creating a beautiful home!
Just published in the June issue @archdigest !

Congratulations to my Architect husband; Johnny Tucker & @angiehranowsky for creating a beautiful home!
Just published in the June issue @archdigest !

Congratulations to my Architect husband; Johnny Tucker & @angiehranowsky for creating a beautiful home!
Just published in the June issue @archdigest !

Congratulations to my Architect husband; Johnny Tucker & @angiehranowsky for creating a beautiful home!
Just published in the June issue @archdigest !

Healing Dance & Healing Dress
David Bowie
Sound and Vision
💙🪷🩵

Healing Dance
I Will Survive
~ANOHNI
with Healing Love & Light
💙🪷❤️

I wish to thank all of you for your kind, healing comments! You’ve touched my heart so deeply!

This year, I’m not able to socialize as my immunity is weakened from chemotherapy, so this winter I’m hibernating & healing.

I will miss seeing many of you during the holiday celebrations.
I Wish you all Holiday Cheer!
Til’ next Year!!!
with Healing Love & Light
💙🪷🕊️

These words do not come easily as I typically use my page for my textile art work and shy away from tear drenching personal posts…
But I feel a deep call to speak out with hopes of prevention and awareness.
A few months ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I have triple negative, stage 3 breast cancer. I was traumatized as my world turned topsy turvy as I faced a life threatening illness. I began to sketch my funeral dress, hand dipped in midnight indigo; of course!

I hope to raise awareness in honor ofbreast cancer awareness month,(I know I’m a month late), but better late than never! Also I never knew much about breast cancer before so I hope to spread the gospel about breast care. If I can just reach one soul out there than it is worth my effort. You do not want breast cancer!
SO PLEASE GET YOUR
MAMMOGRAM!!!

I called on my higher powers, Mother Earth, and my ancestors to help me gather my strength for this hard and painful part of my life’s path.

I shed my long hair and I shed my ego and began to sprout wings of light and healing! I felt like a newborn, awakened and free!
It’s just hair!

As I face my life threatening illness,( I changed the word to a more positive one~healness), as my healness unfolds I have experience both gut wrenching pain and breath taking beauty.
I am so grateful!

My treatment plan includes chemotherapy which was horrifying to me and the decision weighed heavy on my soul, as I am aall natural girl. I have been healthy all of my life, until now; using only natural plant potions and remedies.
I was diagnosed with a severe and aggressive breast cancer that occurred suddenly with no rhyme or reason... One day my life was rosey and the next thorny. I had to make the decision between life and death.

Live every day as if it’s your last day on earth! When I was faced with death it taught me a deep appreciation and gratitude for life and all,(especially the little), of life’s earth shattering beauty!
Being faced with life or death can change your tune, and I chose life! I’m so glad I did because with the work of great doctors my tumors have already shrunk!I am so thankful!

Please see the continuation in comments.

These words do not come easily as I typically use my page for my textile art work and shy away from tear drenching personal posts…
But I feel a deep call to speak out with hopes of prevention and awareness.
A few months ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I have triple negative, stage 3 breast cancer. I was traumatized as my world turned topsy turvy as I faced a life threatening illness. I began to sketch my funeral dress, hand dipped in midnight indigo; of course!

I hope to raise awareness in honor ofbreast cancer awareness month,(I know I’m a month late), but better late than never! Also I never knew much about breast cancer before so I hope to spread the gospel about breast care. If I can just reach one soul out there than it is worth my effort. You do not want breast cancer!
SO PLEASE GET YOUR
MAMMOGRAM!!!

I called on my higher powers, Mother Earth, and my ancestors to help me gather my strength for this hard and painful part of my life’s path.

I shed my long hair and I shed my ego and began to sprout wings of light and healing! I felt like a newborn, awakened and free!
It’s just hair!

As I face my life threatening illness,( I changed the word to a more positive one~healness), as my healness unfolds I have experience both gut wrenching pain and breath taking beauty.
I am so grateful!

My treatment plan includes chemotherapy which was horrifying to me and the decision weighed heavy on my soul, as I am aall natural girl. I have been healthy all of my life, until now; using only natural plant potions and remedies.
I was diagnosed with a severe and aggressive breast cancer that occurred suddenly with no rhyme or reason... One day my life was rosey and the next thorny. I had to make the decision between life and death.

Live every day as if it’s your last day on earth! When I was faced with death it taught me a deep appreciation and gratitude for life and all,(especially the little), of life’s earth shattering beauty!
Being faced with life or death can change your tune, and I chose life! I’m so glad I did because with the work of great doctors my tumors have already shrunk!I am so thankful!

Please see the continuation in comments.

These words do not come easily as I typically use my page for my textile art work and shy away from tear drenching personal posts…
But I feel a deep call to speak out with hopes of prevention and awareness.
A few months ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I have triple negative, stage 3 breast cancer. I was traumatized as my world turned topsy turvy as I faced a life threatening illness. I began to sketch my funeral dress, hand dipped in midnight indigo; of course!

I hope to raise awareness in honor ofbreast cancer awareness month,(I know I’m a month late), but better late than never! Also I never knew much about breast cancer before so I hope to spread the gospel about breast care. If I can just reach one soul out there than it is worth my effort. You do not want breast cancer!
SO PLEASE GET YOUR
MAMMOGRAM!!!

I called on my higher powers, Mother Earth, and my ancestors to help me gather my strength for this hard and painful part of my life’s path.

I shed my long hair and I shed my ego and began to sprout wings of light and healing! I felt like a newborn, awakened and free!
It’s just hair!

As I face my life threatening illness,( I changed the word to a more positive one~healness), as my healness unfolds I have experience both gut wrenching pain and breath taking beauty.
I am so grateful!

My treatment plan includes chemotherapy which was horrifying to me and the decision weighed heavy on my soul, as I am aall natural girl. I have been healthy all of my life, until now; using only natural plant potions and remedies.
I was diagnosed with a severe and aggressive breast cancer that occurred suddenly with no rhyme or reason... One day my life was rosey and the next thorny. I had to make the decision between life and death.

Live every day as if it’s your last day on earth! When I was faced with death it taught me a deep appreciation and gratitude for life and all,(especially the little), of life’s earth shattering beauty!
Being faced with life or death can change your tune, and I chose life! I’m so glad I did because with the work of great doctors my tumors have already shrunk!I am so thankful!

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