cover girl (in name only)

Yesterday was International Women’s Day (in the middle of Bacon Week – bet you didn’t know that!) and was the day that I found out that I’ve made it on the cover of the next issue of Inspirations Magazine.

Not a project this time, but an article. The cover says “Yvette Stanton visits a very special place for women”. I mention International Women’s Day, because the article is about my visit to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, which is indeed a special place for women, and a very apt place to be talking about on the day after International Women’s Day.

There’s a bit of a story behind my article. When we spent our three months in Ethiopia, I had actually hoped to do some embroidery teaching at the hospital. For various reasons it never happened (which was fine) but my husband and I did arrange to do a tour of the hospital. We finally visited on the Thursday before we left (which was cutting it a bit fine!). We learnt about the amazing life-giving work of the hospital. I came away with my brain percolating – a story was brewing…

Straight after our visit, I sat down at my laptop and the article just flowed out of me. I always considered it to be a complete gift, that story. And now you’ll just have to wait until the magazine comes out now, and unfortunately I don’t know when that will be!