Drawing of the Week: Emily Morgan

MASScot’s education program means that 17,000 children across Scotland have learned better Sun Safety.  Here’s just one: Emily Morgan from Bearsden Academy! Here is a girl who knows. Thanks for drawing this Emily! You are awesome.

Featured Maker: Flying Cheese Toastie – Dreamy & Chic Glassware

We’re excited to announce that MASScotSHWOP will mark the beginning of an exciting visual merchandising programme with local creatives.  We will be showcasing curated window displays by fabulous artists and crafters in our window, beginning November 14th. If you like to fill your life up with unique & magical things, then you’ll love Flying Cheese Toastie…

Featured Maker: Freak Carousel!

We’re excited to announce that MASScotSHWOP will mark the beginning of an exciting visual merchandising programme with local creatives.  We will be showcasing curated window displays by fabulous artists and crafters in our window, beginning November 14th. Today’s featured maker is the distinctive, daring and irresistible jewellery of Addison Vada a.k.a Freak Carousel.  Addison has been…

Thread Meets Thread for MASScot Shwop

MASScot are pleased to announce that our Shwopping event will mark the beginning of a special series of window displays from local Etsy crafters! We’ll also be showcasing their work here on our blog: Introducing Thread Meets Thread! Joanna’s bracelets intricately combine carefully chosen colours of embroidery thread in flawless & laboured patterns.  So personal and yet so precise, they’re…

Getting Through MRI Scans with Mary Elizabeth Williams

Manhattan-based waffle maker and red-shoe buyer Mary Elizabeth Williams has written for the Guardian on her experiences with Metastatic Melanoma. In this article, she describes the pain and anxiety involved in having an MRI: “If you’d like to replicate the sensation of what my MRIs feel like, I suggest putting a large metal pot over your…

‘A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer’

This week’s Womens’ Hour is named after a new ‘cancer musical’ by Judith Dimant and Bryony Kinnings.   The play centres around a writer who aims to write a ‘guide to cancer’, beginning without any personal experience in the so-called ‘Kingdom of the Unwell’. “This narrator poses the question: why don’t we know about illness until we have…

Inspired Costumes & Inspiring People – Stephanie & Francis’ Halloween Fundraiser 💀 👻😈 😸👼🐵🎃

We were blown away and so flattered to hear that Stephanie Nugent & her husband Francis were arranging a Halloween fundraiser for MASScot last weekend! MASScot are Scotland’s only Skin Cancer charity and we do not receive funding from pharmaceutical companies – every single donation matters to us a huge amount. So obviously, we were…

Basal Cell Carcinoma: “Small and Flat”

Here’s an example of why it’s always a good idea to get your skin abnormalities checked out: an ‘annoying pimple’ in this bride’s wedding photos which later turned out to be Basal Cell Carcinoma. Apparently, after her honeymoon –  “the spot became a scab that wouldn’t heal, but she didn’t think it needed treatment because it was small…

‘The Waiting Game’ and ‘TMI’ (CureToday.com)

Barbara Tako has written this article on curetoday.com, about a very common struggle with Cancer sufferers – waiting.  She describes her worries about previously having breast cancer, and her suspicions of friends suffering from ‘TMI’ – Too Much Information. This leads her to describe her worries when talking about her second Cancer diagnosis –  Melanoma: How…

XL and Be Well at New College Lanarkshire: FakeBake ✌️☀️

MASScot were so excited to be invited back to XL and B Well at New College Lanarkshire this year.  It was so beneficial for us to be raising awareness in young people, especially in the company of therapists, medical professionals – and of course the ladies at Fake Bake.  We’ll be posting all about our experiences here! As you…