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But in her darkest hour, inspiration struck and she found a way of turningher adversity into advantage.

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Following her cancer treatment, Rebecca launched a successful business'Something Blue Bridal Shoes' - a ? ? ? range of wedding footwear, whichemerged out of the fashion sketches she drew while recovering in her hospitalbed.

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Rebecca, from London, England, says: 'I started doing sketches of weddingshoes with blue soles when I was half way through my cancer treatment.

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'I had a hit a real low and was going through that whole' Will I live or"die?"situation.

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'But I decided that I was going to pick my self up and fight this cancer.The sketches were my Release and the way I got through the many hours spent in ahospital room.

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'I had no idea what was going to happen to me. But I knew I had to bepositive if I was going to overcome this treatment. I told my self this was notgoing to be the end for me. I decided to channel my negative feeling gs and startdrawing.

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'I had always love d fashion and when I was yonger. Several of my friendswere getting married at the time so weddings were very much in the air. Soinitially, I Would be drawing designs for bridal gowns and other garments.

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'But then I started sketching wedding Footwear - designing shoes withdistinctive, blue soles which were ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? too. I thought it Would be alovely way of integrating the 'something old, something new, something borrowed,something blue 'tradition.

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'Drawing really helped me deal with my treatment'.

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Rebecca was given the all - clar in August 2011.

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With the encouragement of her entrepreneur boyfriend, Mike Bandar, she thenturned her dream s into her reality and set up 'Something Blue Bridal Shoes'.

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Each gorgeous shoe from the collection has a blue sole, incorporating theage - old tradition of what a bride should wear at her wedding for good luck.

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