Meet Blossom

My gorgeous new bear. I won this as part of a raffle prize at Craft Out West over the weekend. It was actually 2nd place, with the 1st prize being a huge grocery hamper. In my opinion, the winner lucked out, cause this 2nd place pamper pack was just lovely and the bear (made by Annetta Flaunty of Cedel Downs) is just totally gorgeous.

I even had offers from others there, who wanted to buy it off me, but hey, it's purple and pink and has a butterfly on one hand, so how could I ever sell her???

Here is the original Pamper Pack prize. Hard to see what's in there, but there is a selection of body gels and scrubs, aromatherapy candle, soaps and petals, potpourri, embroidered cushion, notebook and amethyst crystal angel. Thanks to Glenna for picking a winning number for me.

That poor hand!

Yip, she's been at it again - injuring her right hand that is. This week we got a call from school to come and collect Taryn, as she had sustained a burn to the top of her right hand. Her class was working with hot melt glue guns and one child had basically leaned over Taryn with the gun, to pass it to another child and as he did so, glue poured from the gun and landed on Taryn's hand. So off to the emergency we went and who should she get, but the same doctor that saw her the last 2 times she injured herself. I'm wondering when we might get a call from the authorities regarding all her injuries! Photo to follow (if she will let me get one this time!)

The dressing was changed yesterday and the blisters have gone down and the burn itself looks much better (and smaller) than on day 1, with no sign of infection, so that's all good. She now has a protective dressing that remains on for 7 days to allow the area to heal fully. How many more times can she hurt that one hand???