Cast # 7

Not sure if Taryn is going for some kind of record, but this is cast number 7 in 18 months! Of course that sounds worse than it actually is, as the first 6 were only for 2 different injuries.
Well this cast (if it's even big enough to call it that), was to immobilize her thumb. Yes it's the same thumb she broke last year - apparently now a weak spot seeing as the injury was over the growth plate. So this time, no tree root was involved, just an aggressive opponent on the netball court.
I always imagined it would be Jayden that ended up with all the real injuries, but somehow he seems to get away with the all the dangerous things he tries and Taryn gets hurt doing normal stuff!
Well let's hope we can make it through the balance of the year without another cast, or I might have people start questioning her injuries!!!!!

Farewell Brian

Sadly on May 9th, Brian, a valued member of the Camp committee passed away. Brian had worked tirelessly as the committee secretary and had worked on numerous camp matters and was famous for his letter writing abilities (especially to the ARC), among many other things.
It came as such a shock, especially given that in recent months he seemed to be in the best health I had ever seen him in (in my 3 years on the committee). I had just started to discover his wit and sometimes hidden sense of humour. I enjoyed working with someone so dedicated to what he was involved in. I will miss him. Farewell Brian - Rest in Peace.

Camp - A fun workout..

..for my stomach muscles. I can't remember the last time I laughed so much and for so long. Several of us at ScrapCamp had tears in our eyes, were holding our tummies (from the pain of laughing so much) and begging the story tellers to stop. Sylvia put us right over the edge with the story of the 'Down' family and their sons: Bob, Neil, Stan (& I'm sure there was one more but I can't remember), and then their daughter Eider!
Photos to come.
And a wee confession - I fell off the wagon and bought more ribbons. 4 initially, but then in my last overseas order, I brought some boxed sets in for a customer. 3 different themes with 1 yard each of 6 different co-ordinated ribbons per box. Minimum quantity of each design was 3. She bought 2 of each and left the 3rd. They are sitting on my table looking all glorious and inviting. I'm not sure if they'll make it to the shelves!! That was at the end of April and my goal is to try an make it through May without another ribbon purchase.

Hi, I'm Carrie and I'm a ribbonholic!

It's been 13 days since my last ribbon purchase. My addiction started with fibres, but like many addicts, I soon moved onto something stronger and ribbons became my preference.
I didn't really realize I had a problem until trying to find the best method of storage. Those bought by the metre are hung through book rings, but I also had many prepackaged ribbons on small spools. I found containers for these (the clear ones on the left-hand side of the photo), but still have some odd ones to store (that's them in the box in the top left-hand corner).
So how bad is my addiction, well in my defence, not as bad as some I know (eh Tania?), but I counted them and without repeats (of which I have a few), there are 327 different ribbons. Tania by the way has over 400!! She's real bad huh?
Well ScrapCamp is next week and the plan is to use at least 10 different ribbons while I'm there and then be strong and fight the urge to buy more. Perhaps I'll even get really serious about it and give away some of my duplicate pieces? Well, on second thoughts, perhaps I'm not quite ready for that step yet, but soon maybe!

Has it really been that long???

I couldn't believe it when I logged in to post. A whole month has just gone by with no posts - how slack. Well I suppose I just wasn't up to sitting posting about how bad I'd been feeling after the operation - for over a month!!!! Well the good news is I'm finally on the road to recovery. So would I recommend having Endoscopic Sinus Surgery - HELL NO! Apparently (says the surgeon) most people don't have such a rough time - yeah that made me feels heaps better!
Onto to brighter things - School Holidays next week, along with ScrapCamp, followed the next weekend with the Ceramics show. A busy time, but should give me heaps to post about.

Uncomfortable Mattress?

Well apparently my son has the answer, so that you can have a really comfortable and restful snooze/sleep. Strip the bed down, lift the mattress, lie on the bare wooden slats and place the mattress on top of you! Presto. Think of how much money I could have saved by not buying bed linen if I new this years ago!!!!!

Still no recommendations...

Although the surgeon promises I'll get there. Ended up with a secondary post op infection. It was painful to say the least! More drugs, which gave me huge gastric problems. Was just starting to feel better when the 2 week check up came around. Without going into too much detail, a nasal spray to numb the area DOES NOT stop you feeling the scraping, suction and general prodding in the sinus area, nor the pressure felt as yet another plastic splint (which by the way looked way too big to fit where it was going) was inserted into the side without the infection. Yuk!
For the first time in ages, I had to cancel all my classes two weeks running - bummed out! Looking forward to getting back to scrapbooking and getting onto my ceramic entries for the Easter show next week. All going well, my sinus issues will be in the past by then.