Soul Arts

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaack

Well, I feel like I have been away.. not nec from home.. but from life

Have been off 'work' (real work where I get paid lol) for the last two weeks while I recover from surgery.. Had a deviated septum that was interfering with breathing straightened, and my chronic sinsus's cleared out along with loads of nasal polyps (caused by allergy to just about everything airborne lol)... Don't you just love menopause.. Never had hayfever or anything till I hit menopause..now just about everything makes me sneeze and irritates the sinus sigh....

 Am feeling much better day by day.. And in fact today when I cooked some crumpets I actually smelt them as they popped up...small thing yes... but I have had NO sense of smell unless I take Prednisolone for about 5 yrs... so to get a whiff on something without meds is very encouraging. 

Have a day out tomorrow first with #1 daughter to the museum to see the Pompeii exhibition and a play day Monday with Eliza, Lucy and Glenda... Then its back to the grindstone... 

Have added the pic here of our day out last sunday - at Jen's house....all proudly showing our new pendants :-) (I'm the bleary eyed one second from the right LOL)

Play Days

Had a lovely time yesterday, came out of my self imposed 'hermit time' after  the surgery and headed up to Ballarat with Lucy and Eva to visit Jen Crossley and do her little etched book pendant....it has a tin photo (showing my ignorance here and had never heard of them before), etched brass top and wire cross stitch... yeah.. that was fun! lucky it was meant to look 'primitive'  roflamo... but I do love it.. plan to wear it next week when I finally go back to work...

Lunch was yummy...Jen made pumpkin soup and sausage rolls.. we chatted, created and had a lovely time.

We drove past Lake Wendoureee which was so dry there was grass growing on it and you could have WALKED across it one side to the other!  I remember we used to take the kids for picnics and stop at Lake Wendouree (about 20 yrs ago LOL) but for such a beautiful lake to see it drained and dry was sad....

Recuperating

Am on Day 4 after the FESS surgery....  feeling a bit better each day, though the nose is still very blocked.. and running at the same time...as per usual my life is full of contradictions lol.

I get the plastic splints out of the nose this Friday... they are there to hold the repaired deviated setpum in place while it heals... cant wait for that.. they are sooooo big that once they are out my nose will HAVE TO be less blocked.  In the meantime I am sleeping lots and killing lots of hours playing Mafia on Facebook lol. 

I have this week and next off work, so hopefully by the weekend I will be feeling sufficiently 'human' to actually enjoy my second week off... here's hoping anyway!  

Havent been up to doing any arting yet - but am feeling more like it each day... 

(Pics are from Sunnystones, stamp camp weekend)

Been a While....

Geez.. a month since my last post...  where did the time go?

Hmmmm.....been flat out work trying to work in midst of renovations and workmen... getting CSR2010 up to speed so I can leave it for a couple of weeks while I go to ground for some minor surgery.... organising extra classes... guess I'm excused LOL

Went to Monika's Stamp Camp last weekend that she runs via Beachhouse Boulevard.. had a lovely time...all meals cooked by the every smiling Mick/Kitchen Bitch/MOTH... classes by the lovely and clever Rachel Grieg from Darkroom Door... good company...

Drove up with Lucy on the Friday (my roomie) caught up with Sue Thiel, Joan McAlpine, Liz Aitken, Marie Jokovanic and Michelle Brown... was VERY cold outside most days, and a bit cool inside the first night.. (not Monika's fault.. resident manager SHOULD have had the fires going before we arrived) but we were toasty warm from Saturday morning onwards with both Coonara heaters going... and I didnt need my hottie in bed at nights.. which, for those who know me.. know thats saying something! LOL

 We made a few cards using Dimensional Pearls, bottle tops and Ranger Accents and Rachels Darkroom Door stamps... learnt a few things.. but the BEST thing I learnt was how to flatten bottletops (NEATLY) and how to pronounce Adirondack!!  two things that I have always struggled with lol.. I am happy when I do I class that if I learn ONE new thing.. its been worth it.. so weekend (apart from camaradie and mental health/relaxation time) was totally worth it.

When we were heading off last sunday morning to return home we came across the 'sunnystones' mob just down the road..there was easy a dozen of them there.... being a city girl, had never seen so many 'wild' roo's in the one place before...

Had to take the pics from a reasonable distance though as everytime I idled the car forward they took off LOL.

Last weekend was Miss Maggies first birthday today too... little girl is now one year old... another big blur of time lol

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