Hi everyone :-)
How have you all been keeping?
Thank you for the cards and phone calls to see how I am going. They really have brightened my days :-)
I am plodding along. The specialist has left no stone unturned and I am due for another stint into hospital at the beginning of September, hopefully just for the day, for another round of tests to double check his findings. The diagnosis is Crohn's Disease, which is an autoimmune disease effecting the digestive system. It causes inflammation of the bowel, most commonly the lower small intestine (ileum) and the large intestine
(colon). Mine is all the way through both intestines and stomach - yay! The inflammation extends through the entire thickness of
the bowel wall which causes abdominal pain, diarrhoea
and a range of other symptoms including fever and weight loss. No cure for this, a whole new way of eating - good thing I love to cook and experiment, isn't it! I am in quite a bit of pain each day and still zooming to the toilet copious times, but hopefully with the help of the specialist, medication and cutting out grains, refined sugars and dairy, it will settle down.
Anyhoo, I am going to begin workshops again - but on a much reduced scale. At this stage just once a month. I know you all understand xx
Please, please, please - bookings for all workshops are absolutely essential.
So, firstly, we shall get some Art Journaling happening on Friday 15th August @ 1pm and again @ 7pm. We are finally going to be using all those barcode strips that I've been collecting all year ;-P The workshop will be $10 and you will need to bring your art journal tool kit, paints, Tripletac adhesive (or gel medium), black stazon ink, background type stamps, acrylic block, rubons in black and a black journal pen. I shall post a pic next week once I have finished my page.
Scrapping workshop will be on Thursday 28th August @ 1pm. Here is a quick pic to whet your appetite...
Good news for the ladies who have been patiently waiting for the Martha Stewart Circle Cutting Systems to arrive - they will be here next week!!!! Yay! Finally, after a few months on backorder I received an email yesterday saying they were in stock. So I quickly put the order through before you missed out again! The 4"-12" cutter is $45 each and the 1"-5" is $43. I shall let you know personally when they arrive :-)
I have been doing a little bit of art. Here is a bloom girl I did with the lovely talented Jamie Dougherty -
She just needs to go into a frame and be hung :-)
Rightyho, back to editing ballet photos!
Happy Scrapping,
Mandy :-)
