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  • melclarity
    melclarity Member Posts: 3,531 ✭
    edited April 29


    Hello! 

    Well I've finally done it!! I've published my first book. Hopefully the first of many :) hope everyone is well. 

    You can see it here

    Scent Of Reflections: Poetry of loss, love and self https://amzn.asia/d/9P7K2jo




  • jennyss
    jennyss Member Posts: 2,083 ✭
     @melclarity!
  • melclarity
    melclarity Member Posts: 3,531 ✭
    @jennyss thank you! It's been so wonderful to achieve a dream after this path we all found ourselves in. X
  • June1952
    June1952 Member Posts: 1,935 ✭
    @melclarity - congratulations on such a big achievement.
    Guessing that is Amazon ?  Not there but will have a look.
    All the best with it.
  • melclarity
    melclarity Member Posts: 3,531 ✭
    @June1952 thanks!! Yes lol on Amazon x
  • arpie
    arpie Member Posts: 8,198 ✭
    Well done, Mel xxx
  • melclarity
    melclarity Member Posts: 3,531 ✭
    @arpie thanks a bunch :)
  • cranky_granny
    cranky_granny Member Posts: 914 ✭
    Fantastic @melclarity i wish I could put words on paper successfully. Well done. 👍 

  • melclarity
    melclarity Member Posts: 3,531 ✭
    @arpie @cranky_granny
    Thanks so much, I think it took along time after treatment and surgeries etc before I really started writing again about all sorts of things. Sometimes I still struggle with words a little. There is so little talk of survivorship and living with the effects of all of what we go through. I actually look back in amazement now thinking of in the midst of chemo that I honestly thought I would not make it out of the depths because it was so grueling and so underestimated. 9 years since my 2nd diagnosis and I honestly for the first time say to myself...look what you did kid...YOU...who thought would never make it out you work full time in a challenging role with difficult students and you achieved your dream of your first book. Money can't buy that. Thanks for the support ladies. :)  
  • arpie
    arpie Member Posts: 8,198 ✭
    edited July 26
    Finger Knitting was quite popular in the 'old days' .... for making bracelets and Key Fobs (or for any use you'd like to use it with!).  This is a good one to show the Grand Kids!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-conMURCJfY

    and another way of doing it ..... with fancy 'turban knot' to tidy it up .... 

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/503209235698706
  • arpie
    arpie Member Posts: 8,198 ✭
    WOW!  How STUNNING is this?? Who does Stained Glass??  Show us your stuff!

    A bicycle wheel turned into a piece of stained glass wonder!!  And using the existing fork as the support - and I bet the wheel still spins in the sun!!!

  • arpie
    arpie Member Posts: 8,198 ✭
    How cute is this?  If you have any old work boots lying around .... put a hole in the 'points' to let any bird waste/fluid out) and turn them into Bird Boxes!!!


  • arpie
    arpie Member Posts: 8,198 ✭
    Time to get the kids and grand kids into making Xmas Decorations again .... some great ideas, here!

    https://kitchenfunwithmy3sons.com/the-best-hand-and-footprint-art-ideas/
  • cranky_granny
    cranky_granny Member Posts: 914 ✭
    @MelV83 great job. Oh the memories of making Dance costumes though that was 30 years ago. So doing Grease musical is still popular today. The tule and the slippery satin. The makeup and the endless hair styles. Now i just go to the granddaughters concerts so much easier. 

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