Doing what you LOVE to do - before, during & after BC! What's YOUR favourite?
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Wow Ladies you are an inspiration to me this morning. Got up feeling a bit low have had the Grandkids the last couple of days and tho I love them dearly they do tire me out a bit. So was planning a nothing day but now I am finking get the puzzle out you bought last year when going through treatment. Or scan the net for the patterns to knit Doll's cloths for Granddaughters dolls.
Dunno if hubby would appreciate me building a bathroom lol.
I have got back to my Guitar and can play Amazing Grace without looking and mistakes ( well not many anyway).
This thread has done me the world of good this morning.
Thank you all.
Jan xxxxx
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WOW! @smokie08 - that is a real work of art!! Almost a shame to eat it! Now, if one of those capers was at the bottom right - it could almost be a map of Australia with Tassie at the bottom .... or am I reading something into it that isn't there?? LOL
@Brenda5 I am in AWE of anyone with the patience for completing a jigsaw puzzle of that size & complexity!! Well done YOU! I hope you get the heart thing sorted with the new Doc ..... and ENJOY the John Williamson concert/bbq - will you be allowed to record the songs on your phone??!! I hope you can get back to your fishing as soon as you are able - I know that I go stir crazy when denied for too long! 
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Hey @Janny54 That's terrific we've been able to bring a smile to the dial - and got you excited about doing 'stuff' again .... grab that guitar & give it a go, then move onto the puzzle & Knitting patterns .....
Last weekend, 9 of my hubby's triathlon buddies & partners joined us up at Crescent Heads for a weekend away. With the weather being a bit wet, I took 10 ukes with us & showed them the basics of playing!! They had a ball!! They'd initially said 'yeah, but only for an hour, then we go to the Club ....' and they sat there enjoying themselves for 2hrs & then we all went to the club for dinner & drinkies!! They are still raving about it nearly a week later. They all have grandies - and the uke is the perfect sized instrument for kids to 'start out on' .... and indeed, one that they can 'grow with' into adulthood as well!! Never treat it as a toy!!
Yeehaa ..... MORE CONVERTS!
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@Brenda5 I love a puzzle! I did a 3000 piece one last year just before I was diagnosed. And I'm about to start a 2000 piece one, of a colourful Cuban street. I got a puzzle roll for Christmas so I don't colonise the dining table! I'm going away to an Otis Foundation property in a couple of weeks and I'm taking a 1000 piece.
@Annie C I hope you're up for meeting some fellow forum members at the conference. You are amazing, I'd love to meet you! K xox3 -
My husband and i love skiing and considering that we missed out on a ripper of a season last year with both of us having cancer we are both going to make up for it this year at Falls Creek. I love thread painting (embroidery) and have a weeks worth of embroidery workshops booked in Glenelg this October which should be fab as well as having various ufo's on the go (un-finished-objects). Gardening, going to the gym, walking my dog Rufus and planning the extension to our forever home in Tawonga South. Going to listen to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is also good, most of the time the repetoire is good and sometimes you come out thinking what the...all fun and games!
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@kmakm I can't wait for the conference in Melbourne. Only 62 sleeps to go before I leave for Perth and then 2 more and I am in Melbourne. I will be spending a week in Melbourne, from
9 August to 17 August.
Only spoiling time between now and Melbourne is my 12 month scans in Perth at the end of June. However what ever happens at the scans will just have to wait until after Melbourne.
Definitely want to meet up with "sista" members. We will need some identifying methods as to who we are. I will be the strange "lady" dressed in out of fashion Antartic clothing and probably shivering!!
@Sister Mystery Road is excellent. It was filmed around Wyndham just 700 kms up the road from us. Similiar country. And the dialogue, scenes and behaviour is true to form. What we see every day! Ian, my husband, and myself are totally absorbed in it, so much so, that we are recording it to watch again later.
Speaking of boabs I have a huge boab with a girth of 7 metres, just off my back verandah. It forms a focal point of the garden.
@Artferret How I would love to do an embroidery workshop. Somehow the internet tutorials are just not the same. I have lots of UFO's. Found some the other day and so i am again inspired. Whether they will be finished depends on what grabs my attention next. At the moment doll making is "flavour of the day"
I call these dolls my Boab Babes. I dye the body fabric using pindan. Pindan is our red dirt. Makes a great dye. You never get pindan out of your white clothes! The dolls are "born" at the bottom of our boab trees! I sell them at our market stall held at the CWA cottage in town on Saturday mornings. I have my crafts and Ian has his wood turning. Classical music is also my passion. My sewing room vibrates with the orchestral sounds of classical cd's. Nothing like sewing to the great classics.
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My husband and I travelled through the Kimberley region pre-kids and absolutely loved it. I remember the line of cliffs so clearly and driving the dirt roads, knowing there'd be a creek bed coming up because of the boabs.2
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Envious - crafty I'm not. I would love to have the patience to do that. Great job. Nobody is playing golf! That's me. Although haven't been on the course for four weeks due to the two op's. But I'm on the course this Sunday for the first time since diagnosed. I'll be interestiing to see if my swing has changed now I'm a bit out of balance so to speak.
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@Annie C - you must be somewhere near Katherine, with the bats and Boab trees?0
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@Annie C How are you for fabric sources in Melbourne? I have two very good friends who have mountains of fabric and know lots of good places to shop. I can hit them up for a list of good places if you like.
Can't wait to meet you. And work out our identifier... as long as it's not pink!
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@Annie C, thank you for the lovely photos, you have made my afternoon, love the frog and the croc is just fantastic love the expression on its face, I am always in awe of ladies who can do this, I can only manage cobble stitches in anything I do I guess I am a payer and not a dooer, so have to buy these beautiful items, lovely to hear about everyones favourite past times,
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Hey @Harvey1903 I play golf too (badly - so I don't have a 'handicap' as such - except perhaps just the fact that I play! LOL!) Then 10 years ago I got frozen shoulder & it took 2 years to 'come back' - then the other one went bung too but it took 4 years to come good ..... so I haven't played in years!
Hubby & I were just talking about having a hit last week! We MUST do it soon - but sadly it takes 2nd string to my uke & yak fishing!! Hubby is a natural - I find that my 'squash swing' helped me big time!
All the best for your first 'go' since diagnosis - take it a tad slowly at first - you may not be able to do the full 'back slapping follow thru' that you've been used to. 1 -
@Annie C The embroidery workshops I'm going to are held every two years in Glenelg, Adelaide (it's by the beach and not far from Adelaide just a short tram ride) and is called Beating round the Bush. We have tutors and fellow embroiderers who come from all around the world for eight days of fun. There are 1,2 and 3 day workshops. Check it out online and have a look at what's on offer workshopwise this year. It's held at Immanuel College and you can stay there as well or find your own accommodation. The company who run it through Inspirations embroidery magazine also do deals with some of the big accommodation places there and run shuttle buses to the venue. I have to admit it's not cheap by the time you tote up flights, accommodation, cost of workshops and kits but i figure it's only every two years so what the hell! I fly in from Melbourne with my sister, mum and a friend so we rent a house and spread the cost that way. Check it out and see what you think. And if you haven't come across the Inspirations magazine before it's the best embroidery mag I've ever drooled over.
Cheers Cath0
