The Fiber Art of Judy Dominic
I’m dealing with total laryngitis right now. Makes for interesting dinner conversation, for sure! Or to be more exact, ‘quiet’ conversation.
The hardest part is remembering not to answer the phone and let it go to the answering machine or voice mail.
Good thing that most of my ‘conversations’ are done via email. Lack of voice is definitely not slowing down my fingers. 😉
…due to a reconnect surgery! Some days it has felt like I’ve had this colostomy for ages, and then other days it seems like last week was the big blowout.
Yesterday I went through the whole business of cleaning out the system – I’m not sure how people do it without a bag in place! The stuff just runs through you…
Today was the colonoscopy – on both ends! I thought I would be out during the procedure, but wound up staying awake throughout and enjoyed the pictures. Very interesting!
Tomorrow is the big day – my colon and rectum get to say howdy again and get reunited. Once everything is working properly I’ll get to come home (expecting 3-5 days).
Here’s the fun part: the surgeon discovered that I have the longest colon he has ever seen – double what I need – so he is inclined to remove some of the extra since I don’t really need it and it has caused me problems in the past (duh!). In my artwork I use pork (and lately beef) gut. (You can see some of my work here.) Guess what I asked him… Yep! AND he got the okay from the pathologist for me to be able to take some of it home. Not sure how much will be taken off nor how much the pathology department may want to mess with, but the rest is all mine! I don’t have a solid plan yet as to what I’ll do with it once I’m back to making art, but I expect it will be smallish and may only be shown to select folks. But I certainly will be putting myself into my art!
Talk with you after I’m back home. And thanks for all the good wishes and prayers!
My hands made it through the weekend in pretty good shape.
Saturday early morning they helped to put up tents, move tables and chairs, and fill buckets of water for the Misdummer Fiber Arts Sampler that the Weavers Guild of Greater Cincinnati puts on each summer.
Saturday midmorning till early afternoon they helped to snip the ends off green beans for the St. Al’s Shandon annual parish festival’s chicken dinner. Saturday evening they potted eight whiskey glasses full of spider plant babies for the Country Arts booth.
And Sunday they were plunged continuously into hot soapy water to clean off the utensils used at that same parish festival.
Today, my hands have been repeatedly rubbed with lotion. I know they will most likely flake a lot before the week is over, but for the moment they are doing okay. Just a couple pricks from fork tines and sharp-edged knives. They still manage to work the bilum stitch pretty well.
I think I am actually all packed! Amazing – never been this finished before with so many hours left till take-off. I decided to go with two checked bags once I read that Delta will grant a rebate for your second bag if your ticket was purchased before they made the announcement about charging for the second bag. We’ll see if it comes through, but that will certainly save having to hoist one up into the luggage rack, assuming there will be room! The positive results of my trip to the chiropractor today will last a bit longer this way.
I’ve got some empty space, too, in the bags, so I think I should be okay coming home with the leftovers from the classes. Now, to go and experience Tampa and the conference!
Took a walk this evening with my love. We seemed to be right on the edge of a rain cloud that didn’t really look like it would do anything, but we did feel a few drops as we walked. By the time we got home the road in front of our house was showing signs of heavy drops – and lots of them. It always seems so wonderfully awesome to be on the edge of the rain – to literally be able to see where it is raining and where it isn’t.
Stories of Tampa and Convergence coming the end of the month – if there’s time before leaving again!
This evening I attended our local basketry guild meeting. We had the usual complement of members (about 16 or so), some really nicely made show and tell items from classes taken during the conference at Stowe, a bit of business to conduct and some delicious munchies to keep us fueled.
Our program/project was paper quilling. Slender strips of paper wound tightly and then glued into place to create lovely designs.
One of our members came in with her hair down – literally. She has been complaining about how long it has gotten for a couple months now. Usually she keeps it quite short, but hasn’t had the energy or time to get to a clip joint since December, I think she said.
Well, she was there, I was there, a number of scissors were there….and since I really hadn’t planned on doing the quilling, had already eaten more than I needed and was at loose ends…..
Started out by just trimming it shorter to get it off her shoulders. Looked quite nice, but she was ready for shorter. So I called upon my years of haircutting experience with my boys and trimmed her close. Turned out pretty good, I think. She said liked it. She even got a round of applause from the group when she emerged from the bathroom where we did the more extreme clipping. At least she’ll have a cooler head as the weather warms up. Hope she didn’t itch too much on the drive home from stray hairs down her back.
Told the rest of the group to call for appointments if they wanted the salon open during meetings.