Knights in blue satin...

I have one more day before we head to Ballarat for my second lot of surgery. We are going early as the weather is going to be around 40 degrees, and we've booked ourselves in to the Regent Multiplex Gold Class cinema to see Les Miserables. HOPING that the theatre's airconditioning doesn't break down as Cinema 1's did when we went to see The Hobbit! That will be our wedding anniversary/Pete's birthday treat. Then Friday morning 7am we front up to admissions, the weather outside will be cooler, and I won't know much about it. Oh well, it'll be good for Pete. I've been mucking around with material and a shibori technique and here below is one example, one I'm quite proud of. I won't be able to do any of this for a couple of weeks or more after Friday. There it is!

Time for pictures

Just a late-night look at some pictures of things I've been working on.

and a little collection of furry friends who reside amongst the stuff...

Let's lap up some cooler weather

After some incredibly hot days and the awful news of bushfires in Victoria, NSW and Tasmania, it was lovely to have a cool one yesterday and a pleasant, bit warmer day today. Last week we travelled back to Ballarat for results of surgery and sentinel node biopsy. The BEST news is that the cancer cells haven't travelled, so given the all-clear there, and the only hiccup is that I have to go back next week for second surgery (in the same incision) to 'clean up' as pathology suggested that not all margins were clear.
I am ok with this as I want to make absolutely certain that it's all gone. Apart from having to go back to work this week I have been doing a fair bit of textile work, as much as I can manage most days with a couple of wounds still healing and causing pain. Speaking to a friend yesterday in the supermarket reminded me that to go through my particular breast cancer experience is to somehow have been given a ticket to explore the great unknown and to experience as much as possible. So if I have a New Year's resolution, part  a is to leap off into the unknown, exciting world, part b is to advocate breastscreening for women 50+ and to  remind younger women to be aware. Now all I need to do is to make something pink.