Thursday, December 10, 2009

good news, bad news...

First the good news - my second winner is #23 - Beth of Needles, Threads and Crafts, who requested squares. Yay! I was curious about what was more popular, so I tallied the votes - it was 18 for FQs and 15 for Squares (and a few with no preference). So there you go! I'm excited about setting up some swaps, and will be following up with the folks who said they'd be interested after the holidays.

Now the bad news.... all those wonderful awesomeness points my husband earned with that fantastic cake last week? Totally wiped out by his failure to remember that our daughter is allergic to penicillin when asked by the doctor! It wasn't caught by the doctor, who prescribed Amoxycillin for an ear infection, or the pharmacist who dispensed it, or the mama who gave her two doses of it (even celebrating that she was SOOOOO crafty about using pink food color to trick her into taking the "yucky" medicine) before she actually read the label. Luckily, her allergy is not the anaphylactic type, but a serum sickness type of reaction - just a delayed but really nasty rash (that last link is to some photos of her last episode - poor girlie!). She's fine right now, but the previous reactions she had to Amoxycillin only started a full 10 days after taking it, so we'll wait and see.... Ug.

Anyway, on to happier subjects.... I whipped up a little paper garland for the tree this week. Here's a link to a tutorial that's similar. I used three different punches - a 2" scalloped circle, and 1.5" and 1" plain circles. I think I used about 14 sheets of 12" scrapbooking paper, and it made a pretty long garland. My paper was only single-sided, so I paired up the pieces (just using a dab of glue stick, letting it dry overnight) before chaining them together with the sewing machine. Super quick and easy! And cute on the tree!



I went to my Project Linus meeting last Sunday, and volunteered to bring home a couple quilts that needed binding. This scottie dog one has a wavy edge, and I thought I might be able to use the extra binding I had made from that challenge fabric, which has lycra in it. But the stretch is cross-wise instead of length-wise, so I don't think it would work very well. The chapter coordinator suggested I just trim it straight, and I think that's what I'll do.


I love the simple design on this next one. I think I'll jot down the measurements and try it myself someday!



11 comments:

  1. Oh your poor daughter. Our youngest gets the same reaction to penicillin only he gets it every where he almost looks like one big red blotch. I hope she is blotch free soon xox

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  2. Congrats to the second winner--how nice of you to host a secong giveaway! I've been behind on my reading, so I missed it :( Glad to hear your daughter is now okay---yikes!

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  3. oh...sweet girl..I hope this incident isn't as bad as the last, but thankfully she is a trooper and wasn't too bad the first time!! You could always hope that it is something she will "grow out" of. LOVE the paper garland, it does look pretty on your tree! Good luck with the quilts..the scottie dog is precious!

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  4. AAw poor little one. That is rather surprising that no one, the doc or pharmacist, didn't catch that. But then again I was given a drug I'm allergic too in hospital even with a red band on my wrist and it written in my file and highlighted several times. Sometimes people just don't pay attention. I'm sure daddy feels awful.

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  5. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

    I hope your daughter is feeling better and that she doesn't have a bigger reaction.

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  6. glad that your daughter is ok!!! i absolutely love the last little quilt. especially the colors and fabric.

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  7. Oh no!!! Poor girl!!! At least you caught it relatively early. It would have sucked extra bad to have gone through the whole cycle. :(

    Those Linus quilts are so cute! It is so awesome of you to volunteer to bind them. Sigh... Keith had to work again on Sunday, so no Linus for me. Maybe in January? Who knows... maybe I'll even get a quilt done by then! :)

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  8. Poor thing...not nice being poorly at this time of year. I'll keep my fingers crosses that she doesn't react.

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  9. OMG! I'm so glad she's okay! Whew! You know, amoxicillin was my favorite growing up...is it still the opaque pink bubble-gummy flavor stuff? Love it!

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  10. Congratulations to the winner!

    And I'll throw my "I hope your girlie is doing okay and doesn't react too nastily" thought into the blogosphere.

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