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	<title>raising willow... and dexter!</title>
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		<title>Pure Awesome.</title>
		<link>http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/18/pure-awesome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, some of you may know that I am studying at Uni.  I&#8217;m also studying Certificate IV in Mental Health, but that&#8217;s another story for another day. I started my Social Work degree in March 2008, when Dexie was about 6 months old.  I had studied previously and the credit from that study [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So, some of you may know that I am studying at Uni.  I&#8217;m also studying Certificate IV in Mental Health, but that&#8217;s another story for another day. I started my Social Work degree in March 2008, when Dexie was about 6 months old.  I had studied previously and the credit from that study expired after 10 years.  I didn&#8217;t finish that degree because inconsiderately, both of my parents died within 4 months.
Eight years later, I bit the bullet and returned to study.  At the time I was working, for the most part, 0.8 or about 30 hours a week.  As a result of the previous study, I did 2 subjects a semester, winter school, 2 subjects, summer school, 2 subjects, winter school and 2 subjects.  This meant that I completed 2 years of the degree in 2 years, normally students would do 4 subjects a semester and no winter school or summer school.  
At this point in time, at the start of my third year, my peers are doing their placements.  Since I&#8217;ve had about 8 years of experience in case management and roles where social workers would also be employed, I&#8217;m getting Recognition of Prior Learning for it.  I&#8217;m only doing one subject, a fascinating look at current Indigenous issues.  Next semester I&#8217;ll have to do three subjects.  
Again, my peers will be doing four subjects, but by doing this Indigenous subject now, I don&#8217;t have to do one in second semester.  I rang uni today to confirm that I was on the right track.  I was looking at the course time tables for the two internal subjects that I&#8217;ll be doing to find that they are on the same day.  One lot of awesome.  Life is a lot less complicated if I only have to go into uni once a week. 
However, I noticed that these subjects had the placement as a pre-requisite. I wanted to check that this could be over-ridden and the program co-ordinator said that wouldn&#8217;t be a problem. After I breathed a sigh of relief, I lamented that third year would take me a year, but fourth year would take me two.  I would do my fourth year placement at work, but I couldn&#8217;t do a full time load of study and work 30 hours a week.  
The program co-ordinator said that lots of people work and do fourth year because the subjects are not the traditional lecture + tutorial once a week.  They are done in one week blocks, so I could do the four subjects in one semester, with paid and unpaid leave.  Then do the placement at work and I&#8217;ve finished!  I will have done a four year degree in four years while working 30 hours a week for most of it.  
I couldn&#8217;t decide whether to laugh or cry. Pure Awesome.
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		<title>$15 an hour</title>
		<link>http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/17/15-an-hour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>candi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[life, jim, but not as we know it]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s depressing, isn&#8217;t it?  I worked out the other day that after tax and salary sacrifice, I make $15 per hour.  I made more in my first job at an abbatoir, packaging meat. 
On the bright side, it is a great job.  I don&#8217;t have to deal with dead animal!  Seriously, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s depressing, isn&#8217;t it?  I worked out the other day that after tax and salary sacrifice, I make $15 per hour.  I made more in my first job at an abbatoir, packaging meat. 
On the bright side, it is a great job.  I don&#8217;t have to deal with dead animal!  Seriously, it is flexible, challenging, supportive and I work with some very inspiring people.  Plus working as I do, means that my uni experience is a lot more rounded.
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		<title>It&#8217;s a small world after all.</title>
		<link>http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/11/its-a-small-world-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>candi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I have a client, who is also a client of a state government agency.  He has a case worker from this agency, to whom he has to report every week.  Often, I&#8217;ll take him in to report because it means that I know he&#8217;s done it.  The case worker and I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So, I have a client, who is also a client of a state government agency.  He has a case worker from this agency, to whom he has to report every week.  Often, I&#8217;ll take him in to report because it means that I know he&#8217;s done it.  The case worker and I have a chat while he&#8217;s there - she&#8217;s lovely.  Today we had a case conference about him and during a lull in the conversation, she exclaimed &#8220;I know where I know you from!&#8221;  
It turns out that about 8 years ago, I started a new job.  It was the week after my father died and looking back, I didn&#8217;t do the job justice.  I left after 6 months to go overseas.  My client&#8217;s case worker was the person who had held the position before me.  So I would have seen her name on all the case notes, etc.  No wonder her name (rather than her face) was oddly familiar!
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		<title>Bride of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Junior.</title>
		<link>http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/09/bride-of-frankenstein-and-frankenstein-junior/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>candi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I made two more pairs of undies today, one for Willow and one for me.  I thought the white elastic and stitching might lighten my pair, but they really just look like granny undies!  I have found another pattern that looks a bit more modern.  Willow chose the purple elastic, so that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I made two more pairs of undies today, one for Willow and one for me.  I thought the white elastic and stitching might lighten my pair, but they really just look like granny undies!  I have found another pattern that looks a bit more modern.  Willow chose the purple elastic, so that&#8217;s what I went with. 

Must admit that I never thought I&#8217;d be showing off my underwear on this blog! 

A has asked me to make some boxers for him, but he is very, very fussy about the boxers he likes to wear, so I don&#8217;t really want to put all that effort in only to find that he won&#8217;t wear them.  I might see if I can chop up one of his old t-shirts and at least have a go.  
One of my problems at the moment is that I&#8217;m not very organised.  I seem to have a habit of losing things and buying more of them, only to find the original.  That&#8217;s why I haven&#8217;t yet bought another pair of pinking shears.  Mum&#8217;s heavy black handled pair is around somewhere.  I&#8217;d love to take the time to categorise my fabric.  I&#8217;d also like to categorise my patterns once I get them back from the friend I&#8217;ve lent them to.  When I was tidying everything up before, I just dumped anything that looked remotely like a pattern in this 100L tub.  There are patterns traced onto baking paper, newspaper, interfacing, etc&#8230;  vintage patterns, books to make Barbie clothes, modern pattern books and so on.   Hopefully she can find something interesting, if not useful in there!
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		<title>Not just sewing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/08/not-just-sewing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>candi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been doing more than just sewing lately - it was a long weekend here in Adelaide, so we went down to see A&#8217;s mum yesterday.  On the way we stopped at a friend&#8217;s house, who has four children.  My two, and A played with them nicely while we talked about sewing.
This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have been doing more than just sewing lately - it was a long weekend here in Adelaide, so we went down to see A&#8217;s mum yesterday.  On the way we stopped at a friend&#8217;s house, who has four children.  My two, and A played with them nicely while we talked about sewing.
This week at school Willow is having swimming lessons, since she&#8217;s not terribly confident in the water and she misses out a day because of the public holiday I took her to the Adelaide Aquatic Centre.  We hadn&#8217;t been there for a couple of years, but we had a great time.  It was amazing to see the different cultures there, a big group of Indian people, a Chinese mother with her daughter and baby son, a group of young Aboriginal boys.  Even over the short time we were in the water I could see her confidence increasing.  It was a nice way to end the weekend, plus a good way to get in some exercise since I couldn&#8217;t get to the gym today. 
Unfortunately I forgot to take my camera or I would have some photos.
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		<title>Papie!</title>
		<link>http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/08/papie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>candi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Papie is the word Dexie uses for paper at the moment, very cute, we think.  I recently printed off 24 A4 pages to make up a pattern, sticky taped them together and traced it on to thin interfacing.  When I was finished with the paper, I turned it over and gave it to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Papie is the word Dexie uses for paper at the moment, very cute, we think.  I recently printed off 24 A4 pages to make up a pattern, sticky taped them together and traced it on to thin interfacing.  When I was finished with the paper, I turned it over and gave it to Dexie to draw on.  

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		<title>Calenday photos</title>
		<link>http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/08/calenday-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>candi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally uploaded the photos, so you&#8217;ll know what I&#8217;m talking about - Calenday.  Dexie had to be in the photo. 

This is how we hang it up.

The proportions.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I finally uploaded the photos, so you&#8217;ll know what I&#8217;m talking about - Calenday.  Dexie had to be in the photo. 

This is how we hang it up.

The proportions.

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		<title>Oven mitt</title>
		<link>http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/08/oven-mitt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>candi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A complained that I hadn&#8217;t made anything for him.  So I made this oven mitt.  I traced a pattern off one that he likes, but made it bigger for his manly hands.  Notice the strawberry in the background?  

I&#8217;m quite pleased with how the quilting turned out.  I have enough [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A complained that I hadn&#8217;t made anything for him.  So I made this oven mitt.  I traced a pattern off one that he likes, but made it bigger for his manly hands.  Notice the strawberry in the background?  

I&#8217;m quite pleased with how the quilting turned out.  I have enough left over to make a pot holder, so I might do that later.  Now I know how to drop my feed dogs (only been sewing for over 20 years!) I might even try free style quilting.
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		<title>Frankenstein Undies!</title>
		<link>http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/08/frankenstein-undies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>candi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we went to a friend&#8217;s house for lunch.  She is a sister sewing enthusiast and we swapped some patterns.  I have some of her precious Ottobre patterns. In one of them I saw a pattern for girls knickers, which interested me, but there was also a pattern for women&#8217;s knickers.  In [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yesterday we went to a friend&#8217;s house for lunch.  She is a sister sewing enthusiast and we swapped some patterns.  I have some of her precious Ottobre patterns. In one of them I saw a pattern for girls knickers, which interested me, but there was also a pattern for women&#8217;s knickers.  In Mum&#8217;s stash there is a bag of knicker elastic, so I thought it was a good opportunity to try something new. 
I started with an old Country Road top, the lace had come undone, so it was really only for wearing around the house.  

I stitched the seams together with the overlocker. 

The end result.  I was sure that there was some black elastic in there, but purple would have to do.  The pattern didn&#8217;t have a crotch and three seams joined in that area, so it really needed one.  Next time I think I&#8217;ll cut a bigger gusset out, use only green fabric and white knicker elastic.  The good thing about the green fabric is that it is quite, ahem, supportive - good for my 30-something bum. 

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		<title>Positives</title>
		<link>http://blog.raisingwillow.com/2010/03/03/positives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>candi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the previous melancholy post.  I wanted to write about two people who made comments to me recently, comments that meant a lot.  
One of my clients is going through a property settlement, her lawyer is an amazing woman, someone I admire very much.  She told me the other day that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sorry for the previous melancholy post.  I wanted to write about two people who made comments to me recently, comments that meant a lot.  
One of my clients is going through a property settlement, her lawyer is an amazing woman, someone I admire very much.  She told me the other day that my assistance has been invaluable.
Tonight I did a pilates class which was a bit more full on that I am used to.  The male instructor told me a few times that my poses were perfect.  Ok, so he was probably just being encouraging since it was my first time in his class and I know that there were other people there who were far better than me.  Regardless, it was nice to hear.
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