Mod Podging Dramamine Containers or The Advantages of Being Dizzy

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The other day Kim Kesti, of Creating Keepsakes and Moxie Fab World fame, asked for suggestions about how to combat vertigo on her personal blog. I posted a comment to the affect that the only way to fight it was to use Dramamine. I was prescribed Meclizine, the ingredient in Dramamine, several years ago for vertigo. When I discovered that Dramamine has the same ingredient at the same dose I abandoned the pricey doctor's visits for prescriptions and purchased it over the counter.

Kim's post reminded me that I was out of the meds and that I had 2 empty bottles bouncing around in my purse. The bottles are small and work well for carrying medications and other small things I don't want all over the bottom of my bag.  I usually have 2 bottles in my bag, one for the Dramamine and one for some kind of OTC pain med for headaches. These bottles are really the only advantage to vertigo, unless you like that morning after the night that never was feeling. People without this problem don't get the cool bottles.

There is a problem having multiple identical packages, sometimes I have to open 2 bottles to get what I am looking for. Also the bottles are about the size of a lipstick and because I generally search through my bag using the braille method I sometimes grab the wrong thing and when you are dizzy you don't want to waste time you want to get relief quickly.

Well I decided it was time to fix these problems. First off I didn't want the containers to look like they held Dramamine any longer. So I Mod Podged a bit of scrap paper to the outside (putting paper on the inside would just be silly). 

 

Then I got out the P-Touch labeler and added a label with the contents of each container. Now the didn't look like they held Dramamine, but they still felt sort of the same. So I added some bling so they would feel different in my hand. Not being particularly bling oriented or blingy or whatever you call someone who can't get enough of sparkles (Magpie perhaps) I kept it to a minimum: one gem for bobby pin, two pins for pain relievers. I added two coats of Mod Podge over the label and bling to seal them in. If I had any Mod Podge Dimensional Magic left I would have used that on top too so it would have a nice smooth glossy shell.

 

 Pretty, practical, perfect solution.

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Happy Crafting,

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I am in no way affiliated with Dramamine. I do not get paid to talk about this product (though that would be nice). I just think it is a great product in a cool little container.

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If you are only here for projects or tutorials my apologies.

 I have not written much about my worries on this blog. I have tried, sometimes unsuccessfully, to keep it upbeat and positive, informative and inspirational. I don't know that the blogoshere cares to hear my troubles. Somehow today seems to be different. I NEED to get stuff off my chest.

I have not told you yet but for the past 6 months my prayers, my worries, and my concerns have been for my wonderful father who is battling late stage lung cancer and now pneumonia. I have not told you any of this because I wanted to respect my family's privacy. Hang respect. I need prayers. For the past several days my dad had been in ICU. His blood pressure has been dangerously low and we thought we would lose him several times.

Yesterday we all got one day older. But I got to tell the world I am now one year older. Of course adding a year doesn't have the same excitement it did when I was a kid. I am not that much closer to riding on the bigger roller coaster or that much closer to being able to drive or vote or drink. I am not closer to anything but death at this stage of my life. Harsh? Yes. True? Yes.
All I wanted for this birthday was for my dad to make it through another day. I got my birthday wish. It involved 2 pints of blood and a team of doctors and nurses. Praise be to God and thank you to those who donated blood. Now I am going to get greedy and ask for him to be rid of the pneumonia so he can begin chemo treatments.

He did exceptional on radiation. The massive tumor shrank 75% and the smaller tumor disappeared. I am praying that chemo has a similar effect. Please pray with me for my father's healing. I promise when I return home I will get a project or three up here. I promise you more video tutorials but if you would just say a short prayer that my father is healed I would appreciate it.


Happy Crafting,

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