Yesterday we made our way down to Silk Studios to record the segment with The Australian Red Cross Blood Service and Glenn Wheeler about blood donation.

It is going to be aired on The Morning Show soon.

I’m not sure when.

They’ll need time to edit all of my stuttering gibberish out.

Anyhow,

when I know, you’ll know because

it was the singularly most terrifying thing I have done in forever

but

it was also heaps of fun!

When we arrived at the studios we met with Lisa from the Red Cross and a girl, who Ivy deemed ‘very beautiful’ (she was too)

met us at reception and took us through for make – up and hair.

As we walked through the corridor we met Glenn, who charmed Ivy straight away

by giving her a balloon

oh,

and kissing her hand

which in Ivy’s world is just the most romantic thing any man could possibly do.

Trust me  on this.

Remember, this girl of mine totally believes that she is a fairy mermaid princess

and FMPs have their hands loved on.

They just do.

It was love (move over paed).

Make up followed.

Ivy was in her element and, just like everyone we had already met, the make up lady was lovely.

She spent time making Ivy feel comfortable and then powdered her little face and gave her some lip gloss.

The girl was so happy.

Then it was my turn.

Yeah, she had to work alot harder to bring me up to TV standards.

While I was getting ready, Glenn took Dave and Ivy onto the set so Ivy could get used to being in front of the cameras.

It didn’t take long.

My girl, the  TV star.

We all went and got dressed and waited while they set all of the cameras up.

Then we were invited onto set for sound check and rehearsal.

That lovely lady in purple, that’s Janine, she was uber skilled in reading from the tele prompter and so confident.

Me,

not so much.

No, really.

All the takes we had to do were because I stuffed up.

Okay, there was one in there that was due to technical difficulties ( I quietly think that was just the team saying, in a nice way, I’d done it wrong again).

Ivy was awesome.

Everyone was joking around, laughing and it really helped to calm us all down.

Glenn asked Ivy to give him a thumbs up or down after each take

and at one stage pretended to sulk because Ivy had cheekily gestured with a thumbs down.

The whole thing will only run for about four minutes but apparently will go to air several times over the next few months.

It was an amazing experience.

We wrapped up and had some photos with Mr Wheeler

(who I think was just a little bit taken by the girl too).

It will be something that I think Ivy will remember for a very long time.