Hello, New Year

Do you know about the Green Bag Project? I won one during the recent Sew, Mama, Sew promotion and it came. I LOVE this fabric print my bag is made with! :) Along with my completed bag (which went very nicely rolled up into my purse so I always have it along with me when I shop) came a second bag just like mine to sew up for someone else. I am going to make the second one and send it to my sister who lives in Kansas, I think. Spread the eco-bags around, eh? :)

I have been wandering around today, trying to get my brain back into 'gear' for working efficiently. My first project of the new year is to clean out my office ... but I made very little headway on that today. Too many other, smaller but still important tasks to do.

One important thing I did today that was unusual was to go see my eye doctor. Last Wednesday morning I woke up with the feeling that I had something in my right eye. Tearing and irritation and such kept on for days (and still is) so I went to 'be sure it wasn't important.' After the doctor looked at my eyes for about fifteen minutes with various _very_ bright lights ... and wrote notes for another five minutes ... he said to me - 'Well, you actually have three things wrong with your eyes. You have a gouge in your right cornea (his exact words - gouge sounded scary to me!), you have an infection in your tear ducts, and you have quite a bit of allergy type irritation." :P Antibiotic drops and wipes and off I go - to go back on Thursday morning for a follow-up (he says he will have to use a 'bandage' if my gouge has not improved by Thursday - apparently they do something with a clear, semi-permeable contact lens to protect the cornea while it heals). Don't know 'bout you, but I take mishaps with my eyes very seriously - gods forbid anything should make my sight worse than it already is! :)

Another pretty bit of mail I got this past weekend was my 'new' stamping block. Rayna Gilman at Studio 78 is selling off some of her extra accumulation of hand made fabric printing blocks and I bought this one from her 'cause I liked the possible design permutations I think I might get with it. We'll see ... meanwhile, I admire its rough efficiency! Definitely handmade and, I think, quite charming.

This is the 'business' side of the block; I hope you can see the printing design on it (haven't had time to get out my paints/inks and make a print). And here is the back (holding on to handle):

I worked on the sales floor yesterday (Sunday) afternoon at my store. We were _busy_ - I think all the local quilters were incredibly tired of being shut indoors! :) The knitting shop next door was busy, too (I went over mid-afternoon to ask for some advice with a piece of felted knitting I'm working on and came right back; they were so busy I did not want to bother them when I could come on a quieter day just as easily:). Today, of course, has been dead in my shop - everybody's back to work, I guess. :)

I am looking forward to this week (other than the possible anxiety over my eye which I am NOT thinking about:) -- many things will get done and/or happen that I am looking forward to - stay tuned. :) LOL

:) Linda

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Gosh I hope your eye is doing better! That sounds scary. I know for the last 3 days my eyes have just felt tired, tired, tired! I could lay down and nap but there is always so much to be done. I'd rather be quilting, but my dry tired eyes don't want to cooperate. I hope you recouperate soon.