Lena, feel better after that medical procedure. (Yes, it’s a pain!) Could you have done bone broth instead of liquid sugar? It’s clear liquid. The market bags sound great. Can we see them? Yay on a new skirt with pockets.

I no sooner made myself a new journal when mom told me she needed her birthday present early this year. I make her 2 journals a year. One on Mother’s Day and one on her birthday in October. She’s been doing more journal writing this year and has run out. This is the 3rd journal in a month. I’m batching it at this point. I’m sewing up all the text blocks I have paper for and will bind them all so I have books on hand. Especially since the silly season will be starting soon and I’ll be busy with re-making critters. Also once I have a pile of books made, I can go back to the doll experiments until the silly season and the re-making of critters.

Lena, yes, bone broth makes the best soups. Hope your body stabilizes soon after the trauma. It’s great you are getting gifts made early. I had an idea for gifts for Christmas… it’s not happening this year.

Still working on the journal making. What I’d love to have is 2 work spaces. One I can do the book making and one for fiber arts. With the book making, I clear all the fiber art stuff away. Don’t want to get glue on my fabrics! But, that means doing something like watch videos or read while the glue dries because I don’t have space to store the book while that happens. It sits in the work space. I’ve been in discussion with DH about getting rid of the dining table and chairs and replacing it with a work table. We rarely eat there and we even more rarely have guests over to eat. So… it’s a future project. Then I’d have a book making space.

Lena, yes it already is a work table of sorts. The problem is it’s round and uncomfortable to stand and work at. A work table would be taller so my back doesn’t hurt to stand at it and work.

Lena, glad your family seems to be ok. Hurricane D&D sounds like a great way to pass the time. Hope things continue to be ok for your family.

Speaking of family… my mom has 4 sisters. Every year they get together for a “sister reunion”. This year my mom hosted it here at her summer home. (The one that she’s got up for sale.) I went to visit my aunts and they were very enthusiastic that I’m still making critters and am working on a doll. It was nice to feel appreciated for my art. One of the aunts is going to be a great-grandmother of twins by the end of the year and wants to commission 2 critters for the little ones. There is some debate of whether it should be llamas or unicorns and what the colors should be. I told her I could do it, I just needed more defined details.