My stomach is feeling better these days. It's still touchy, but as long as I'm careful, it feels mostly better.
Oh, yes, my eyes. I have some new eyeglasses, picked up earlier in the week but not yet worn because my eyes were so tired. I'm not sleeping, like hardly at all, and when I do, I have disturbing dreams that wake me up. I got about four broken hours of sleep last before last. Last night, none at all--but then I was able to sleep about six or seven hours today. That was great. (I know some of it is hormonal. I thought by my age, I'd be done with menopause, but I'm not, not at all. In fact, my period showed up a few days ago and it's a proper one, not one of the wimpy menopausal ones. I keep thinking I'm going months and months between periods, but no, I had one in June, so it's only been two months. Menopause is twelve months of no periods, but at this rate, I'll be finished with menopause when I'm 70. Is this why they call periods "the curse"?)
The days are shorter now and it gets colder, down into the 50s, at night. Fall is coming. My brain sometimes goes a bit haywire in the fall. It's been happening for decades, though not every year.
I have some new things in the sewing space, including a set of double wedding ring templates from Victoria Findlay Wolfe's shop and two eight yard bolts of fabric from MSQC that I'll use as backgrounds for things. I've only ever once before bought eight yards of fabric and it was of a fabric that I loved but which had gone out of print. I found a bolt of it in a fabric store in Santa Fe and bought what they had, all eight yards. I haven't used it (the only thing I ever made from the original yard I had was a fabric mask that I wore to get married at the beginning of Covid, my version of wedding attire.) The other new thing is a small photo printer--small, like just larger than a deck of cards small--that prints my photos onto sticker paper from an app on my camera. It's from Canon (a Canon Ivy 2) and I love it. I'm using it to take photos of some of the things I sew to include in my quilting journal.
As far as sewing goes, I've been slowly hand quilting my wall hanging. I sewed a new cover for my new quilting journal (volume III of my quilting journals). I sewed a test arc for a wedding quilt, using the templates I made myself from a pattern in a book and it was not great. I wasn't sure if it was the pattern, the templates I made, or my sewing skills, but it was just...not great. That's why I ordered new templates so we'll see how those go. I also sewed a seat cover for my sewing chair. Other than that, I've not done much sewing. I did do a bit of cleaning and straightening of my sewing desk. I put away all the fabric I had pulled out for various projects and I got it so that I could close all the drawers of the desk. (I tend to pile things in my way into open drawers to get them off the desk top, but that introduces a whole different kind of chaos into my sewing space.)
I don't know what I'm going on about. I'm going to go do some paper journaling, then I'll...then I don't know what I'm going to do. Maybe I'll try to get a nap in before bedtime. I have to be up in the morning tomorrow to go to the dermatologist. By the time I could get an appointment, the problem I'm seeing her for has cleared up, of course, but it's still worth asking questions about because it keeps coming back.
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