First finish of 2024!

I haven't gotten a lot accomplished the past few days because my brother bought my Mom a very cool Christmas gift. I had intended to buy Mom an electronic photo frame for her birthday this year but my brother beat me to it. Saved me some money! All I had to do was load some photos. Being the only girl (with 3 brothers) you can guess that I'm the one with the photo collections. I spent some time each day going through loads of old photos and scanning them into the Aura app for her frame. It's a cool app and it's pretty easy and quick to load a couple hundred photos. Chris and I had fun looking back at some of the old photos.

In between I did have some sewing sessions and finished the first batch of the surgery drain bags for donation to From The Heart. 
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I batched them by thread color. I finished all of the ones that required gray thread. This is 42 finished bags! 
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I treaded the serger and sewing machine with black thread and started on the bigger batch. I got all of the first seams done on this group of 59 or 60 bags. Next I'll add the loops and hem the top edge.

I'm trying to work on them an hour or two every day because I also really need to make some pet beds to get rid of 3 bags of batting scraps.