I've been having intermittent pain in the joint furthest from the knuckle on my right index finger and figured it was mild overuse since it tends to hurt if I spend too much time doing any activity that uses a writing or stitching type of grip. It's gotten worse over the past month or so and I've been perplexed why it felt like there was a chip or spur in the joint until reading a friend's post this morning about an injury requiring they wear a finger splint and it hit me -- it's the joint that got crushed at daycare when I was four. Duh. I should hit Google sometime later and see what I can find to try since all my natural health books are packed in Colorado.

In the meanwhile, I might be going on a sewing binge. Last night I finished the tote bags for Laurel's toys, each with appliqued sundresses on one side and a plaid pocket on the other. (Now that I've tried HeatnBond Lite, I definitely prefer Steam-A-Seam 2.) Laurel is tickled that each bag has a sundress that matches one of hers. We'll see how they do for picking up her toys at the end of the day.

I'm getting a late start on making a dress to wear to my sister's wedding, but if I don't get it finished here, I can pack the work in progress and finish it later since my sewing machine's at my parents' house. Still waffling on the fabric, too -- it's a tossup between a sage green floral (light and satiny, it'd go into a mandarin-collar dress) and an allover monarch butterfly-wing print (cotton, it'd probably become a simpler-lined sundress). And of course, I'm making more a-line sundresses for Laurel since she loves them and they're easy to make.