Purses for Change & Three Cups of Tea

Here are a few of my new change purses, which I'm now calling Purses for Change. If you check my shop, Fritzi, you'll see that I'm donating part of each sale of these to the Three Cups of Tea foundation. If you haven't read that book, I recommend it highly. Here's a photo of Greg Mortenson and some of the children who are benefiting from the schools built by the CAI foundation.
I had a basket full of these for sale at a fundraiser (for Obama) bake sale and sold all but one of the 15! Yay. People seemed to like that they were made from fabric that was "recycled" meaning remnants, cut-offs, sample swatches, etc. would have been tossed in the landfill fabric, which made me feel good and that I'm on the right track with them. I do not want to buy any fabric, missing out on cute current images, but I want to "recycle." I'll stick to this even if sales on Etsy are slooow.

Tuesday morning grayness

I spent most of today indoors. One thing, I still have my cold, and secondly, it was gray and damp out, and thirdly, I decided to use the Cité laundry facilities to do our towels. Bad decision. There are only 3 washing machines and one dryer, and everyone deciding that today was a good day to do laundry. Lots of waiting. Here are views out of the window as I sat at the table this morning. Just beyond the roadway is the Seine. You can't tell from these photos that there are big traffic jams, because of the transportation strike. We haven't been near any of the demonstrations or noticed anything different for us, except that the metro was very crowded the other day. For those of you you weren't with me last year when I posted views of the studio, there are three floor to ceiling windows in this place. It's fabulous!