Look what a friend made for me

[puffin]

 thanks for that,  so better to use if you wear glasses as my contacts dry out so i go all fuzzy with my eyes

[Pat from Canvey]

I use hypromellose eye drops for dry eyes. I get them free on prescription along with all my other medicaments.

[MadelineBunyan]

and there was me thinking I was clever making leather bean bags filled with lentils for my elbows!I keep meaning to stick velcro on them.
got the heavy leather/suede from the scrap store while I was a student, some of those shoe shops that make handmade shoes sometimes sell bags of scraps though.

they don't give me much extra height but they do stop my elbow aching when I'm building up glass for pulling canes and doing beads that take a long time.

[Lush!]

These are great - like the sound of your leather ones too Madeline.  I used to use a pair of old bed socks, then I got all posh and bought a couple of gel wrist rest, but if a bit of hot glass lands on them they "weep", so now they're covered in plasters 

[Pat from Canvey]

You can often come accross old leather or suede coats  costing very little, in boot sales. A leather needle in a sewing machine does the trick.

[MadelineBunyan]

yep, or charity shops, and the leather needle is a must!