SUNDAY SWEET AND SAVOURY !

 

Well what a day today, Sunday has been ! After all these weeks of incredible heat, today, when we had guest over to lunch and to see the garden Rain !! and not just a small shower ! We had thunder, no lightening at least, then long showers interwoven with very heavy downpours! The lunch was twelve till five , the rain started at 11.30 eased off around 1.30, so we were about to sit outside under the gazebo for lunch, then started again half way through lunch, then stopped, so we could walk round the garden and they could have a look round my half tidied doll studio before it started again and we sat chatting under the gazebo while it rained then hammered it down!

It only stopped around 4 pm ! and the sun was shining warmly as the last guests departed !!!

Alas some friends could not make it due to illness but there were enough of us left to be able to have a great time chatting about the dolls etc.

Naturally being me I totally forgot to take some photos of everyone's dolls, and there were some gorgeous ones visiting.

Only Dawn's two early NP girls got a photo taken. Which was a shame as they were all lovely and beautifully dressed, especially Jane's baby, which was wearing a beautiful smocked dress.

But time flew past and it was soon all over.

Today's headliner is the lovely Claudia who nabbed this new Petrana dress and teamed it with yellow shoes, I'm trying to get her to try on some red shoes but she's resisting! 

The sales are now very slow and If I didn't need to pay for a couple of things I would not bother until the end of the summer.

On the studio tidy, sort out, it all came to a halt while we got ready for our visitors. But I will hopefully get back in there this week make some more progress.

So I hope you all have a lovely happy healthy week ahead

Dee 

IT'S THE FIFTH SO DOLL PHOTO DAY

 Yes, it's the fifth already ! Time flies when you are having fun, so they say. So lets have some fun looking at all the lovely photos sent in.

We just had to start with Holly Belle from Gregoropolis, she insisted . . . I mean resisted ,but is glowing in a new multi coloured dress with bag. I just love the colours of her dress with it's toning smock detail and it really does start the day off with a bang.

Meanwhile her sister Meghan is happy with her new dress with apron in a lovely mix of pinks. A glow of a different kind but no less effective.

Over at RoRoPo, Otto and Julchen are checking out Granny's garden flowers. Admiring the yellows singing next to the blues. " Just like your clothes Otto ! " Julchen exclaims noticing his yellow top and blue trouser " You little flower you ! " she giggles and Otto joins in " Maybe you should plant me !" Otto giggles

" Or I could take you in and give you to mum and say I picked you in the garden !" They both find this hilarious and stumble back to the house making more and more silly jokes about Otto being a plant!

From Gill we have Billie and Anoushka insisting that pink is in fact the best colour in the whole wide world and they want a new law saying that everyone , even the boys have to wear pink! Mum explains that while pink is in fact gorgeous, only some people or in their case children can pull it off ! And therefore it would not be fair to either those unfortunate children/ people nor even to the colour pink if they made it look blare !  " Oh no! We cannot have people ruining PINK! " the girls cry out together and rush off to check for anyone wearing pink and no looking right! Mum rolls her eyes 

Ada, who was just outside rocking the baby in the pram, sighs having heard her sisters words. She calls out " Mum next time you see a sister you want to come live here can you check they have an IQ higher than a pigeon ? "   Mum doesn't answer but Ada is sure she heard her muffle a laugh. . . smiling she carries on rocking the baby.

It's lucky that Elizabeth , here in the village, did not hear those girls ! Since she is wearing a beautiful BLUE dress that was a gift from a very talented Sasha friend. Although Elizabeth loves all colours including pink, she loves blue the best.

I found an old calendar that I had made in 2012 of my dolls, so I thought I would share them today since I am so late posting this post.

Only three babies back then !

Only Violet still here.

Toby being the monkey he is !!

Little Zak 

Claudia, Violet and Sapphire still with me, dresses by a lovely American lady who sold under the name of Special Delivery.

I won't say how many of these blondes are still here , but hello Liberty . . . 

Again just two of these boys still here.

Back when Hattie's Hat's with Hattitude were a Sasha Sensation !

Gorgeous George 

Winter sweaters by Gill 

Hattie who still has that scarf and hat and those shorts ! 

Thank you to everyone who managed to get to this point ;) , and thank you to the lovely people sending in some wonderful photos for us all to enjoy.

Still time to be added 

Dee