CATCH UP MONDAY !

I know it should be catch up Sunday but since yesterday was Easter I delayed. Well Spring's arrived and with it my desire to make some space... always a dangerous time for my dolls and their possessions!

My problem is I can be a bit of an impulse buyer and before I know it I have dolls of all kinds filling the house and fighting for space ! Also TIME! I just do not have enough time to give some of these dolls attention, some have just sat staring forlornly(if they have even come out their box ) waiting for that touch or to be loved. So where as in the beginning I would be near to tears if I sold a doll I had had for a while , now I am much harder and can sell them without a tear!

Now my smallest bedroom that was supposed to be getting cleared and sorted is now if anything fuller but with more boxes amidst all the bags that have started to turn up again! It will never become our bathroom at this rate, so I am on the spring warpath... looking at dolls and listing them either on my sales page or on ebay.

At the moment only a couple of Sasha's have found themselves on the adoption list , it's mostly other dolls that are having their photo's taken and appearing for sale on ebay.

This year I will be 60! Yes I know you all thought I was no more than 55.... pardon? 65? what a cheek, your off my Christmas card list ! and there are changes coming at my place of work that could mean I'll be expected to work longer , due to lack of staff, for no extra pay, now there's a surprise.. not! I may be wrong and staffing levels will stay the same...... mind that flying pig....  and I'll continue to work happily but who knows what the future is bringing. and so to that end I need to get myself sorted.

On another front we have lived in our house now for 11 years, this month and after doing a few things came to a grinding halt a few years back and the house as sat waiting , a little like some of the dolls, for us to stop spending all our time in the garden and come back inside to finish everything, so that's what we'll be spending our time on this year , the house.

My studio now has light and is just waiting for the slightly warmer weather, so that I can go claim it back from the spiders , that have spent the winter sheltered in there. I am looking forward to having more room settings to use in my stories!

Now a few updates. Due to my lack of energy etc the T shirt comp , fell to the wayside, so I have extended the deadline to the 10th of April for you to send in your photo of your customised white t shirt to win a pair of Ginny cords in colour of your choice.

Also a reminder that you can send your April doll shelf photos in now ready for showing on the 1st April, I already have some great ones sent in but we like to see lots, so what are your dolls doing? take that photo and sent it or them in, it's the first at the end of this week ! The time flies when we are having fun!!

So now I am off to take some more dolls out and give them the once over.... and Mossy's mumbling something about carrots?


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