SUNDAY 1ST JULY

Yet another glorious day of sunshine ! Too hot for the likes of me but I'm sure there are others out there trying to turn their skin golden brown.

So it's now July! So half the year's gone and we start on the second half. From my point of view the first half has been interesting and quite fulfilling.

We became grandparents to the beautiful Clara Elizabeth. So are enjoying watching her grow up.

We have cleared the garden, which is so nice and means we don't need to go out in this heat to do gardening. The folly is on track to be finished in this the second part of the year and my Sasha Village Studio is done and I'm moving in over the summer.

And we bought another dog, Casper, who has livened things up no end.

So studio news ! Before my visitors came Paul with Lindsey help, moved the oak bureau into the small old studio for now.

I salvaged a pine cupboard that didn't have a home and today Paul put up my shelves to continue the display/room settings.

I moved the our generation doll kitchen down from the old studio and place it on new area. Don't worry I've pulled the blind down to protect the cupboard items.

Valentine came along to inspect it.

Now I've decided to do a little survey with you all. Once I put the OGD kitchen in place I thought do I need two kitchens? The old style one and a new style one?

So I moved the dresser over to the old style kitchen. Where it sits quite well being that little bit bigger than the new style oven etc.

 So the old style butler sink will move to the side wall leaving the washing machine in the corner. I intend to have a more traditional kitchen table in here that will be a little longer.

Belle joined Valentine in the new style kitchen.

so my survey question's are.

1/ do I need two kitchens?
2/ which one do you prefer?

Feel free to give me your comments, I know what I've decided and you are very unlikely to sway me.
I will tell you my reasons in a later post once you've had a chance to comment.

Its' now too hot to continue moving about the garden, so I'll return to do some sorting this evening once the day starts to cool down. Which is also why I get time to write this post.

So we are back to work tomorrow , which means back to evenings and weekends for 'play' .

A reminder that the fifth is doll shelf day and we all look forward to seeing what the dolls are doing around the world.

To everyone with a birthday this month I hope you have a lovely day and get some lovely presents from your nearest and dearest.

Today is my birthday , almost twenty one for the third time!! Paul bought me the most amazing present ! more about that when it arrives.

So have a lovely week , try to see the positives and ignore the negatives, it will make your world brighter and embrace this new half of the year who knows what joys it could hold !

Dee xx