Yes, I have moved on into the half drawer where all the t shirts/shirts and trousers etc are kept.
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40 pairs of needlecord trousers ? 25 plus t shirts and much much more !! So a deep dive's been done and items are now on the sales page and will be added to the bazaar followed by Ebay after.
Need so many clothes?
this is all from just one drawer.
so some things really need to go to new homes.
So now do I count how many in each pile and then reduce by at least half? or be harder or softer? I'll know once I actually see what's in there. Some things have to stay and there may be more in some piles to keep than others.
The sales page will be updated once I've sorted some things to go and then after that onto the bazaar before finally in a day or so ebay.
So the UK is having it's third heatwave ! Yes that's what i said number three ! In a usual year we would most likely not even see one ! But we have had three almost back to back , well apart from that lovely down pour last Sunday when we had some Sasha friends round. However it was not cold and there were dry spells, where as this week it's been so hot, if last Sunday had been this hot we'd all have been melting and trying to find some cool air ! Of which there was none !
This was the temperature under the gazebo on Friday, it actually reached 36.1 at one point, with Saturday making it up to 33 and although 3 degrees lower it did not feel much cooler.
So a couple of days where people need to stay out of the sun from 10 am until 3 / 4 pm. Naturally the doll studio is like a small oven in this heat so can only go into early or much later in the day.
Today's headliner is the lovely Ginny wearing a Betsy May outfit with Rosie Bloom shoes which match quite well.
On the doll front I managed to sell one small non Sasha doll and a few pairs of shoes, to cover some dolly debts. But I still need to get more in for more dolly debts. I need a nice big doll to sell or lots of little pieces but may have to wait until after the school summer holidays before anything like that happens.
I did however have a small slip and bought a baby ! Yes I know a baby, I'm blaming the face book groups that have been showing off lots of nice babies and then what happens I just go for a look on ebay to see what's about and comeback having bought one !
A baby Sandy, although I will probably change that name. I could be traveling down a baby rabbit hole !
I'm blaming all those photos on the groups and also my friend Gill, whose babies always look so fabulous in a group.
But it's just too hot to really get much done ! So the temp is due to start dropping Monday, so hopefully I'll find some energy to get going once again with the sorting out. It is slow but it is happening.
Wishing you all a lovely breezy heathy fun filled week ahead.
Dee
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
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.
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
and I am not talking about meat and two veg! I'm talking about this heat wave we are having here in the UK at the moment ! We are like mice only coming out before the sun is truly up and once it starts to set ! otherwise we are trying to find the coolest spot in the house and defending it against all comers !!
They are comparing it of the summer of 76, well I remember that hot summer, when I was a child. . .cough cough. . . back then I was a mere slip of a thing so could cope but alas now I'm not , so the first to go are the ankles swelling !
We are having a gathering next Sunday and I can only hope the temperature drops enough that it is comfortable to be sitting outside and wandering around the garden. Plus not go totally the other way and pour with rain !!
Liberty is today's headliner wearing another of Petrana's lovely sunsuits.
The clearing out of the studio continues, along with selling off some of the props and unneeded items.
It's been very hit and miss due to the temperature, only being cool enough to get in there first thing or later in the day. But it is getting there and sales although slow are still happening.
Which helps things not to be just sitting about waiting. But this heat, now it's Monday and still hot is a nightmare! Thank goodness it's supposed to rain tomorrow and the temperature drop by ten degrees at least.
Well It's the first of July, so I wish you all a happy healthy month ahead. Don't forget the fifth's doll photos and say cool ;)
Dee
Well what a week it has been !! Hot , hot and well hot ! Anyone would think it was summer !! I think it even made it to being a heatwave !! Well I for one am happy to wave it goodbye! Too hot to actually do anything more than that which could not be left. We reached the burning heights of over 30 degrees !
Yes yes I know that's barely warm in some parts of the world but for a Brit, who expects to be walking along the promenade, head down into driving wind and rain and ten minutes later sitting back in the car eating a bag of chips, then needing to take off the coat and cardigan an hour later as the sun returns on 26 degrees ! The last week's been a trial !
But in other ways it's just been busy. The new sofa arrived Friday and is lovely and PINK ! lol yes that is what I said pink ! A lovely velvety shade of deep pink. There are , although not able to see in the photos, tiny pink dots in the wallpaper behind the sofa.
Alas it will need to spend a great deal of it's time covered up , since this is the room the dogs sleep in and they will climb up for a nice comfy snooze.
So we bought a lovely bright cover to save it from the dogs.
So another Sunday arrives, this one bright but cloudy after a day or two of very hot weather with the threat of thunderstorms that passed us by, although others were not so lucky.
The sorting, tidying, selling continues, although Gill and Tony came to lunch again this week and Tony kindly. along with Paul, put electric sockets into my doll studio, so I can finally have a light fitting !! Not only that but he also contented power up to the water pump for our small waterfall, so two long awaited jobs done with the help of the wonderful Tony.
Naturally Gill and myself stayed out the way chatting and getting lunch ready while they faffed about , ;) , and lots of doll talk was had.
The next day, Paul worked on getting the water flow correct on the stones and now it's all done and working well.
Meanwhile, I've been making decisions and finally agreed that my dropleaf oak table with the barley twist legs could be sold, which allowed me to move the big box of dvd's and my bigger box of wool that sits on top of it, from the middle of the props store to the side. Which finally allowed me to actually walk unimpeded from the door to the back wall.
More sorting of boxes /bags was done, along with some listing of items for sale.
Today's headliner is our very own Hattie Bonham Carter Owen. It took a lot of arm twisting to get her to try on this dress for me, which I think suits her really well.
But she's having none of it and is now the photos have been taken, off searching for 'her' clothes to wear!
The new no navel boy has settled on the name Ruairi ! He had to chose the Celtic spelling , to keep me on my feet ! But at least he now does have a name.
His arrival seems to have stirred things up ! But more about that in a month or so!!!
On the selling front, things are going along slowly but are going. I decided to sell some of my Ruby red dolls and just keep a couple. So two, I'm pleased to say, have already sold and another's just been listed and I have a decision to make on which of the other two Forever Friends dolls go , then I can list that one.
So things are changing although slowly, but since I still have enough to fill a small barn, the sorting, deciding and changing around continues but the patio table is starting to reappear from beneath the boxes and bags!
The katkin book and bag on top contain 85 paperback books I'm selling which are too big and heavy to post, so could take some time to go. I think I'll have to move them into the old workshop to get them out the way ! I think this whole table may even be cleared by the end of this week !!
That AG bike will be going on the market later today and hopefully won't stick around long, so more space.
Now I would like to say that I've not bought anything but I'd be lying ! Carried away by making a few sales, I did splash out on one of Petrana's sunsuits that I had in my watching and I've been chatting to Ginny but at least these are clothes that can be easily put away in the drawer and not large props that fill the space up !
So that's been my week, now I'm off to sort out that bike for sale and maybe move those books into the workshop, a Sasha doll lovers work is never done !
Have a lovely healthy happy doll filled week
Dee
Sometimes getting the shot you want involves many attempts ! I wanted the girls to have the beautiful large purple Alliums , given to me by Gill and Tony when they came for lunch, to appear behind them in the shot.
The alliums are very tall, so I used the little two drawer chest to stand them on.
These are before any cutting and carving of the photo, so in all their glory !
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So tried without the drawers to stand on and the alliums are way too high.
Next up I tried it with just the actual drawers, turned upside down and stacked on each other.
Much better the flowers were now around the dolls heads.
Much better position.
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A little cutting and carving and the final photo is achieved.
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A bit more tweaking and another photo, this time the close up.
