OUR FIRST SUNDAY THIS MAY

Well the weather's been good the this past week, but I did have visitors on Tuesday so no heading to and clearing out of the doll studio started until well Friday. I removed the majority of what was sitting around on the floor one afternoon.

Then went off on a tangent as usual and decided to ask Paul to put a couple of strips of wood on my small wooden dresser , so the plates would be more secure. Then I decided maybe it needed painting, so time was spent on the dresser and not in the studio cleaning up, although I did manage to get back in and decided to start with the kitchen area.

Which like everywhere else , things had been dumped and needed sorting out and putting away or selling on.

But I did manage to start clearing the kitchen space, ready for a good clean . So talking to a friend about what I'm doing, I decided to share some photos of some of the items I have acquired over the years for my kitchen set up.

So first up is this amazing 1950/60's Triange kitchen cupboard in it's original blue paint. Complete with worn out sign on the top.

Unfortunately it does have a missing hinge on the top right hand cupboard, we did search for one when I bought it but did not fins anything small enough or similar but I'm going to look again and try and find something which can do the job even if not exactly the same.

It' s had a few changes of handles over the years due to the assortment now on all the different door.

But one of the special things about this cupboard is this extra work surface that pulls out from under the top ! 

I just love this little hidden section based on a cupboard available no doubt at the time.

Seen from the side you can see it's quite deep , it's also quite heavy. You can just see the little round feet it stands on.

Which means the bottom cupboard and the drawers are quite deep. 

No idea what it's supposed to be used for , maybe storing slightly bigger items that children could play with in their kitchen.

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The drawers.

Again with this long tall cupboard space at the top, why no shelves ? Was it a case of saving on cost by not adding a couple of shelves or at least one on this side ? 

I think I will now get Paul to add one shelf in this long tall cupboard or maybe two since it can then be of more use. Filled with food for a larder. I will leave the bottom cupboard big and deep for storing kitchen pots and pans etc.

So there it is, a perfect larder cupboard for the dolls kitchen.

Well it looks like this doll studio clean up, is also going to be a look at everything and repairing, if needed, along with a change around possibly. So what was supposed to be a week long job, will now probably take a good bit longer but at the end it will be worth it .

Today's headliner is a Sasha who came and went ! But she is a beautiful 68 girl , so well worth a second look.

Unfortunately I came down with some bug last night , so was not up to taking new photos today. But it is lovely to see some of those doll's who came to live in the village , if only for a short time, again now and then.

On the doll front, I have sold a big piece of my Maileg , which is great as I had saved the box I could post it in as well and it was taking up a big space in the studio before I moved it out and now it's sold it's saved a lot of space.

I have to confess that I have bought a couple of dresses for the Sasha's and some shoes for my Roche dolls. But at least dresses and shoes do not take up too much space.

Things are slowly going and it may take a couple of years but sooner or much later, I will get my doll items in order and back to a much more useable state. Unless of course I come into money , then I'll buy a bigger studio !!! lol

On that note I will wish you a happy healthy week ahead, remind you that it's almost the fifth, so doll photo day, one is already sitting ready and waiting and it's not mine. I usually slide in last thing by the skin of my teeth ! 

Dee