Another Sunday whizzes round but this one is a cloudy day with a threat of rain, it rained in the night /early morning which is all still so needed for the garden and the countryside. We have a hosepipe ban still and it's not likely to be lifted until December, that how low our water reserves are. But hey lets build AI data centers that need masses of water to cool them. . . . . .
The house I lived in before this one, was a tall Edwardian semi, with large rooms and big bay windows, a half cellar and half stairs (short flights to each floor ) because the back of the house was lower than the front. So you walked down a short flight to the kitchen, up a short flight of steps to the front of the house, up a short flight to the bathroom and back bedroom, then up another flight to the large front bedroom and large back bedroom. Which meant there were two roofs, the lower back one and the larger front one. We did extend into both lofts giving us a large bedroom at the back and again the half flight to a second bathroom and large L shaped front bedroom. It was a beautiful house with lots of space but on a busy road into the county town.
We wanted a bigger garden and did not want to be rattling around in a large house once the girls started leaving home, so when that started to happen we downsized to where we are now, a much smaller house but with a garden as large as our last one at the front and a much bigger garden at the back plus off road parking. At the time I lived in the Edwardian house I was not such a big collector and had not gone down the Sasha doll path.
Now that I have fallen into the collecting bug, I have a smaller house to stash it all in and so every so often and especially in the Autumn and Spring, I get the need to start culling the dolls and their items. I do wonder if we'd still been in the bigger house, and the dolls had their own space/room, would I still get this need to cull them? Or is it a natural instinct to do with nesting for winter and cleaning out for spring ?
Anyway that culling has already began! Despite sorting out the doll cupboard, whose post I forgot to add, so will add tomorrow, some dolls have already found new homes and gone off to their new mum's.
But apart from that I have not actually achieved much. Although we did manage to sell the old pine bedside cupboards yesterday, so they went off and are two less things needing a place to stand. Which was great, I do love it when things go quickly and don't sit around for months.
Adam is doing well but naturally gets tired as the school week goes on, so depending on just how tired he is this weekend and if he recovers his energy , will depend on whether he may need to shorten his days for a little while.
Today's headliner is Elizabeth a 1970 Sasha wearing a lovely William Morris fabric dress by Ruth Hartley. Her foot is hoovering over the adoption list but I need to have a proper look at who will go.
So on the doll front it's been a bit of a whirl wind , so far three Sasha/Gregor's have gone in the cull , one Gregor has arrived but for how long ! and the two extra bargain priced Roche dolls have arrived. A couple of small items have sold, so a bit of space has been found but still nowhere near enough from the doll studio or the overflow props store, which if anything is now getting fuller with the cardboard boxes I am saving just incase I need them. In an Ideal world I would love to clear at least half of the space in that overflow storage and a quarter of what's in the doll studio but unless I had a stall at a doll fair and managed, by some miracle , to sell almost everything I took with me, it's going to take years ! So I content myself that at least some things that have sat around for years unused or un needed are slowly going off to new homes.
I have not managed to get back ,to work my way through the sewing list, that's awaiting me, so that must be something that gets underway this coming week. I never used to be this slow but then when I was working, I had less time to do things , so got on with them, where as now I have loads of time and ignore it !
So on that note I'm off to ignore it all as it's Sunday a day of rest lol, but Monday well that's another matter. . . .
Have a lovely healthy fun and doll filled week ahead.
Dee
