A BEAUTIFUL AUTUMN SUNDAY

 

Well today was a beautiful autumn Sunday, dry and bright with a strong cool breeze stirring the plants etc. Just the type of day I love.

Spent some time sitting outside under the gazebo knitting. I'm working on a tank top for my middle daughter, it did start out for my youngest daughter, who when I showed her a photo once over half way up the back , she said she didn't like the colours ! Luckily my middle daughter did, so I have undone and restarted it in a bigger size for her. Today I got to finishing the first ball of 100g of wool. I'm not far off of finishing what is the back and will then be able to start the front. I am trying to to wander off and start knitting smaller doll sized items or it will get put aside for another year or more !.

It's wider than shown as now I have decreased for the armhole, the sides have rolled in ,when I put it out for the photo. But this is the biggest piece I have to knit as the front has v neck and there are no sleeves.

Just need to keep knitting a few rows every day and it will soon be done and I can start on other things.

On the sewing front. . . . no sewing has been done, I know maybe I need to try doing the same with that, a bit of sewing each day ! maybe I will try that starting this week coming. 

We are still awaiting the new radiator, so the bedroom is just waiting. But now the weather is changing as the season changes, we have started putting plants away in the greenhouse that will need protection from cold and rain.

The outside table top has been cleared of plants and replaced with some geraniums which should last until the first frosts.

The greenhouse shelves are now filling up.

So the coming month, October, which is already just days away !, will be spent getting ready for the coming winter, bedding down plants, putting things away, clearing space for those things to be stored and also getting rid of those things that are no longer needed. 

The handsome Robin was todays headliner, he's wondering if his siblings and himself , will also get the preparing for winter treatment or will they be shivering until December , like last year !  So I have promised I will start with the boys first this time ( I think he didn't even get changed last winter but don't remind him ! )  So that's another small /long job to add to the now ever growing list. 

On the doll front, a few small things have moved on , including a book on dolls along with a few no doll related items. Among them a large China platter, that I had boxed up a couple of months back as I had just the perfect box to keep it safe for it's journey, so that box had been sitting around waiting for someone to buy the platter. Now that space is back , so very happy that's now found a new home. I have a couple of things , non doll related, to sell but don't have a suitable box for them, so despite my many box hoard, I will need to find them boxes before I can put them on sale ! You just cannot win some times ! 

I still need to get into my doll studio and overflow storage and get things sorted and moved on. Maybe October will be the month I get hard with all these 'props' and get some proper space found.

Much to my own surprise, absolutely nothing doll related has arrived this week ! I even managed to resist Rosie's shoe release , which is a first ! 

So I will wish you all a happy healthy week ahead 

Dee

SUNDAY WHIZZES ROUND AGAIN

 

 The weather is a true September , with cooler nights and sunny days, a drop or two of rain and the crisper mornings.

So the week has gone quickly because there have been lots going on, mostly relating to getting on with the bedroom.

We went off to look at radiators at B&Q , then went back home and found the right one on their website, so placed our order. Two days delivery then the following day turned into a two week delivery ! So we will have to be patient and wait. We also looked at paint for the panelling but nothing suited.

I also ordered and have received the fabric for the blinds and headboard. The fabric is by Sanderson but bought from a different website, where there was a nice sale going on but that website does not do paint.

I then decided maybe the Sanderson website would have the right colour paint. Found three possible matches and sent for the sample pots.

They arrived at the same time as the fabric. Paul painted all three on a piece of wood, one was totally wrong but there were two contenders.

I decided I needed to see these two on a larger piece of board and up in the bedroom.

So the mood board was placed on the bedside table close to the wallpaper and the vintage water jug which had become the colour them for the room.

We decided that we both loved the deep berry one best , the one on the left in the photo. Then I started receiving photos from my daughter Lindsey ( computer whizz ) of the paint behind the bed , so several back and forth's before the one we will do was shown.

This one is with the panelling only up to under the window, which is quite high, with the wallpaper above.

Then she added the headboard 

Then with the panelling up to the top of the wall. The ceiling along the window side slopes as the window is set into the roofline.  I should have asked her to add the new bedding but will save that for when the room is actually been done.

So now added to my sewing to do list, are two roman blinds and a headboard. But I won't even start them until the radiators been moved, the wood is up and is being painted.

Also this week I had to have two fillings, much to my delight they only took around 30 minutes , although it took an hour of more for the numbness to wear off.

We also had this week, the cat worry. Yes we no longer have any cats ourselves but our youngest, the Princess and Prince's mum has two Main Coon's and one Nim, the female , had not come home for two nights ! Only having been out overnight once, this was out of character for her. So messages back and forth about what to do, when to leaflet etc. Messages were put on the local groups and I suggested if she had a box of her favourite treats, to try walking round rattling the box and calling her name.

This worked , she found her but she was trapped in someone's garage and no one was in ! The house was one of several large houses that are behind where she lives. She  could find no way to slip any food or water into the garage for her. Back home, messages on the groups to try and find anyone who knew the owners, then a call to 101 to see if they could help , while that was happening my son in law went out to see if he could do anything. He found he could see her through the window and went into the garden and tried the door into the garage and it was UNLOCKED ! Wonderful ! One cat picked up and rescued and held tightly all the way back home ! Which saved the fire brigade, the RSPCA and whoever else being called out to get her out, because Courtney would have taken that door down if that cat had to stay in there any longer !  But all is over and no damage needed to be down and paid for and two trackers are on there way for her and her brother.

Nim the naughty ;)

Today's headliner was the beautiful Arabella , a law unto herself , but a sweetheart on the quiet.

On the 'find some space 'front, two dolls have gone, along with a couple of small items. Which is good , so a little more space in the cabinet although not that much yet. But I now do need to actually sort out more of the larger prop items and get them listed and on ebay, so I start seeing space in the studio and storage overflow. Or even give some to the local charity shops. Now we are in autumn and that old winter will sneak up on us suddenly, along with Christmas and everything will stop again.

I had the mad thought of making use of ALL my fabric through out the winter , so that I would be left with a big pile of items, instead of a big pile of fabric , trimmings etc. Now lets be honest, I've had a pile of lemon coloured socks, half made, waiting to be finished , for at least six weeks or even two months and they are still waiting! So the reality of me using up every piece for my fabric stash, over the winter is nothing but the mad thought of an old lady losing the plot . . .  but not the fabric ! It must be the autumn seasonal weather getting into my soul and sending strange ideas wandering about in the hope that one or more may actually happen. . . .

So at present I will work on getting the existing sewing list done and the bedroom finished by the end of the year and be more than happy to achieve them.

Have a great healthy fun filled week ahead with a few impossible dreams added for the season ;)

Dee