MID APRIL SUNDAY

 

 The weather this week has been lovely, yes the odd cold night but mainly nice and bright, with a wind which helps get the washing dry. It's that sort of weather that makes you grab all those bigger items that need washing and need to get out on the washing line to get nice and dry.

I washed my second new set of bedding at the beginning of the week, so it's all ready to be used once the bedroom is finished. Although I want to buy some new sheets to go with them both.

We are still waiting on our new wallpaper to be delivered.

Now that spring has truly sprung, Paul's back outside getting some of those long awaited small jobs done.

One of them was to tidy up this edge beside the patio. When the fish pond was , were the patio now is, it didn't matter as it was hidden by the back of the fishpond and the bed holding the Magnolia, but the fish pond was removed a good few years back and the edge remained as a row of old broken bricks from were we'd removed a low wall not long after we first arrived. 

When going round the garden last week, I pointed it out to Paul and we discussed what to do, which was to add a row of the grey blocks along to the end to link in with the existing grey blocks, where we step up onto the path. We also had some pretty garden edging, that had been removed again a few years back, from another part of the garden and needed a new home. So this is now edging the new blocks. Just need the cement to dry and then the job can be finished.

I do love it when we can improve something and make it look better and at the same time use things that we already have and so it costs us either nothing or next to nothing like this little tweak. Plus it also removes them from just sitting around without a home/use.

He also started on the long awaited (by me ) paved area to lick the doll studio to the main path. When we put the studio in, we added about three to four foot to the base that already existed. But this left the door that opens into the studio with only half a step. So when leaving the studio , you need to make sure you don't fall out on one side ! So Paul will be adding that missing area of step along with putting in the paved area. It will be made up with old bricks that we have had laying around since we built the folly.

I splashed out on a Petrana outfit this week and decided that Ginny would be the perfect girl to wear it. However when I went and got her, I just loved her in what she was already wearing, so decided I'd have to find another girl to wear the new outfit first ! Or wait until it warms up a bit more then change her! 

So Ginny landed up being today's headliner. Which meant she got to enjoy today's burst of sunshine, that alas does have a chill beneath to warn us it is still April. I sometimes wonder if I should try and get her cut fringe redone but can never make up my mind. I would hate it to change how she looks.

On the doll front , just a bear went off to a new home, but I really need to get my act together and start listing those things that need to go. Also if the weather warms up towards the end of this coming week I will get out into the doll studio and empty it ! Which will also throw up things that can be sold on along with hopefully a couple of missing pieces of clothing I need to find. At the moment I am fight a head virus that makes me feel dizzy on and off ! Hopefully it will have finished by the middle of this coming week !

On that note I will wish you all a happy healthy week ahead and hope to have lots of tales to tell next week 

Dee

IN PRAISE OF DUNGAREE GIRLS

So the theme on this week's Sasha Study group on FB is Dungaree's and Ballet girl's with red hair. The Dungaree girls are one of my absolute favourites of the Sasha's especially, yes you have guessed it, the 68 girls'.

Above is sweet Paige, a dungaree's girl I saw and fell in love with on Shelly's website back in the day. I plucked up courage and asked if it was possible to do a longer than usual layaway on her ? Much to my delight , her owner, a lovely lady in the US, was happy to agree. So over several months money was gathered and passed on, a storyline built and then she arrived. 

She stayed with me for many years but then for some strange reason I put her up for adoption ! So she moved on to a new mum , I was far to fickle a doll mum back in those days.

Then it took me right up until late last year to add another to the family, Henrietta or Hettie as we call her.

Hettie came out into the garden , having been changed out of her sweater and trousers and into this lovely Ruth Hartley dress set I picked up off ebay. It came with the socks , which are a perfect match for my new Rosie Bloom shoes! 

Posing on the fish pond .

a closer look 

That bench needs painting before the garden is opened ! 

a closer view

closer still, look at that face ! 

We cannot tell the time if you stand there Hettie !

Getting some sun

Can you see the time? 

Changing sides does not help us see the time ! 

"what do you mean time for your close up Mr De Mille ? Do I look like a man ? "

" Fair enough, who can tell these days ! "

Lastly standing on the rockery near the house.

I have to say that now having spent some time with her out and about in the garden, I feel the need for another couple! A lovely set of triplets !  Only problem is I have a greater need to afford them , the money !! 

Aw well just another doll or two to add to that ever growing list . . . . .