JUNE 1ST STARTS WITH A SPLASH OF LILAC

 

That's right today is the first of June ! The weather has cooled down, so not flaming June as they say but I'm all for some cooler weather and a bit of rain , overnight, if possible.

Clementine is wearing a lovely new dress set by Ruth Hartley, in of course a William Morris print fabric, also in a lilac pink mix and Lilac seems to be the colour I am favouring this summer.

Several of the girl's are now wearing Lilac/ purple dresses at present and I decided just the other month, that the school uniform will be Purple and Royal Blue. 

So Nancy is wearing the first of the summer school uniform dresses.

Arabella ,in Catherine French dress, is not so sure about school uniforms unless they are for a private school, I've informed her she will be going to the village school like everyone else in the family, especially because the current government don't like private schools in case people get cleverer than they do.

Sienna is in a Ginny dress.

Libby is in a Vicki Chapman dress.

I gathered all the girls wearing lilac and purple together for a photo, naturally the wind started to gust, some of the dolls decided tp try and not stand properly but in the end I did manage to get a couple of photos before a gust destroyed the line up.

So from the left Nancy, Elizabeth, Arabella, Sienna, Clemmie and Libby.

Nancy, Elizabeth and Arabella 

Sienna, Clementine and Liberty

Well I only came on to wish you all a Happy Healthy fun filled June and to remind you to send in some photos for Doll photo day on the 5th.

Dee

THE LAST SUNDAY IN MAY

 

Well not just the last Sunday but the last day of May ! Best of all it's come with a massive, over ten degrees, drop in temperature! So finally it's cool enough to get on with a few things.

I did manage to get a couple of  things done last week,    before the temperature just got to hot , but nothing to make any big difference, so now I will be able to get back to cleaning and sorting out the doll studio and hoping to find a couple of long lost items as I do so.

I did ,if you saw yesterday's post , get nine of the dolls dressed in summer wear and just needed to sort out a couple of them with shoes and socks. But once I had dressed them , I didn't want to put them all squashed back up in the cabinet, so for the moment, while I decide just what to do with them, they are standing, still two deep, on one of the sideboards in the living room. 

I'd like to display them better but having two large dogs, they bring in a lot of dust, which settles everywhere, so I'm constantly having to wipe the duster over. So some thought needs to go into maybe displaying a few here and there and then maybe switching them around.

Today's headliner is Elizabeth, who was one of the girls who finally got put into some summer clothing, she still needs some socks but is otherwise happy.

She is one of my few blondes, for some reason I tend to go towards the red heads and brunettes, much more than the blondes. 

On the sales front, not much has happened, I did sell a couple of small items, which was good as it's a little less sitting around.

But I did have a small Roche doll and a Larger Roche doll arrive. The larger doll had been on layaway which I completed a week or so back and arrived Friday, along with a small doll that appeared on Ebay and which I decided was a good price , so added her to my collection.

I am also waiting on a couple of gingham dresses from Ginny but from tomorrow, I'm on a Dry June, so no buying any dolls, doll clothing, shoes props etc. Which naturally means just the doll I've been waiting for will appear ! But I will try my hardest to sit on my hands and just watch her /him go by.

We , the royal we that is, are still slowly working on the garden and it's starting to fill with colour, naturally because we are taking part in the village open gardens, we are hoping it doesn't all open too early and all be done by the time the day arrives. But it it happens that way, so be it, there is still enough to see anyway.

Since I will be having a Dry June, I will be getting the sewing machine out and having a go at making more items ,using up my stock of fabric's etc. Which will be good for my bank balance and my making more space.

On that note I will wish you all a happy healthy week ahead 

Dee