Sunday, 26 April 2026

A LOVELY SUNNY SUNDAY

 


So what a beautiful week we have had weather wise ! Lovely warm sunny day's , cold nights but who cares about that , by then your in bed lovely and snuggly. Yes from a plant point of view a few may have had to return to the greenhouse for the night but you believe just over the hill is that gorgeous late spring warmth.

Due to the lovely weather , it's all been about sorting the garden. With Paul carrying on with those long awaited jobs.


The long awaited wide path/paved area to my doll studio is finished ! I have only been mentioning this every so often for a few years. But now it's been done, the last of the bigger bricks have been used up.

We have brought two of the troughs round from the front garden, where over the years they have been getting overshadowed by the plants in the border.

The fight will be stopping Paul from filling the area with pots of plants!

Also his statue arrived on Friday ! 


I'm pleased to say that it's much smaller than I thought, so I'm not worried about him being in the garden. More about his placement and arrival on the garden blog on Monday.

Now Paul's finished working on the space in front of my doll studio, next week I am hoping to get out there and start clearing it out and sorting the whole space back into order. Also along the way find a couple of missing items of clothing. 

I did receive a couple of dresses that Michelle made for a couple of my Roche dolls, so that was a nice parcel to arrive.

Michelle is an excellent dress maker for the dolls and always willing to have a go at a non Sasha item if she can.


Today's headliner is Ginny again but this time she has changed into her summer outfit now it's warmed up. She wearing the new Petrana outfit that I treated myself to a couple of weeks ago.


I do think these younger looking prints work well on Ginny. She , to me , is a younger Sasha, like Toby and Zak.

On the sales front, still slow but the odd item going now and then, which is helpful as if you know anything about me , you will know that there is always another doll casting their pretty face at me and whispering about how nice it would be to come live in the village or the family of dolls !

I will sort out more un needed items to sell while cleaning the doll studio, hopefully some will not take too long to leave and so open up more space. I need to also stop knitting or find another pattern, as I keep knitting the same thing and don't really need any more at the moment. 

This coming week , along with sorting out the doll studio, I need to start changing the dolls into the summer clothing or summer will arrive and they will all be sweltering in the warm clothing.

So I wish you all a lovely happy healthy week ahead.

Dee








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Wednesday, 22 April 2026

I HIVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT !

 Back in 2023 , we were rearranging things in the garden and decided to move the twins garden shed.

It's had not been 'used' for a while due to it being quite low down for an aging lady with bad knees to use.

Upon inspection , it was in need of a refurbish.


The base it was sitting on had rotten in a few places.





Also the roof needed to be removed because . . .


A mini bee hive ! 


Amazing how this little hives are formed.


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In the apex of the roof.


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Repaired and put back together.


Since it was repaired it's been sitting in this corner on a small raised area, but it's too low for me to use properly. I am considering getting Paul to make a wooden shelf across this area between the shed on the left,  out of view and the doll studio seen behind it. But I am off up the garden to see if it could maybe go somewhere on the raised bed on the way to the greenhouse.
Either way I need to re stain it and find it a workable place before summer, so the dolls can start using it properly.