EASTER FRIDAY

 
 " Oh what a beautiful morning , oh way a beautiful day ! I've got a wonderful feeling , everything's going my way...... " 

HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYONE

I don't know whether it's because it's Easter or because it's now April or maybe because we have had a couple of nice days with a touch of warm sunshine but it does feel there is now a little spring in the air despite everything happening around the world and in this Country. 

I saw a couple of lovely blonde Sasha's with smart bobbed / pageboy styled hair and thought, they look lovely it would be nice to have one like that, so went off searching for one I had seen for sale on eBay or the bazaar , did not find it but stopped to go look for something and spotted Ava !!!! Yes a Sasha with bobbed hair !! 

Honestly, just cos she's been starting around in her hat all winter ! Thank goodness she appeared and stopped me falling off the no doll buying wagon. . . . . . . although I do have a non Sasha layaway for a doll , so does that mean I have fallen ? or am I still falling and not quite hit the ground ?

So I will be changing some of the girls, who are wearing the most warm clothing into something more springlike.

Now the bedroom is coming along slowly. Naturally the new wallpaper is delayed ! and I have now sold the old wallpaper , which has gone off to the USA !  So if the new choice doesn't arrive for some reason , we will have to find another one!

Our new fridge freezer is coming tomorrow, so the old one is being unplugged and cleaned and put outside in the carport ready for them to take it away, once the new one's arrived . It's nice to have it sorted out.

Also my 'new' to me Roche doll will be arriving too.

I've been obsessed with using up the silk/wool yarn I bought, not wanting to put it to one side and then not get back to it until autumn / winter ! I'm pleased to say it's all been knitted up now, however I did go and buy some other 100% wool in some other colours . . . . . but at least it won't arrive until sometime after Easter, so my poor hands will get a rest !

On the doll front it's been good. I have sold another doll and also some more bears and some more Maileg items. Slowly but surely things are going off to new homes and slivers of spaces are being found.

I have to confess a few items of dolls clothing have arrived but not that many.

Now the fifth will occur this year on Easter Sunday, so that's when we have our doll photo day, and why I decided to do the Sunday catch up today. 

So please send in those wonderful doll photos for Sunday / if everyone is out and about with family, I will delay the doll photo day until mid week.

On that note have a wonderful Easter weekend and a happy healthy week ahead.

Dee

MONDAY NOT SUNDAY

 

For the catch up. 

The garden has a few bursts of beautiful colour appearing , like this magnolia called Leonard Messel , it's only been in a couple of years and this year it's come into it's own. Lots of beautiful pink flowers giving this section of the garden some sparkle.

It's so pretty, I'm wondering if I can fit one in the front garden. We had been at the garden centre last week and I had been looking at their ornamental cherry trees with a view to getting some early colour into the front garden. Being me , I started with the idea of getting one  by the time I headed home, that had increased to getting three to place around the garden.  Luckily I didn't get the one I really liked but came home, then struggled to see how we could fit three trees out the front !

So maybe it will have to be  one cherry and one magnolia, only time and re arranging the front garden will tell ! 

Indoors it's all about the bedroom. Paul's been putting in new skirting board and picture rail, filling holes etc. The wallpaper is delayed but not as issue since we are not ready for it at the moment. I'm pleased to say I have had a few offers on the Chantilly wallpaper, so hopefully that will be off to a new home , to finally get put on the wall.

Today's headliner is Erik. Who tells me it's lucky he is a Viking so is used to the very very cold conditions , so he's been fine wearing summer clothing all winter ! But some of his brothers have done nothing but moan the whole time ! 

Honestly these dolls do go on !  ( I do feel a little guilty ) So I suppose I may be spending some of this week getting the boys redressed into warmer clothing just in time for summer . . . . .

On the doll front, things are getting exciting one way and another ! 

Sales have started to pick up, with six bears and several Maileg items going off to new homes. A doll that had been on sale for a long time , finally found a new home, which was lovely. So space id appearing and quite a few items have gone but in truth there is so much here , it will take years to see any big changes.

The exciting part is that I have a doll on her way here, to join my Roche doll family, I sold a bigger Roche doll and used some of that money for this ,new to me, one. Then I was talking to another Roche collector and asked if she had considered selling another of her dolls, she has two, and she replied with some photos and a price. So now I have her on a layaway. This one is a doll I did not think I would find, so I am very happy to be able to get her in the near future.

On that happy note, I will wish you all a happy healthy week ahead and remind you that it's almost April, so get out clicking photos of what your dolls are up to and share them with us for the fifth.

Dee