ON THE MOVE

Alas Ruairi is on the move.

Ruairi is now up for sale , he will come in his original clothes not the outfit and shoes he is wearing here.

He is in perfect facial condition, his body has the usual gotz bumps but is fine.

A lovely head of hair

I have only ever seen two, a brunette in the three Ann's book and this lad. I am asking what I paid for him.

If interested please message/ email me. Details on my sales page.

Dee 

****UPDATE  Ruairi is off to his new home and looking forward to meeting his new mum ***

A WET RAINY SUNDAY

 

So another busy week. It's mainly been dry and sunny but a few showers have started to come in during the last few days and we needed the rain so much. The ground's been just so dry. So the fact that it's been raining constantly around 1.30 this afternoon and is still raining, is fine because it is so needed.

Have had a good week, a health issue I had as resolved itself, so no need for a little op. So now I can get on without that hanging over me. I didn't realise it was hanging until after my appointment when I found myself feeling a lot brighter! 

Now I have been using my sewing machine most days, tackling little projects, getting used to it. I have made twelve pinafores!! yes twelve! Six for Roche dolls and six for Sasha's. 

Roche pinafores

Roche Pinafores

Two Sasha pinafores 

two more Sasha pinafores.

Part made quilt, from a pack of four fat quarters.

While I have been sewing away, Paul's made the last of the playground items. Seven items in total. Paul's really enjoyed making them, working out how to put them together and a good size for the Sasha's.

I cannot wait to see them all set up together on the village hall stage ready for the event to start.

Kyra is todays headliner. wearing her beautiful blue cord dress along with her scarf and gloves.  So things are happening all over, which is lovely.

So on that note I will wish you all a lovely happy healthy week ahead.

Dee

On the dolls front. One doll left , non Sasha along with a large bear and one Sasha baby arrived. So still going slowly which is good , especially since I have not really been trying to find any more things to sell, which I do need to start doing again soon.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT

 IS YET?

A SUNNY SEPTEMBER SUNDAY

 

Well we are now in the lovely months of autumn. I do love autumn, the days can be warm and bright along with cooling nights. So we are much more comfortable, doing more in the days because it's not too hot and it's cool at night so you can get to sleep. Then you have the lovely changing of the colours of the trees and plants.

The house is in a making phase ! Paul's been working on the playground items for the Chat n Snap display. I think it's sparked a fire in him as he's been working his way through the list of items needed and there are now six wonderful items made ! Now to say this is amazing, is because in the normal state of our up coming Chat n Snaps, apart from the very first one, we have usually had a mad dash to getting tings done up to and including evening before! Where as this year , we could at a push, lay out the display tomorrow ! 

So it's wonderful that we'll this year, actually just be waiting for the day to arrive come October with just the food etc to sort last thing.

Also since I have now got a new up to date sewing machine, I have been making things , slowly getting used to it.

I have been doing some patchwork doll quilts, a great way to get used to the new machine.

I have been using up some scraps of fabric which Michelle sent me because I have not really made much, so don't really have much in the way of scraps at the moment. Plus I am someone who just cannot waste fabric  It take's me ages to actually use fabric that's lovely lol, mt fabric's almost become a collection in their own right!

But I have also been making some clothes for my Roche dolls and will be starting on some for the Sasha's too. So finally I am actually using up some of my fabric which can only be a good thing but as usual I am scrabbling about to find where I have put things which I now need for my sewing projects.

Saffy is today's headliner, wearing a great pair of Sarah Williams Vintage Sasha dungarees. Come back Sarah ! We need you fabulous clothes for our dolls! 

On the doll front a couple have gone along with a teddy bear, so slowly making a dent, well if you don't count all those Sasha's that have sneaked in while I have been busy selling ! 

So on that note /confession I will wish you all a happy healthy month ahead.

Dee

IT'S THE FIFTH SO DOLL PHOTO DAY

 Already the ninth month of the year !!! So we'd best get this post on the road. . . . 

Down in Broxbourne Gill's girls are complaining that they hardly get any photo time ! So she's 

making up for it by sending their photo in for doll photo day, I think she's earned some brownie points ! 

Meanwhile up north the girls are out canvassing for Norman, They say he will be the best one for the job ! With his fierce belief and being just like a dog with a bone !

Oh It appears Norman is a dog with a . . . .  . cardboard tube ! It appears he wants to get on the gravy train. . . down to Hove and have a lovely pad by the sea front. .  . 

Cilla is welcoming Kyra to the village and saying she'll soon get used to it. Cilla says she's not been here that long herself although she had been waiting a while for mum to complete her adoption.

Over the pond in Gregoropolis, Daphne, Ginger and Jessica are deep in conversation as to whether it's time to complete change into something warmer or just search out a nice cardigan. So far it's a three way split ! Daphne is all for just adding a cardigan, Ginger thinks they have a few more weeks yet until they need to change and Jessica wants to go search for the full autumn outfit. I can see this conversation won't be ending anytime soon !

Many thanks to all those sending in their photos. There is still time to have yours added.

Have a happy healthy doll filled month ahead.

AUGUST'S LAST SUNDAY

 

So it's almost September! Autumn is just round the corner ! The evening's will start getting cooler and the days are once again drawing in. I always love autumn, the days are still warm but the nights are now cool enough to sleep well. The trees and shrubs start to put on their autumn colours which brings another feel and look to the garden.

This month's been spent pottering about and doing this n that. Paul's been working on the playground items for this years Chat n Snap theme. 

And so far we have three completed items, one just waiting to be finished and another in progress ! I have to confess this is almost unheard of for us. Usually it's October and we start dashing about getting all the things sorted, that should have been done a couple of months before, even up to the night before the actual event.

So this is lovely being so far along. That will actually gather some dust !! Although still a few things to do. Paul of course managed to strip a couple of layers of skin from the palm of his hand by not turning off the sander before trying to knock some dust off it! It's starting to heal thankfully but is naturally quite sore.

I have made a couple of pinafores , using a Petrana pattern, but for my Roche dolls. I landed up making them completely by hand ,since I was still having issues with both of my sewing machines. 

And although I do enjoy making things by hand, using the sewing machine as well helps make it much quicker. So one of my sewing machines I have had for 20 years or so, the other I bought off my daughter who after buying decided she didn't want it a few years later so I had it. However this is one of those machines that you press a button to start it sewing !! I find that makes me a little panicky ! and no in control.

So I decided to buy a new sewing machine  and get rid of my oldest one, get the panic making one repaired and go from there. The new machine arrived at the end of the week and I'm getting used to what it does etc and then will start making a few things come Monday.

And it's got the foot pedal control, thank goodness , so no panicking when wanting to start and stop and speed control.

Today's headliners are Ruairi and Scott, who very kindly allowed me to take their photos.

Now on the doll front, it's been like a slippery slope , almost really a slide, with me whizzing down , climbing back up , only to whizz right back down again !!!!!

So while some more dolls have gone, some others have galloped over the horizon and bounded into the village at a screeching stop!

One who arrived is Cilla, now she was not a screech but a slow traveler. Since I saw her back in April on the bazaar and asked her seller about a layaway. This was agreed and then it was a very slow move due to the doll market going quiet along with me wandering off all over the place finishing off a couple of other layaway's.   But finally she's arrived and is wearing a lovely Petrana outfit, I treated myself to.

Then there is Scott Walker, an unexpected purchase. He'd been restrung many moons ago, his arms with a rubber band that looked like it would just melt at any minute. I think he's a later 68/ early 69 boy due to his clothing. Well he needed restringing because his string between head and legs was way too tight and his arms lucky the rubber band was still working. So that's what we did restring him ! Nightmare trying to get his strings tight but not too tight. So at present we need to take him apart again and just tighten his strings up a little more !

and as to just how many babies have arrived this month , I would rather not say ! However I will introduce the lovely Irka, who I love the hair of. 

But there is another Sasha still on her way here !! But more about her another day.

So on that note I will wish you all a lovely healthy happy week ahead and just remind you all the tomorrow is the first of September and then on the fifth it will be doll photo day.

Have a great week 

Dee

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A NEW OLD WAY TO CHANGE THE VIEW

 So I have been very good and selling things left right and centre, so things are now much reduced and I'm now more on to sorting out the non Sasha items. However I have fallen back in love with the babies ! 

Yes I know been there done that more than once ! However seems I'm back there again.

Now I didn't have any spare money when a friend told me she was going to sell a re rooted baby ! What to do !!!  Then what does she do but put on a red headed Gotz Andrea baby to sell ! Now I knew she was going to put a red haired baby up for sale but I had been very good and not asked to see her. But naturally as soon as she appeared I just had to have her too !

But what to do ? Then I decided to see if she'd do a swap ! Luckily I had a doll and a couple of items she was interested in, so the swap was agreed.

So my two new , to me , red haired babies arrived this week.

So now I have Ronny B and Andie ( short of Andrea ) two sweet babies.

I do love the red haired dolls and these two and just so sweet and the fact I didn't have to pay no more than the postage of the doll I sent , I call it a great swap.

Only issue I now have is finding them some clothes ! Luckily both Dolly Doodles and A Passion for Sasha will be at this years Chat n Snap, so hopefully I'll be able to fight the crowds to get a few items for them . 

 

IT'S THE FIFTH SO DOLL PHOTO DAY

 August ! The eighth month of the year, it's fair whizzing by !! But at least today is the fifth, so time to share all those dolls photos.

So lets get this day started. . .

We start off with this young lady from up north ! Seems her name is Tuesday ! Looks like a girl who knows what's what ! And any innocent young lads would be best to steer well clear !! 

Her sister Bronte by contrast, seems a lovely serene young lady much more Johnny's style , him being such a good lad.

Here , that cheeky Toby and Zak are trying out the monkey bars dad's in the process of making , for the Chat n Snap playground display !  I told them, they still need sanding down and finishing but Toby reckons they are saving him wasting time if their no good ! 

Over at RoRoPo Rick is checking in with the garden gnomes, he knows they like a good gossip and know everything that's happening in the surrounding gardens.  " . . .  . . and Gustave along at number seventy seven never saw it coming ! " 

"Really !" exclaims Rick " Fancy that ! By the way who is that gnome over there , I don't remember him "  " Oh Him, we don't talk about him !" They exclaimed moving away .

Rick decides to check this new lad out " Hello Sir, I'm Rick and you are? "     The Gnome just stares ahead with a stern look " Frank " he mumbles 

" Oh hello Frank nice to meet you "  Rick says cheerfully , Frank continues to ignore him " Is that a chainsaw ? "   Franks stares, " Best not cut down anything without asking Mum or Nan !" Rick warns him, Frank just ignores him " Well I have warned you " says Rick starting to walk away " Mum might let you off but Nan oh man ! Nan will . . . . "

Over the pond in Gregoropolis, it's Harriet and John Martin's birthday. Daddy Steve is in the doghouse though, he forgot to get them a birthday cake ! He tried building a pile of Oreo cookies and adding a candle ! His ears are still burning from the kids comments . . . . 

Pretty in pink are two of Gill's babies , ready to enjoy some summer sun while it lasts.

Many thanks to everyone sending in photos, always time for a few  more.

Dee