GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Frustration !

I was nearly nearly there with Renatta, was wigging her, then tried to burn
off the fuzzies ( like I always do ) , but as I had forgotten that I had
used all that hairspray for draping -which I usually do not use at all , if
it can be avoided, or only last thing while I finish the doll - the whole
thing started to burn .Faucet open, full speed; still a half- burned doll.
Bwaahaaaahaa !!

Well , she is now nekkid again as the day she was born. sorry
( Umm, no pic of the fire, nope ).

In between

working on Renatta ( Renetta ?), a workshop by Dana. Although the doll is lovely , I am basically happier with sewing than with glueing and draping , so it is a bit hard going.
Work on her further today ; this is how she is looking up to now.

mini-ing : full steam ahead !

I have taken two weeks off- job ( had lotsadays to spare ) to work on minis , well mostly, that is.

One of the projects is the tearoom workshop by Cynthia Howe. I have a BIG carton in that tiny room where all thingies are stashed in , so if I want t get rid of the carton , I had better empty it.

,As it has to be done in steps , anyway , with drying and dewarping time in- between , I started to lay the floor today. Accompanied, of course , by my furry guardians..
Tomorrow , we hope to go on ( yep , all of us ) with the floor .

working together on the new doll

Today Dafna and I nearly finished her next doll. It was hard going, as nearly everything had to be done twice , nothing seemed to go right in one go.

Well , she is nearly there. We do need to do some draping of the skirt and maybe something must be done to he wigging/ bonnet combination, but we are nearing the end !

Here, at least , is Dafna, devotedly ironing some ribbon to be used.

Pics of the doll to follow when she is really ready.

As you can see, my red tomcat, Floris, was happy to oversee the project.

More bluebell cottage

here are some more pics of my sweet new cottage !
I plan to do some reasonably humble inhabitants; not too poor ( they wouldn't have anything for me to place into the cottage, so that is a non-starter for me ), but certainly not an "upscale conversion"! Well , the exterior doesn't lend itself to that, either ; it seems to be in rather bad repair.....City people would have replaced the roof and straightened out the windows, etc. So , country/ village it will be. Probably somewhere in the thirties or a bit earlier....

Next Sunday

I will deliver the Lucy I carpet which I recently stitcehd to the lady whom I stitched it for ( as she is not able to do so for health reasons ). She has patiently waited; due to several causes I was not able to deliver it sooner.
Here are two pics of it :
The second pic was taken in my own big dolls house. It has a beautiful stairwell with lots of "faux marble " and daylight comes in from the windows and doors on two sides, so basically it is a kind of EZ cube and very nice to use for photographing miniatures.
The chairs are from Robert Longstaff in the UK ( he sells beautiful kits ); the chair seats were stitched after a design by Annelle Ferguson , published in this book by Nick and Esther Forder. It is still available and very much worth your money ! ( Ummm , I am definitely not a shareholder ).

So , next week we hope to show you the carpet in its rightful home , if I am allowed to , of course.

Dafna in Arnhem

Here is Dafna , absolutely enthralled by Kathryn Gray from Templewood miniatures ; she is instructed in the art of making flowers.
Now this she is going to need ! As her parents permitted her to buy a conservatory kit which we will make up and decorate during next winter.And , of course , any conservatory needs plants and orange trees , etc.. Somehow I have the feeling that the little monkey is already searching the whole wide web world for ideas and thingies to put into it :-)

We will try to make everything on a budget and also make it as transportable as possible ( somehow her parents do not take kindly to the idea of hiring a private plane when they will move back to Israel next year ..Bwaahaaahaa ! )