Category Archives: Work in Progress

A Couple of Work-in-Progress Photos

Hi there! I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but not much creating going on with me lately. Life has pulled me away from my studio for a bit as I’ve been needed elsewhere. I’ve been getting a little knitting and embroidering done in the last couple of weeks, but don’t have anything completed to show you, sorry. Here’s a photo of a sweater dress for the Little Darlings that I managed to get made. I still have the other pieces of this ensemble to work on, but you can get an idea anyway. I hope to have it all finished next week.

Oh, I forgot to show you this little dress I made for my Fairyland Pukipuki, Sugar, a couple of weeks ago. It is knit with a lace weight tonal alpaca/silk, very soft. This too, will probably be for sale sometime next week.

Bye for now! Hope you are enjoying this week.

The Week So Far

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Here in northern Illinois we’ve had a rather warm week, until today… it’s sooo blustery, which makes it seem sooo COLD. My cold tolerance is pretty low right now, so I’ve been wearing my knee length down coat today. We’re expecting our first snowfall late Friday into Saturday. It seems too soon, but it really isn’t.

Today, even though it was blustery and cold, the sun shone brightly. I walked outside with my camera to photograph possibly one of our last “green grass” days for awhile.

These leaves were REALLY blowing when I snapped this photo.

The pachysandra still looks pretty; it stays green, but is covered with snow most of the winter.

Other news, my new Little Darling painted by Helen Skinner arrived on Monday! Ohhh, happy day!!! I waited approximately 30 seconds to open her. Ha ha, such discipline.

I asked my daughter to name her for me, and she picked Lucy. I do like the wig she arrived in, but for fun I tried lots of wigs on her and I like her best as a redhead. Did you ever notice how, even though we can change our dolls wigs, there seems to be a hair color that suits them the best? For Lucy it is auburn or carrot; Gina looks best as a brunette. Lucy is my second Little Darling and is the #3 sculpt. I love how she always seems so happy. It sounds silly, but seeing that smiling face makes me happier. Helen did a phenomenal job bringing her to life. I also really like the new arms on the Little Darlings; Lucy holds onto things such as dolls and stuffed animals very easily, too cute.

Here is a quick photo of what I was working on today. Lucy will be modeling this sweater dress for you all very soon. She can’t wait!

Thanks for spending some time visiting with me today. Bye for now!

A Busy, and Sad Weekend

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This weekend was the fall play performance weekend at my daughter’s high school. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were performance days, so there wasn’t time for much else. I dropped my daughter off Friday afternoon and had a couple of hours before the evening performance started. I went to the local bookstore and had a cappuccino and worked on Millie’s new sweater dress. It’s in such a pretty pale aqua-y blue heathered wool.

Upon entering the auditorium on Saturday night (and Sunday afternoon) this is what we saw projected onto the stage curtain. Before the performances began we all took a few moments to pray for all those affected by this horrible act of terrorism. There aren’t words, except to say that I pray for all of you.