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Happy New Year Beginnings

A happy new year to all my wonderful readers!!!

Here in very snowy and cold northern Illinois I have enjoyed my holiday time with my family and away from “work”. (However, it is not work to me because I love what I do.) A quote from Gretchen Rubin, author of Happier at Home, stuck with me. She says, “No matter how much you love what you do, it’s nice to have a little break.” I have found this to be true. I feel refreshed and passionate about my little dresses and dolls once again. I must confess that I did sneak in a bit of time here and there to “work” a bit. I cannot go cold turkey and create zero, zilch, nada, for oh, probably no more that two or three days. So, yesterday and today I took some pictures of sets that I completed during my time “off” from “work”. Here are a couple of sneak peak pics.

Yes, this is for Valentine’s Day. I know it’s early but, I like to get a head start on holiday dresses so their new owners have a chance to display them on their girls well in advance of the holiday. Sugar didn’t seem to mind. The hearts and pink roses match her personality perfectly. She is a dream to photograph and pose. I LOVE her!!! So happy Fairyland is making Pukipuki dolls again. Denver Dolls also sells these cuties.

Patience and Izzy are Getting in the Spirit of the Season

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Patience & Izzy (both dolls are from Wilde Imagination, Izzy is Amelia Thimble’s friend) are starting to feel the holiday spirit. Well, who couldn’t feel the spirit dressed in such festive ensembles?

Izzy arrived last week and immediately fit into the family. She feels so special to share Patience’s hair color and style. Izzy says they are like real sisters. Now to keep Amelia from getting jealous…

We even had a little snow yesterday for the photo shoot.

I took these photos through one of our tall windows which is right next to the fireplace so even though it looks so cold outside we are warm inside with a fire going.

For more information on these one-of-a-kind outfits, please visit cindyricedesigns.com

Amelia Thimble’s New Dresses from the Garden

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Look what bloomed from my needles (both knitting and embroidery needles) recently. I love making these hand knit and embroidered dresses for Amelia Thimble so much and my Amelia loves modeling them for you.

These four dresses are quite a colorful bunch. Each is hand knit with a different yarn. From left to right: kid mohair/silk (Aloft), bamboo thread (Aunt Lydia’s), hand dyed merino/silk (Gloss), and a tonal baby alpaca/silk (Shimmer).

This yarn produces very faint stripes in baby blue, lilac, and a blue in between the two.

I had tiny bits left from a previous knitting project of both of these hand dyed colors in my stash. It was just enough to make this pink and blue set for Amelia. The hat is knit with both colors also. The photo doesn’t show it, but the top is knit in blue. I added a very thin sparkly ecru ribbon embroidery thread for a bow. It’s itty bitty, teeny tiny.