Party planning

the photo book for Eve this year is to be ...... the Adventures of Poppy.... starting with Poppy's birthday party. its been fun planning something different from last years party, first up has been new dresses for both the dolls.

now I am making party hats will try and post these in a few days time

Easter Greetings

there are eggs, bunnies and chickens what more do we neec for Easter. managed to get some photos taken before Kaytu realise all the goods on the table to make the display would make great play things, need I say there is not much in decorations left up for Easter. Wishing everyone best wishes and blessings for Easter.

I have a problem

 I have a problem with my blog Notes from under the mountain it has been hit by a hacker her has added a virus…. As yet I have not solved the problem of how to delete the problem so hoping I can post through this blog that I used in the post for more crafting news. 

 I will be sad if I can’t get the other blog bach as I have been writing under the heading of Notes from under the mountain  since I move to Stratford in 2001 which was before I started blogging and that was 2009  I will do a short post to check and see if google will recognise this blog.

 Guild this week we had a fun challenge of a donsay of gnomes this was the result of all the gnomes I made for Jan for Christmas .  they were great all so different yet all had the same size polystyrene ball as a base and the same basic pattern  here is mine I’ve yet to give him e a name.

REBECCA COTTONTAIL'S NEW DRESSES

 Rebecca Cottontail was very pleased with the first dress made for her, and after wearing it for some time agreed this style would be suitable for the adult lady Cats and Rabbits in the dolls house in Wellington. It opened all the way down the back making it easy to put on and no problem with their tails.  The ease of putting the dresses on is important as Eve will just be three years by the time she receives the dresses for her Sylvanian families.

Next need was suitable fabric, Fiona gave us some small prints and laces and Ann sent a collection of Liberty prints, all to the delight of Rebecca, who now was more interested in her own wardrobe rather than the wellington families needs. The dresses in the first two photos will be part of the Christmas box for the doll's house animals. and here are the first of the dresses for Rebecca.

                    the hat was rescued from one of Fiona attempts and adapted to fit Rebecca, and now the                                                                     dresses have sleeves 

  

these two are Liberty prints, I really enjoyed working with these lovely fine fabrics.

This was Rebecca's dress for Easter. All the dresses are hand stitched as I no longer have a sewing machine and to be honest I prefer hand stitching,  guess that is being an embroiderer who loves fine work. Maybe I will need to make her an embroidered dress sometime. 

THE TALE OF A TAIL OR TWO

With both Rabbits and Cats living in the dolls house in Wellington, I realised there could be a problem of tails and fitting dresses over them.  At Rebecca Cottontail's suggestion I invited Miss Kitty Cat to come for a visit.  Here they are lined up to show the tail problem. And we agreed that dresses that opened all the way down the back would be best.

Before Kitty goes on her way, she leaves tomorrow, we thought it most fitting to give her a few dresses for her wardrobe.

Thank you Miss Kitty for coming to visit and helping us with our dressmaking problem.

 The Tale of a Tail is done.