Listed last night on eBay

Irwin Baby Gets a Quiltie

I'm in the process of sorting and moving my sewing stuff to our front porch. In the process, I'm finding all kinds of wonderful things that I had forgotten I had! Yesterday's find was a baggie full of tiny fabric samples, all about an inch square or rectangular, none the same. I'm talking dozens, maybe hundreds, of different fabrics. Just little tastes of deliciousness.

I yanked out a handful of juvenile prints samples and, since work is usually a little slow on Monday mornings, I sewed them up into a wee little quilt for this poor vintage plastic Irwin baby. It's about 6 inches square. Note my horrible attempt at machine stipple quilting. It's one of those things I know I must learn, but am not picking up successfully at all.

Little Irwin Baby still needs some clothes. He is wearing a borrowed crocheted panty but he thinks it makes him look like a baby girl, and he wants everyone to know that he is a boy. (Plus I backed his quilt with pink flannel, and that made things worse.) I need to find someone who can crochet him his own little outfit to keep him warm. In the meantime, he has his quiltie.

LOL

Can you stand another Baby Face story?

I sold a skillet rack to a doll person who has Baby Faces (and a lot of other dolls) on her Me page. So I did a quick Doll Story to print out and include with her skillet rack. Either she is going to get a laugh out of it or she will be too scared to ever buy anything on eBay again.

Here is a screen-sized version of it, with her name xxxed out for safety.

An outfit for Anne Shirley

I'm trying to decide what sort of blouse Anne here needs. I'm thinking white cotton, long sleeves, with a Peter Pan collar and either pintucks or tiny red rickrack down the front.

Testing from Photobucket

Oh, this is kewl. You can upload a photo to Photobucket, then click "blog" and it will post it right to your blog. If this works, that is.

Tea Party By the Pond

The girls had a tea party by our backyard pond this afternoon. They served lots of junk food and invited Susie, Natalie and a plush bunny to attend.

June 1st Update

It's been awhile since I had time to blog. Lots of stuff going on here. For one thing, the in-laws visited for the past week, heading home this morning. They sneaked out this morning an hour and a half earlier than they had told us to expect, so we didn't even get to say goodbye. We just saw the car pulling out. Argh! At least we had lovely weather for their visit and they enjoyed the children, and my mother-in-law washed dishes constantly and my father-in-law worked on the dining room remodel with Barry, so they were a big help in those ways.

Another thing that happened was that I have been offered a promotion within the company I work for, Medquist. We've been working on this for a couple of weeks now and the actual offer came through last night. I'm about to send off the email accepting it. I will be a supervisor of medical transcriptionists, working on scheduling so that contracted turnaround times are met and the MTs get as much work as they need and want without feeling completely overwhelmed (or so that is my assignment). I need to travel to Baltimore in mid June for training. I'm excited about the trip, but not happy about leaving my family, even for a few days.

And finally we have yet another pet in the family: Lucy Goose.



Evidently the US Postal Service quit contracting with FedEx for its air freight and switched to USAir, which is, of course, in bankruptcy. So it's cancelling flights and leaving laden jets on runways, sometimes for days. My friend Kathleen ordered a batch of ducklings and goslings from a hatchery, and they were caught in this mess, arriving at her house after a week rather than the 1-2 days that is hoped for. It was horrible. All but 4 goslings were dead. The four survived by cannibalism. Geese are vegetarians by nature, so these were confused little geese. Three of them bounced back and switched to a proper goose diet and began rapidly making up lost ground, but one just couldn't get it through her little head that she has plenty to eat now. She was attacking the other goslings and doing serious damage to wings and necks.

So my friend asked us to take her for a couple of weeks for some serious lovin' therapy and see if we can't get her turned around. She's isolated from my chickens and given lots of good starter crumble, plus I've been putting her on the lawn quite a bit so she can taste grass, white clover, sorrel and dandelion greens. She's eating very well and growing almost visibly. And she is so sweet! She follows people and is frantic if left behind. She cries piteously if left alone in her wire cage for even a moment, so in desperation, we finally got my youngest's largest doll, a 34-inch companion doll, and sat her outside the cage with her face turned toward the gosling, and that did the trick. Lucy sits as close as she can to the doll and talks quietly to her by the hour.



If after her two weeks probation are up, she can be reintegrated with the other young geese, we will have succeeded. If she is still imprinted for hurting the other geese, then she will have to be destroyed.

Saucy Walker and her Little Sister: A Doll Story

I am no doll restorer, but I can give baths, and I can comb hair, and I can sew. :) That's about it. Anyway, I bought this interesting doll lot a couple of weeks ago on eBay which included a 22-inch Saucy Walker and some friends. (Seller photo.)

When she arrived, Saucy really was in good shape; she just needed a bath, a new wig and some clothes. (Her eyes could use resetting but I'm not bothering at this point.)

While we waited on her wig to arrive from Kemper Dolls, Saucy and I were looking at dolls on eBay and she spotted one that she loved.

"Mama!" she said. "Can she be my little sister? I really want a little sister!" (Again, seller photo. She did have arms, they just weren't in the picture. She is a no-name 19" walker as best I can tell.)

So I bid. And I won the little sister.

Here is how Saucy looks today, rewigged and with a pretty new dress:

And here she is, proudly introducing her Little Sister:

Sisters, together at last.

Walda Appreciation Day

How embarrassing. I nearly forgot Walda Appreciation Day.

Grumpy little thing, isn't she?

"I don't WIKE dese cuwwers, my WEGS are cold and you WON'T make me no pants, my FOHEHEAD has a bwuise, my THWEATAH doevvn't fit and NUFFING is going wight awound hewe!"

Meet So Sorry Sarah. I like her, but I think she would drive a kid nuts. You can't cheer her up no matter how hard you try.

On the other hand...

Meet So Funny Natalie.


"HAhahaha! I awweady wost one of my shoes and I don't even cawe!"

Natalie is annoying for the opposite reason: She's like one of those "morning people" who can drive you nuts at the office or in the dorm or on the phone. She is always hysterically happy no matter how crummy the weather or early the hour or bad the headache.

Hannah Builds a Snowman

The occasion was the arrival of those cute red boots, a gift from a fellow Baby Face fan.

A little Baby Face story

And lastly, a Doll Story.

Thuthie and Thandi and the Makeovah
by Miss B, who is off school today and has way too much time on her hands

Tuthie and Thynthia Move In (a doll story)