Alice and the Cupcake

Alice is in her Re-Ment Kitchen, showing off her new pink dress with lace.


Then she spied a cupcake on the table!

MMM! Cupcakes!

(The dress will be posted to my etsy shop within the next few days.)

Pretty in Pink

I've been meaning to make a case for my mp3 player (Zen Stone Plus) forever...or for at least a whole year, which is as long as I've had it. It's so tiny that it gets lost and it's hard to find somewhere to put it when you're listening to it, since putting it in a pants pocket usually results in its buttons getting pushed at the most inopportune moments! So today, I designed and made it a case, finally, while listening to This American Life. The case is made of wool felt, with embroidered details, and it has a giant brass safety pin on the back to clip it to my clothes.

Incidentally, the episode that I downloaded and listened to while making this was a very good one, but rather sad. It was Episode 352, "The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar." It's about a kid that went missing in 1912 and then turned up 8 months later with a tinker. He was then claimed by two different families, a trial ensued, and he ended up with the Dunbars. Many years later, his granddaughter, curious about the story, started to investigate and came to a very interesting conclusion.

Alice also insisted on a new outfit yesterday. Today I photographed her with some Re-Ment. Alice is just too cute.

Etsy Shop Update and Newest Sewing

Well, it's been a great weekend! I finally had time to update my Etsy Shop. I also had time to make Alice Cherry Blossom an outfit. She's DARLING! I love her and I thank Biscuitbear so much for giving her up. I had wanted her for a long time, but had a terrible time finding one. I think she'll be happy here! She has Mushroom Nursery Re-Ment to play with and I'm planning to either get her a Re-Ment roombox to live in or else make up the dollhouse scale roombox that I have had sitting around here forever into a nice room for her.

These Helen Kish dolls photograph so beautifully. Tompkin's pajamas are on etsy. His fabulous dog is by Barlee Rumburg of Fog City Designs. He's a portrait of my dear Toby, who incidentally (the real Toby, that is!) smells lovely like lavender now because giving him a bath also happened this weekend! I realized on Friday night that this was the first weekend I had had to just rest and do what I wanted to do since before Christmas. Ahhh...so pleasant!