Hello There.

Sorry it has been so long.  It was even hard for me to find my blog after letting so much dust fall on it.  The blogging gods are definitely frowning on me.  This Pink Cheeks is a special request from a lovely woman who made me blush when she described how much her daughter liked Carlos Jr..  She has a bun in the oven and wanted a Mary Poppins doll for her daughter to give as a gift to her brand new, yet to enter this world sister, which I think is completely sweet.  I did Mary Poppin's body weeks ago, and then for some reason I got stuck in a sewing funk.  I was stuck.  It was like being waste-deep in tar.  Mary Poppins kept staring at me with her button eyes, sad and arm-less.  Every day I would come home from work and say, "Today is the day I sew Mary some upper limbs!"  Then, I wouldn't even be able to exert enough sewing energy to plug in the machine.  I kept imagining how the musical would have been if Mary Poppins was arm-less, and how she would have had to hold the handle of the umbrella she floated down with in between her toes and it made me so sad.  But, today Mary demanded at me that I suck it up, take a spoon-full of sugar and sew her up some arms!  And I did!  Woo!  

In other news, my husband, Joseph, finished his MFA degree!  I am so happy and proud of him (and also excited that he finally has time to do laundry again).  I wanted to include some images from his thesis show for you to Ooooooh and Ahhhhh at:

Enjoy the sunshine!  

The Pleasantly Plump Stylish Ladies Complete!

The Stylish Ladies are done!  I don't know which is my favorite, the senior lady or the tiniest one with the bee-hive, but they all sort of make my giggle.  They will be up in my shop shortly.   

The dance that I mentioned in my previous post was intensely fun, though none of my photos were post-worthy, sorry.  It's a shame too because one of my most favorite clients wore this dress from the eighties that had the most emormously puffy sleeves you could ever imagine.  It was completely great.  

So, has mother nature gone completely mad?  I don't know about where you are, but by me there were flurries!  I am boy-cotting though.  I WILL not wear my winter coat any more!  No sir.    

What My Saturday Looks Like

My Stylish Lady Matryoshka dolls are going to need another day for me to finish them up.  It makes me laugh that I am calling them "stylish" and currently wearing black tights with white shoes.  I am all dressed for the Stone Belt spring dance.  Joseph (husband) made a comment before that I am not so good at style "from the ankle down", otherwise I wouldn't have Googled is it okay to wear white shoes with black tights just to be sure I was in the clear, which I am definitely not.  I am not, however, a "shoe" person.  I don't have any alternatives, so I am just going to wear them and pretend that I am "fashion-forward".  I am very excited about the dance, regardless of my fashion no-no.  I never went to a prom, and even though most of my friends say I didn't miss much, and then they recite the horrible-ness of it all, I think a prom-nightmare-story is better than no-prom-story at all.  But now, finally(!) a decade later, I get to redeem myself at the Stone Belt dance!  Woo!  

I will update you tomorrow on Monday with pictures of the event, the shoes and the finished matryoshkas which will be up in the shop then! Enjoy your Saturday!