Tea for Two Tuesday & Red Squirrel Watching

On Tuesday we were invited to a lovely afternoon tea at our friend Chris's house.

Clementine was very pleased to visit Mary and thoroughly enjoyed her 'posh' tea.

She looks lovely a pink dress and cardigan she borrowed from Peggy Sue.

Mary is just exquisite.

The afternoon tea was delicious!

Much chit chat went on.

Henry joined them...

and tied to sneak a roll while they were chatting.

Gigi visited Ten Ping and her family in her delightful little house

It was just a very lovely way to spend an afternoon.

We also had a delicious afternoon tea.

Plus thoroughly enjoyed watching the red squirrels feeding.

Although we get a lot at our place, they tend to stay in the hazel nut trees, so we don't see them so often.

We also did a spot of bird watching.

To see the video with the doll and squirrels click HERE

 

Advent 2021 - Day Thirteen: Rose Resilient's Turn.

Rose was thrilled to be asked to have an actual turn herself today to open the calendar.

It was up high, so was just the right door for her to open.

She reaches inside 

to carefully take out what was behind the door.

Oh look what she has.  Little Gigi, was first to have a look.

It is a cute little rabbit.

Aw, how sweet.

Gigi, wants to know if she can pet it.

Of course you can Gigi.

She sits down with the little rabbit on her left....in the meantime what is that pesky elf up to?!

 

Advent 2021 - Day Six: Gigi's turn.

Wren has asked Gigi if she would like to open the calendar today.

Gigi was of course delighted.

They look for the number six and find it down the bottom

It has big doors!

Gigi opens one

and Wren holds open the other as Gigi takes out the pieces.

She needed a hand to take out the roof!

The pieces made the stable for Mary and Joseph.

Isn't this just the sweetest thing?

Delightful!

 

A New Dress and a Doll Size Comparison.

I made a little Blythe dress today and thought I would see how many of my smaller jointed dolls it would fit.  I selected four and lined them up to compare body size.

From left to right:
Vera (Kruseling), Gigi (Ruby Red Galleria), Wren (Makielabs), Helen (Jecci Five)

It is interesting to see their different sizes, and will be fun to try on the dress on each of them.

First of all I tried it on Vera.  It fitted quite well, and is a good length on her, although the arm holes were a little tight. This was a surprise as she was the only one it was tight on.

Gigi tried it on next and it fits her well, although perhaps a tad too long.

Helen tried it on and it of course fitted her as I knew it would as I have used this pattern before.

Wren tried it on last. I gave her some new glasses.  Although I prefer her in black, she lost her original black ones, and the ones she was wearing in the top picture were a replacement pair, but they were always too big, and they just keep slipping and falling off all the time which is a shame.  The only other pairs I had that suited her were a blue pair and a white pair.  She chose the blue pair and is having a little giggle about them.

She also found a pair of blue shoes to match the dress and glasses.

I am thinking I might colour the white pair black as they too fit her and I do still prefer the black on her, but perhaps I just need to get used to the blue pair.  Shame the replacement black pair seem to have been printed at a slightly larger scale.

Anyway, it seems Wren won the trying on competition as she declared she wasn't going to take the dress off!