Sunday Summary

Well some of the news is that I started a new Sasha blog - a fresh approach which I am quite excited about.

I've re-vamped my old Etsy Shop and launched the opening this afternoon for the sale of my bears.  The shop 'Kiwi Wight Creations' has the first of my Kiwi Wight Bears listed.  It is still a work in progress.

I have listed my new Sasha summer dresses with little cardigans on my new Sasha blog 'Sasha Haven'   I also listed some Gregor clothing.

During the week I had a new arrival...

It took about a month to arrive, but I was expecting it to take a while.

Ooh I love unwrapping new packages.

A fox!

I've been wanting a Philomena Kloss Bear for a while, and in the end decided on a fox as that is something I am not likely to make myself

Howard welcomes him.

Meet Frank Fox.

His tail sticks out the back of his trousers.

I took him out exploring

He helped leave a painted rock.

My brown bear now has a name - Bramble Brown Bear.

I took a couple of new photos.

He helped me make some Gooseberry Jam.

Enjoyed a walk.

Best of all he is a really good cuddler!

Howard helped me leave a rock during the week, which was gone a couple of days later when I next walked that way.

Monday Yellow and Blues.

Daisy Spring enjoyed some time out in the garden today.  

She also spent some time with me on my favourite seat while I sat and read while having a cuppa.

Bellamy's wanderings weren't so solitary today...but he was in our garden so that was okay.

Howard said if you have a view of the sea, then you HAVE to have nautical trousers...

So of course I obliged.

Hmmm...what are these creatures he wonders?!

Bailey and Felix enjoyed some time out on the grass overseen by Howard.

A Few for Wednesday

I'm not quite sure why Peggy Sue thinks she is exhausted, but that is what she told me today when I caught her on the chaise lounge.

The Schoenhut gang are out of storage at last!  Good to have them out again.  I have missed them.

Howard has been for a couple of lovely walks.

Enjoying the sounds and views of the sea.

Curating a Collection

I still haven't fully refined my goals for my 'Year of Twenty', however, some things are becoming clearer in my mind about where I want my focus to be.  We have been discussing 'Curating a Collection' on a group I am on.

I believe at this stage that a lot of my 'other' dolls will now essentially be leaving, although the process might be slow.  I am now thinking that my group of 'twenty' will be 'any other' dolls that I want to keep apart from my Sasha/Gregor & Schoenhut, who will remain my core group - and I think I will also be pairing down them a bit.  I will be selling all but one of my Course dolls as well.  I will keep my blonde girl with the pigtails/plaits.  This will significantly reduce my collection and I think I will start to enjoy and focus better.  It is very easy to be 'led astray' and go in all sorts of different directions and the last few years it has been a bit like that as I guess in a way I have experimented with what I like and don't like. Although have to say on a whole I like them all!

Happy New Year!

Creative Weeks 33 & 34

As most of what I made during week 33 was for Christmas presents, I held off showing them until now.

For an IG friend I made this little bear and patchwork quilt.

I made a coat for Howard Bear - whom incidentally I seem to have forgotten to introduce!

I made Howard at the end of November and finished him on the 1st.  When I put Howard next to 'Lawrence' I realised I had made a grave mistake and Lawrence was actually a 'she' and Lawrence was in fact their surname....and so without further ado, let me introduce Hilda and Howard Lawrence (usually known as Howard Bear).

I made Hilda's skirt and Howard's trousers and jumper.

I knitted Little Gem a Christmas dress.

I made a Christmas dress for Natalie, my new baby.

Plus I knitted her some booties and then a romper suit.

For another friend I made a dress for a teenage type doll such as Sindy etc... a little knitted dress for her Nancy Ann Story book doll and a shawl. (I forgot to take individual photos of them)

I made Kiwi Sindy a Christmas dress with some lovely fabric that was on special in John Lewis before Christmas.  

I also made Gorgeous Sindy a Christmas dress.

Lastly I got this fabulous vintage cloth kit fabric sheet for Christmas from a friend. Don't worry there is a fourth arm pattern, it was just loose and I missed it out of the photo.

 I finished them on Friday.

I thought of a really good name for them both, but then promptly forgot it!  Hopefully it will come to me again as I think it really suited them.

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I will try to sum up my 'Creative 2019' if I can before the New Year!