We Won a Giveaway!

In April I entered a fun giveaway on Instagram never expecting to win as my track record of ever winning anything is well pretty bad...but my luck was to change and I won.  I was so thrilled.

A lovely package of goodies arrived.

A beautiful card

All gifts were wrapped so prettily. 

Rose was excited as the giveaway was geared towards Smart Dolls and MSD 

Lovely hand written card.

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First package contained something for Rose to wear.

Love this little school uniform type outfit, complete with headband.

A shirt for a male smart doll...I have an excuse to get one now if they ever produce them again!

What a fun little drawers.

Shall we see what is inside them.

Some very fancy shoes!

These shoes were also handmade by the talented Mimi who sent them.

These are MSD size, so I guess one day I will have to get a doll to fit them ;-)  but in the meantime they look great as display items.

Also included was a bag from the Mirai Store in Tokyo.

What a lovely lot of goodies.

Rose looks good in her little outfit.

A big huge thanks to the generosity of Mimi who can be found on Instagram @moomoo_mt

I love these gifts so very much and feel so lucky to have won them.

 

Sewing Summary on Sunday

I've had a happy weekend doing a little sewing...

I made this little dress for Helen Blythe

During the week I made her a simple skirt and top.

Today I made Rose a pair of denim shorts and a little summery top

I took quite a few photos!

 

The Budding Photographer

After finding an 'old' Polaroid Instamatic camera...

Rose has decided she wants to become a photographer.

She has started taking photos already

She likes that she gets instant results with this camera.

Some More Dressmaking for Rose

I caught Rose just as she was about to eat her sandwich... she is wearing the new t shirt I have made her.

I'm reasonably pleased with how it turned out, although the fabric was a bit too thin for my liking, but I am using what I have to hand.

I also made her some leggings...

...which are a nice fit. 

Next I made her a skirt.

Front view.

Back view.

I'm really enjoying making things for her.

So pretty.

Next I made her a hoodie...but realised I didn't have any open ended zips apart from one short dark green one.  The hoodie is in turquoise, and the zipper wasn't long enough, so that has been put aside for now until I can get a zipper for it.  Fortunately I did have some dark green fleece so I made a shorter green hoodie so I could use the green zipper I had.

This will keep her nice and warm.

On a whole pretty pleased with how it turned out, although would make the sleeves shorter next time. 

 

My Birthday Doll - A box Opening

Don't you just love doll sized boxes that come in the post?!

Opening the top, and then removing the tissue paper to reveal....

Squeal! 

In the bubble wrap

Removing the bubble wrap... so excited to receive one of these fabulous dolls as I never thought I would ever have one as to buy one new direct from the shop is just way too prohibitive for my pocket especially with the extra customs fees on top so to find one being sold by a friend in the UK was just perfect.

Cheeky photo in her underwear.  Sorry about the 'leaning' table.

I knitted a top for her anticipating her arrival, but wasn't sure what size she would be for skirts/trousers so....

She borrowed a Sasha skirt initially which was way too big around the waist!  I also tried her with a short wig as she came with  a long dark brunette wig (unfortunately not her original red which would have been lovely).

Here she is with the wig she arrived with, wearing a skirt I quickly made her that fits better than the Sasha skirt (Alice is pleased about that as she was wearing it and had it whipped off her, so is happy to have it back).

The pixie look with a matching beret.

A close up of her sweet face.

The beret with the long haired wig.

Another close up.

This doll will take me a while to get used to, as she is unlike anything I have ever had before, but I am really pleased with her and feel quite excited about making quite different clothes to what I normally make.  

She is Smart Doll Resilient in Tea Colour.