Showing posts with label Alice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alice. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 October 2016

My First Handmade Rag Doll.

At the request of a friend, I am writing a little bit more about Alice, Peggy Sue's rag doll.

This little rag doll was given to Peggy Sue back in January 2013.  I found her in a box of sewing notions (possibly belonging to my husband's Grandmother, I can't quite remember) in pieces unfinished.  I gave her little fingers by sewing her hands and put her together, sewed her facial features and gave her hair.  I made her a pair of pantaloons, and she is wearing a dress I made for Tressy back in the nineties.  She is nine inches tall.

I guess you could say this was the very first rag/cloth doll I made.




Friday, 27 May 2016

Friday

I thought I would post a picture of my three handmade dolls.


May Flower, Alice and Patsy


Peggy Sue has been out in the garden today.


Peggy Sue is delighted about how well her flower wheelbarrow is growing!




How does YOUR garden grow? 



Sunday, 22 May 2016

Music Making


There has been much music making happening this weekend.


Ruby has heard there will be a concert in the summer and has started to prepare her pieces in the hope she will get a chance to perform.



She seemed to be at the piano each day.


It is good to see her so passionate about her music.



Elsewhere in the cottage...


Peggy Sue was delighted to find Alice who had been 'missing' for a while.


She just loves her rag doll.

Wednesday, 2 September 2015

How many called Alice?

It seems we have two girls with the name 'Alice' living here in Rose Cottage and so some confusing is starting to ensue....



First of all we have Alice 'Sasha' who was actually the first to arrive.  She has said in no uncertain terms that she is keeping her name!


The other of course is Alice Schoenhut.

Now because her hair is a lovely blonde colour, she thinks that perhaps it should be HER that is called 'Norma Jean' as she thinks she looks rather like Marilyn Monroe now,...with her blonde hair.

Does she look like a Norma Jean?

But of course Gladys Jean changed her name to Norma Jean only two days ago!


So what do you think?  Could she be a Maggie or a Martha?   Or something completely different.  I think Maggie might suit her..

Keep two girls with the name 'Alice' or change her name?  Change both the Schoenhut girls' names.

Oh the decisions that go on in this household...could make your mind boggle! ;-)



Tuesday, 1 September 2015

So just what did the girls do yesterday?


So what to do on a wet day...you may recall yesterday the weather was terrible,  Alice and Anne-Marie stared out the patio windows disappointed that yet again they couldn't go out to play.


While Alice was staring out the window I noticed the state of her hair - not that I haven't noticed before, but I decided it was the perfect opportunity for a hair wash.


Her hair was a dirty blonde colour and quite 'stiff'.

Alice decided she was quite ready for a hair wash and so we set to work.

Imagine my astonishment when I discovered it was a real hair wig!  The water changed a murky colour, but the hair grew softer and lighter.     A little hair was lost during the combing through process, but fortunately not too much.



Alice can't quite believe how it feels now.


What a transformation!


It is a shame that she took a pair of scissors to her fringe/bangs at some stage - seems something a lot of little girls try!


The back - isn't it pretty?


It was the day for transformations it seems.


Gladys Jean decided she too wanted a makeover.

We hunted through the wig box and found a wig that fitted - it had lots of ringlets, which really didn't suit so the length was shortened and the ringlets washed out.

A new dress was made for her, of which she is especially proud of.


The dress has a lovely little detachable lace collar.




She thinks she might like a new name as well...which we are currently debating on.  She thinks she would quite like to be called Norma Jean.






So after these makeovers what did the girls get up to on a rainy day?


Why they played a game of dominoes.  Norma Jean is asking Anne-Marie how to play and Anne-Marie is explaining about matching up the numbers of dots on the dominoes.




Monday, 31 August 2015

Alice & Anne-Marie look sadly out the patio doors.


Rain, rain go away, please don't come back another day, we so want to go out and play, but it is so wet and dull outside today.  

Alice and Anne-Marie are looking sadly outside - the rain is pouring down.


What shall we do today, if we can't go out to play?

I don't feel like another tea-party, perhaps we should play some board games instead? 


What do you suggest?


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Looks like the window needs cleaning!  Naughty puppy paws!


Sunday, 7 April 2013

Orange Crush - my latest knit

I thought I would try knitting another dress similar to the one I knitted for Saige the other day, but this time making it smaller to fit Sasha.

Alice is delighted to be modelling it.