Wet Play Day

What to do when the weather is wet, dull and miserable?  Why play of course! Forget the house work, this was much more fun.

April was delighted to get back into her yoga gear!

Alicia chose a new outfit to wear.

Although comfortable enough in herself to be a little 'blue' in her dress sense, Blue is still rather shy.

She still seems a little unsure of herself and her surroundings.

The boys, Tom & Brian met up to do some skateboarding.

Penelope Bluebell went out to do a spot of shopping and saw Wren, Blue and Alicia chatting.

Parker walks home from College and meets up with the boys and Trisha

The Scooby Gang are discussing their next case.

April is still practising her yoga.

Peter S is wondering whether he can be bothered with a game of chess...not that he is likely to find anyone else to join him at this stage...

Nelson and Tane Mahuta are discussing the World Cup Rugby.

A perfect day for a drive.

Making the most of the good weather, Tane cleans and polishes his car.

He pays special attention to the windscreen - he wants the whole car to sparkle.

He takes Alicia for a ride, they enjoy the wind in their hair.

Muriel Makes - Lots of sewing.

I have been busy making little dresses for my 'Muriel Makes' shop.  They are currently listed on Facebook but I will be listing them later on my Etsy site when I have taken a few more 'bodice' photos to show the patterns better.

This one has little birds, flowers and butterflies on it.

Blue flowers and little butterflies.

Flowers

Musical notes

Polka Dots

The next  three I made for my friend Jane in New Zealand for her Makie girl Linnet.

And then there is another!

They say you can't have just one...whether that be chocolate, books, biscuits, crisps, dolls, or whatever your 'vice' or passion.  I know I am completely hopeless in my desire to initially just have one - it wasn't long before I fell of the 'Only One Makie' bandwagon as is evidenced by previous blog posts.  Of course when Makies lab announced their 25% discount AND free postage, well that was too good to turn away and Limited Edition Juniper hoped in my basket - at £36.75 it would have been silly for her not to have!  Hey lets face it, if I was the sort of person who had my nails done, wore makeup, went to the hairdressers regularly I would spend way more than that every couple of weeks and more than that on one nail session! 

So here she is in her arrival box - and this time instead of arriving with little black shoes, she came with a pair of red boots which will be fun.

Lid off the box, a simple case of undoing the ribbon and she is soon let free.

She immediately lets me know her name isn't Juniper but Alicia - not sure where that came from as it is not a name I have ever considered or thought about, but there you go.

She is going to be my wild child - I can see that already.  She is wearing a top made for my barbie doll in the early seventies. Her hair has been let out of its band and hopefully once settled down the wig cap won't be so obvious as it is in the other photos.  I don't like to see the wig caps.

She takes a bit of a wander outside.

I think I will have fun designing a wardrobe for this girl...

Meeting up with the others.

Wren is still a little bit unsure of April and her designs on Nelson....

Nelson is  being rather cosy and hoping to reassure Wren that she has nothing to worry about!