My Christmas shopping is done, my cards are mailed and today I will be mailing out the last few packages!!!!!!!!!!! So I can relax a bit and start making plans for the new year.
I will be getting a doll called Bleuette for Christmas this year. The nice thing about this doll is that she is ideal for making clothes for. So I have been collecting up patterns and yesterday I went to JoAnn fabric store and bought a variety of fabric with several projects in mind.

Here is the picture of what I bought. I hope to be able to show what I made from each once they are done. But I can't start sewing until I get the doll...... I probably like the planning stage best of all anyway so that is a good thing.

If you are curious about Bleuette you can check out this link to learn about her. If not, well, you will have to wait until I picture her here.

I actually finished a miniature project

I have finally finished a project I started a couple of years ago. It is a scene of the exterior of a Southwestern style house. I had been collecting a lot of different pieces of pottery, most from Dusty Acres Trading Post. I had wanted to find a way to display them The actual box was started by a mini friend Peg while we attended a Miniature workshop. She gave it to me cause I knew what I wanted to do with it. And because she is a GREAT friend.
Inside the window frames is a picture of the inside of a SW style house. Unfortunately I could not get a good picture of it. There is a picture frame that goes with this but it looked better to show on line without the frame. The framed room box will hang on a wall.

Winter came back

Woke up this morning to a couple of inches of snowIt was forecast this time, unlike last week.
There is rain scheduled to follow so snow may not last long but it is pretty while it is here.
Here are pictures of our back patio and my garden shed. Notice the pink flamingo still hunting for food. Also the tree behind the seats is an Atlas Cedar. One of my favorites. It is a funky looking tree with branches going everywhere. It looked nice today with snow on it.

We are thankful that all the leaves have been raked now and the poor fallen branches were picked up before the snow fell this time. Here is a picture of the leaves awaiting pickup. Our township comes by with a vaccum type thing and sucks up all the leaves. It is fun to watch.
They got here two days before this snowstorm. Thankfully!!!

I guess with snow on the ground it is probably time to start decorating for Christmas. Oh yes, and get back to my miniatures. I have been neglecting them.

Out trees were pruned without our permission

Yesterday we had our first snow of the season. Thinking it wouldn't be so bad we didn't think much more about it. HOWEVER, upon looking outside first thing this morning we thought we had entered a war zone!!!!!


Branches were down everywhere and the snow on branches, not knocked down, was thick and wet. So apparently there will be less shade next year and a lot of clean up work over the next couple of days!!

The worst of it was that the leaves weren't' even raked up yet, they are somewhere under all of this. The next couple of days are going to be "fun" around here.

Another Bleery eyed morning 2-1 Red Sox

Well, another nite with a late ending. We managed to stay up and listen to the "winning" end.
Hooray, the RED SOX managed to do it again.
Will miss Schilling at Fenway if this really was his last pitch. But oh what a great ride he gave us.
Bloody sock and all. At least the blood was RED on his Sock.
Now maybe we can get a good night's sleep before the next game.
Photo from The Boston Globe.

NO SLEEP AT OUR HOUSE

Shades of 2004.... late nights watching Red Sox baseball..... bleery eyed mornings.

But it is worth it. It is October and the Red Sox are going to the World Series.

The Boston Herald Says it best

GO SOX!!!!!

My little story book cottage doll house is nearly done.

I managed to find some time this past weekend to work on the front of the house and even started on the inside. I will have pictures of that part tomorrow. I still have to make a bench for the front yard. In the meantime I think you can see a difference from the last pictures I posted.

One problem with the work is that I am so busy watching baseball I don't get much done. I have a bit of a breather now. Go Red Sox!!!!