I had a sweet little find on Trademe, four lovely little 1991 Strawberry Shortcake dolls, not complete, and needing some tlc, so one of those fun finds.
Still true to the 1980s design, I love that these girls have really long hair, and the faces are still quite sweet.
Fun times ahead!
Great day for the beach!
Freezing though.
Check out these rusty old steps.. the dune has worn away heaps.
Good times.
Iris, all snuggly and warm for winter!
Nancy, looking festive in those Solstice colours…
Nancy and Audrey..
Collette, Nancy and Audrey.
Loving the sunshine!
Iris and Isobel…
Wohoo!
This exciting new thing is happening.. Sew a Longs!
Oh, a tricky bit!
Audrey is loving it!
Just hanging out..
These two tiny bears are one of my favourite projects from when I was a kid, I think I was about nine or ten when I made them, on a holiday at my nana and poppa’s place.
They are taken from a Women’s Weekly magazine and I made them from the paper pattern, just not sized up, as it was intended to be used. You probably know I love working on crazily small scale projects, and I loved this one, because the bears were so cute, I loved the longer limbs, the fabric was an off cut from nana’s curtains (which she still has up) and was really nice to use, one side is pink, one side is orange, hence the combination of colours… they are stuffed with the off cuts from making, and all hand sewn as you can see.
I had thought these were lost, but found them about a month ago at mums, horray! Here they are with Audrey..
The girls can’t resist getting into the garden when we are away from home.
Tree huggers!
Loving Autumn…
Can’t say I’m EVER so well co-ordinated with my garden as these girls are…
A pumpkin! Or it’s probably actually a squash!
I love autumn, and pumpkins are so very autumn. The best ones are those that come up by accident, out of garden compost… this one is in the soon to be garlic bed. If there’s room.
Ramona’s pretty excited too.
Isobel and Iris.
The girls have been hanging out with me in the sewing room for a few days, between outings of course.
Iris and Ramona next to Nana Shirley.
Ramona is such a summer girl!
Audrey, by the tin of needles… and Isobel, happy as always.
How could she resist?
A beautiful sunny morning, some of the purplest of purple hydrangeas in the world…
Pretty pretty, and Isobel had to join in too…
Loving it!
The day the sun came out!
Got a few nice snaps of the girls looking at some delicate fungi on our last day in Katikati…
Ramona and Audrey.. ”These are so ephemeral are they not?”
“Why, yes!”
“Wohoo! Sunshine!”
“Look at these ones, tiny aren’t they?”
From us all, “Good bye Katikati, hello sunny Auckland!”
