Time to post again, ya think?

Okay so I am a slow pokey. I get side tracked easily. Right now it is my dolls...I dream DOLLS... but I have to work GARDEN.  Leaves little time for sewing.  wa ha ha...

MUSING...about the past and other things.

Each morning when I get up I clean out my mail. Check for orders answer letters from friends. It is a way of life for me.  Some of what I read triggers memories.  Today's kids face things I never had to. I didn't have internet, video games or X rated television. I was still playing with dolls at 14. Sure I "liked" boys but it was a "sigh, he's cute" and drop it at that. I didn't text (we had no cell phones or even knew what it was). The schools had dress codes and girls could get sent home for showing too much and only the loose girls did that anyway. But I do know what it was like to be bullied. I was not  a fighter. I was shy and easily intimidated. I am still that way but I am finally as an old broad, learning to be a little more pushy.  But I didn't get national headlines for being bullied. If I killed myself HOW would I know it had an effect on the ones who picked on me?  Well dummy me, it wouldn't have. My mother would never have associated such a thing to school! I am glad I had some common sense then and got over my pity parties before I did anything dumb. And it is dumb and it is selfish to think you can hurt someone and change them by destroying yourself. Their hurt would be momentary and the ones you don't mean to hurt would feel the pain for a long time. Even back then I buried myself in books and art and yes dolls still.  I married at 18 and then played with real dolls, my own children.  I was blessed with girls so ruffles and lace (even though they wanted denim and dirt) was a way of life for many years.  Now that I am older I get to play with dolls again.  When it appears that you have no one, then look up. There is a creator who made you and HE is a friend that sticketh closer then any brother. I found that out when I was 24 and met him.  My life has never been the same. I am one of those who didn't have to wait till my time on earth was near over before I found the reason for living. HE was looking for me long before I was looking for him.

HEAT WAVE!!!!

It is now 11 degrees.  Yes that is a heat wave compared to what has been going on. Last night is was -1 with a wind chill of down to about -30.  I am not a polar bear and cold does not agree with me.  OUCH. 
    Atlast I have found a way to combine my love of dolls with my love of sewing and digitizing...
Digitized Doll clothes!!!!

Here are some of my designs.  The best part is that I get to try them out first and get my girls dressed at the same time...

 
The top and the sleeves are designed in my digitizing program and then sewed in the hoop T

This was done on a sheer fabric on WSS stablilizer. Then it was washed out to show the color underneath. It has 6 embroidered panels to the skirt

the oriental look

The skirt has panels with embroidered inserts and the then the sleeve has a a special ribbon to tie it and make it puff... By changing the fabric and the doll I get pajamas. 

 This is the latest and took the longest. There are six embroidered panels with 6 plain ones under them. The top and the sleeves are embroidered with Mylar to add sparkle and make it look metallic.

Cleaning out the sewing room... well sorta

I look at all I put in the sewing room and wonder WHY is it all in there...then I remember...a a a a a
I am supposed to do something with it...
So I pulled out this little chair that has been under bench covered up with stuff. It was nasty looking. My sis in law was going to throw it away and I latched on to it. I has a few tears and was missing a cushion...well YEARS later I have finally fixed it....need to dig out a before shot. I think I have one somewhere

this is one of those child sized chairs. Some of the grandkids are still small enough to sit in it. 

DECEMBER ATLAST!

Tis the season to catch the flu, fa la la la la la la la la
        Whenever anyone asks me "have you had your flu shot yet?" I simply tell them NO, I CAUGHT THE STINKIN STUFF WITHOUT IT!".  There I have that off my chest. I am now in my 3RD MONTH of feeling like death warmed over. This latest has not knocked the props out and I can function but I would just as soon not have it at all.  My hubby and the Brat have had it too... so much fun NOT!
     Been working on designs and even got a few done but OH MY this one set has given me a royal headache. So many changes and fixes and after stitching the set myself I see a few little things I need to check.  I love them too much to NOT keep on them till they are near perfect.  Each design in the set takes 3 hours to stitch on the slowest speed. This barring thread breaks or being called away from the machine.  But I did them all in less then a week.  I had my other machine going doing some things I needed and worked on cleaning my sewing room so it was not wasted time sitting there watching... though I do like to do that.  It is neat to watch the pictures take form in front of your eyes. I did them on Olive fabric so that I could make a dress border out of it. The dress is just finished and I have not photographed them yet, but I will .  here is an example of some of them...

Now if I can just get all my sewing done...yeah right, sure. LOL  But atleast I got my Christmas shopping done and most wrapped...

October is a weird month

   Well here I be again. Another month has been and gone.The government has shut down.

I decided to alter two dresses for my granddaughter.  Well I entered the sewing room and found a gift from the pup. But it had been so long since I went in there it had started to fossilize.  Then I went to find my boots to get them cleaned up for winter. I found one had been pulled under the dresser by the dust bunnies and they were using it for a house of ill repute!  Nasty little critters.

Once a month ain't too bad.

Okay so it has been a whole month since I posted here.  I just got too many irons in the fire and dust bunnies in the house.  So I am spreading myself out.
Anyone here ever used a Neat Receipts Desk top scanner?  I have one and the latest software and guess what...I can hang it up in an instant. Leave it to me. But I gotta do something about all these paper files. costs me a mint each year in folders, and paper and ink and then how or where to put it all... Not gonna put up with it anymore...

Ya'll have a great day okay?

Granny Goose