My Rainy Day-8-2-'07 (and my music)

( Update: more dolls on my crafts and collectables site-HERE! ~ scroll down to see several pages of dolls !)

Hi folks,


My rainy day yesterday was spent indoors. I did get some necessary chores done around the house. I did a lot of cleaning in the bedroom, and trying to visualize the room rearranged to accommodate an extra small bed in there. I think it's doable.
Will have to be!

In our bedroom we have bow windows with a window shelf. There are 3 windows and at the center part of this shelf it measures over 2 feet; wide enough for a doll case for my overflow of dolls!

These dolls are, mostly, not expensive dolls...except for the sentimental value ! Most of these have been gifts from my kids over the years-plus a few I have found at yard sales! I find dolls hard to resist- especially if the price is right!
( lol- and that right price often depends on how much $$ is in my purse -or what kind of a mood my Charlie is in, on any given yard sale day!)

OK! I'm a kid who never grew up! I know that! As a little girl I always loved dolls and I just never got past that.....Besides- if you live a long time you collect a lot of stuff! Dolls just happen to be one of my 'things!' I can never bring myself to get rid of a gift given to me- no matter how cluttered my house gets!

Don't you just hate dust? That was a big part of my work yesterday...cleaning the doll case and the blinds in the bedroom. I had to get up on the window seat to get to the blinds. I vacuumed them and washed them with a cloth. Would have taken them down and taken them outside and done a better job with the hose- but the weather was so bad... I would have gotten a shower, myself , in doing that. So I did what I could with the short cuts!
( lol- though it didn't feel like a short cut at all, with the time and work that went into it.)

The only help I got was my son telling me, "Mom, be careful and don't fall." :) He
worries because he works in the medical field and sees a lot of bad things happening to women my age! And I did get a fall from my window shelf a few years ago, putting up Christmas decorations; resulting in a broken wrist! Still- as I told Chris- we do what we have to do-as long as we can. (Besides-I had no volunteers, offering help!)

Anyway, got my window blinds-somewhat- clean and my doll case dusted and the girls re-arranged...with a couple recent ones added! ( how could I resist a beautiful porcelain doll for just $2.00? )

Some of my girls:
All of my dolls have names...

Group- (back in doll case)

1. Tessa- (Crochet doll- gift from a niece)
2. Junie Rose-close-up - ( This pretty doll is one I recently found at a yard sale- for $2.00!)
3. Anna Marie and baby Betty Sue - (dark haired doll-she was a gift from my daughter Tina...the baby was an Avon doll...replica of an antique and NOT CHEAP! I bought her many years ago from a sister-in-law.)
4. Sandy & Alina (Sandy in flowered dress was a gift from my son Chris...Alina was a gift from my daughter Tina)
5. Elizabeth, Junie Rose and baby Betty Sue (Elizabeth was a gift from my former DIL and son Chris)
6. Heather, Megan, Christina ( Heather-a gift from Chris, Megan-a gift from my daughter , Tam, Christina is a collector-Artist doll I bought for myself many years ago)
7. Mary Jo and Patsy Ann ( both recent yard sale finds)

This little girl looks very sad ...or is that a pout...because she was left out!
Had to explain that she is a Christmas doll and wouldn't fit in with these summery attired girls. She will be displayed at Christmas with the rest of my wintery dressed dolls!

Besides...there's not room even for one more little doll in that case!

I think I will name her "Merry Noel!"



I ended my long day with a late night listen of Dire Straits!

I LOVE this band! :)



Junie Rose