Lyric tries out being a redhead....

Amongst all the fuss of the new arrival, Lyric wanted to try out a red wig.  She's a little put out that another 60s Gotz Slate Eyes Blond has arrived, so she wants to be different. 

I already had this particular wig, a synthetic mohair Monique Gold Geneva in Carrot Red, and decided to cut it into a short bobbed style for Lyric.  I do like the longer hair but because the Monique Gold wigs are so soft, they do tend to get untidy quickly.  I'm going to leave this wig on her for a while and see what I think because maybe I'll reroot her in a similar shade later on.

A new little Slate Eyed Gotz girl here too!

We came home from the coast yesterday and my new little girlie had been delivered the previous day.   I was anxiously waiting to see her because I'd not asked any questions about her prior to pressing that BIN button on Ebay.....so I lived in hope that she'd be in good condition.  Well the Sasha gods must have been looking out for me because she is actually far cuter than I expected!  The seller's listing stated that her hair was dry, but I can honestly say it feels lovely to me!  It is clean, silky and smells really nice too.  I'm really pleased that I don't have to wash it!!!!  It is also thick and although more sparsely rooted on top, it doesn't appear to be falling or breaking off!  I just love her face shape and her little chin!

So here she is, she hasn't got a name yet but we're working on it.... she arrived wearing the flowered dress and dark mauve shoes, I swapped her plain white socks for lilac and white stripes.

And here she is wearing an outfit that I quickly made specially for her, she needs a different colour socks though!!  The blouse, which is still waiting for buttons,  is made from a vintage table mat that was given to me.

A bit of sewing....or maybe a LOT!

I have been incredibly busy sewing for the last 5 or 6 days as I wanted to catch up with my orders after my 'visitors' break.  Yesterday I finished a small part of my latest commission.  I wanted to wait until the lady had seen them before putting them on here.  Thankfully she is happy with the photos, so I thought I'd add a bit of colour to my blog!  I hope you enjoy!

I wasn't able to have a row of girls modelling together as we didn't have enough appropriate shoes with us, so the girls were photographed individually...sorry for lots of photos!

First up we have Bailey modelling a cerise pink and white set, with polkadots and tiny flowers.  Even her socks have polkadots!!  

 

Next up is Gabrielle modelling a second pink set, the skirt fabric is covered with tiny deep pink roses.  This set comes with a pale pink tee shirt and pink edged white socks.

Here we have Wren modelling a yellow set, the skirt fabric has tiny little bumble bees printed on it and one has flown off and landed on her hairband ;)    And I finally found some yellow fabric with polkadots for the socks!

The second yellow set, which is really more of a lemon, is being modelling by Gabrielle.  I say 'yellow/lemon' but this has a lot of white too, the tee shirt and the lower frill of the skirt are both snowy white!  Socks are pale lemon to match the skirt.  Gabby really has too much hair for a hairband!!

And now we have the blue sets!  Wren is modelling the first of the two blue sets, it's a bright sunny turquoise blue tee shirt with the same colour reflected in the pattern of the skirt fabric and the dots on the lower frill of the skirt.  Turquoise and white striped socks go with this outfit.

Bailey is modelling the second blue set, this one has a pale baby blue tee shirt and the blue skirt fabric has tiny pink flowers on it.  The socks are pale blue with pink lace tops.

And lastly, something for the boys.  The lady requested a couple of pairs of knit shorts in brown and navy blue.  These are pull on with no pockets.

All outfits are already SOLD. Thank you for looking! 

Two pretty girls!

Wren (Kilt) and Bailey, looking pretty.... 

A baby Kestrel....

Today my son Brendan found a baby bird under his car.  Being an animal lover like his mum, he brought it inside as he was worried that the poor little fellow might get run over in the road.  It turns out that it's a baby Kestrel.  Kestrels are quite common where we live and we often see them flying about over the olive groves looking for their next meal.

Brendan put the kestrel in an open topped box on the terrace in the hope that it's mother would come looking for it, but nothing...not a peep. :(  No sign of mum and not a sound from the little birdie!

Brendan has been trying to give it a drop or two of water using a syringe, because in this heat it wouldn't take long for it to become dehydrated.   Virginia, Brendan's fiance, found a small cage so that it can be protected overnight, and they've been making enquiries with a friend who hunts using Birds of Prey; apparently Kestrels are a protected species and if you're found with one you can be fined up to €3,000!!!!  So tomorrow they'll be taking it to the Guardia Civil in the hope that they'll know what to do with it.......

Now if it had been an African Grey..........

UPDATE:  Brendan called Seprona in Sevilla,  which is the part of the guardia civil that deals with animals and they asked for a photo of the bird.  It turns out that this little one is an
cernicalo, which is a Kestrel, but it isn't a 'common' Kestrel but one that is a protected species in danger of extinction!!!!  So they are coming to collect it tomorrow morning!  

All's well that ends well!!!

"Have you anything stronger?" says little baby Kestrel....(Brendan's photo).

Back to blogging.....

The last couple of weeks have been both busy and relaxing.  Busy because my mum and brother were over here on holiday for two weeks from the UK and relaxing because apart from the usual cooking etc., I didn't really do any sewing at all!  In fact I didn't have any dolly time whatsover, which I suppose is good in some ways......although I have to say that I do miss my dolly sewing!  So yesterday my family left to return home and I am now playing catchup.  I immediately got back to my commissions list.......I apologise to those waiting, but hope you'll appreciate that I want to spend time with my mum when she visits as I don't see her very often!!

I made 6 ra-ra skirts since yesterday, and tomorrow will start on the tops and socks to go with them, they are part of a very big commission that I have for a lady in the US.  I will add photos on here as soon as they're done.

In the meantime, I bought a cute outfit on Ebay for Ellie, my Dianna Effner Little Darling, and thought I'd share some photos of her wearing it.  It is by the very talented OliveOil*53 and is perfectly made!  It consists of a pretty dress made in owl fabric, striped knit socks and hairbow.  Very cute!

A few weeks back I said that I was more than happy with my Sasha/Gregor family and had no plans to add anyone to it in the near future....famous last words!!!   I did keep looking out for another earlier English Brunette girl, but the constant threat of falling hair put me off a bit......then last night I ended up buying a new girl on Ebay!!!  However, she is not at all what I was looking for, but I fell for her sweet face......she is going to my mums house first as the seller only ships within the UK, but hopefully she'll arrive here in Spain in a week or so and I will share her on here!!!!

Hope everyone is having a lovely summer so far!

A new wig for Bailey...

I ordered a new wig for Bailey, my (once) brunette wider faced Sasha from 1971 and it arrived this week.  It's a Monique Gold Roxie, size 8/9 in Nearly Black.  The wig is, as expected, lovely and soft, the fit is perfect over her stubbly head, and the colour is not solid, it has a mix in there of very dark brown with the black.  So far so good.

However, I'm really not sure if it is 'her'!!  I think it makes her look more boyish than the previous wig she was wearing which was actually a Prince Gregor wig!  I wonder really if I'm trying too hard to recreate the girl who came here about this time last year.....I had so wanted this wider faced girl (as Kendal will vouch for!) and then all her hair fell out!!!  And yet so far even a long dark wig hasn't hit the spot with her.  Oh well I will have to see if I can work with this one...I'll leave it on and see if it 'grows' on me!

This is quite a good representation of the colour, taken in natural light:

I might have to 'feather' or trim the fringe a bit:

It does flick out nicely, but is it too much?

 Back view....it doesn't have grey tips, that's just the light catching it.  Bit of a DA going on here I feel!

 Those 'feathers' need taming a bit!

I do think this wig would work well for a boy too!  Perhaps one of my boys will end up with it!