JUST CAN'T BREAK AWAY FROM THE 'PINKS AND BLUES'.

DOLL AND OUTFIT SOLD!

SORRY...DOLL AND OUTFIT SOLD!

I love adding the finishing touches to these beaded outfits almost as passionately as I love crocheting them, and here is the latest outfit I finished yesterday. Just making the purse took almost the entire day, however I love the final result! I have tons of pale blue cotton thread and thought I would try using the dark beads with the pale thread as it is next to impossible to find matching dark blue thread. Somehow I love the contrast created almost more than using the same color of beads as the background as don't you think the beading shows off better?

I am now finished two rows of my next outfit however I am using a different pattern for this one. And guess what the color is?

Yes, I also have many balls of pale pink cotton, but am using some plum beads for my next outfit as again I could not find matching thread.
I LOVE PINK! When I first started collecting dolls, I planned to dress all my dolls in pink dresses of course, but it never worked that way.

Here are some of my PINK sayings:

A profusion of PINK roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. ~The Collected Later Poems of William Carlos Williams
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“The rose is a flower of love. The world has acclaimed it for centuries. PINK roses are for love hopeful and expectant. White roses are for love dead or forsaken, but the red roses, ah the red roses are for love triumphant.”
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"Slow buds the PINK dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.” Susan Coolidge
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"PINK is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with the pink dress at the party is the one who is selected for each dance” - Alfred Carl Hottes

JUST CAN'T BRAK AWAY FROM THE 'BLUES'

FLAPPER OUTFITS I HAVE MADE...PLUS MORE TO COME

FLAPPER OUTFITS I HAVE MADE...PLUS MORE TO COME

TOP GOLD AND ECRU OUTFIT HAS BEEN SOLD AND SEEMS TO BE A FAVORITE COLOR. THESE OUTFITS ARE LISTED IN MY ETSY SHOP...PLEASE SEE THE LINK AT THIS SIDE OF THIS PAGE.

PLEASE FEEL WELCOME TO DROP BACK TO SEE THE NEW OUTFIT I AM WORKING ONE.

SAME PATTERN , DIFFERENT COLORS

THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND LEAVING YOUR MOST

APPRECIATED COMMENTS.

IF YOU WISH TO SEE LARGER DETAIL OF THE BEADING IN THESE DOLL OUTFITS,

PLEASE CLICK ON PHOTOS TO ENLARGE.

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK BACK IN A DAY OR TWO TO SEE MY NEXT DRESS. IT

TAKES ME APPROXIMATELY EIGHTY HOURS OR MORE TO MAKE ONE OF THESE

OUTFITS, SO I MUST GET BACK TO MY WORK. HAVE A NICE DAY!

THIS PINK DRESS WITH THE BLACK BEADS HAS ACTUALLY SOLD, BUT I AM BUSY WORKING ON THIS SAME PATTERN IN A PALE BLUE THREAD WITH DARKER BLUE BEADS. I WAS'T TOO SURE ABOUT THE COLOR COMBINATION, HOWEVER IT IS TURNING OUT GORGEOUS .

I AM SURE ONE CAN APPRECIATE THE TIME INVOLVED IN CROCHETING ONE OF THESE DRESSES.

NATONAL QUILT DAY FAT QUARTER GIVEWAY by PAT SLOAN ON FACEBOOK!

I LOVE GIVEAWAYS and this is pretty exciting.

What a GREAT DAY to be a Quilter!! NATIONAL Quilt Day... woot woot!!

And Pat Sloan has a Challenge... with a fabric and thread prize!

Pat Sloan is going to give away TWO FQ Bundles to TWO lucky people

AFTER she receives 3,000 people on the Fun Page!

So how do YOU speed up the process so you can WIN a FQ Bundle?

* Post a note on YOUR FACEBOOK wall inviting your quilt friends to join to win!

* Tell your internet groups

* write on your blog.

* tell your guild!

HERE IS the blog post, share the prize photo, give them the Fun Page Link! Quick like a bunny!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pat-Sloan/59964830850?ref=ts

PAT SLOAN'S BLOG:

http://patsloan.typepad.com/pat_sloans_corner/2010/03/xxxx.html

GOOD LUCK!

THE WAY WE SEE IT

Now what do I do next...

THE WAY WE SEE IT

The eye doctor instructed her patient to read a chart on the wall.

He Looked at it and read, "A, B, F, N, L and G."

The doctor turned the light back on and wrote in her notebook.

"How'd I do, Doc?" the patient wondered.

She replied, "Let's put it this way -- they're numbers."

"But Doc," he argued, "this is the way I see it!"

Much of my happiness or unhappiness is a result of my perception.
"This is the way I see it," I tell myself.

I see some problems as challenges that energize me to action and
others as obstacles that stop further progress. It's just the way I
see it.

And sometimes I see new situations as fun, and other times I see them
as fearful.

The busyness of my life can be OK if I see it that way, or it can be
a major source of stress. And an unexpected intrusion in my schedule
can be an irritant or, if I see it that way, possibly the most
important thing I could do that day.

Even an embarrassing mistake can be the beginning of a new learning
or an occasion to berate myself. It's in the way I see it.

One of the greatest blocks to my happiness is forgetting that it is
not always about what is happening to me -- it's more about the way I
see it.

Like Marcel Proust said,
"The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." It's in the way we see it.

10 INCH PORCELAIN BABY DOLL 'SMIDGEN'-HAND-CRAFTED - NEW

10 INCH PORCELAIN BABY DOLL 'SMIDGEN'-HAND-CRAFTED - NEW

Her blond hair and brown eyes give her such an adorable look.


Lovingly reproduced using mold sculpted by Boots Tyner .

An adorable reproduction doll from my private collection.

A really adorable 'heirloom' gift for a little girl or collector.

...DOLL WITH OUTFIT AS ILLUSTRATED ...

MEASUREMENTS:

HEIGHT:

Approximately 10 INCHES HIGH.

NEW CONDITION

MATERIAL: Porcelain

COMES FROM A NON-SMOKING HOME.

An exquisite treasure you will own.

SIZE: Appoximately 10 inches