DOLLS & ROSES

I was looking through my doll album. Yes, I have a photo album with nothing but pictures of my dolls. All of them taken around 20 years ago when I first made them. Our roses were blooming and I took some pictures outside by the rose bushes. I've been intending to add these to my doll blog and decided this would be a good time to post a couple of them.

Go visit Jan at ROSE HAVEN for links to more rosy posts.

Same doll - different rose bush.

I posted an Outdoors Wednesday on my Charlotte's Weblog blog featuring wind chimes. You can click here to go there if you're interested. 

BLUE MONDAY

It's Blue Monday again hosted by Smiling Sally. Be sure to go visit Sally by clicking on the pretty blue bird. If you love blue, and most people do, you will find links to lots of blue things there. 

Today I decided to share some blue in my doll room again. I found this glider chair with foot stool at a yard sale years ago. Seems like I paid $5 for it. Now that I look back on it, I'm amazed if I got it for that price, but that is what I remember. 

I see some more blue there in the background in the window seat. It's a heart pillow and a cat pillow that I made a long time ago. (Seems like I did a lot of things "a long time ago"). The Sugar Britches baby doll (that I made a long time ago) also has blue trim and ribbon on her outfit.

Here at the other end of the window seat is another doll I made a long time ago with blue clothes.

PINK SATURDAY

Tomorrow is Pink Saturday over at Beverly's blog. Here is a preview of what I'll be sharing there tomorrow on my Charlotte's Weblog blog. 

BLUE MONDAY

This week I decided to post my Blue Monday on the doll blog. Why did I do this? For two reasons. The blues I'm featuring are in that room and the second reason is that I just posted a video on my main blog of Dave Dravecky, former pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. He was the guest speaker at our church yesterday and I wanted to share his wonderful testimony of what God is doing in his life with my blogging friends. You can click HERE to hear his inspiring message.

So here it is - Blue Monday in my doll room.

These little figurines were hanging out at the dollar store a few days  ago just waiting for someone like me to spend a couple of dollars and take them home. I thought they would look cute in my doll room. 

The picture above the shelf is my 3rd grade class picture. I made the stained glass frame. And at the right is a white with blue handkerchief that I encased in glass with lead around the edges. These two things have been hanging in this room for oh, probably 17 years. My the time flies.

Here are closer up views.

Be sure to visit Smiling Sally for more Blue Monday posts.

Hugs, Charlotte

ORGANIZING MY DOLL POSTS

I shared most of my dolls on my At Home in Scottsdale blog before I started this blog just for my dolls. I thought it would be good to feature these dolls again here with links to the original posts I did on them. So, the first one I'm featuring is Leah.
Here she is. You can click HERE to go to the original post I did last year.

Click HERE to go to the followup post that tells how Leah ended up in India where she lives still.

SMILE AWARD

I visited Isabella's Closet blog and came away with this award. She was freely giving it away to anyone who visited her blog. It made me smile. Can you actually look at it without smiling? Anyway, as I said she was giving it away and wanted the recipients to give it away to bloggers who make them smile. Tell you what, if you are visiting here and you're smiling, go ahead and grab the award and let's keep it going around blogland. 

Googly Doll at Christmas

I get the feeling that my dolls are feeling a little neglected again as I have not posted anything here in awhile so tonight I ran across this picture of my Googly doll that I took at Christmas time over 20 years ago and thought I would share it with you.  

Merry Christmas!

A NEW BLOGGER AWARD

Thanks to Tardevil at Confessions of a 40 Something Mama Queen for this special award. I love it and appreciate so much that she gave it to me for this blog. I hope you will go visit her blog. You might be interested in how she got the name Tardevil. I was. She has a very interesting blog.

Here are the rules that go along with the award. 

 Add the award image to my/your sidebar.

2) Copy and paste the rules and instructions in your post.

3) When posting on receiving the award, make sure you include the person who gave you the award and link it back to them.

4) Post 5 of your addictions.

5) Post 5 winners and link it back to them as well.

6) Let your winners know you gave them an award by leaving them a comment on their blog.

My Five Addictions:

• Blogging has got to be one of them.
• Shopping
• Dark Chocolate
• Dates & Nuts
• Watching Fox News Channel

In the spirit of the holidays I just can't chose 5 people, so if you are reading this, and if you are a fan of my dolls, I would like for you to have this award. I know this sounds pretty generic, but so many of you have fabulous blogs and I would like to give the award to every one of you. 

Friday Show & Tell

I've been neglecting my dollies the past few weeks so decided to do my Friday Show & Tell on this blog. These pictures are of the same doll, of course, but different trees, different years, even different houses. The pictures at the bottom were taken when we lived in California.

Thanks to Kelli for hosting Show & Tell. Be sure to visit her blog for links to more blogs. Just click on the picture at the top of this post.

FAVORITE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS

I did not make this doll head. I bought it at Joanna's a few years ago. I posted a picture of it on my other blog for Trim the Tree Thursday but when I saw that Sarah at Everyday Elegance Favorite Things Monday was featuring favorite tree ornaments today I decided to do this post. This is one of my favorite decorations. It is usually the first one I put on the tree every year. 

This is another of my favorites. Actually I have 5 of these now. My daughter gave me the first one that she got many years ago when she was working for the Red Cross. Someone where she worked made it and since it didn't match her decorating style, she asked me if I wanted it. Of course I did. That was just my style. I liked it so well that I made 4 more like it. 

I hope you will visit Sarah at Everyday Elegance for more Favorite decorations. You may even want to participate by posting your favorite decorations. Having more than one blog comes in handy sometimes. I had already done a Blue Monday on my Charlotte's Weblog blog when I discovered that Sarah was doing favorite decorations, and I couldn't resist joining that meme too. I love this time of the year. 

BTW did you notice the new widget on my sidebar for our Spiritual Sundays blog? Ginger just made it and I think it is fantastic.