Busy sewing and stocking up the shop

I know I havn't been on for a while, and that I keep saying I will post more regular, but then... things get in the way...even though I have been retired now for twelve months.  I still do my bank nursing one afternoon a week, and enjoy keeping my hand in there, but do you know , I honestly don't know how I managed twenty hours a week before, I think its that now that I know I have more time I probably take life at a slower pace, and sometimes have to with the fibromyalgia, so it does seem to take longer to get things done.
  I have had a lot of problems with my laptop, with a computer virus, then having to have the laptop wiped , then problems getting back on line, so as my laptop was very old, and had to have a plug in mouse, plugged in battery all the time and now being wired into a usb lead to go on line, I decided to treat myself to a new one, well a reconditioned one actually, but good enough for my needs.  Then I lost my shop from on line due to technical difficulties with my webmaster.  So all in all I have had a few problems, but I am now back in business and busy sewing to replace stock that I sols coming up to Christmas.
Have you noticed my son's bike has gone from behind the kitchen window, sold since he finished uni.

I was asked several times for custom orders to fit the George doll which apparently is Annabell's brother, and the same size as Annabell, so I decided to add a new category for this doll.

I have made a few essentials and added them, and hope to add more soon.
We have had a lot of snow lately and it seems to lay around the estate where we live for a long time, it has just started to clear this week after having it for about 5 weeks now.

By the summer of this year This space outside will hopefully look very different, I am planning on having a little hut outside, an eco hut with insulated walls and electricity wired in, which I can then use as a sewing room, then I can move from the kitchen! I am so looking forward to that!  But first I am to have a new kitchen so the following photo is a before photo, and I will show you an after photo when it is all complete.

I did the tiling myself in this kitchen, it was my first attempt at tiling so I don't think I did too bad really, but it will have to come down when they put my new cupboards  and work surfaces in so I have decided to have a complete professional job this time.  I am very much looking forward to all these changes and will keep you posted.  Bye for now.

New  Chaise longue and more sewing for dolls

Last week I treated myself to a lime green half chaise, it fits in lovely under my window in the lounge, but guess who likes it best?

Yes of course Jazz thinks its all for him !  He now spend most of his days sitting, washing, and lounging on his new lime green half chaise longue.

I have been quite busy sewing two new lines for the dolls clothes shop  , shoes to fit Baby Born dolls and Annabell baby dolls, and jockey shorts for Baby Born boy.

 

I pack the shoes in a little shoe box with tissue paper wrapped around, they are all lined with a pretty fabric inside, thes ones are lined with a spotty pink print fabric.

 

And thes are lined with a floral fabric.

So I have been quite busy at the sewing machine,

 

making lots of these,

 

And new outfits galore,

 

And gardening, lunching out, and working at the day job just one afternoon a week, now that I am retired, whilst Jazz has been doing this,

 

 

on the new half chaise longue.

I have also had a very proud time this month, as my son has graduated from uni with a BA in musical theatre, yes, a very proud time indeed, the last three years has just flown by though.

 

Chritmas preperations and sewing stock

Well hello again. It seems I am only posting every six months or so now, but I find there is increasingly so much to do nowadays, sewing to stock the shop  www.dotties-dolls-clothes-emporium.co.uk , photographing the dolls, listing the outfits, packing and posting orders, emailing customers about custom orders, book keeping,  filling a tax return (booh!) . And after all that I'm keeping my day job of nursing going, bank nursing and keeping house! So do excuse me if I don't post too often. I love keeping the shop going though and look forward to the time when I can retire from the day job and donate  more precious time to it. Here are some photos of custom orders and stock that I have been making lately.

So as you can see I have been busy and this is only a small fraction of the workload!
As all of you have probably been doing I have been trying very hard to get Christmasy this week whilst I have had a weeks leave from the dayjob. Putting up the tree-

 

decorating the fireplace-

 

Not too much this year as my son is now quite grown up and studying at uni, and as we live in a modest town house we feel this is enough, a few bits of tinsel around mirrors and lights, a wreat on the door and I am done.
The weather today is not at all chrismassy- torrential rain and fog this morning. This was the yucky veiw from my window this morning! that ball of light wasnt  the sun, it was the camera flash bouncing off the window- sorry !

What asorry sight indeed. Jazz was quite disgusted.

 

So he joined me upstairs for a spot of present wrapping.

Nearly all done now. I will make it my new years resolution to try to blog more often, can't promise tho!   ;)  Bye for now, hope all your preperations are coming along nicely.