What Now?

It's been quite the week!  Last month our dishwasher died. That's no big deal since I much prefer washing dishes by hand anyways. Then Monday our freezer died. Thankfully we discovered it before the stuff inside started thawing, and we managed to fit almost everything into our fridge freezer. The one good thing is that the ancient turkey hiding in one corner of the freezer for years finally went out with 'kitchen waste'.

That same night we heard tapping INSIDE one of our kitchen walls.  We've had mice before, but they don't make sounds like that.  Then Tuesday there was all water under the sink, and we now need a new tap installed.  Then yesterday's dinner didn't bake very well and it turns out our oven isn't working properly anymore either.  And we were going make a cake for our granddaughter's birthday Sunday. Still managed to bake something at a longer, lower temperature, but the oven definitely needs to be looked at.

I also need a new camera (been saying that for years) but that means I need a whole new PhotoShop as well, since mine is way too old.  And did I mention I HATE change?? 

Then to really top it all off, my radio station went to 24/7 Christmas music today. I mean, I like Christmas music as much as the next guy, but I like it a week before Christmas, and not for seven whole weeks day and night!  So I have to work in silence the next while.

On a more positive note, I'm finally getting around to changing my little dolls into warmer clothes for the winter. There are a LOT of them, and the ones on the top shelf have been changed....

That leaves six in the bottom row, and then all the KIDs, and the KW tinies who are all still wearing their fairy outfits from last spring. The only ones who don't get changed are the eight royal children belonging to FID families. They keep their Medieval Fantasy costumes.  All these little cuties have been sorely neglected of late, and it's high time that changed. After all Christmas is coming.

​I'm also getting somewhere with my Storyteller. He's an old art doll I made some thirty one years ago. He's one of the first dolls I ever sculpted, and was only ever photographed in a bare studio, and never in a nice interior setting - which I didn't have back then, but do have now.

I created the set for him and his dog the other day, and ended up having to fake a fire in the fireplace - out of Christmas lights and cellophane.....

He's almost ready to start telling his dog the story of 'the Soldier and Death'.....and when he is, he'll be telling it here...so stay tuned....