The Busy Blues

Once again I had another busy day.  No time to get back to my sewing, but did get a few new photos of Evie outside.  She was rocking it in blue today.  The bows are from the new set that I got from Amazon the other day.  Perfect match to her dress.

I also received these little flower clips in the mail that I bought from Amazon.  Really cute and a perfect size.  I will have to try them out with a few outfits soon!

Until tomorrow!

Maria

Everything and Everywhere!

Today was another busy day!  Evie came to the office with me again.  I love having her sit patiently by my side each day.  It makes me happy!  😊

She spoke to a few more friends today.  This little doll dressed in blue didn’t have too much to say, but she seemed surprised as always to have visitors.

These little Barbie Tokidoki figures were also very friendly!

After work I went to a happy hour with work friends to meet some coworkers who were in from out of town for training.  Evie waited in the car, but when I returned I took a few photos of her outside.  The restaurant was near the water.  You can tell from the sky it looked like a storm was brewing.  It started to rain right after we got back in the car.

When I got home, I decided to start working on that dress that I cut out the other day.  Since I was watching TV I decided to sew it by hand rather than go downstairs and use the sewing machine.  Sometimes sewing tiny things made of knit fabric actually are best done by hand.

I managed to get the whole top done.  Tomorrow I’ll work on the skirt.  Evie is super excited for a new dress!

Until tomorrow!

Maria

Super Busy Meets Super Cute

I was super busy at work and tied up in meetings all day today and even tonight trying to catch up on work where I was behind.  So Evie and I did not have much time to play.  I dressed her in one of her new dresses and she stood next to my computer looking super cute all day long.  At the end of the day I got a couple of photos of her.  She will definitely be wearing this dress and coordinating hair bows again soon!

One bright spot is the new hair accessories that I ordered arrived from Amazon today.  The bows were absolutely perfect but the flowers are much too large unfortunately.  I will give those to my 2 year old granddaughter who will adore them.  She is a very girly girl.  

So that is unfortunately it for today.  Hoping for a better day tomorrow with opportunities for play and adventure!

Maria

Sunday Showers Bring May Flowers

Today was another cloudy Sunday but this week there was lots of rain.  In spite of the dreariness, I dressed Evie in a cheerful purple floral dress with cute matching lilac bows.

After I took the photos above she asked me not to forget Tyler the bear so we took a couple more photos with Tyler.

When there was a short break in the rain, Evie insisted on going outside to take a photo again next to the flowers near my front steps.  There were a few more new ones that sprung up this week.

Earlier in the day Evie helped me with some cooking.  We made some deviled eggs for my son in law who missed Easter a couple of weeks ago because he was working.  He and my daughter had a quick visit with us this weekend.  Evie also missed Easter at my house so she was excited to see what these eggs were all about.

Let’s not forget the dash of Paprika!

Yummy!!!❤️

After the cooking lesson, we moved on to sewing. I printed out a few patterns that I had previously purchased that I hope to make for Evie this week.

Later tonight I pulled out the onesie that I bought at Savers yesterday. 

And I laid out the pieces from one of the patterns on it.

I felt bad cutting it out, but it it is going to a good cause.  I  think I can get another t-shirt out of the remaining fabric.

Hope I will get a chance to work on this again at some point tomorrow.  See you then!

Maria

Saturday Shopping Adventures

So glad the weekend is here.  Today I met a friend of mine for lunch but before I left, I had to dress Evie.  I knew I wanted her to wear one of the new dresses, but I wasn’t sure which.  I opened my stash of hair clips and realized that the pattern on one set matched the fabric on one of the dresses fairly closely.  Can you see which one?

It is these light blue clips!  Not any exact match, but very close!

So these hair clips are coming in very handy!  I couldn’t remember when I bought them originally but I knew that I got them on Amazon.  So I checked order history and saw that I bought them in March 2015.  I remember that I had to buy two boxes because the clips are supposed to be used as only one clip on one side of the head.  If you ever want to wear 2 of the same color/style at the same time,  you need to buy a second box.  They don’t even carry this brand anymore on Amazon and I didn’t see any others as tiny as these clips, so I am lucky to have them.  I did find some very small clips with fabric flowers that I bought and they should be her on Monday.

Here is Evie in her dress  with the matching Hair clips. So adorable!

l soon left to meet my friend for lunch.  I brought Evie with me but she remained in the car.  After lunch I drove to Joanne’s Fabrics because a friend of mine told me that Simplicity Patterns were on sale for $1.99 and also that they had a new Barbie pattern available.  Here are Evie and I once again in Joanne’s!

This time instead of looking through the fabrics, we headed directly to the pattern section.

I looked through the Simplicity Pattern book and found the new pattern. Here Evie is looking very uninterested because there at no patterns in her size.  She is a bit mad about this.

So I purchased the pattern and because Evie was a little sad there was nothing for her, we stopped at Savers on the  way home.  In the book section we stumbled upon a Tasha Tudor Fairytale book.  Such a coincidence because the topic for the doll club meeting that we went to exactly a week ago was Tasha Tudor and her dolls!  So we quickly scooped up this book!

Next we found a great collection of Beatrix Potter stories!  I couldn’t wait to read Evie the story about Peter Rabbit sneaking into Mr. McGregor’s garden!

I didn’t get a photo but we also found a baby onesie that I am going to use the fabric from to make a dress for Evie.  Shhhh… don’t tell her.  She was a bit confused why I was buying a baby onesie.  😂 The dress will be a surprise.

Later at night I went out to dinner with my family and we had this great desert!  Shhh….I couldn’t bring Evie into the restaurant so she would be jealous if she knew I had this.  It will just be between you and me.  😊

Have a great night and see you again tomorrow!

Maria

TGIF! Yay!

It was a beautiful day outside made even more beautiful by the fact that it was Friday. TGIF!!! Evie decided to keep her red dress on for today since she didn’t put it on until so late last night. (Yes she is still mad at me about that!).   We took a few photos of her in the new dress and her new (actually original) wig in my Mom’s backyard.

When I got home later in the afternoon, I saw that the two new wigs finally arrived.  Evie had to try them on right away.  First she tried on the long Miranda wig…

I really like the color.  The texture of the hair is very different than the wig that she came with.  It is a finer wig fiber I think.  Similar to the fiber of the braided wig. I know some collectors can easily tell the difference between different doll hair fibers like saran, nylon,  etc. but I have no idea.???  I think this wig is cute but next time I try it on I will set the bangs a bit lower on her forehead so they don’t look so short.

Next I tried on the bob wig.  I believe it was called Jill.  

This wig has the same fiber as the long wig.  I had to fiddle with it a bit before I got the ends to curl under just right.  It is really cute!

Next I added a little royal blue side bow from my stash of hair clips.  Makes it look even better!

Later in the afternoon I went ahead and bought the domain name mydreamerdoll.com so I could point it to this blog and also set up an Instagram MyDreamerDoll

I feel pretty official now!  😂

Cruising into the weekend!  More adventures ahead.    See you tomorrow!

Maria