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Saturday

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There is an occasional series of prompts called “A Doll a Day” on my Blythe IG account. It’s a lot of work for the woman who does it and she really challenges us. I rarely take part, but for this ADADJanuary, I’ve posted for the first six days of January. Go figure! I love seeing what other Blythe photographers come up with. This picture resulted from the prompt “Six words.”

My six were: Can’t stand. My head’s too big.

And that, my friends, is a fact and the reason we invest so much time posing the girls using various methods; stands, and all sorts of invented contraptions to hold them upright without you seeing them. I use skewers a lot and they usually do the trick.

Saturday. Cloudy and dark but no rain in the forecast, so that’s a step in the right direction. I’ve abandoned Chuck Wendig’s  The Book of Accidents. Not that it wasn’t good, but it didn’t grab me enough at this point in time to stay with it. Adding to that, it’s a library book and I’m very aware that I’ll be away in NYC for four days this week and two days the next and it’s over a thousand pages and very heavy. So…it goes back to the library until I’m in the mood again. I decided to read a book I’ve had around here for a while: State of Terror  by Louise Penny and Hilary Rodham Clinton. I have the paperback version, so it’s light and I can chuck it into my tote bag when I travel into the city on Wednesday. I read chapter 6 of War and Peace  yesterday. I’m quite liking it so far. Tolstoy’s gift for describing place and character is formidable.

I’m taking a break from puzzles for a couple of reasons; I’ve been doing them constantly for months and the fact that I didn’t want to finish the sky in the last one was an indicator it was time to pause, and I don’t want to spend any extra money right now. Even though they’re relatively inexpensive, I complete them fairly quickly and the cost adds up. I’m fine with it. I’m also really enjoying reading right now and that seems to be capturing most of my attention, along with the work I’ll be doing next week.

Laundry today. I still haven’t cleaned up the office, so I think I’ll finally tackle that.

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.

 

Wednesday

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Gray, rainy, rather depressing outside.

Inside:

My copy of War and Peace  did not arrive yesterday and being a good student type who also always arrives early, I felt a bit of panic. We’re reading a chapter a day and it was already 3 days into the year. So I downloaded it to my iPad (for $1.99) and read the first three chapters. Of course, after thinking it was lost, I just received a message that it will be delivered today. I took this picture for Brenda, who loves using a Kindle/iPad for reading. See, Brenda? I won’t be reading any more on the iPad after today, but here’s proof that I used it!

More of the girls sans Christmas sweaters and then I’ll ease up on posting photos of them.

Holly.

Maeve.

Sophie.

The sweaters have been put into ‘storage’ until next year.

I packed up all of the miniature Christmas decorations and they’re also stowed away until next year. The furniture in the dollhouses has been rearranged and all is back to normal.

Now, I have to force myself to straighten up the office. I’ve done a wee bit up there, but much more needs to be done. I tend to dump things on the desk and chair.

Okay. There is much reading to be done today and watering of houseplants and vacuuming, etc.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

 

Sans Christmas Sweaters

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Pippa and my planners.

I give you a little Blythe content today because I’ve not posted about the girls in a while. Nevertheless, they’re still having adventures – how could they not? Sunday morning found me relieving the girls of their Christmas sweaters after hearing numerous complaints that they were a) too hot and b) they were sick of them. I’ll show you a couple of the changeovers today.

Olivia is now in a sweater dress. (I would like something like this.)

Madeleine is in one of my favorite dresses.

My goal was to find them something to go with the tights/socks and shoes they already had on so I didn’t have to open another suitcase full of  accessories.

Zoe requested another sweater.

I’ll share a few more tomorrow. I only had 7 Christmas sweaters, so not all of the girls got to wear one.

Let’s see: real life. Not a lot going on. If you remember, I was so sleep deprived yesterday that I was barely functioning. But I got a solid one hour nap in yesterday afternoon while sitting in this chair and that made a big difference in the tone of my day. Thank goodness.

I should receive my copy of War and Peace  today. I’m looking forward to reading the first three chapters. I’m still reading Desert Star  by Michael Connelly. I’m trying to finish reading those books I have to return to the library as I begin my work on Darko’s project next Wednesday. I work four days next week and two days the following week and the days will be very, very long when you throw in the commute. I’ll be up at 5 am every day and I probably won’t get home until 9 pm. It’s the kind of schedule I couldn’t maintain over a long period of time unless I was staying in the city, but for 6 days I can handle it. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to post. I’ll just have to wait and see.

Anyway, the books will be due during the time I’m in the city. I suppose I could always send Don to the library to return them. I’ll just have to keep track of due dates in my planner.

It’s a rainy day today and it looks like the rest of the week will also be rainy. Sigh.

Stay safe.

Happy Tuesday.

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