Thanksgiving 2015
Cake Slice
Gráinne has lots of tricks up her sleeves, and a variety of arms – including the brand new Hitty cake slice!
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Carrot Soup
Pieces
In the summer, I lost one of my Human Hitty friends, Caro from Wren Cottage Dolls. She was a cheerful, witty and lovely doll-friendly person, which you will have noticed if you read her comments here on this blog during the last year or so.
Before I went to Oregon , I decided to see what I could do with a blank of Paulownia wood that a friend gave me last year. Though I was happy to have a blank, I found it difficult to carve mostly because the pieces of the blank were unsymmetrical and unbalanced, but also, although the wood itself was soft, it was very light and powdery, and split very easily.
I was fairly well along with the carving before I went to Oregon in August, where, unfortunately I left her and my bag of carving tools – drat. I retrieved it all on the recent October trip to Oregon! There was great rejoicing in the Hitty Cupboard when the unfinished doll returned to the fold, and the means to finish her up!
Luckily I learned how to pin feet onto a doll, because her feet split right off while carving them. She now has yellow cedar feet! The doll that emerged from the tribulations of carving called herself Carrot Soup, which is the name Caro went by on another doll group.
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Rainy Garden
Fig
The garden seemed damp and autumnal this morning – Constance and I took a short turn around to see what was going on…
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Rainy Passage
MistyView
After getting up at the crack of dawn and driving five hours, Constance and Gráinne are sailing North…on a very grey and misty afternoon.
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Sandes of Time
Step to the bed
The humans are busy visiting and preparing to give a lecture to the Oregon Archaeology society, and Gráinne has been busy visiting Birch. Meanwhile, Constance has been exploring the B&B… the dolls usually find human beds rather tall, but in this case even the humans had a set of steps to get up to the lofty mattress! (more…)
Pirate joy
- Rock Art
Gráinne and her friend Birch have lots in common. They were carved at the same time in the same house on the beach in Oregon, but Gráinne was coaxed from an olive wood blank by the Quimper Hitty human, and Birch was carved by TC Vollum.
Hazards of the journey
- Rocktopus
Gráinne and Constance are finding out about some of the hazards of the journey south…Port Angeles, for example, has a dangerous Roctopus on the waterfront.
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