All Alone Saturday.

I woke early like usual, I am an early riser and early to bed type of girl....Late last night, I was thinking about getting back to making a geisha/ kokeshi soft doll. I have a beautiful wooden one which is always a joy to look at, but my attempts at making one out of material have always failed. I thought about it before bed last night and the dreamt about how I would sew one up. This morning I knew that I would be spending the day all alone except for Henri, so I went ahead and drew up a simple design. Then I thought about material? or shall I shall, not thought properly about the material?

So I began to make a pattern, and here she is- a little disaster. I think that I like the head, but I am certainly going to have to make drastic changes to the body. I also changed the arms around and believe that here the body needs to be bigger. The material is important too, I can see here that my choice was totally wrong, but- we live and learn! Isn't that what they say?

Here, Henri is with the finished prototype kokeshi doll. I have to sneak a few of my baby in once in a while. Like a supermodel he waits patiently.

All the modeling is putting him to sleep!Also had to share my passion with you for new lip balms, I am a compulsive collector of lip balms. I have so many and just can't get enough. There is no limit to what I will do to find and test new ones. This new one I was lucky enough to find in the supermarket- a gem, very affordable too. In fact only $3.00. I think that has to be the cheapest in a long time... It is called Lip Ice, very cute container and nice to wear. Also some button I had given to me, the house is now a mess after my kokeshi doll endeavour! Threads, material snippets, wadding all over my wooden floor. But of course- RED Lips... kiss kiss! How could I not end with red? Happy Mother's Day for tomorrow, all you wonderful mums out there in the world!