Spring - A time to play

There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens (The Bible Ecclesiastes Chapter 3)

Llewellyn and Miriam enjoying the sunshine, and their skates. Llewellyn in Julie's skating outfit, and Miriam in the Adventure outfit with an non AG brand of inline skates

weee

going round and round

The Byrds: To everything, turn, turn, turn.
There is a season, turn, turn, turn.
And a time to every purpose under heaven.

  

race you down the path

  

 

 

skating is so much fun

 

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turn turn turn

Antoinette practicing her ballet steps (on top of a wardrobe - ah a music box dancer she informs me)

 and outside to find Springs gift of pink, grevillea, its red, but close enough

a wild climbing rose

flowers pretty enough for her hair

A graceful pose from a birdbath, only to realise she could reach them from the ground

These flowers are white from a climbing plant that looks like a huge brides bouquet.

Even the new leaves on this tree were pink

 

 

 

Ahhh, a rest in the shade in a field of pink daisies.

The Mischief of Miss Trinity

A box of scraps and strings and stuff

what is she up to?

 String

 

scissors

 

Stick

 

Can you guess yet?

Paper

Wait! missed a step

more string

 

I'm sure I saw some... way down.... the bottom

 

 

tape

mmm, this much

Ta Da

Did you guess it? It's a kite.

 

String...

whatcha doing Trini?

- raiding my sewing box?

ah, an empty spool

 for the string - good thinking

 

tie it on the cross and you're ready to go

 

No, still need one last thing....

 

The hunt for the perfect tail...

hmmm...

 

 

Hey Trini, I think its back to the sewing box

 

Look at my beautiful tail,

Can we go outside now?

Sure

Yippeee.....

Ah!

 

Spring clothes

It warmed up suddenly, well we did know that Spring was here, like all of September, it was just this last week we had a couple of 30+ days (over 85 in Farenheit). The day Rebecca/Anne Shirley arrived was one, she was still warm a few hours after the parcel man dropped her off on Tuesday, I don't think his van had air conditioning.

Anyway, Anne will soon be away to Mums place (and possible return - escape clause).

Meanwhile...

with all my ebay buying and selling (and obsessing over nonpayers) etc, it's almost like I've forgotten how to play with dolls, my BFC's have not moved all winter, except for Maddie, even the Journey Girls (JG) are still standing mid game of pool - slacko, I will move you all soon. My American Girls have moved about a bit of course, they have been the centre of my attention, but it has hardly been playing more AH! collecting! nooooooooooooooooooo, have the 40's really hit me, or am I just a shopaholic- yes well the last bit is true. I want to start playing again, which I guess means to me things like changing clothes, doing hair, making things, moving furniture, and the more elusive story lines ..

 

So in an endeavour to play, the American Girls thought they'd Spring themselves up a little, and change into something a little cooler.

 

Emily in this pretty green flower dress, it has a petticoat that is hemmed in green, it is an unknown brand, and she has white ribbons in her hair.

Josefina is in the back ground, I do want to get her some more things from her own collection, for now I took off her stockings and boots, and shes wearing some little black slip on shoes, oh, and I rolled up her sleeves.  I'm a little bit, um whats the word - the neck line - I'm still not used to it I guess, and like to try to cover it up if possible, we'll see anyway. For the moment up with the sleeves. the girl behind Em is BFC ink Chloe.

I had this pair of inline skates in my drawer of JG stuff, perfect fit for Miriam, who found the American Girl Skateboard shorts - I had purchased them ages ago with an AG skateboard for Maddie, and a pair of baby socks, remove long sleeve t, rollup sleeves - and we're ready to skate. She's going to see if Llewellyn wants to go outside.

Pink, the JG drawer had this cute little ballet oufit (leotard, tutu and slippers), I added the tights I got a few weeks ago, doesn't Antoinette look so cute?

Trinity and Mercedes: Trinity is wearing a Rebecca copy dress, and Merce is wearing it has a name but I can't remember it - its in my book somewhere, any who, I have rolled up the sleeves for her (glimpsed in Antoinette's pic)

And Llewellyn, isn't she cute, this is the Julie roller skate outfit, off to the rink.

 

I'm still not entirely sorted on each girls personality, likes etc, I'll hopefully boot the ebay frenzy soon and get a start on it.

Anne Shirley

New hair, and freckles, new outfit

new hat

off to mums place

Elaine lay as tho' she smile... 

There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.

And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott.

And as the boat-head wound along
The willowy hills and fields among,
They heard her singing her last song,
The Lady of Shalott.

(excerpts from the Lady of Shalott of Alfred Lord Tennyson)