Sunday Thoughts

My very dear friend LaVonne arrived here on Thursday! She has been having some very great fun with her daughter and SIL. My daughter Gina has been has been home from Seattle for a few days for a memorial service, so it worked out very well.

I cannot wait to see LaVonne. It's been over a year since I have seen her. We are meeting this afternoon at the miniature show and I am excited.

I love this bible verse from Proverbs....A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. That is so true about our friendship. We met years ago on a Tasha Tudor yahoo group. We have traveled back east together, have met up in Montana and here in Oregon.

She will go back to her daughter's until Tuesday, but on Tuesday morning, she will be ALL MINE!

Enjoy this beautiful Fall Sunday. 

I'm Back And Ready To Get Back to Blogging

It's been almost a month since I blogged! Jimmy and I had the most wonderful vacation, thanks to our good friends the Stucky family in Montana. I am doing to work backwards this week and try to post about our trip. Those of you on Facebook probably have seen all the fun we had, but I still want to blog about it so I can have a record of all my fun. Blogging seems to be the best way to keep track of my life...my adventures and my journey through life. I always tried to keep a paper journel, but it never worked for me. So, I am jumping in here once again. I haven't read any of my blogging friends posts for so long! I will have to work at reconnecting with everyone again. My Jimmy is in Idaho for quite awhile at his goldmine camp. His midwest friends have traveled out to meet him and he was sure excited to leave. It will also give me sometime to get caught up on my Etsy, blogging, letter writing, thanks yous from vacation and of course, some babysitting.

This weekend was filled with fun! Yesterday I went to a sale and really found some fun items as you can see! Some for Etsy, some for friends and some for ME! This show is one every month but they break for summer. It was very busy yesterday and everyone was anxious to get back to normal after the summer.

There were lots of doll furniture and miniature. This cigar box is filled with some I found yesterday and some I found at the miniature show that was held on Saturday. My friend LaVonne and I are hoping to make a Peddler Doll after we finish our Annabelles. It was fun to have things to look for at the show.

I walked into my tea room yesterday and found this little gift that Jimmy left for me. It's so sweet.

So here's a photo of the "crowd" at the miniature show! Oh my gosh, it was so crowded. It was at a new building and they need to work out the bugs...like widen the aisles. Lots of smiles.

You get to vote on the best exhibits. I wasn't as impressed with the offerings this year. I hope the show will get stronger again next year. Transitions are always hard.

I also ran into my friend Angela who comes to the show every year. We met a few years back when LaVonne was out. We only meet once a year at the show, isn't that funny? She is so sweet and always a joy to chat with. Her mom was too ill to attend, which made me sad. I told her next year!

This boat was amazing and very large. It was just charming and I have never seen anything like it. If you looked in the window down below, the dolls are serving tea!

A cute little garden theme exhibit.

This was a Christmas German market and it was WONDERFUL. My pix didn't come out too good, so you can't really see all the little details.

A fun little camper trailer that was getting a lot of attention.

This little sewing lady was my favorite! She was under a glass dome, so you can't really appreciate it all.I met the lady and purchased some items from her booth. She was really sweet and took a lot of time with me. I do believe Annabelle has to open a quilt shoppe someday. I have actually been collecting lots of sewing minis and think it would be great fun.

Remember, I said I had to backtrack so now I'm going to tell you about the Doll Show that was held on August 31st. I wanted to take Ava and she was so cute at her very first doll show! This is my favorite picture of her there...so sweet looking and looking and looking.

I tend to go for all the older dolls. I was surprised at how much Ava has learned from me about dolls. She's a little sponge and just soaks it up. Love having her in my life!

We had to look at the vintage American Girl Dolls. Ava is hoping for one of the new ones this Christmas. My daughter Gina had the Samantha, so Gina and Ava have been sharing all the talk and catalogs about it all. Gina took her to the American Girl Doll shoppe in Seattle. I would like to go!

You know, shopping makes you hungry! So we went to Heidi's for lunch. Ava's loves to color...pretty serious. She ate all her soup and her salad.

I love tin head dolls and they are hard to find in Oregon. They are sort of like china heads, only made of tin. Often they are loved to death and primitive. I got the one on the left on our trip to Montana. She needs a dress or a shirt at least! I found the one on the right at the show. She is in great condition, love her dress and she is probably the best one I have. She was a bargain, as the lady wanted to get rid of her...good for me! I need to do a post on my tin heads.

I am trying not to buy anymore peg heads, but this little set with the book was too cute. The story of the doll is similar to Hitty.

So, you now have a wee little look at a few fun activities of Lady Linda! This week I start a new quilting group, back to bible study and the quilt show is this weekend! Just too much fun.

A Trip to the Miniature Show!

A few months ago, I ran into a gal I used to know when I had my shoppe, in the lobby of my dad's retirement home. We were so surprised to see each other and exchanged phone numbers. I recently received a phone call from her asking if I would like to go to the miniature show. I was excited and said yes! She met me there last Saturday morning with her friend...I had a great time with Miriam and Jeannie. The good thing about shopping at the show, your bag of goodies that you bring home is really small! Here's mine and here's the contents, minus some items that will be gifts for others!

Annabelle always sends me off for a list of goodies for her and I do have to do some shopping for her friends too. I brought back a few goodies for her fall decorating. She really loved the new tea set I found for her. Here's a few pix of her house ready for fall.

I'm not sure if you can tell, but the new lamp on the table lights up. Her house is pretty dark, so she needs some more lighting. I will have to work on that. You know that Ms Annabelle likes to sew and do handwork. She was delighted with the sewing kit and the embroidery kit!

Ava, who is only 5, came to visit yesterday. She approved of all the new treasures that Annabelle had gotten. She liked the handmade little quilted pillow. Annabelle is a quilter you know!

Part of the fun when you go to the miniature show, is seeing the displays that members of the clubs make and exhibit. They are all well done, but some are really special. You get to vote for your favorite which we all found very hard to do. Here's a few of the ones I liked.

This was 1/4" scale, so it was very tiny! I am amazed at the detail when the scale is so small. An entire house!

I loved the four seasons, each in it's little turn around display. Notice the base of each one. I voted for this as my favorite.

I love Mary Englebreit, so you know I loved this one. Sadly, I didn't get a photo of the outside of the house. It was really cute.

This is for you LaVonne!

A sitting room and a sewing room. I had to laugh, as the sewing room seems to have spilled into the sitting room, as in real life!

There's always a tea shoppe. The pictures are a bit dark on this, but it was charming. I would love to do a tea shoppe.

The next display was in a vendor's booth and it was her special creation. I just loved it....filled with tiny toys of all kinds. She was very sharing and the building rotated, so she would turn if for us and allowed us to take photos.

She made the tiny doll in this little suitcase. It's very small but it was my favorite item in the toy shoppe.

I was waiting to buy something, and this young gal says, "Linda?" It was Angela who LaVonne and I met last year at the show. Her blog is on my side bar, My Mini Mania if you want to take a peak. She was there her mom and it was so fun chatting with them and catching up. She's so sweet and so is her mom. Isn't it fun to meet those who share something that you just love? Visiting with them just made my day. I did miss LaVonne being there with me...maybe next year.