Project Progress

Here is a little peek at a large embroidery project I am totally lovin' workin' on. Yesterday I went through my embroidery basket and found this little lady. I think I have some other characters that match... but maybe I will just use her on her own. Um... not sure yet, which probably means she'll end up back in the basket. Nah! I gotta use her ...soon.

Do you remember these cuties?

The one on the right has hair and a name now.
Here she is... Gemma.

Now she just needs a skirt.
Ah... there she goes.
Now she just needs a test wash and she's ready for a new home.

Maisie and Wonderland

Have any of you seen "Alice in Wonderland" yet? The new Tim Burton one I mean.

I had the privilege of seeing it this afternoon and I loved it. Johnny Depp was fantastic, of course. The make-up artist should be nominated for an Oscar...Oh! and the Costume Designer. The sets were amazing and I don't even know how they did the live action/animation thing. The young woman who played Alice was believable and very much looked the part.

I highly recommend it.

I have a funky bright new doll to add to my shop. I have named her...

Maisie.

Her body is made of a lilac hued cotton speckled with fish and her festive striped stockings/legs peek out from under her Dark green dotted skirt which has a waistband of grape and the hem is trimmed in rainbow ric rac.

Maisie has some wild pink and orange dreadlocks. Which I totally envy.

She will soon have company, I have finished a couple more rag dolls but I haven't found the perfect hair for them yet. Kevin is calling them both Sinaed. I am thinking...Telly ;-)

I'll be wearin' Green

Happy St.Patrick's Day!

Things are changing around here. Spring is most surely on its way. The day is twelve hours long now and it hasn't snowed in several days. The highs have been in the low 50's and the lows... about 28. Pretty soon we will get to have a night that doesn't freeze and then we are on our way to my favorite time of year...Summer. AHHH, I can just imagine how warm I'll be working out in my garden. I can't wait. The tomato plants we have started all have tiny little flower buds on them which will soon be flowers that turn into tomatoes. Yummy

Today I am celebrating St. Patrick's Day with our usual menu, Corned Beef ( already in the slow cooker) with cabbage, Pea Champ and Soda Bread and just like every year we will watch "Far and Away".

I love this movie so much, although Tom Cruise is not as charming to me as he once was. I don't know what happened to me and Tom, I lost my love somewhere along the way. Nicole Kidman ,however, I could watch her all day. I need a new St. Pat's Day movie, do you have any suggestions? I was thinking "P.S. I Love You" would be a good one but I always cry hysterically when I watch that flick. Every other "Irish" movie I can think of is too violent or depressing to watch every year. For today I am sticking to "Far and Away".

There are many projects underway here at Pasquali Rumpus and I don't want to post about them 'til I am finished. I have a new Rag Doll completed and once I get her washed she will be available in my shop.

OH! Guess what... Josie sold!

She was the first Doll to go up for sale in my shop and now she is on her way to a new home in Michigan.

Well... I guess that is it for now. I better go get my green on, don't wanna get pinched. ;-)

I guess I should explain why I put that photo above...

The woman on the left is my Great Grandmother Nellie Murphy...she is one of my connections to Ireland.

Have a very Lucky Day!

Cabin of the Dolls

It is snowing here again and I have been working on one of my favorite new projects, Rag Dolls. My hubby thinks I shouldn't call them that...kind of low brow I guess. What do you think? They really aren't literally made of rags but I don't know what else to call them other than their given names...which I give them!

Such as...
Bernadette... a fearless free spirit who has become Pasquali Rumpus's Mascot. Bernadette is prototype #4 and she is staying with me.

I am still working on her original gown.

This is Josie. She is an outdoorsy kinda girl.

Here she is awaiting her final sutures and flowing locks.
She is cute even without hair... gotta Sinead O'Connor thing goin'
I always thought Sinead was gorgeous.

There she goes...weave is in place.I wonder what she wants to wear?

Meet Tavia... I believe she may be a Scottish lass.

Smooch! ;0)