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Ruby with a 3D Love Heart made of card -
she doesn't think much of my rushed choice of background ...

Being Ruby, she put the card Love Heart on her head ...
"It makes a good hat."


Ruby has a quirky sense of humour - she is often a little bit naughty and often quotes Margot Fonteyn:

“The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.”


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and - the Blythe a Day for May group is up & happening

www.flickr.com/groups/14912507@N21/

Hope to see you there :-)

When Ruby and Lillian tie-dyed a T-shirt ... Ruby did the tying and Lillian did the dye ...

not really word art but perhaps a good idea ...

BiBi went to a fancy cookery school in Paris. She doesn't often cook dinner but when she does the other girls are very appreciative.

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I'm recycling today ...

Australia has many venomous snakes - luckily we live in an inner city area and these are the only snakes my dolls are likely to encounter - unless they are out bushwalking. But Ruby is still a little suspicious about the Double Door Snakes.

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Using an old photo taken when they were quite new because the door snakes are currently in summer hibernation.

Lady Alina is much better at programming her Tardises (or should that be Tardi) than those foolish Dr Whoses are ... but there was this time when she was in a rush and accidentally typed in the wrong year ... ...


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some shameless photo recycling here

Ruby and a display of hand made needlelace at the Palazzo Davanzati Florence.

This wonderful museum gives you some idea of how a wealthy merchant and his family might have lived in the 14th C.
What most websites don't mention is that it also houses a wonderful collection of lace - or at least it did in 2018 when we visited.

Audrey (finally) has a black ballgown and asked Ruby for help finding the right shoes to wear with it - Ruby recently organised all the shoes into one big box, so she knows where they all are.

Audrey couldn't decide - but as Ruby pointed out, wearing red shoes with everything is something of a 'trademark' for Audrey ...


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I bought the black ballgown years ago - very cheap but you do get what you pay for and it needed a lot of remediation work - it didn't fit at all. I finally fixed it this week.

Conference in the sitting room of BlytheTowers about what they are doing for NYE ….

BiBi convinced the others that a Pool Party would be good. But Ruby was a bit worried about the wires for the Xmas Lights …

Looking back on the year ...

January 2024 looks rather unproductive but I was also trying to sort & destash sporadically through this year ... and that is time-consuming.

Anyhow - in January I did some Bridal Beading on commission.
I knitted a dress with big sleeves for Imogen (a Blythe doll) and I tie dyed a T-shirt for Ruby (another Blythe doll).

My sister gave me a big box - and I today Ruby & Sofonz sorted a couple of smaller and confused boxes of clothes into the new big box.

Sofonz: "Coats and cardigans, capes along the side, some of our evening dresses ... "

Ruby: "I think we've done a good job Soff ... and now we should have a cuppa and some of those Christmas chocolates."

I am not sure what the girls were saying about me as I took this photo - but I don't think it was complimentary ....

Ruby the train driver - with her steam train ...

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I'm stretching today's theme so that I can show off the 'Train Cake' I made last weekend.

Ruby atop the giant Pine Cone at the Vatican Museum.

The Fontana della Pigna - once a Roman fountain - now decorates a vast niche in the wall of the Vatican facing the Cortile della Pigna, in Vatican City, Rome.

"But which leg to I kick with?" says a confused Ruby.

The Xmas Elves will have to re-think their choreography ...

Ruby is rehearsing a new production of Der Rosenkavalier.

This is an early rehearsal so everyone is working from their scores.

Ruby is a mezzo soprano and she has the role of Octavian. It's a 'pants role' - she has to pretend to be a young man (in opera this usually means lots of standing with your legs apart). Ruby also has to get used to wearing the platform boots that the costume designer has chosen for Ruby, to make her look taller.

The Soprano has to get used to wearing her costume with a big long skirt ... so they've given her an old petticoat to rehearse in.

Ruby on a Blocking Spree.

Happy Halloween says Morticia (Ruby) ...

"I'm not eating that - it's definitely a toadstool !" said Ruby ...

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Ed: I'm not good at identifying fungi but it might be a Boletellus emodensis aka Shaggy Cap - it does have a shaggy cap!

PS: a Boletellus but not that one - as the stipe (stalk) is not red