Simple Joys ~ Simple Beauty

It has been drizzly nearly all day today, then the drizzle changed to a light shower... just slow and soft and pitter pattering. The temperature has dropped to 58 degrees and it's only 1pm ~ so much for the 80 degrees we had yesterday. I sometimes go out into my husband's woodworking shop when it's raining, just to hear the rain on the tin roof. I close my eyes and I'm back at my childhood home, in my bedroom, the window is open, and I'm listening to the rain on the roof... then there's the distant whistle of the train... and some evenings... if the breeze carried it just right across the hills and hollers and Big Creek that bordered our property... I could hear a neighbor who lived a few miles down the road playing the trumpet... quite often it was "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You".... it was such a slow, hauntingly beautiful sound...
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I thought I'd bring in the last of the azalea blooms ~ they are so fragrant! I wish you could smell them. I love this color ~ apple blossom I call it. I don't know if that's the name of the plant, but I think it's fitting.

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I sold another of my Sisters dolls, Emily ~ all that's left is Anne. I told her (Anne) not to fret, that she'd be going to a home soon, too. The right person at just the right moment will happen along. I thought I'd get one last photo of Emily before she was carefully wrapped and boxed and mailed to her new home. Do you see the sweet girl in the background?

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I made her last year, loosely basing her face and body on the Queen Anne dolls of the late 1700s and early 1800s.

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Her hair with the bun at the nape of her neck and the style of her dress are not like the Queen Anne's, but rather, they reminded me of my grandmother's hair and a style of dress I saw her wearing in a photograph when she was a young woman. Her dress is made from an old lace edged linen tea towel in one of my favorite colors ~ a pale, pale aqua. I'd been saving the tea towel for quite some time waiting for just the right use for it.

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I'd better get busy and pack Emily up for her journey ~ I hope the new owner will have as much enJOYment owning her as I had making her.

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