...7.15...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...I wanted to have a dolly-sized pair of blue glasses to go with the little blue leopard print glasses from the wig-and-glasses playset...so I just found a pair of blue glasses online and drew some black spots on the image in MsPaint and printed those out on cardstock...

...for the lenses...I ironed my McAlister's Deli cup flat...

...and used an exacto knife to cut out the glasses frames...

...then I coloured the plastic blue with a sharpie...but it was way too dark...

...so I dabbed most of that off with an alcohol soaked cloth...just leaving a translucent blue film...

...then I traced the lenses and cut those out...

...then I coloured some plain cardstock and cut out another set of plain blue frames for the back...

...and glued the lenses between the printed frames and the other sheet of blue cardstock...

...and I sandwiched in bread ties for the hinges...

...made another plain blue back of cardstock for the side pieces...and glued those together sandwiching the bread ties in between...

...and we had a super cute little dolly sized pair of glasses...

...and they look so adorable on her...

...I have a couple more things I want to get in this July box with Our Airman's Jayne hat...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!

...7.13...Over the Weekend...

...we started the weekend with pancakes...

...and then headed out for the weekly shopping...

...just normal 'stuff'...happy that my soymilk was back in stock...and I got navy beans and marinara so that I can make Pizza Beans on the fly...haha...

...and this week's Poppi...strawberry lemon...I like the cherry lime one better...

...we've been getting some rain...afternoon thunderstorms mostly...but it waters the lawn...so I'm happy about it...I tried to capture the rain absolutely sheeting down the front windows...

...still getting a good harvest of green beans...

...and a sneaky zucchini got pretty large before I saw it...how does that happen...

...so I just cooked it with some onions into a kind of stew and ate the whole thing...

...I made another banana bread...

...and I finally got around to caulking the join between the counter and the backsplash on the bar...it's one of those little bitty jobs that just hangs around after a fairly major project...

...and Sunday afternoon we met some friends out of town...at a McAlister's Deli...I'd never been to one (it's a chain)...and they have lots of vegan options...I got a half loaded veggie potato and a half salad...apparently if you get the whole veggie potato it's actually two potatoes...haha...it was really good and we had a fun visit...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...7.11...Dinner and a Movie...

...the Man made a lentil/bean chili and we had corn on the cob (or off the cob in my case)...and I made fried cornbread...which I love almost as much as I love baked cornbread...

...and we finally watched the Firefly movie...actually called Serenity...and it was action packed...

...in mine and Mom's two person book club...I finished the Diary of Anne Frank the definitive addition...and then I got Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch...and read that long book in just a few days by staying up well past midnight one night...haha...and I read The Five People you meet in Heaven...it was really short...and now I'm reading Love in the Time of Cholera...

...what have you been watching and reading lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

...7.10...Friday Update...

...I thought I'd show you a few scenes from a very warm bike ride around the neighborhood...this is heading down the street...our house is just ahead on the left...

...our house from across the street...flanked by two fuschia crepe myrtles in full bloom...the little wooden bridge to the left of the front yard is just visible under the canopy of that one...

...and heading back up the street the same crepe myrtles line both sides of the road...they really are pretty...

...and a close up of the gorgeous frilly blooms...I can't really tell that they have any scent...but they are the bane of the Man's existence right now as he's allergic to them...

...and you can't really get away from them here...even when we sit on the piazza in the evening you see them over the top of the yaupon trees...and you just know that their pollen is drifting down on you...

...the loot from the bike ride...

...I should also mention that the last of the gardenias that we transplanted has finally bloomed...they've all six bloomed now...at different times...so I'm hoping that they'll all survive now and like their new home...

~Have a lovely day!

...7.9...Delicious Vegan Food we ate...

...I had gotten a couple of long skinny purple eggplants at the neighborhood vegetable stand...

...so I dredged them in flaxseed gooo and flour...

...and Griddler-ed them to a nice crispy golden brown...

...and we had them with yellow-eyed beans...collards from the freezer...and a tomato and cucumber also from the neighborhood stand...(and cornbread not in the photo)...beans/greens/cornbread is definitely one of my favorite meals ever...

...what delicious food have you been eating lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

...7.8...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...well...after a few weeks of being to upload photos seamlessly...we're back to this...arghhh...

...these are a couple of thrifting finds that I thought I could use for the grandbabes...this little blue wig and glasses play set...it reminds me of Our Airman's blue hair circa 2016...and so I searched for a photo of him with blue hair on the old blog and only found this one reference to it...from a post about a new fence 10 years ago...

...I found this skein of yarn at the thrift store...

...the wig actually has a little bit of green in it...but it doesn't show up in the photo...I think it's too bright for the camera to capture it...

...so I made a skein of the yarn...

...it matches the wig pretty well...I plan on making a doll wig with it...and I don't really think there's enough...but I have some similar colour in the stash I'm sure...

...so I just started crocheting a doll sized cap...and rounded the circle to fit her head pretty closely...

...and when it came down to her ears...I started a little extension at the back...

...to make a sort of shelf that the girls can tuck dollie's hair up into...

...it'll be easier for them to do that trying to pin it up on top...and neater too...

...folded that under to make the little pouch/shelf area...

...and tried it on my model dollie...

...it's a good fit...and works as intended...

...so now that I have the wig cap...

...I need to add the hair...

...there are a lot of holes to be filled and I'm sure I don't have enough yarn for it all...

...but I'm going to start with what I have and just deal with it when I have to...

...just cutting strips and separating them into strands (hairs)...

...and looping them through the spaces in the cap with a slip knot...

...here's a couple of rows done...

...and then I just comb out the strands into soft fluffy hair...don't you love my stripe-y pjs...

...and then because it's still a little bit wavy...I'm putting it in between a coupld of sheets of parchment...

...and ironing it nice and flat with the iron on a low setting...

...just continuing adding hair and brushing...

...a close up of the new 'hair'...

...I'm making it longer than it needs to be and I'll give her a haircut when I'm done...

...so here's the sort of mop like finished wig...

...fron the back...

...quite a bit of fluff gets combed out...

...so now she needs to sit down and get her hair cut...

...the rough first cut...

...and the finished trim...

...ready to go to Alaska...

...I was able to slip the child's wig on my big head to show you what they would look like together...and I just realized that I happen to be wearing the down-sized green t-shirt from last week...haha...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!