This is what I meant to draw yesterday. Most times I am able to nurse Isabelle to sleep but lately she seems to be flopping around quite a bit and staying awake. Last night was one of those nights. It was ONE AND A HALF HOURS worth of flopping, crawling all about the bed, and standing around. And yes that drawing is correct. At one point she did sit on my head! 
I have this routine usually: put Isabelle to sleep and then I get two hours on the computer to draw, read blogs, and email. Well she was flopping around a whole bunch tonight. She went to bed about one and a half hour later than I wanted. Now I’m too tired to do my usual. No leisurely reading and replying of email, no reading of blogs at all, and no drawing. I really wanted to draw her flopping all over the place. But it’s off to bed for me.
Did I mention that dolly is based on the pregnant doll my sister gave me? Except my dolly isn’t pregnant. I started with some plain fabric to figure out her outfit. Once I figured it out I made the wrap with the real fabric, this Asian looking fabric. It was hell to work with. It frayed like crazy, even with me pinking it. So I tried something else.
Helen’s dolly had a top wrap. So I made one as well. This time I tried a different design, using french seams. I couldn’t get the armholes to my liking and the fabric was hard to work with, very slippery.
I sent the pictures to my sister for advice. She liked the test outfit, the plain one the best. Me too. The red just doesn’t work for me.
So back to the drawing board. Some easier to work with fabric and not such a strong color. And I came up with this.
It’s my favorite. The wrap is reversible and the armholes are just the way I like them. Finally an outfit for dolly! Now she just needs a name. How about Wayan? I found it on a baby name site. It means first born child in Balinese. She’s my first dolly in my planned set.
The new project I mentioned before, this is what it is, a nubby doll. My sister thought up the name. She’s made of terry cloth. When I first made her hair I thought it’s so straggly. She needs a haircut.
But now it’s sort of grown on me, all wild looking.
Usually when Isabelle eats Cheerios I give her a pile and she helps herself. So the other day as I went to give her a pile I thought oh let me let her reach into the bag herself. Ok…stupid, stupid, stupid. She reached in, grabbed a handful, pulled her hand out, opened her hand, and Cheerios fell all over the floor. Lucky Waldo got them all. Or I should say lucky for us because Isabelle was starting to pick them up from the floor to eat.
This is a picture I took tonight after Isabelle’s shower. Can you see the red spots? We think her eczema is back. 
It showed up a few days ago (or was it over a week ago? My days blend together if I don’t write stuff down). It seems to be getting worse, spreading. It started on her back only and now it’s partly on her front as well. We don’t know why it’s come back or if it is even eczema.
She hasn’t eaten anything new and I don’t think I’ve eaten anything new. The only thing I can think of is: I’ve turned up the temperature. We got our bill from last month and it was HIGH!! I’ve never seen our bill so high. Last month with temperatures around 110 in our area, we had the a.c. set at 76. So when I saw the bill I freaked a bit and I bumped it up to 78. But those 2 degrees make a difference. You can feel it. But would that have made her all bumpy and red? It hasn’t been that hot this past week. It hasn’t even hit 100.
Now she wouldn’t be allergic to dog saliva would she? She’s been going ga ga over Nestle lately. Isabelle will be sitting next to her and next thing you know she sticks her face into Nestle’s face for her to lick. I’m like STOP IT NESTLE! but Isabelle sticks out her little face over and over to be licked. It’s the cutest thing. But then wouldn’t her face get all red and not her back? Ok I’m a dork. I just answered my own question. I don’t think it’s dog saliva.
I was really hoping to show you a finished project by now, made out of some of these materials. But sometimes I get stalled on a project by being picky, picky, picky. See, I couldn’t find my embroidery thread. And I didn’t want to move on with my plans without first doing the embroidery. I wanted to see everything as I went along and how the colors would tie in best. So everything just sat there. Maybe tomorrow I’ll be closer to being done.
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