..isn't it strange how sometimes
things just work out?
meet mabel....
we met by chance in my favourite antiques centre
in honiton last week..
..for some strange reason my husband now thinks that everything i buy is for my new etsy shop(yeah right)
it's an excellent theory...
he just forgot to factor in his wife's
love/need/want issues....!
(...i loved her face
..i needed to rescue her
...and i wanted to keep her!)
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mabel is a jointed soft-bodied 1940s dolly...
..but something was bothering me..
..it was the dress..
..pretty but a bit too big..
...not quite right....
(here comes the serendipity bit)
remember my dolly knits?
ah ha...i had a lightbulb moment...!
so with a little dress alteration
(retro laura ashley leg o' mutton sleeves removed....)
it was meant to be.
i wonder who the other knits will belong to?
..so the sun was shining...
...the birds were singing(squawking?)
..and what treasure should i find next???
a beautiful hand painted bowl
with flying bluebirds...
(£2 again....serendipitous indeed)
oh and another keeper i'm afraid darling....
..and as if i hadn't had enough lucky strikes...
...i have had this little deer for a while...
he's very unusual as he looks like he's been carved from wood..
..but actually he is made of a celluloid sort of plastic..
...well would you believe it??!?
..i found him a friend!
whatever next?
and they all lived happily ever after...
with me!
x
p.s just put my badgers and a few new items in my etsy shop...
do pop by!
