a summer visit with scarlet pimpernel looks like this:)

scarlet is the daughter of whimsey mildew's half sister(rosy sandcrocus)and she will be entertaining and helping and sharing with the dollhouse residents all summer.

my sew on tea service is complete...in 2 color ways and a variety of details.  they feel super precious (cute as a button:) and i really regret to split them up...but i am getting ready to sew them to some leftover bits of plantable paper and see if they work in our etsy shop.  we have so many different things there.  i can never settle on one continuous creative plan or item.  my inspirations never stay in one place for too long.

i finished the waists for my 5 dress up skirts today, hooray!
and today is swealtering so we had a large mid-day meal of blue cheese and grilled chicken sandwiches, cooked up in one of those pie irons, and cold, left over cauliflower cheddar soup.  it was delicious and tonight feels luxurious not to have to take on the dinner hour on such a hot day. i also put mango and ice in my vitamix and made something very refreshing and sorbet like in consistency.  the vitamix loves ice:)

 tonight...this

plus this

from this


= love

i have waited so long to try this bacon and with 3 free heads of curly endive from my neighbor...tonight is the night.  very french cookery and just right for my greens loving self:) 

tiny sew on tea service of ceramic and silver is thankfully well and complete.  so much time dedicated to the layers of ceramics and to close the lid on the kiln and wait is often painful.  time spent must equal success!... because the possibility of time feels seldom allotted to these creative pursuits.  so sad to feel i don't ever have time for failure when the failures are the food of further explorations.  such is the life of a creative meeting parenting etc.

glad the rain is through and tonight a fire in the pit out back and laying around with the bunnies on the front lawn, dinner of sausage on the grill, brocolette and rice.

today: 

dress up skirts...working on 5 at the same time because it has been too long since my last skirts in my etsy shop.  hoping that by july 1st they will be ready and i will be starting the next 5.  so many things to try this season

so i meet with friendship and conversation at the presidio s.f. on sunday for their food truck event.  my goodest friend kerri brings real china tea service and hot water and silver bowls with tea selection and napkins...."just in case" she says.  she is the queen of the formaliteas of tea in informal settings and i love this so much.

and then she says "i brought silver...in case you wanted"  i am at a food truck event so my brain is trying to figure out what she means.  silver what? is all i can think.  and then i see...silver utensils of course:)  she thinks of everything and nurtures well and brings celebration to even the smallest of corners.  sigh... real food with real utensils.  i love the language she speaks:)and how she frames each moment.  sniff.  layer upon layer of light and love and grace always.

curiosity invited me to all these pictured places this week.  dress up skirts are underway, sweet, tiny torn velvet blooms, clay came out for tiny tea service and this thread that i have been wanting to try for so long is now here with me in my creative realm.

today:

freshly juiced carrot/orange beverage, cod liver oil, glazing of my tiny tea service and dinner with my parents.

tomorrow:  

a day away with friendship and conversation and ocean air, beautiful views, inspiration and real food:) 

the dolls have been waiting forever it seems for their summer house guest to arrive.

Today she arrived bright and early with her big trunk of belongings...and circusy style:) 

she is taking a summer away from her circus trade to stay in the playroom of my dolls house and lend a hand with the littles of the house.

her name is scarlet pimpernel and she is named for the wildflower of the same name.  both scarlet pimpernels are   orange in bloom:)