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Quick Fix Postcards
Dear reader,I could sleep in standing position at the moment. A lot of work to do, umpteen emails to reply to, a class to be prepared (and yes, also strawberries to be picked, there are still a lot of...
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Bedtime
In Heidelberg. Finally.I am pretty exhausted after a long trip from the north but so very happy being here. Tomorrow I will meet ten students at a doll making weekend class. It will be lovely days for...
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Doll Making Weekend Glimpses
A few impressions from the doll making class in Heidelberg...lavender sachets, working hands, lunch buffetbutterflies, hand cream, fresh menthe and lemon, working hands, doll headcolourful flowers,...
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Weekend Course Results and upcoming Doll Making Class in the UK
Dear reader,(For infos on the upcoming doll making class in Newton Abbot, UK, please scroll down) I can´t tell you how happy the photos of these seven girls and two boys make me! Each of these dolls...
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A new door will open soon
Dear readers,the August newsletter has been sent - you can read here a little more about the new door that will open soon for Fröken Skicklig (and find a recipe for Kiki´s blueberry pancakes)If you´d...
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Dear Hélène
Dear Hélène,every year in mid August, when I start to feel a bit sentimental about summer fading day by day, I am thinking of you. I am thinking of all the pages you filled with summery scents and...
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Colour Studies
Doll shoes and a soft rosé. A golden yellow of camomile and tansyA soft grey, like faded woodMixed with the vibrant red of currants, poppy and pelargoniumA soft sage green mixed with rosa and purpleof...
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Evening Walk
A tiny backpackAnd a warm scarfAn evening walkIn late AugustAs promised, I will list four Kiki in the Meadow dolls in the webshop tomorrow and I am sure these girls will find a warm and loving new...
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Four new dolls on the virtual shelves...
Dear readers,I have added four Kiki in the Meadow dolls today to my webshop.Update: All four dolls have found a new home, thank you! As some of you know, new law consumer protection rules...
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Got lost
No, I didn´t get lostIn the deep, deep forestI just got lost (a bit) In the wide fields of workDon´t worry, I am fine ;-) Linnéa, one of my recent 18"custom dolls for a little girl in Georgia, U.S.
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Devon Dialect
Dear reader,I am currently in the south of England where I drink lots of tea, eat fish and chips, explore the surroundings of Newton Abbot, lace my boots for a Dartmoor tour and can´t stop myself from...
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Class Results Newton Abbot (and upcoming class in Munich)
Dear readers,I know that quite a few of you have been waiting for the photos from the last doll making class in Newton Abbot/ UK in September. My apologies for the delay - I had been ill, but now I am...
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November Rain
Dibble-dibble-dopp-dopp sings the November rainDances outside on our window sillI put on my rain coat and my bonnetHello, November!Plipp-plipp-plipp says the November rainJumps on the soft green moss...
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How to catch Sunbeams
One of the custom dolls I made this year - I still have lots of unedited photos waiting to be posted.This was a doll boy I made in Juli. (for Felicia)Little boy, what have you done today?I went down...
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Doll Details
Dear readers,I hope you are fine and spent a lovely weekend (the last before Advent starts). I did a lot of sewing and had enough time to ponder on a few of the questions that dropped in with the...
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Some humour, please
If you make dolls for childrenAnd follow all those wise booksAbout what to teach and how to raise themAbout what is useful and what rather dangerous Do never forgetThe delightful sense of...
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Snowed in
Whew! I say,It is First of AdventAnd you are already stuckIn a waist-deep snowdriftPishposh, says KikiGive me a handOr else there won´t beAny saffron buns todayAfter an hour or twoWe have made it To...
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Dance like a Snowflake
Dear reader,I spent yesterday evening with lots of tulle and Tchaikovsky´s Nutcracker while a snowstorm was blowing across the fields. This ballet is one of the earliest music memories I have, I must...
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Across snowy fields
Dear reader, I have finished all my custom dolls for this year and sent them to their new families. It is only the 6th of December - and I can breathe out. Almost done. The last days I was sewing with...
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Ulla Britt´s Sketchbook
Dear reader,this is what I found the other day at the Red Cross charity shop.Ulla-Britt´s sketchbook, filled with lots of patterns for weaving and embroidering, for lace making and knitting.I couldn´t...
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