The Tea Party

Hi everyone, it's Nikki. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to post again. I've tried to get another post ready a few times, but I just haven't had the time and/or energy to finish it. I've had loads to do these past few months, and I've been quite sick most of the time, so it's been busy and difficult. But now I've finished my exams and the show I was rehearsing for, and I'm not really committed to anything else until around September or October, so my only obstacle over the summer should be my health, which is currently teetering between very bad, and not-good-but-possible-to-live-a-semi-normal-life. :P It was very bad in March and April, then it seemed to improve for a while, but now it seems to be going back, so I'm not sure where it's heading. Thank you all for your prayers though - they mean a lot. :) Last weekend, I changed two of my dolls (the poor things had barely been touched since Christmas!) and put together a photostory with them. It hurt my back to bend over for so long, but it was a lot of fun. I hope you enjoy it. :)


It was Sunday afternoon, Elyssa and Lindsay were bored. School was nearly over, so there weren't really any responsibilities, and they felt like doing something fun. After they'd been thinking for a while, Lindsay had an idea.
"Why don't we have a tea party?" she suggested.
Elyssa liked the sound of that. "What sort of tea party?" she asked.
"One like we used to have when we were little - with the little tea set and teddy bears, except without the bears... I mean, I did that - I don't know if you did but I think most of us do."
"I did," Elyssa said quickly. "In fact I still have the little tea set. I'll go get it!" She got up and trotted out of the room.

She came back in a few minutes later, carrying a picnic basket. "I've got it," she said, smiling. She set the basket down on the floor.
"Great!" said Lindsay.
"I don't actually remember what's in it," said Elyssa, sheepishly.
"That's alright. Let's open it and see!"

They opened the basket between them and looked at everything inside it. There were two cups, two saucers, a sugar bowl, a milk jug, and a teapot. They starting taking things out. Lindsay paused, smiling. "I used to have this exact set!" she said.
"Really? What happened to it?" Elyssa asked as she picked up a saucer.
"I think it got broken. It just lost peices one by one until there weren't any left."
"That happened to me, too, before I got this set. This one was a replacement. I got it for my seventh birthday... Where's the lid for the teapot?"

"Is this it?" Lindsay asked, holding up a lid. "I haven't got anything that fits it."
"Yes, that's it."
Lindsay held it out over the basket, and Elyssa took it.

"Thank you," Elyssa said, and she put it on the teapot in front of her.
"You're welcome," said Lindsay.
Everything was out of the basket now, and they looked over it.

"What she we use for a table?" Elyssa asked.
Lindsay thought for a moment, and then smiled. "Why don't we just close the basket and use that?" she said, putting down the lid.
"That's a great idea!" said Elyssa. "Let's set the table."

The both started putting everything on top of the basket, and it worked very well as a table.
"Have you got an extra saucer?" asked Lindsay. "I don't have one."

"Yes; here it is," said Elyssa, handing it across the "table".
"Thanks."
"You're welcome."

Once everything was on the table, they sat back and looked it over.
"It needs a table cloth," said Lindsay thoughtfully, after a while.
"You're right. Do you have one?"
"I think so. I'll be back in a minute!"
Lindsay jumped up and ran out of the room. While she was gone, Elyssa took everything off of the table.

Lindsay came back soon, carrying a white table cloth.
"That's lovely!" said Elyssa, excitedly.
"I used to use it for my tea parties when I was little," Lindsay smiled. "Help me put it over the table!"

The girls both took hold of two corners each and gently placed the cloth on the table.
After they had arranged it they way they wanted it, they put all of the tea things back on the table.

"It looks perfect now," said Elyssa.
"Yes," Lindsay agreed.

Elyssa smiled. "Would you like some tea?"


I hope you enjoyed the photostory. I have some extra pictures of the dolls' outfits, because I really liked dressing them up. (Sorry about the bad lighting.)

This is Lindsay from the back. I really like how her hair turned out. I was trying to do a hairstyle I'd seen on another blog, but it didn't work out, so I ended up just taking some hair back in twists, and leaving a little out at the front to hang down.

Here she is from the front. The dress she's wearing doesn't actually have a sash - I tied a cream ribbon around it because I thought it looked nice. ;)

This is Elyssa from the back. Her hair is pretty simple, but I like how it turned out. Her dress doesn't really have a sash either - I just tied a big sheer purple ribbon around it to make it look fancier next to Lindsay's dress.

And from the front. I'm sorry about the junk under the unmade bed in the background! :P

I hope you liked the pictures, and I'll try to post again soon. :)
Have you ever held pretend tea parties?

Raindrops On Roses

Hi everyone! It's Elyssa here. Before I post anything else, Nikki wants me to let you know that we're all really sorry we haven't been around for so long again - she got ill over a month ago, and has only been properly recovering now. (The doctors don't even know what it was, but they said it might have been glandular fever/mononucleosis. Whatever it was left her very tired and weak for ages, and just this last week she's been able to start doing things semi-normally again.:()
Also, Nellie's surgery will be scheduled in the near future. She's taking it all very well, under the circumstances, and Samantha has eased a little - although she does still seem upset at times. I think she's realized it isn't her fault, but it still upsets her to think about it. For Nellie's operation, they're waiting for the next available emergency slot, which will probably be sometime in the next two weeks. We're all praying for her!

For now, this is what this post is mostly about:
It's been raining a lot lately, and today I got bored, and decided to dress up for fun!:) I looked outside, and it wasn't raining, so Nikki decided I could go out for a photoshoot!:) There are probably too many photos, but it was fun.:)

This isn't where we actually started the pictures - we were in the front garden first, but one of the neighbors came out and we didn't want to be in their way, so we moved.:) (The one picture we got before the neighbor came out wasn't very good.)

I borrowed this white dress from Cindy (I'm not sure how we both fit it, but we do), and decided to make my outfit all white, for fun. Nikki said I looked like a little spring nymph with flowers in my hair, even though it's fall!:)

I'm not really looking at the camera in this one. I don't know why, lol!

This close-up's a little too close, I think.;)

This is back in the front garden. Around when Nikki took this picture, it started raining ever-so-gently - it was almost a little mist coming down on us.:) It had been raining earlier too, and all the flowers and leaves had little raindrops all over them! That's why I called this "Raindrops On Roses". I know there weren't actually any roses (they're in the back yard), but there were flowers.;)

I like the tilt on this one, for some reason. I think Nikki did it on purpose (she got a tiny bit carried away with the camera).;)

You can almost see the little tiny raindrops in my hair in this one.;) (In fact, I think if you enlarge it you might!)

New pose.:)

 

This one's a bit dark - I don't know why.:P Also, it showed the rain on my face too well (it was raining a lot harder by then), so it looks like I was crying!:P

I was going to leave this one out because of how hunchbacked I look, but I decided to keep it in because it's pretty funny!;)

This one's kind of dark, but I think it works (although it still looks like I'm crying a bit:P).

This one's nice, but it looks like I'm crying even though the lighting is fine!:P (It was raining quite a lot by then.:P)

 

My hair is looking decidedly wet by this picture.:P;) 

After this picture I slipped on the wet ground and fell face-first onto the path! After that we decided to go in (the rain was getting worse as well). My hair is wetter in the next pictures, because it picked up some water from the ground before I could get up.:P (I also got a tiny stain on the back on Cindy's dress...:/ Hopefully it'll scrub out though.;))

 My hair got really soggy after falling down.:P I think it goes a lot straighter when it's wet, too. (Nikki says she's the opposite - her hair's normally wavy/slightly curly, but when she gets even a little wet, it goes into a thousand tiny ringlets!;))

When we got inside, I flopped down onto the couch to rest, and Nikki decided I looked elegant, and took some more photos! (I think I look as tired as I was though.:P)

 Nikki says in this picture (and some of the others, but not as much), I look like a friend of hers.;)

Thank you for reading this, and I'm sorry if there were too many pictures. (I hope you liked them though.:)) I hope you're having a great day.:)
Do you like to dress up sometimes?:)