Annabelle has had more visitors!  Looks who came to see her!

Here's Annabelle's Easter!

Frau Tussie Chickadee is caring for a nest of eggs.  Maddie the Corgi is busy herding baby chicks.  She has a posy in her mouth to keep her mind off having a mouth full of chicks! 

So many lovely, fun goodies from my friend Linda.  Cards, just Annabelle's size, a sewing box, a watering can, gardening tools!  The list is endless!

I hope you can see the Easter lily on the tea table as well as the tiny white chocolate lamb up against the Easter egg basket!  The pink bunny under the tree is metal.  It's from another Annabelle Club member, Jan.  So sweet of her to think of me and Annabelle this Easter! 

Her feather tree is made of fine thread.  It was an ebay find.  I had to cut it down to fit in her house.  The other little chicks and rooster are from the thrift shop, as are most of the tree ornaments!  The trunk is from Linda as well.  We have great fun thrifting for each other's Annabelles.  Our Annabelles are Kindred Spirits of the Doll type.  I made the dolls and Linda made the clothes!

Happy Easter Everyone!

I decided I needed to get a little creative and make something to combat the blues, or maybe I should just call it Spring Fever.  That sounds better!  (Thanks for that tidbit Grandma Rosie!) 

So, I've had Post Mistress Frau Tussi Chickadee in my head since Valentine's Day.  Yesterday I needle felted her from my wool.  She's not perfect.  There are things I'd change about her, but here she is!  Remember, she needed to be life-size in order to deliver the doll's mail!  Also in the photo is my new Valentine cupboard.  It's filled with lovely, hand-made Valentines.  What a lucky doll.

This particular Annabelle Club (and I have since learned there are others) was born of a dream by another Tasha Tudor fan, Kristen Strand-Tibbitts.  Her blog is  http://sweetpeahouse.blogspot.com/.  She loves to make dolls and loves sharing all about making them.  She is a very good teacher as well.  She's the poor soul who broke her knee cap, well SHATTERED her knee cap, while coming to pick Linda and I up at the airport last June.  She worked so hard on the Kindred Spirits Gathering, only to make a brief appearance at the motel that evening.

Recently some of the Kindred Spirits gathered at Suzanne's to work on their Annabelle dolls.  Suzanne wrote about it on her blog http://blueberrycottage.blogspot.com/2007/12/dolly-day.html.  It will be fun to see their Annabelle's come to life.  In the mean time, Linda's Annabelle and my Annabelle have been corresponding.  You really must be a Tasha fan to fully understand it all.  My family just shakes their heads!  Oh well!

So in my last post I showed you Annabelle's Christmas.  After taking that picture a package arrived in the mail from Oregon.  Quite a package it was!  Annabelle of Colantinoville sent many lovlies to Annabelle of Stuckyville, so on Saturday afternoon my daughter came out and helped me decorate Annabelle's tree.  I think it took just as long to do hers as it did to do mine!

Here's Annabelle posing for the camera!  If  you click on the picture in the flickr.com badge to the right,  it will take you there and you can read more details of the picture.

Here's a close up of Annabelle's Tree.  It's much prettier with the decorations on it.  It would be fun to have a lighted tree, but I just wasn't fond of the mini lights available for that purpose.  They were too big and bulky.  There's not much available locally in the line of doll house stuff and since Annabelle is 10 inches tall, she closer to a Barbie size than a typical dollhouse size.

The funny little snowman in the middle was in a box of tiny ornaments that was once my Aunt Marie's.  Same with the red and silver balls on the bottom.  There are several all around the tree.

I was trying for a close up of Annabelle's Nativity, but I guess I was focused on the tree!  Since I have a small collection of Nativities, I thought it only right that Annabelle have one as well.  The Kindred Spirit Annabelles have a little something to look forward to!

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Merry Christmas Everyone!