Hi everyone,
Sorry…I thought I hit the publish button for this post but mistakenly hit the draft button…oops!!
Slowly I am getting this dress set finished… but it sure is taking me a long time. My life has too many interruptions in it right now to keep at my sewing for very long. So I’ve just decided I’ll do what I can and show what I accomplish. Eventually this one will be finished.
I found a piece of one of my favorite laces for this round eared cap. It’s sort of like a repeating Chantilly lace and has a sweet allover design. I didn’t put any interfacing in it so it’s more delicate looking. It’s very pretty sitting on Felicity’s head and I thought I’d give you a 360 degree viewing…
Are you dizzy? I hope not, because I have a Pumpkin Cake recipe that I want you to see too…Marilyn sent this blog post to me and it’s just so beautiful, I had to share it…
Marilyn said Hannah, who writes this beautiful blog, had just published a cookbook and taken a step forward with a career when her mother died suddenly. Marilyn said she has checked many times since that 2015 post, but she seemed to have disappeared. Then on Tuesday evening, this post appeared in her email. I hope you’ll take time to read her post…
See you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
I love the lace cap with this outfit. Felicity looks beautiful with her little tendrils peeking out.
The Pumpkin Cake recipe is perfect for the season. Artistic too.
We’re headed down tomorrow to watch the grands play soccer. Will be the first time seeing our five year old granddaughter play. According to mom, she’s a dynamo. We’ll see. 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend.
Thanks Joy,
I think Felicity gets prettier just standing on my doll shelf…every time I pull her out to model she looks more beautiful than the time before.
I hope you have a nice visit tomorrow and the rest of your weekend.
Blessings, Jeanne
I finally found the pictures that show a dress like you’ve made for Felicity and have sent them along. Love the cap design as well as the pattern of the lace. Felicity’s hair looks beautiful too.
Thanks Susette,
I will show your Colonial pictures along with Felicity’s dress the next few times I show something good new I’ve added. They are wonderful…
This Felicity’s hair is the nicest of all the 3 Felicity’s I have owned.
Thanks so much!
Blessongs, Jeanne
I forgot to mention how beautiful the pictures are that accompany the Honey and Jam website, and I’ve certainly copied the recipe. I’ve subscribed and put her blog right next to Jeanne’s on my AOL Favorites Bar.
HI again,
I love the,name of her blog too, and I’ll be checking in again with her too…
~ Jeanne
I love that dress on Felicity. It’s perfect for her era with the cap and fichu. He hair looks so thick and shiny in the fourth picture—I think your lighting is just right on these! I looked at the recipe, and it looks good. I am quite intrigued with the shape of the cake. I wonder if I could find a pan like hers?
Thank you, Carolyn,
This Felicity does have really pretty hair…and is skin coloring is perfection!! Not a rub or mark on her face! I was blessed to find such a pretty doll.
I’m going to look for the pan too…I know it could be made in a bunt pan, but I just love this shape for the cake!!!
Thanks Carolyn,
Blessings, Jeanne
Oh, here you are Jeanne! As noted, I could not find the blog early this morning, ut now see that it is here. Love that beautiful lace cap for Felicity’! That’s the kind I really love, and my Felicity has one that.comes with her Summer Dress. That will look lovely just by itself, for when she is home, with visitors, or underneath a big straw hat. Just beautiful!
I love that gorgeous cake! I’m going to try that using my regular Bundt pan, since I don’t have a fancy one like that. I can almost taste it now! Thank you, Marilyn for sharing this yummy recipe, and to you Jeanne for showing it in your blog!
Oh dear, my commentwent away! I mentioned I missed you this morning, Jeanne, but now we know why. It happens!
I just love the pretty lacy cap on Felicity! It will look lovely underneath a big straw hat, or just by itself. Lace and Felicity just got together!
Oh, yum, that cake sounds and looks delicious! I have a regular bundt pan, not a fancy one, but I’m going to try that soon. The best part is the ingredients are something most everyone has on hand already! Thank you Marilyn for sending it to Jeanne, and to you Jeanne, for putting it on the blog for us to try,
I need to get going, more shopping to do!
I’m here Linda,
I just flubbed up last night with the publish and the draft buttons…I pushed the wrong one. Thanks for your email early this morning or it might have been mid morning before I found out it had been published…
Thanks for your compliments on Felicity”s cap…the lace ones are my favorite kind.
I probably should just use my bundy pan too, but I love those different kinds of pans…so I might look for it. That cake looks wonderful, doesn’t it?
Thanks Linda,
Blessings, Jeanne
I’ve seen several versions of this dress, but this one is the most delicate. The cap is just beautiful. Felicity looks perfect, and, like Susette, I want to compliment you both on her beautiful hair.
I see that what happened to me last week or so happened to Linda — the post disappeared, she wrote again, and her first post reappeared above the second one. I wonder what’s happening to the blog. The important thing is that you have something that backs the whole thing up because losing the entire blog and all its history would be awful.
I’ve forwarded Hannah’s blog to several people. The cake mold is not uncommon — that one is Nordic Ware and it’s available from Williams-Sonoma and probably other places.
Her cookbook is readily available. If you like independent bookstores, here’s the connection to abe.com, which is a network of independent booksellers. Their emails are unusually interesting. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&an=hannah+queen&tn=honey+and+jam&kn=&isbn=
Awww…thank you for your sweet compliments on Felicity’s dress and her hair… I do like this pattern very much as it just screams out…”hey, I’m a Colonial dress…can’t you tell?”
I have several Nordic Ware pans and just “might” have to search for this one…when I first saw the picture of that cake, my heart skipped a beat…I LOVE pretty cakes and I think it’s something I might use. Kristoffer gave me a Bed Bath and Beyond gift certificate for my birthday and I haven’t used it yet, so I might go in there and see if they have it… :o)
I’m also a sucker for cookbooks…:o( …just ask Rebecca!!!
Thank you for sharing the post, Marilyn,
Blessings, Jeanne
Dear Jeanne, how wonderful Felicity looks in her dress!
I will enjoy the others’ comments about the cake as I don’t cook. No surprise there, huh? (laugh) I don’t sew; I don’t craft; I don’t cook. I am so glad I was born in this era. I have no idea how I would have survived in the past. (chuckle)
I wish for you another surprise shopping adventure very soon!
HI Dorothy,
You might not cook, you might not sew, you might not craft, but you say the sweetest things with your words!!!
And apparently you shop!!! The world needs more shoppers. If we lived closer to each other we’d go shopping together!
Thanks so much,
Blessings, Jeanne
I happen to love cooking, baking crafting gardening etc, but we both love dolls!! *smiles*
HI Laura and Dorothy,
Loving dolls is REALLY the most important, isn’t it??? :o)
Blessings to you both, Jeanne
Love Felicity’s round eared cap. The lace is so pretty. This whole outfit is getting lovelier by the day. I know I’m completely biased, but the first edition Felicitys are absolutely stunning stunning. Can’t wait to see the next addition.
That blog looks like a lot of fun to browse. I don’t have a bundt pan, but I’m sure my tube pan would work fine. I’ts special to me because it was my grandmother’s and I remember her baking Orange Chiffon cakes in it, one of my favorite summer recipes. I love to bake, and this will be a nice new addition to autumn recipes. I love to cook, bake, craft, do handiwork trying to improve sewing, and garden- my daughter hates all of it. I’m glad I did because I have so many happy memories doing these things with my grandmother.
HI Laura,
I’m so glad you are enjoying the “process” of Felicity’s dress coming together. I’m afraid I didn’t get anything done on it today… I had some “momma” things I had to take care of.
I think I know what I’m going to do next for it though.
I read some of the previous posts on Hannah’s blog and she really looks like she enjoys baking the most. She gives away a lot of recipes on it.
I don’t think Rebecca would necessarily consider herself domestic but she does do a lot of cooking, not so much baking, but cooking, and beading…so maybe she IS domestic after all. I’ll have to ask her if she thinks she is! ;o)
Thanks Laura,
Blessings, Jeanne
I wondered why I didn’t see your post late last night! So, here I am, usually the 1st or at least 2nd to reply, and tonight I’m the last!
You know, the other night I was thinking the fichu was white, and you said it was ivory; with the lace cap (and I do Love that lace) now being white, I can see that the fichu is ivory! What difference it makes putting two colors side by side!
Now I’ll go look at that pumpkin cake recipe–sounds wonderful!
Felicity’s lace cap is just beautiful. Her whole outfit is beautiful. The laces you’ve used are gorgeous. This is one spectacular dress and cap. Felicity looks lovely in it and I’m wondering what her story will be for this ensemble!
That cake recipe on Hannah’s blog looks so yummy. Thank you and Marilyn for sharing it. Hannah is very talented in baking and picture taking. What artistry! That is a recipe worth trying. And Hannah just makes these recipes up? ! Wonderful and amazing!!
Here I am! A day late again. As Pooh would say, “Oh bother.”
Felicity’s outfit is lovely. I missed a couple of posts, I think. I’ll go back and find them. Anyway, I just wanted to say I think it is very pretty.
I love the fabric! In some ways, it’s almost ‘Christmasy’. With all the lace, it would be a beautiful Christmas dress for some lucky girl. 🙂