I have been busy gathering things for a box to mail to Rebecca. This is her birthday week and she’s on her honeymoon too. They took a trip to West Virginia…and I think they might be having a really nice time… She sent me this picture yesterday… Let’s all say AWWWW at the same time! :o)
A few of you asked about my sandals I found for the wedding… She sent this picture and you can see them here… this must have been the “foot pose!” The other pictures outside were in the grass and you can’t see them very well…
I have loved looking at ALL of their pictures, but this one is probably my favorite… a girl and her daddy… she looks so comfortable and at ease in this picture…
Okay, now looking at them has made me all weepy again… so I better move on…and FAST!
I found some stands that will work for my girls… I’d like to have them stand on their own, but I don’t want them to fall over, so I’ll be using stands…
I’m trying to think of a scenario for them all in a few pictures and then do individual pictures for each auction…and I think I’m going to use the names Marilyn suggested… Christmas Berries, Christmas Gold and Christmas Plaid! Works for me! My hubby thought the girls should be a singing trio for something special… I was thinking they could be cousins giving each other a secret gift… we’ll see…
Anyway, here they are… upright… holding their gifts!
I love it when I am able to sew sets like this that show off all my girls at one time…
The “side” shot…
I went upstairs and brought down my box of Christmas props…
Surely I can come up with something fun and Christmasy from all this stuff…
Well, that’s it from me… have a wonderful weekend…and see you Monday!
Blessings, Jeanne
What wonderful pictures you shared today, Jeanne, of the wedding and also the one of Rebecca on her honeymoon. Yes, that is a sweet picture of her and George. I have one of my dad and me, ready to walk up the aisle. Daddy wore a black suit and his clerical collar, of course, and then changed into his vestments after he got me up to the front of the church. The pastor from the church I attended while I was in college gave a short message while daddy was changing, and then daddy married us.
The girls do look charming in their beautiful outfits! I like your idea about them being cousins; it would explain the similar but different outfits, too. (If they were sisters, they’d almost have to be triplets, because they are the same size!) I know you’ll figure it out!!
I noticed last night that my first comment did go thru after all, even though it didn’t show up for me when I refreshed the page. Sorry about the similar second comment!! But that went thru right away, probably because I Only put the “tiny url” link in the body, rather than that great long thing!!
To clarify: our swap wasn’t a reciprocal one (where two people exchange gifts). It was more what I would call circular–you know, A sends to B, B sends to C, C sends to D, and so on, and the last on the list sends to A. And none of us knows who got our names (I didn’t know Kathie had gotten my name, for instance). It’s fun!
Yes, Barbara, you need to participate in the next swap!! You’ll love it!
Joy, thanks for the tip that WM has those tiny toys! I definitely need to get over there!
Jeanne, I loved the pictures of the wedding, everyone looks so happy! I see that Rebecca gets her height from George’s side of the family! Rebecca looks SO happy in her honeymoon picture, and it looks like they had some gorgeous scenery too! Thanks for sharing the pictures!
The girls are so pretty and perfectly suited to the dresses they are wearing. The names fit to a “T”, thanks to Marilyn!
Perhaps they could be standing around the Christmas tree, giving each other presents! Too many other little things would be distracting, and take away from what is important,… the dresses!
Have a good weekend, Jeanne and everybody!
Rebecca is so tall and beautiful..she could be a model. Loved her braids. Dolls are beautiful.
This is a signature Jeanne Marie post, bringing personal and doll business together beautifully. Rebecca, Mom and aunts all looks so happy as do the dolls. Thanks for sharing with us all.
Rebecca looks happy, which is the most important thing. In her wedding picture, those flowers look real. I like your sandals picture. It’s good to see all of you together. It’s also nice to see a picture of George without a hammer in his hand. Everyone should stop work sometime.
With all those props, you should be able to make a fine Christmas scene. It’s going to be fun to see the three-together scene and then the individual portraits. That mighr even happen by Monday.
I’m still hoping for a Thanksgiving dress to be photographed in your yard. Are the trees turning yet?
Love that pic of Becca in WV. Braid envy here. š Hope you’re framing that great pic of the newlyweds.
I like Linda’s idea of the girls by the tree. Wouldn’t want to overwhelm the lovely dresses.
Excited here. A new RRFF Siblie coming from Russia, is due here by Dec. Funny as she looks French, with long brown hair and a beret. š
Have a fun weekend everyone.
That was a fun post. The first pic of the three of them took my breath away. Makes me want to think about the Holidays. Canāt wait to see your auctionsā¦.listing all together or separately?
Cousins would be perfectā¦my girls look like their cousins for sureš
I hope we see more and more wedding pictures. The bride and groom picture with the bouquet is stunning and that smile on Rebeccaās face on her honeymoon tells it all.
Hello, sisters!
It has been several days; I DID write a long post yesterday before getting busy, and when I hit the post comment button, it went pale, did nothing, could not be hit again like it was frozen. I waited an hour and came back, still frozen, and of course, when I hit refresh, totally gone. I was way too deflated to start over.
First, JEANNE. The dresses and gifts are so gorgeous andā¦temptingā¦.I am trying ārather hardā to not spend all the money on doll clothes for each current doll line passion as I have in the past. For me and the Rubies, itās all about the dolls. They just make me so doggone happy and seem to lighten my load every time I look at them, but the collection has been growing like wildfire. Anyway, I might join the bidding, because these are really darling. The wedding pics and one of Pippi Longstocking Rebecca are wonderful. May those two have a long, wonderful life together. (Yeah, I especially loved the father daughter photo.)
MARILYN, great names! Thank you for your thinking cap skills.
CHARLOTTE and KATHIE. Those swap boxes of sweet clothes and accessories were amazing! How thoughtfully and lovingly they are put together. And Charlotte, your photos with the girls going through the opening process were precious. What fun you gals have and a huge thanks for sharing.
BARBARA, you got your baby grand and are so,pleased. Iām so glad to hear it. My first piano I was given at age 8. My parents took me shopping for it and it was a Wurlitzer. It then went to the youngest son and DIL, then to a friendās daughter who was teaching music at school. Next we had my in-laws piano and when we bought our weekend home, there was an upright already in that house.Those both got used a lot. When I had to have my Achilles cut and reattached, that was an almost year long recovery, my hubby took me shopping for a baby grand, made in Czechoslovakia with a magnetic action. Europe was seeking to minimize iron usage. That piano was a dream. When we moved out here, there was no room for that gorgeous piano, but we found one on Craigās List, but it was quite a beater. A year or so later, I asked my tuner if he had a client interested in selling a good piano. Not only was he a great lead, but he and his sons moved it, and they moved the ābeaterā to a home of a little girl who wanted to learn to play but had no piano or means. So I paid them to move it to her grandmotherās home and to tune it, and then her uncle, the stable force in her life, sent me a video of her playing and singing. Awesome! I now have a fantastic Yamaha and get together with a buddy to play duets and we laugh our heads off. Barbara, I hope your Rubies get to laugh their heads off, too! ( I gave the baby grand to the oldest grandson who plays it and is a college sophomore. )
JOY, congrats on little Natalie coming to your home. Hope in the near future that Ruby Red can catch up with all their back orders.
I know I have missed things.
Oh! ALINA, I hope you stuck through this. I am dying to send you something. Would you please allow Jeanne to get your mailing address to pass along to me? Sending you love and tenderness, dear āsisterā.
DEBBIEā¦are you back in TN and packing? Hope you had a nice reprieve.
ALL SEWERS WITH NEW AND OLD MACHINESā¦.happy sewing! š
Happy weekend, ladies!
Now, letās see if this will postā¦.holding my breath.
Great post, but my biggest laugh was at the bottom because I read it as all sewers as in the sewer we are now having the line unclogged so I can do the laundry. Still clogged as I type. Glad it was a sewing greeting and not about the sewer problem here. š
The word does conjure up some interesting images, especially when one is have their sewer unclogged. One year when I was working my co-worker wanted to give me something sewing related as a Christmas gift. She wrote a note that she was hoping I would find the sewers helper very useful. She said when she read it she was wondering if she shouldn’t call it something else. She didn’t want me to think she was giving me a plumber’s friend as a Christmas gift.
Now a plunger would have made a great gift! Kidding. š
Oh my gosh! Never crossed my mind, Joy! I sure hope you get your situation in hand soon. Is your home also about the same age as ours, circa 1900? Best of luck, my friend. That is NO fun.
Our house was built in 1949, and has lots of quirks. The pipes are just getting old. Kind of like us. New homes have plastic waste pipes unlike our cast iron which overtime rusts away from the interior.
Love your piano history. Thanks so much for sharing. Sounds like you’ve made the most of having a piano. As for me all I can say is that as a pianist I’m a very good vocalist. Always being a first soprano I’m geared to watching the top line of music, which works fine if I play one handed. But when I play with two and have to watch all the notes, well let’s just say I read music about like a second grader reads a book. Very slowly.
Slow is fine, Barbara. And coordinating the hands together is really good for our brains. Keep at it, my dear.
Maybe if you Google your AG piano you might be able to find out what the other two pieces are. Oh, you are so lucky to have that. Yay!
Oh, Sally, how wonderful that you have a piano–and a buddy with whom to play duets! My mom and I used to play duets together, and my cousin Jim and I did, too, occasionally. Sweet memories. I rarely see Jim any more, and of course mom has been gone for 14 years, and it was probably 7 or so years before that, the last time she and I played together. By then the dementia had affected her music skills, and she would play at the wrong tempo or in the wrong key, but we would still have fun. I knew that day, though, that that would be the last time we’d play duets. I did still play the piano when I went to visit them, however. Wish I could have brought their piano home with me after daddy died, but it was a medium-sized grand, and would have taken up half our living room! So, my brother and I sold it. I cried….
I did play duets with our church’s regular pianist one week, after Bible study, but you know, it wasn’t quite the same.
Dear, dear Charlotte, this brought tears to my eyes. Joy that you have these wonderful memories, and sorrow that you donāt see Jim, that you knew the last time was the last time playing with your mother, and selling that beloved piano. Thank you so much for sharing with us, Charlotte. My duet buddy will be moving back East in the spring, so I see my own good times at my piano with her are winding down. How fortunate we have both been, though, yes?
Big hugs.
Rebecca looks so happy on her honeymoon. West Virginia is beautiful. I’ve been to Charleston and other towns. Are they going to see Cathedral Falls?
All the family photos are lovely. The one with Rebecca and George is touching.
The Rubies look so sweet in their dresses. Thank you, Marilyn, for those perfect names.
Wow, you have many wonderful props, Jeanne. can’t wait to see what you set up.
My youngest sister has moved from Delaware to West Virginia. Aside from not being able to get into the house they bought until next May due to the previous owners construction schedule for their new home, she loves it there. I’m sure Rebecca and her new hubby are having a lovely time in a beautiful state at the perfect time of year..
I agree with you about the picture of Rebecca and her dad. It is beautiful. And the one of Rebecca and Karn is very nice also. Great picture of you, your sisters and Rebecca. Nice shoes!
Right now Sara is sitting at the new baby grand. She is playing “Fur Elise”. I don’t recognize the other tunes the piano automatically plays. Anyone know?
I’m almost sorry to see the dresses going to new and probably separate homes. Maybe someone will buy all three since most cannot have just one RRFF to dress. I’d love to see pictures of the dresses in their new homes. I know sometimes auction winners do send you pictures.
Great Christmas props. Can’t wait to see what you choose.
Someone mentioned cousins for the RRFF girls. When I did my Christmas photo shoot I had Bella and Sara as cousins. Sara had just joined the dolly family so she didn’t have a Christmas dress but her arrival outfit was very nice so she wore that for the pictures. Sara had been overseas for three years for her dad’s job and they were back in the States for keeps. Sara wanted to surprise Bella so she never told her she was coming back. Bella and Sara had always been so close so they were over the moon when they saw each other. Much better than duo calls and WHATSAPP.
I walked outside this morning and was greeted by a totally beautiful day. I hadn’t paid too much attention to the weather lately so I missed that it was coming. Temps were in the 60s and it’s only 73 right now in the middle of the afternoon with a lovely north breeze. I think we’re looking at about a week of this . Hopefully the fronts keep coming.
Jeanne, your dresses are stunning. And I love the dress you wore to the wedding–that color is great on you! Rebecca picked a great time of year to visit WV–the fall colors are coming out, and the weather is not so sticky and humid. I hope she has a lovely time and shares more photos with you! Barbara, where did your sister move in WV? I am in Fairmont, in the central/northern part (just 90 miles south of Pittsburgh).