A new background for my swim suits and board shorts

Hi everyone,
Well, I see some of you saw the Saturday post about getting Mae’s white and blue dress set listed on Ebay… if you missed it, you can see it by clicking the picture of her on the right side bar… or you can click HERE.

Also, I mentioned it was Anne’s birthday. Thanks to all of you who sent long distance birthday wishes to New Zealand. She commented she’d had a wonderful birthday! YAY!

Also, I still haven’t heard from Dorothy in PA… now I’m officially concerned. I do have her phone number and I think I might have to give her a call and see about what’s going on.

On Saturday, I was standing at my kitchen window doing dishes and this happened… (well, now I’M the one getting the black screen with just the sound. But I can get it on my phone, so I’ll leave it up and see if maybe there are those of you who can get it or want to use your phone to see it. Oh well…)

It wasn’t storming, but it had been raining and all of a sudden I heard it hitting on the dining room windows. I looked out and it was really pelting the grass and driveway. I went back to the kitchen, grabbed my phone, stepped outside and took a short 8 second video. The hail was about pea size… not anything like what Deb had.

I saw Sarah this morning at church and she asked if things had gotten better with the “inappropriate” emails coming my way. I told her it had all stopped… and she was as thrilled as I was. She also mentioned doing one other thing that she might try. She said there is a way to make it so my readers don’t have to sign in with their email addresses. I told her you all would be thrilled over that… so hang tight and we’ll see what she can do.

Now, something new for me. I took a leap of faith and bought a beach themed background cloth to use for my dolls who are modeling board shorts or swimsuits. I found this seller on Etsy who had all kinds of different scenes and I narrowed it down to this one. I just received it a few days ago and hadn’t had a chance to steam it and remove the folds from when it was sent. The seller is Fieldsfabrics and here is a link to their Etsy shop. I added some shells and think the boys look really handsome standing next to the beach.

Background panels for dolls

So I had to show you how big it is and how the boys looked using it… I think it was 24″ x 44″. She has a search engine to help you search for different backgrounds you might be interested in. I was typing in Beach Background. I’ve also seen some background that are digital so you can have the clouds moving, the palm leaves waving in the wind, or even pages flipping on a book sitting on the beach towel. I’m not that techy to want to try that… so I just stuck with the plain background you have to hang up.

Here is what the boys looked like from a distance… I added some shells to the “sand” and think it’s really cute. To get the background looking right, with the beach being so far forward, I had to stand my dolls out toward the front edge of the table… It made me a little nervous… I guess I need a longer table…

Here they are with my picture cropped…

Here are the boys standing in the water… I think it could work…

I also managed to get a few new swimsuits for the RRFF girls started and even drafted a pattern for the Little Darlings. I cut one of them out but haven’t sewn it yet.