Oh thank you so much for taking time and writing to us all here! I
haven't heard from anybody, not even Kerry these days! I thought that
no-one was interested! Its so good to hear from you. We have had
very cold days here too but the summer is arriving in a week or so
and things are really warming up. I haven't been too well! I think
its this cold weather I came down with something! I have been
catching up with things. I have finished my stumpwork and framed it.
I have been doing bodies for dolls that I too want to do a theme
for. I have been so busy mucking around with my sewing machine. I
went to the markets and looked around and found that there wasn't
much in sight there either. Everyones doing what everyones doing! I
have been sewing cause theres so many pretty things around you can do
with the sewing machine these days. I find handknitting and
crochetting takes too much time when I can sit on the machine and
wedge it in solvy and make the same thing even prettier with all the
pretty yarns, materials, laces and whatever one can get their hands
on. I am doing some soft sculptured dolls playing with different
mediums. I love porcelain but it is getting very expensive. I like
doing dolls in motion.

I have been sculpting away their heads in paper clay mediums and have
just found out that one is able to make it! The web is awesome these
days finding out whatever one wants. I did pour out some babies in
porcelain and with the painting techniques that Christian gave me I
sit in my room to do some portraitures. I have also cleaned up some
more legs and arms and bodies of more dolls to put together.

I love the miniature museum but I am doing that sort of thing in my
barn! I have tried in the past to get people to donate and to help
but things when they get bad, people seem to lose interest.
In Tasmania in one of the old homes that is left for heritage and
museum has a beautiful large mansion in the middle room built of a
home from England. It is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!
They have an old kitchen and a parlour! You see everything hung up
like the old days. It was owned by a surgeon and his wife spent hours
whittling away with a doctors scarpel all the people and boy you
would swear they are porcelain. Its lovely that people are doing and
getting interested in it again!

Its the same here, years ago they had a lot of these places but today
cause of the young ones the interest is fading! I am desperately
trying to do something in my neck of the woods to bring it back or
something???? At Port Macquarie there used to be fantasy woods.
A lady did dolls and they were all doing things in a fantasy forest.
I think she got most of the things from somebody working at Disney
land. No-body wanted to take it over! Shes gone now and so has all
of that! What a shame! Thanks so much for my etsy shop! I am
working away at making and preparing more things! I am making dogs
and cats for my dolls and looking for furniture or anything to give
them a theme. Everyone is going broke here in the doll world! I
have bought a chest thats musical and it opens and closes with a
Bluette beside it. The trouble is the body is too big for a Bluette
maybe I'll use another slightly bigger Antique head. I am at the
moment doing a whole scene of googleys! I used to dislike them but
then I saw them doing things and dressed up they are so cute!

They were very popular character dolls in the 1930's maybe that's it
bring them all back in style like Mildred Seeley used to do?? Don't
they say nothing is of value unless you can get someone interested in
it??? What have you been making or doing, or getting interested in?
It's actually easy making and sculpting miniatures! You have to make
a frame first. and then work at each of the sections, like the head
and the body then the arms and last legs! My esty address or how you
can find it is Nataschasdolls & Collectables or
www.nataschasdolls.com I would love you advice on improvement or what
other things to do? You learn by others? am awaiting your reply and
thank you, thank you. I too am wondering how Candy is? Shes a
hardworking persons. In the midst of it all when things are down she
always says the nicest things and makes one feel so good to get on
with it! She's remarkable. Hope to hear.......Natascha