It is suppose to get really cold tonight, a real hard frost, so I have picked the last few flowers in the garden- the ones that made it after the last, not quite so cold night. These roses are so fragrant- they perfume a whole room… but they won’t last long.

Here are pics of some more mini dolls. I think I’ll have about 20 for the show on Wednesday.

I am so impressed by what Kerstin of At My Knits End has been writing since the election. I’d link to a specific entry, but everyday since election day has been excellent. Wow!

Have you noticed that cool little map on the bottom of the links? It shows what parts of the world readers are coming from- really neat!

I have been working on my links- adding and subtracting… sometimes I think I curse people when I link to them- I add them and they never post again! Pretty amazing considering my (not) vast readership.

I get tons of spam comments. Many every day. I have decided to close the comments on any posting that is more then a month or so back… if anyone is desperate to contact me they can email. We also get tons of spam on our stats… It is really no fun to try and figure out the stats when obviously it is all image theft and on-line gambling… but I can’t do anything about that.

I appreciate any blog that made me laugh today.

and here for some inspiration…

Japanese Dolls on the Western Toyshelf is an amazing site with tons of reference pictures. I love these dolls.

Dollmasters has a beautiful catalog, full of large, color pictures of some wonderful dolls and toys. It is always a treat when one shows up in the mail. You can also see it on-line but it is not quite the same. This is a picture of a doll by the German artist, Peter Wolf.

They have some Gail Wilson dolls and animals and one of them-

made me think of Loobylu’s A Month of Softies challenge… which I am thinking about doing- way in the back of my mind. This is such a busy month already…

Okay, this is the closest to politics I will ever get on this blog- don’t read if you don’t want to know… I am feeling very sick this morning.

I have put a gallery together for my vitual open studio. I am not satisfied with it yet, but have had trouble with my camera- about half the pictures I take are out of focus for some unknown reason, and now I am going out of town and won’t be able to work on it anymore until Thursday… so I figured I’d just post it. Studio!