Adventures at Weathertop

Black Friday Blow-out

"Black Friday Sale! Come in for the Black Friday Sale!"

"Hey Hitty Too, whatcha doin?" Alice asked.

"I am standing here trying to get people to go to the Black Friday Sale." She replied.

"What is it?" Butterbean asked.

"I am not sure. I found this sign and thought I it would be fun to help out, so I put on my only black dress and here I am." She replied.

"Well, I'd like to go, but that is not very helpful, and I am not really in the mood for black. I was hoping for something in red or green." Alice replied a little snootily before leaving.

"Come one, Come all to the Black Friday Sale!" Hitty Too shouted.

"That sounds like fun." Said Merry. "Where is the sale?"

"Harrumph...If you don't know, I am not going to tell you." Hitty Too replied, getting a little flustered and frustrated with her friends for their lack of imagination.

Just between you and me, I don't think she was helping much at all.

"What are you doing Hitty Too and why in the world are you wearing a Halloween dress. Halloween was almost a month ago."

"Well..." Said Hitty Too, now tipping perilously close to tears. "I found this sign for a Black Friday Sale and I thought I would let people know about it and I thought my black dress would be appropriate, but no one seems to know what I am talking about and they all keep leaving in a huff."

"Oh! I understand now, but sweetie, Black Friday sales are all about Christmas, not Halloween. The day after Thanksgiving, the stores put everything on sale and people go out shopping for electronics and Christmas presents." Said Hitty Dauphine gently.

"Oh...but then to what is this sign referring? We don't have electronics at our house" Asked Hitty Too.

"Well, I believe we are having a dress sale in the Hitty Merchantile. All of the dresses featured in the shop are being offered at 15% off the regular prices until Tuesday, November 29th at 11pm Eastern time." Hitty Dauphine replied.

"Wow! That's a pretty good deal!" Said Hitty Too. "Maybe we should go check it out!"

"Well, I think we have most of these dresses in our closet already, I think these are the extras, but maybe some of our Hitty friends out there will enjoy them. What do you think?

And she is right. If you go to the top right hand corner of the sidebar, you can click on the link for "Weathertop Merchantile" that will take you to the shop to see what dresses we have available. Once in the shop, just click on the thumbnail photos to see bigger versions. We have dresses for most of the seasons and holidays on sale now!

Each of these dresses is made from 100% cotton and is fastened in the back with a wee brass safety pin. Because of the scale of this sale, we will not be offering snap services at this time.

Please contact me at erinkleider@yahoo.com for details and availability. We would be happy to combine shipping on multiple orders.

Today is Apple Pie Day...

One of the many exciting tasks in which the Weathertop girls engage in the fall is apple picking, pie-ing and freezing. This apple season, in Upstate New York, has been a little disappointing. The apples we picked were not as juicy or as flavorful, nor did they last as long as they have in the past before getting grainy, but we had an abundance with which the girls needed to deal and today they got to work peeling, slicing, baking and freezing.

Alice sorted the apples, while Hitty Dauphine busily peeled and sliced.

While Alice and Hitty Dauphine prepared the apples for their various destinies, Hitty Too and Butterbean started baking. They made pies to eat and pies to freeze and yummy caramel apples to put in their lunches for the next few days.

I am pretty sure we will be eating apple treats well into next September.

 

For this task, they decided to wear their cozy new flannel dresses of which we have extras to share with you. Aren't you lucky?

These dresses are made from 100% cotton quilting flannel and hand-dyed cotton lace trim at the neck.

We have two of each from which to choose, if you are interested in purchasing one of them, please identify which dress by the name of the Hitty who is wearing it.

Alice and Hitty Dauphine are modelling the first set. Alice has on the lighter sea foam green dress with circles and Hitty Dauphine is wearing the brown with flowers.

In the photos below, you will see Hitty Too sporting the sea foam green dress, while Butterbean is modelling the brown.

These dresses come fastened in back with a wee brass safety pin so that you can customize the fit of your dress, however if you would like me to install your snaps, I would be glad to do so for an additional fee.

If you are interested in purchasing one of these dresses, please contact me privately for details -- erinkleider@yahoo.com -- and specify if you would like me to install the snaps for you.

 

What came first? The chicken or the egg?

Long time no see. I've missed you.

We have been busy at the Weathertop homestead, working, working, working, but we miss sharing our adventures wth you and hope to start again very soon, perhaps on a more modest basis.

And on that note, we have a simple offering to share with you this very day.

Our girls have found that funds are getting tighter and tighter at Weathertop, and so, in an effort to help out and make a little money of their own, they have decided, like many others out here in rural New York, to raise chickens.

Caring for the chickens keeps them very busy. They must feed and water them, not to mention clean up after them. And of course it goes without saying, they need to give them plenty of love.

We have quite a brood here at Weathertop, and we need to thin the ranks just a tiny bit and so we are looking for new homes for three of our hens (lucky for you, there is a pretty hen keeping dress and a basket of eggs that come with them).

Of the dresses we have available, you have a choice. We have two pink egg dresses to offer you today. They are made in the pinafore style out of 100% cotton quilting fabric with a bright pink underdress and inserted panel at the hem. Scampering across the skirt is a brood of colorful chickens hunting for their eggs.

Hitty Dauphine is pleased to model the first dress.

Sweet Alice models the second dress.

If you like one of these dresses better than the other, please specify the dress by naming the doll.

Hitty Too is modelling the third dress in this collection, the chicken dress. It is made from 100% cotton quilting fabric and features a coordinating teal blue underdress and inserted panel at the hem to go with the hen on her bodice.

As I mentioned before, each of these dresses comes with a hen and a basket of farm fresh eggs.

These dresses come fastened in the back with a brass safety pin, but I will be glad to install snaps for a small fee, please be sure to ask about this option before payment.

If you are interested in purchasing of these dresses, please act fast. I have only these three and no fabric to make more. You can email me at erin@fairiemoon.org for more details.

Thanks for dropping by today. I have a selection of flannel frocks that will be available very soon so please check back. To see other available Weathertop Dresses, please check the Weathertop Merchantile found at the top right hand corner of my blog.

So what do you think came first? The chicken or the egg?

In which we're "Singing in the Rain..."

I am finally back after a week and a half's worth of sabbatical (doesn't the word 'sabbatical' make it sound important and official?). Actually, I only intended to take a short break and then I got caught up in other things...

BUT, I have not been entirely idle (no, not at all). I completely reorganized the storage of all the Weathertop Dresses (and as you can imagine, that was a considerable task). The dresses we have had far outgrown the recepticle in which we were keeping them, and so they were moved into a small dresser. While I was at it, I did a little spring cleaning and put all of the winter dresses into storage until next fall, and brought out and aired the spring and summer dresses. The girls are all set for the warmer weather we keep hoping is on its way.

On top of that, it has been so rainy and miserable here that the girls decided they needed some new Rainy Day Dresses to chase away the blues, and so, of course, I got busy sewing said dresses. What we have for you today is a parade of these dresses to be added to the Weathertop Merchantile as soon as we get it up and running. The dresses themselves are available now, of course, so if you are interested, please drop me a note.

I thought for this selection, we might need a little music to set the mood...

This first selection of dresses was made from a lovely array of 100% cotton pastel umbrella prints in shades of lemon sorbet, strawberry cream and the most delicate cream.

The Pastel Umbrella Crossover Dresses:

The Cream Umbrella Crossover...

The Pink Umbrella Crossover...

The Yellow Umbrella Crossover...

The next set of dresses utilizes the same fun 1940's style print, but they are made in the Pinafore style.

The Pastel Umbrella Pinafore Dresses:

The Yellow Umbrella Pinafore...

The Pink Umbrella Pinafore...

The final set of dresses in this delightful print are the...

Pastel Umbrella Plain Janes...

The Cream Umbrella Plain Jane...

The Pink Umbrella Plain Jane...

The Yellow Umbrella Plain Jane...

When I went to YouTube to look for Gene Kelly's rendition of "Singing in the Rain," I found a rendition of the same song and dance performed by Usher. While he is not quite like the original, he did quite a nice job. It is kind of fun to see another take on this classic. You can see side by side versions here, but below you can see and hear his full screen version. I think, perhaps, he is the better singer of the two.

This next selection of dresses is a bit more jazzy in color if not in style, a more modern take on the version above made in brighter colors.

The Multi-colored Umbrella Plain Jane dresses:

The Multi with Blue Umbrella Plain Jane...

The Multi with Yellow Umbrella Plain Jane...

The Multi with Orange Umbrella Plain Jane...

The next set of dresses uses this same colorful palette, but they are made in the Pinafore Dress style.

The Multi-colored Umbrella Pinafore Dresses:

The Multi with Blue Umbrella Pinafore...

The Multi with Orange Umbrella Pinafore...

The Multi with Yellow Umbrella Pinafore...

And that is it for today's parade of dresses.

These dresses fasten in the back with a wee brass safety pin, but for a small fee, I would be happy to install snaps in the back. I am also happy to combine shipping and offer discounts for the purchase of multiple dresses.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or leave a comment.

And now for my final musical selection, a version of "Singing in the Rain" performed by Gwyneth Paltrow and the  cast of Glee.

I think I like the Gene Kelly version best. You can see all of these videos and more on YouTube. I hope you enjoyed today's selection and that you stay warm and dry...

By the way, what happened to the May Flowers that the April Showers were supposed to bring?