Adventures at Weathertop

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 Hitty Dauphine finishes the Harry Potter series...

Well, it is about time! Is what I imagine you are saying to yourself...

Good grief. How long can a girl, wooden though she may be, lie around the living room reading?

Let's see what happens next...

What's this?

It looks like Hitty Too and Butterbean are having a pizza party. I think they may have tired of asking Hity Dauphine to join in their fun. I wonder if Hitty Dauphine will even look up.

"Too, let's have a dance party!" Butterbean squealed with glee after they'd polished off all the pizza.

(Goodness, that was a lot of pizza for two little dolls...it is a good thing their waistlines don't change much or I'd have to do a lot more sewing to keep them in dresses.)

Hitty Too turned on some music, and she and Butterbean boogied to some loud and raucous tunes, each song getting louder than the last. (Can I say "boogied" in 2011?)

I don't think Hitty Dauphine gave them more than a passing glance.

That takes some commitment.

Soon enough the girls packed up their empty pizza boxes and went in search of finer entertainment, leaving Hitty Dauphine to her book.

Oops! I think she may have finished.

I wonder what she'll do now.

I guess we'll have to wait and see.

What's this?

It looks like Hitty Too and Butterbean are having a pizza party. I think they have tired of asking her to join in their fun. I wonder if Hitty Dauphine will even look up.

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In which Hitty Dauphine declines an invitation to a picnic...

Where might we find Hitty Dauphine today?

Oh my! There she is, still in the livingroom, surrounded by her stack of Harry Potter books.

Which one is she reading now?

"Dauphine, we've packed a picnic lunch and some ice cold lemonade, and are going to the beach. We've made enough sandwiches for you to come as well." Hitty Too said cautiously. "Would you like to join us?"

 

"No thanks. I've almost finished my book. I've just got to see what happens to Harry. Maybe tomorrow." She replied without even looking up.

Surely she is almost finished with the series. There are only seven of them after all.

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In an effort to give you more of what you want and to make posting Hitty stories easier, I am taking a poll. Which do you prefer? Shorter (almost) everyday posts? Or slightly less frequent story series posts like the Alice in Wonderland series? Or would you like some how-to posts mixed in with the stories?

Also, if you have any story line suggestions (keeping in mind that I kind of have to visualize the storyline to pull it off), or any blog/subject matter suggestions, please leave a comment and let me know.

If you cannot leave a comment for one reason or the other, please click on the email link at the top of the right hand corner of my sidebar to leave an email.

 

In which Hitty Dauphine attracts the attention of Mrs. Witherwax...

Uh-oh! I think Hitty Dauphine has attracted the attention of Mrs. Witherwax.

"Hitty Dauphine," Mrs. Witherwax said in that motherly tone with which we are all painfully acquainted. "You know I like to encourage you to read, and I am pleased that you have found books that you enjoy, but this is a little too much. You have neglected your chores, ignored your friends and made a mess of the living room. I think it is time for you to learn about moderation."

I'd like to say that Hitty Dauphine immediately jumped up and obeyed, learning her lesson about reading in moderation, but I don't want to lie to you. She might have made a feeble attempt to rouse interest in some other activity, but it was very short lived, and soon enough she had her nose stuck back in that book.

It is Harry Potter, after all.

I fear that there may be a reckoning coming for her.

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In an effort to give you more of what you want and to make posting Hitty stories easier, I am taking a poll. Which do you prefer? Shorter (almost) everyday posts? Or slightly less frequent story series posts like the Alice in Wonderland series? Or would you like some how-to posts mixed in with the stories?

Also, if you have any story line suggestions (keeping in mind that I kind of have to visualize the storyline to pull it off), or any blog/subject matter suggestions, please leave a comment and let me know.

If you cannot leave a comment for one reason or the other, please click on the email link at the top of the right hand corner of my sidebar to leave an email.