Meet Tillie

This is my new acquisition.  Her name is Tillie and she is a 29 cm Kaye Wiggs.  However, when she arrived, she informed me that her given name is Mathilda and she prefers this to Tillie.  She arrived last Friday from Australia.  I had ordered red hair for her, but she found this blonde/blue wig and laid claim to it.  I like the look.  I am in the process of developing some patterns for her.  She is unlike any of my other dolls, naturally, so this may take a few days. 

We returned late Sunday afternoon from the Tonner Convention in Lombard, IL.  It was so great to see everybody.  It's a shame we have to wait another whole year to get together again.  Our sales table was mobbed just about the entire weekend.  Bonnie sold everything she had for the Ellowyne Wilde size doll.  We came home with quite a few new dolls between the 2 of us.  So, we're back to the sewing machine, getting ready for the Oldenburg Convention in a couple of weeks.  Actually, I'm going to cheat and sew for Mathilda for a while.  Poor thing, she has nothing right now.

Tuesday's Update

I think that everything is working correctly on the blog now.  At least I hope so.  I had hoped to take some pictures of the things I've been working on for the Tonner Convention in Lombard, Illinois, but it's been so cloudy and rainy here that I've given up that idea.  The weatherperson says maybe some sun tomorrow.  So cross your fingers, we may have pictures tomorrow.  I haven't done a whole lot, anyway.  Bonnie says I have to work on boy clothes and they are so boring.  You can't add lace or cool buttons, or anything neat.  But the boys need clothes also, so I'll continue on.

We have a really busy summer planned.  We are headed to the Tonner Convention in 2 weeks.  In June, we are going to the Oldenburg Convention and then we have a show in Naperville, IL.  We're taking July off cause there's nothing doing anyway, but we will be at Sauder Village in Ohio the first weekend in August.  From there we head to Strongsville, Ohio on August 21st.  September is really busy for us - we have shows 3 weeks in a row.  We'll be in Valparaiso, Indiana on the 11th, Erlanger, Kentucky on the 18th and back in Illinois, in Willowbrook on the 25th.  That's a lot of shows for us.

Anyway - I'm going back to the sewing machine.  Seeing all these show dates on paper makes me nervous!