Easter Preparations

Greetings Dear Readers!

It is the day before Easter.

The morning started as a rainy, gloom day.
But, there was plenty to do inside...like dyeing "marble" Easter eggs.

Tirion placed each egg in a bag....Added dye to each bag....

And rolled the egg around in the dye.

The finished egg was placed in the holder to dry.

Soon, we had several nice colored eggs.

Then we all donned our Easter finery in preparation for tomorrow.Later in the day, the sun came out.We were able to have an Easter egg hunt. And tomorrow, we will hunt the CHOCOLATE eggs...the best kind of eggs in my opinion!

Hitty Rowan

And more snow....

Greetings Dear Readers!

Today is yet another "snow day." A bit of snow and an occasional day off from work and school are certainly fun, but one can have too much of even a good thing.

We companions find ourselves wishing for Spring more than ever lately. Tirion (formerly know as "Christmas Girl"), gazed wistfully out the window.
Everything is blanketed in cold, wet snow.

Sighing, she occupied herself admiring a bouquet of flowers indoors.

But that only got her to dreamily wishing for flowers growing outdoors.

Tirion checked on the flower bulb she helped our person plant in a little pot near the window. No signs of any green yet, much like outdoors. Our person assured her the flowers in the window pot will grow eventually, just as the flowers outdoors will surely begin to show themselves before long.

Unfortunately, even though Spring is around the corner, it seems far off in the distance yet.

Tirion resigned herself to an activity suitable for such weather...curling up in the window seat with a friend and reading adventure books...waiting and dreaming of the Spring adventures yet to come.

Hitty Rowan

First Snowfall

Greetings Dear Friends. Primrose got her wish and we had the first snowfall of the year. She went outside to look around at the snow. She noticed a poor rose bush and wondered if it might flower again in the spring.

Our person's little dog wondered what Primrose was up to....

Primrose tried to make a snow angel, but the dog again interfered by trying to lick her face. She wanted to sit on the garden bench, but it was too covered in snow.

Primrose decided that although snow is nice it is very cold, nothing is in bloom, and she rather looks forward to the life and warmth of spring.

She came in the house for some nice hot chocolate and decided to venture out again after the snow has melted.

Hitty Rowan

Rain and Snow

Greetings Dear Friends! I just wished to make a brief update of our household activities.

This past weekend, Penny and I traveled to East Tennessee. It was a rainy day for the drive and we came well prepared.

We also have a new member of our companion household. This is Primrose, our new little hobbit girl. We are hoping to dress her in proper hobbit fashion soon. We are expecting our first snowfall of the year and Primrose could not stop thinking about it this evening. But then, she is a solemn, rather thoughtful sort. She has been hoping for snowmen and hot chocolate.
She is rather worried the snow might miss our location....

and has pensively kept a watch out the window.

However, since the snow is not expected to fall until after midnight, I am afraid for now she will simply have to have dreams of snow until morning.

We will hope tomorrow brings a nice snow to play in, although it is very cold outside so we will likely not play long!

Hitty Rowan

A Christmas Eve Surprise

My, My, My....how time does fly! Here it is Christmas Eve and it seems like forever since I wrote to my friends! Christmas Eve it is indeed...a soggy, wet Christmas Eve. Rather dreary really. As I sat staring out the window, I thought I heard a gruff voice calling, "Hello? Hello? Is anyone home?" It seemed to be coming from the dolly door.

I went to investigate and to my surprise, I found a little bear....well, half of a bear....hanging out the door.

"Hello there! My name is Pooh. I seem to have lost my way. I saw your cozy little house and just wondered if you might happen to have a jar of honey about? And, if you did have a jar of honey about, I was wondering if you might be about to have some honey and tea? And if you were having honey and tea, I was wondering if you might be thinking it would be nice to share it with unexpected company?"

I was rather startled by this little bear and all his questions.

"Well, yes, we do have honey. And, we could have tea and some crumpets and honey. And, we never mind sharing. Do come in out of the rain!"

Pooh seemed to think a minute. "Well you see, that is the problem. I seem to be stuck in your doorway."

"Oh dear! We've never had anyone stuck in the door! Well, let me see if I can pull you out!"

It turned out, I couldn't. Poor Pooh was quite stuck. I told him to wait just one minute while I called for help.

Help arrived and together we all tried to pull Pooh from the door.....

And we all ended up in a heap on the floor....

I decided to call for even more help in the form of our resident Elven wizard. I went to fetch Master Allanon and explained the situation to him. For some odd reason, I had the distinct impression he was smothering a smile at our predicament, but surely our Elven wizard was above such frivolity.
It took Master Allanon no time at all to dislodge Pooh from our doorway.
We all gathered round to greet our Christmas Eve guest properly....and invited him home for tea and honey.
Our house has moved since I last wrote...into the living room during the "Great Re-arrangement" that recently happened in our person's home. The Christmas tree took up residence right beside the house. It is crowded, but rather nice to look out your door and admire the Christmas tree.
Master Allanon kindly gave us all a boost up so we could climb back to our home with our new resident.

Up....

Up we went....

All in a line for our Christmas tea....

And we wish you and your household a Merry Christmas as well!

Hitty Rowan

A September Update

Well, time for another update. Our magic door brought an unexpected resident to our humble home....a certain Lady Ginerva Gwendolyn La'Belle. It is really not supposed to go around picking up strangers and depositing them on our doorstep, but that door really does have a mind of its own sometimes. In this case, a good mind. Lady Ginerva was living with her little Mistress in France at the time of the revolution. Her family, including her little Mistress, were forced to flee their home from an angry mob one night. In the frenzy to escape, Lady Ginerva slipped from her little Mistress' hand. The angry mob burned the house and Lady Ginerva thought her end had come. As she lay there sobbing and calling hopelessly for help, our magic door must have somehow thought she was calilng it and popped in just in time to rescue her.
The poor dear was quite distraught, with losing her Mistress, her home, and even her own century. She has since taken over the upstairs room of the house, however.

She is slowly adjusting to our way of life and has taken to journaling all her adventures.

Speaking of adventures, our Mistress asked for volunteers to go on a mountain hike with her this weekend. I volunteered, along with tiny Hitty Penny.
I ended up being toted along in a little bag tied to my person's wrist (you can see my little bag in the picture). As we ascended up the mountain trail and people were few and far between, she tied my little bag to her walking stick and I could stick my head out and see the scenery. Too bad I don't have a picture of that...but my person's husband was laughing too hard to take one. I don't see why...travel dolls have to adjust to all sorts of situations and I thought it was quite a GOOD idea. Anyway, along the way, I looked for toadstools to sit on, as I have heard one can make a wish when sitting on a toadstool and it will come true. I decided it was worth a try. Many were too small for me to sit on.....

But I at last found one ample enough to accomodate me with no harm to myself or it.
I had quite a nice view of the mountain stream from this bridge...the ledge was quite large and safe enough to sit on.

We got closer to the water and my person's husband suggested a picture of me on a rock quite close to the river. Given the swift moving nature of the water, my person thankfully declined.

Along the way, we visited more lakes that were of a calmer nature.

As always, however, I was glad to return to my own little home at the end of the day.

Hitty Rowan

Unexpected Surprises

We received a very kind and unexpected surprise this week from a fellow friend of companions! For the academy older girls, there was a new cauldron with a stand, potion bottles, and best of all...a cat sleeping in a box!
The younger girls enjoyed a treat of "Bott's Many Flavored" jelly beans....
and some delicious hamburgers and french fries (which is a real treat since those items are not included on the Elvish academy menu!)
For Bitty Hitty, there was a new bathing suit! She couldn't wait to try to get a sun tan...she decided to pretend she was a flower fairy and lay down in a bed of roses. Unfortunately, the rain (a common occurance lately) started up again and that was the end of sun tanning. Perhaps later she can play in some puddles since she is appropriately dressed for it.

We send many heartfelt thanks to our companion friend!

Hitty Rowan