Brrrrr...it's cold in the Dollhouse Today!!! The first snow arrived last night while Mrs. Fox was sewing up some last minute gifts to put under her little tree.

downstairs the mouselings are busy making Gingermice to hang on the tree.....

My decorations are hung and my Tree is lit, now we must wait for Saint Nick.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing.......

there is a Furry Ewok about to attack my Tree!

Christmas Sweets!

................well getting closer each day now, hope you and yours are having sweet time this holiday season. Cheers

Happy Birthday to me! Just sharing a few pics of my birthday treats, I was so lucky this year my Hubby bought me a sinful chocolate cake....from Sinful Desserts cute name! and my daughter got me a lovely woolen shawl from The Last Hurrah Vintage Boutique...that is run by my 2 nieces, Cassandra and Sarah..

yes I was spoiled this year and my Mom and Dad got me some lovely things from The Tasha Tudor Store, the Cookbook,Pretty note cards and dove cookie cutter is sure to be well used and loved muchly! Thank you again everyone for the lovely gifts!

We have had some snowy weather for the past few days so I have been doing some wrapping of presents and bits of decorating, here is my hanging advent wreath,

and a few garlands twine balls and fairy lights, we need these little bits of sparkle and bright reds to perk up our long winter nights!

Hope you have had a wonderful weekend. I shall be updating the shop this week and my blogs so please to come back for a visit soon....

Hurray! One of my little Fox Brooches was featured on the Esty Front Page!
here is the link to view the treasury pics.






http://www.craftcult.com/etsyfeatured.php?userid=dovegreystudio

that is exciting for me! A Big ..Thank you to the person how choose my work!

I have been busy with preparing little gifts, and wrapping things, doing some Christmas crafts along with my daughter, we try to do as much as we can in the way of home made gifting, it has a nice sentimental attachment to it and makes for a fun afternoon when the weather outside is frightful!


We put up our tree and made some little gingerbread girls and boys for the tree, make one then eat one was more like it! I put out some of my favorite Tasha Tudor books, like The Dolls Christmas, Take Joy, and the new addition to my Tasha collection, Becky's Christmas, I finally found a affordable copy online, even though it is a library discard it still is in wonderful condition, this is a Christmas Story that Tasha wrote herself and illustrated, I really like it, so we shall read this one along with the others, as we light out advent wreath on the dark nights of December.



I was able to make up an advent wreath to hang over my dinning table similar to the one Tasha has along with some twisted pieces of pine garland, wire candle holders and red ribbons for hanging. Well happy decorating and nesting to you!

Tea Time

Brrrrr.....no leaves, no fruit, no flowers....that is November.....well now today is a real November day. After nursing a head cold for most of the weekend I did feel well enough to get back to my studio this afternoon, with the help of my little heater stove and hot peppermint tea, I have soothed my aches as well as my eyes...with warming up my with tea and warming up my toes. I walk my daughter to school and today was ever so damp and cold.



So enough complaining about that, and now to share some lovely inspiring books I have come across this weekend, one of the books if called Sew Pretty Christmas, I have it on loan from the library right now I may decide to buy a copy of this book for it has some lovely patterns and ideas in it! The magazine I was looking through also had so very sweet holiday decor ideas, that I thought was worth a picture, these few pics are from Romantic Homes, Jan edition, wow!!! already....I thought it was the holiday issue, oh well it is still good to look through! The tree is so cute and not overdone, I love the soft colours with bits of red and the snuggily Orange Ginger Cat perched on the chair, the pink and reds give a nice glowing warmth... that we miss from our summer days.

The woods have been growing ever barren...no auburn, shining leaves are left,
and I think Winter is soon upon us!
This little drawing is one I have done while thinking about Christmas preparations, she is out on a winter walk looking for a small tree that would be just right for her doll.


A perfect time for knitting hats and scarves, and, for staying warm and bundled up inside while working away on this and that.

And, my news to share
I've added a pretty drawing to my Christmas Market.
I will add my drawings and other doodles from my sketchbook now and then as well as other little bits of news.

Happy tea times to all of you and stay toasty!

These little toys are just the cutest things.........



just thought I would share the pictures with you!


I would love to live in this little Miss Kitty's tiny cottage with a pretty green painted table and chair set...an old black iron stove....and a tiny wood bed tucked under the window nook...so snug and cute...and tiny little light to read a wee book and a little fabric covered chair beside her bed...delightful indeed....and to wear calico dress with a starched white apron...yes that would suit me just fine! I happened to come across these little pictures while I was window shopping online for present ideas!
For those of you wondering these are called Calico Critters!

Just a few fun pictures of our very windy and spooky Halloween Night, my cats were very curious of all the lights and sounds of goblins running down our street, Prince decided to check things out for himself at the screen door then go back and tell the others what he sees! My dog Chi was not to impressed with her spider costume this year she tried to bit the legs off and was a bit embarrassed by the whole deal. Princess and Ming stayed out of the way and watched from the couch they were not too sure about all this goblin fun! My Daughter and Husband brought us home lots of little candies and some tales of spooky houses on our street to share with us!

Is it November already!!!! Oh boy life is just going too fast! I always think of my anniversary once the last wind blow leaves are left on the trees outside, we decided to have a fall evening Wedding with lots of pretty warm glowing candles in the Church and at out Dinner reception and one of my favourite pictures of our wedding was taken outside at night in front of 3 birch trees speckled with golden leaves.

II have always liked this picture and had it framed and now when I look at it years later after my daughter has been born she is now 6.....it was almost as if those trees behind us were a representation of our life together the two larger trees with one small one in the middle, I think if time permits this year I will go back to that spot and see if I can get another picture of us in front of the birch trees.

Happy fall blowing and swirling leaves to you all!

Happy Halloween Hauntings

May you have a safe and scary, chocolately and merry Halloween!!!!!!
Ooooh went the wind and out went the lights and the five little
pumpkins rolled out of site!!!!!!

I have been inspired to do some miniature paintings this weekend so I thought I would get about and scan them and share them with you before my little artist helper Chloe takes off with them to her room, then I have to fight with teddies and dollies and bunnies in order to rescue my
hostages! So This little lady was inspired by Tasha Tudor's book The Dolls Christmas
it is one of my favourite books and each year we like to bring it out after halloween and start to set our dollhouse up like the dolls in the book. Last year I purchased a really cute stage set with a tiny piano and real working miniature christmas tree for our little Christmas Doll show and I will be happy to set it up again this year and play with my daughter Christmas Pagent...toys for big girls.
This is Holly in the Snow and it is a miniature watercolor in the size 2 1/2 inches 3 inches in size done on Arches Fine French Watercolor Paper. I will list this little lady for sale on my little blog shop if you would like to purchase her for your little dollhouse. Have a lovely day!

Holly In The Snow

Does Etsy Hide Behind Beurocrey

I wondered the other day when I went to log into my etsy store why it had dissapeared! How could that be I pay my invoices they are up to date I have over 400 positive feedbacks and maybe one or 2 customers that I have the odd problem with. So after I limped around the Etsy site trying to find some help and after emailing them a dozen or more times only to receive standard letter replies what the heck kind of company treats paying customers like that!

I went off of ebay years ago because to the same type of treatment you are either too little for them to bother and not big enough for them to care!

Here is a link to a online forum about this Esty Extortion Proceedures

This is unbelievable to me. I mean I already knew that Etsy did close stores over one complaint, without contacting the seller first or even asking for their side of the story. That’s happened to enough other people that it no longer surprises me. But the shocking thing here is they are doing this to over 500 people sellers, and their top income producers.

I know whenever this happens someone says “well that’s just one side of the story, how do we know the seller is telling the truth?”
Feedback doesn’t lie.

The Little Dolls Halloween Party Book

The Little Dolls Halloween Book

I have put together a charming little booklet which I was inspired to make after having so much fun sharing Tasha Tudor's Little books with my daughter and her dolls, that I decided to make my own little book about 2 little dolls having a Halloween Party. This is a tiny book only 6 pages long and 3 inches by 4inches is size, the paintings inside are of my own design and they have cute verses and recipes amongst the pictures. All of the artwork is done by me and I am happy to share this little treasure book with you. The book is bound with ribbons and comes in a small basket for safe keeping.



To purchase a copy for $8.00 plus $1.95 for Sparrow Posting!

through paypal payment here

~~~~~Ask The Angels~~~~~~

I have made a few more brooches this weekend and using a very pretty dark red velvet ribbon I found made them into little ribbon brooches, the other ribbon I am using is a lovely permmisson burnt orange colour, I bought it early this year just for the deep colour and texture of the velvet. I made a few Angel Cameo Style Pins and my Little Lady Fox drawing in on one of the cameos she looks very wintery next to the red ribbon so I put them together in a brooch.
Here is a little prayer I think about when I need the angels to come around me
~~~~~~
I recite/think in my head
~~~~~~
Angels please protect me and the loved ones around me from the many faces of evil in this world, the people who wear masks of truth and then defy your trust. With your golden glow of peaceful light bring these people to justice show them love and free them from the arms of darkness.
```````````
Amen.

And when ever you are in need I wear my little angle brooch to help me through difficult times or situations that you may need to attend and I find it works great for me, almost like i have a clear bubble around me where the poison arrows can't get in!
Please visit my little shop Dove Grey Shop if you wish to purchase a lovely angel brooch

You are invited to attend

~~~~An Early Folk Christmas~~~~~

Date Oct 15 2009

At Early Works Mercantile

I invite you to come and visit Early Works Mercantile, I will have an update this October 15th with my Holiday Folk Art.
These pieces are original works designed by myself and exclusively sold on the Mercantile site only so please do come back with your cup of hot tea and browse through our offerings!