Are you sitting comfortable? Then we shall begin.....

After many nights of having to amuse themselves while I was poorly, and once the Christmas film season had finished Dottie and Poppet found themselves a new past time......Reading.........

They have been sitting for hours reading to one another and even read a few stories for me while I was poorly.



They would climb onto their sofa and get out the books.

At the moment this one is one of their favourites.

This story was written by my son David when he was only 7 years old. It was televised on the Jackanory programme and i made it into a book for him as a keepsake this Christmas.
It is exactly as he wrote it all those years ago....and its called "The Tigers Birthday".



One day last year , Toby the Tiger woke up feeling rather pleased with himself. It was his birthday. He was very excited, he ran to his postbox but he was very sad when he got there.
There were no birthday cards and no birthday presents. He was very sad.
He sat down on the path crying, he didnt think that all of his friends would forget his birthday.



He put on his coat and set off to see his friend Lenny the Lion.
When he got there Lenny was digging his garden.
"Hello" said Toby, "Did you know it was a special day today" "Yes" said Lenny "I must plant my seeds today or my plants wont be ready in time for the summer fete" Toby's heart sank. "I will see you later Lenny" and he set off again.



The next house he came to was the house of Sammy the snake.
"Hello Sammy" said toby, "Did you know it was a special day today" "Yes" said Sammy
"I am going on my holidays, I cant stop and talk to you , I must go and pack my case"
Toby felt awful...........




Once again Toby set off.
As he was walking Polly the parrot flew past.
"Hello Toby" said Polly "Its a special day today" "Yes" said Toby and he smiled.
Polly explained how she was on her way to see her sister who had just got married. "How nice" said Toby "I will see you later". As he walked away big tears rolled down his cheeks.

He nearly walked passed the house of Gordon the gorilla.
"Hello Toby" said Gordon, "Why are you crying?" "Its my birthday today and nobody's remembered" cried Toby. "Nevermind" said Gordon" Lets go for a walk, it will make you feel better".



As they walked through the jungle it was very quiet.
"I think everybody must be very busy today, its very quiet " said Toby.
Just then there was a loud cheer "HAPPY BIRTHDAY ".
Toby was so surprised , all of his friends were deep in the jungle.
There was cakes, hotdogs, crisps,trifle, sandwiches and lemonade to drink. There was also a big pile of cards and gifts.
"This is the best birthday I have ever had" said Toby.
"I would like to say Thank you to all my special friends for my special day".




Dottie and Poppet hope you enjoyed hearing the story as much as they enjoyed reading it.
Thank you for stopping by, call again soon.

Celebrations for Dottie and Poppet

Sorry this post is very late, hopefully we are just about back on track now and updates should be back to normal quite soon. Thank you for your patience.



The girls may just be small, but they sure had some big celebrations.



Mini quiches, cocktail sauges , pringles .....I dont know where they put it all



After eating a huge lunch they surprised me at being first to the tea table.
They were jumping for joy at the chocolate cake which has become one of their favourite cakes.



At New Year , they had the tinyest bottle of champagne chilled and ruby red glasses at the ready and the toasted in the New Year as soon as the clock struck 12.





They were extremely well behaved and got up to no mischief, although as I wasnt very well it may have been that I just didnt notice.

Merry Christmas from Dottie and Poppet

Dottie and Poppet are so excited, I dont think they are ever going to go to sleep tonight.

They have been eyeing up the stable under the tree all week and tonight decided to take a closer look.

It wasnt long before their curiosity got the better of them and it didnt take long before they were inside the stable, theres one thing for sure they are not shy.
Poor Mary and Joseph, as well as the 3 kings and the shepherd boy they got Dottie and Poppet too.

Mind I will say they were very well behaved and even Poppet offered her koala bear to baby Jesus.

The Girls hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and I will be sure to take lots of photographs.

Its nearly time for Santa , so the girls are off to bed soon.

" Merry Christmas Everyone"

An early gift from Sam

Wow......Look what Sam has bought for Dottie !

He has been working so much overtime and now we know why. Dottie has her own sofa , a very swish one at that. Dottie and Poppet have been enjoying the christmas films on tv and to be honest have been a little lost on my big sofa, so Sam kindly bought Dottie her own so she can watch her films in comfort.

Dottie says its given her an idea, but we have to wait a little while to find out what shes got in mind ! Knowing Dottie it will be fun.
Poppet is pleased that theres loads of room for her to sit on it too even if Sam is here, its lovely and cosy for them.

Squirrels and Sparkles

When I decided it was time to put up the Christmas decorations it wasnt hard to find some help.........Although maybe thats not the right word, it was supposed to be help but it soon turned into something very different.

I was lifting the tree out of its box and all Dottie and Poppet could do was giggle, I couldnt understand what was so funny.......
I assembled the stand and then added the other sections until it was complete, only one problem, the girls were missing !

I hadnt noticed that the giggling had stopped, I had been concentrating on the tree, where had they gone? I shouted for my daughter who came straight away but she hadnt seen the girls either. I called their names but got no reply.
Where on earth coud they have gone. My daughter checked all the boxes and i checked under the sofa etc.
Then my daughter grabbed my arm.......she beckoned to me to be quiet. As we stood in silence there was rustling in the tree. A clicking noise followed, then weird little noises.....it sounded like a squirrel, thats silly , Its an artificial tree !
My daughter and I crept up to the tree slowly , the clicking and sqeaking continued, we were nervous and hanging onto each other as we got closer to the tree. Our hearts were pounding , and then it happened ..........

THOSE TWO LITTLE MONKEYS WERE INSIDE THE TREE ! They shouted and jumped forward onto the tip of the branch and my daughter and I nearly jumped out of our skin.




Of course the girls thought it was so funny, they were rolling aroung laughing , whilst my daughter and I recovered from the shock !



Next came the garland for the mantlepiece, the girls loved this as its lights were already attached so as soon as it was in place i turned it on and it lit up.



They were so excited about the lights , before I knew it they were back in the tree as i put on its lights. They were squealing with delight as the lights lit up the whole tree.



From the tree Poppet got her eye on one of the decorations and quickly slid down the inside of the tree.


Poppet was so excited at the red boot trimmed with white fur, a whole conversation started about Santa Clause, Poppet decided she would try on the boot for size.
She jumped right in and started singing "Santa Clause is coming to town", we laughed and laughed.



Then all kinds of antics started , Dottie found 2 little drums and the singing just got louder and louder.......

As the girls went through all the songs I continued to dress the tree , with my new friend ' HEADACHE'............



In a couple of hours and the tree all done, and the drums hung high on the tree we were pleased with the finished result.


It was even better that night , when we switched off the main lights and sat in the cosy room watching TV with just the tree lights and the mantle lights casting a warm glow over the room.




Merry Christmas from Dottie and Poppet, they will be back very soon.
Thanks for stopping by.

Crop Day Dilema !

Sorry for the delay in writing this post. We have had an extremly busy week.
Going back to last Saturday we had a crop day at our house.
Marina , Heather and Annette joined us to have a Christmas Crop Day.
All went well to start with and everyone was having a fantastic time.


While Annette was stamping, Marina and Heather were working with lots of glitter and embossing powders creating some fabulous tags, cards and christmas decorations.

When everyone left there was alot of glitter everywhere.



Poppet jumped inside the duster and dottie pushed it around to give her a ride.
They were having so much fun, but the glitter was going all over the carpet.
I decided to get out the hoover before it went right through the house.
Unfortunatly when i came back with the hoover i didnt notice that only poppet was still on the table. Dottie had slipped in all the glitter and floated down to the floor.
What happened next was scary !
I couldnt here poppet shouting above the noise of the hoover , and i thought she was waving at me , not trying to get my attention, so i waved back.



Dottie is as light as a feather, so it was inevitable that as the hoover got too near she got sucked straight in.....




As I turned off the hoover Poppet slid down from the table and ran over to the hoover.





Poppet jumped up on the hoover and i couldnt decide what she was trying to tell me, she was waving and pointing to the tank on the hoover.
Just then i noticed something moving inside, OH NO ! It was Dottie..........



I quickly opened up the hoover to get dottie out and poppet ran to get a bandage.
Dottie was flustered at first but laughing so hard, she said it was the best roller coaster she had been on, and although she was coughing with all the fluff, she wanted to do it again.
Poppet returned with the bandage and i told her that dottie seemed fine and didnt really need a bandage.......However.....



Poppet insisted that dottie was bandaged up incase there was a problem.



She said she had learned all about bandages , and was an expert .......
Well when i saw the finished result , I wished it had all happened a couple of weeks earlier as this was the best Mummy costume I had seen ths year !
Dottie kept insisting she was fine and wanted to do it all again but poppet was having none of it.



Poppet insisted that Dottie go straight to bed and get some rest and she would be the nurse and look after her. Dottie decided not to argue, to be honest i think she was having trouble to move with all that bandage.
Poppet had everything under control, and had dottie tucked in under the covers so well , dottie couldnt move.
Next time i will make sure they are high enough up from the carpet so we dont have any mishaps, although saying that dottie was so keen to have another go, that might be hard.

Thanks for reading this post.

Ooops a daisy !

Dont panic everyone.....its all sorted now and Dottie and Poppet are fine, but come back later to see why we needed this !