Dixie goes exploring...

I have sadly neglected Dixie lately....so I took her with me on a walk at Lewis Ginter Botanical gardens and took some photos. It is a fairytale place, with tons of nooks and crannies that pixies love to build their homes. I keep thinking when I walk there that I will see the Borrowers, or Beatrix Potter's characters, or mice building their little homes in roots of the trees...yeah- very active imagination I have!

These photos were taken on a 100 year old Elm Tree that the Gardens has preserved.

I have an account at Paperback Swap and recently acquired 'Midnight in the Dollhouse' which is a very good book for those that enjoy stories, any story, about dolls and dollhouses. I have quite a collection of books like this, and have enjoyed them all of my life, ever since I was a young kid sitting in front of my dollhouse creating and playing. My good friend Wendy of Norm's Dollhouse has a new blog- Midnight in the Dollhouse and this book is what I think her blog was named for- after she read the book. I saw her post on Facebook and got the book from paperback swap.

Paperback swap is a great place to swap out your old books in good condition, receive credits for books others have posted. You can even print postage from your computer on the site and it has directions for wrapping the books. I have a full bookshelf and am steadily cleaning out books I don't read anymore. I have belonged for a few years now and have found some great books. I have another book when the Dolls Woke and am looking forward to adding it to my dollhouse book collection. 

I will try to take some more pics of the tinies and hope you enjoy exploring Paperbackswap!

Dixie here.........March news from the Pumpkin Patch...

Hi there. Dixie here. Boy do I have alot of stuff to report on in the Pumpkin Patch here at Pumpkin Hill.........

My co-hort here, Lisa who's in charge of us dolls....well, alot of dolls have left the Pumpkin Patch. Most left by way of Ebay....something about 'needing more room' is what she kept saying. Needless to say, alot of furniture and props us dolls were not using left this way too....

As you can see, I'm reporting on this from on top of the The One Sixth Scale Dollhouse where the fashion doll divas live........sigh. As you can see, their picnic table is on top of the dollhouse, now called the 'terrace' or rooftop patio.....Lisa cleaned off a TON of stuff on the dollhouse, and moved Skipper and Kelly's bedroom diorama to another shelf.

It's quiet up here, considering how much building is going on...I can see my house from here. Duke is here with me too.
Well, the news is the Patch is got a whole bunch of new buildings or 'dioramas' as Lisa calls them, including a whole 'town' or street of shops for these noisy fashion doll divas......seems they kind of like to shop.  The town of Pumpkin Hill now has a 1:6 scale McDonald's restuarant! I went there to sample the food...they are still under construction- need the floor tile laid, etc. but bunches of dolls go there to eat, just like me.

I kind of like it...but I love burgers! and the ice cream too!

As you can see, some of the other dolls do not know what to think of me...especially Grandma Barbie over there...because I'm small and all.

We celebrated Hinamatsuri recently here at the Patch, here is our set in the Japanese room. Miss Happiness loves setting up the scene. We also had tea for the tea ceremony. Miss Happiness taught me all about tea, the dolls and more. It was fun.
But back to the town...Here are some shots of me in front of the shop front that is going to be a cafe...

As you can see, ALOT of building in 1:6 scale has been going on, and these divas are just loving it! They are talking about a boutique that is coming soon where that brick wall is...construction is still going on...the worker dolls start EARLY in the morning, I usually get up when the contractors get up here...

Here is a shot of what the town looks like.....so far. From the rooftop terrace.
Well, more later after I finish my burger! Thank you for following my Facebook page!
Siging off down South, Dixie

Christmas with the dolls on Pumpkin Hill....

Chrismas preparations have begun for all of us dolls on Pumpkin Hill, down here at the 'Patch. Felicity of course, has logs on the fire and lit her candles. It took so long to find a tree! Hopefully, Marigold and Wren will settle down in their nest once it is built. Marigold loves to have her winter nest in the Christmas tree, and sleep by candlelight.

Miss Lisa has been in a whirl of decorating- even painting the den so the tree would 'look right'! She finished painting the den just before Thanksgiving...and then took me with her & Mr. Chris to the hotel in Williamsburg where the Miss Virginia Job's Daughters pageant was being held. Miss Lisa helps the bethel and went to see the two young ladies from her Bethel participate in the pageant. To learn more of Masonic youth such as Job's Daughters,  CLICK HERE .

Here I am in the hotel with my suitcase. And my new dress for Christmas! Maizie got one too, but more on that later. Pageant was fun. Afterwards, Miss Lisa went shopping, at the Christmas Mouse and the Yankee Candle store. She bought some candles, and also Gracie got a Santa hat.

Miss Lisa went a little crazy with the pictures in Yankee Candle's Christmas world...it even SNOWS in there at certain times of the day! This is a special place because they keep this part of the store a Christmas village all year round. As a doll, I wouldn't mind living there..especially with all of the Santas!

This is Gracie's santa hat...it is supposed to fit the really big jar candles, but it fits Gracie just fine.

Maizie and I in our new dresses. At Thanksgiving (yes we celebrated with the other divas from

The One Sixth Scale Dollhouse ) I got to meet Santa and have a serious talk about what I want for Christmas. Don't know if the old guy listened....but he seemed interested.

Thanksgiving...oh wow, the food! Miss Lisa wanted us in the family shoot with our new dresses on. What a feast!

                                                                     
Mini American Girl Emily had a blast, and so did we. Getting ready for Christmas is so much harder for us tinies.  Miss Lisa hasn't yet decorated our dollhouse...she has been so busy.

We also have a new resident , er several new residents! Miss Hitty arrived, as have Mini American Girls Felicity and Julie. So Gracie and I have alot of blogging and catching up to do...but we've been having too  much fun.

I'll end this blog entry with the really really BIG porcelain dolls, who have their OWN tree in the front window!

These are Miss Lisa's BIG porcelain dolls. The one on the left with red braids is Big Rebecca, and the other one is known as Big Amanda (to distinguish her from Miss Lisa's daughter, Amanda) Miss Lisa redressed them in antique toddler dresses from the early 1900's (that's another thing she collects- antique toddler clothing!) These dolls are wearing crinolines under their muslin/lace dresses. She won the dresses on Ebay.

There are many many more pictures, more to come!

Merry Christmas!

Way down South with Dixie Doll...

First day of school......

The Tinies of Pumpkin Hill began their first day of 'official' school with their new Professor, Wallace. After he had settled in and got to know his students, Wallace felt quite at ease, and quickly interested the most unalert brownie fairies and entreprenuer mice in literature. Dixie being the official tiny blogger of the Patch, she wasn't sure she was going to like homework, but surprisingly, found she liked it.

As you can see, Wallace provided alot of composition notebooks for essay writing and lots of research books on birds, as he thought it would interest the tinies to study about birds, since their postal carrier, Marigold Finch, is a small bird with pretty amazing sorting abilities. Wallace explained a little bit about their study program, and rules and so forth.

More pictures soon, as the new school gains more students!