We humans may not be able to travel, but this doesn't apply to the Little Red Girlettes, who've been racing all over the place, which makes me happy. I've had news of several of them around the world recently.
Two of my pod of girlettes took a plane to go live on the plains with Kirsten, who reports:
"The Girlettes insisted on posing with the Swedish dala horses along with Ruth "Bear" Ginzburg. One insisted on putting the vintage green feather on her head. And wanted me to make sure that I send also a photo of Rabbit who is keeping company with yarn about a foot from them.
They were complaining about having been shipped in the cold but have fully adjusted to the inside where it is much warmer and no longer being jostled about."
Pearl Duquette, Shark-Attack Survivor (below, right) has been visiting Art Sparker out west, getting fitted with a prosthetic arm, and, as it turned out, new
handmade clothes!
She returned this week.
Cash (striped shirt) put the 2nd alternate arm over the
ridiculously dinky hand of the jointed-body she was wearing. (Cash has
since returned to her own body.)
The two who live in town with my sister, Marina and Madelina, have gone visiting too--temporarily, my sister says.
They're staying with a Jewish lady in her late-seventies, who reports that they help light the Shabbat candles.
When Golda heard this, she said she wants to go live with the friend, because she is Jewish too. (I think in Golda's mind, "Jewish" means you get to light candles. She lit the Hanukkah candles.)
So, that's going to happen.
Here are my sister's dolls on vacation:
They have been named Sally, Lily, and Rowan:
You can read about the adventures of "Maple and Her Arrow" and the others (they arrived independently, not from my pod) and Linda Sue's other playful arts in the Pacific Northwest at "Lady Margaret's curlers".
Here's Maple at the start of "Mission EROS" :
River records Meg's adventures in southern Australia! over at "Drifting Through Life"--here, below, the start of Sunday shopping:
Racer and her friends who live in London, England, with toy-artist Sarah and her creative crew have been a bit quiet recently. I think they are "feeling February"... last I heard they had requested pajamas, as the proper thing to wear during a pandemic.
In September when Racer & Minnie Sutherland first arrived in London, they went mudlarking with Sarah on the Thames shore:
And that's the round-up for today. Am I missing anybody?
(Girlettes live with Marz & bink too, but we've not had photos from them.)
Oh, yes--Mir went to live with a coworker and read about the Hapsburgs (?).
(This coworker is an anomaly at my workplace in being a reader--in fact, she has her PhD in Cultural Anthropology.
But things in her life didn't go the way she'd thought they would, and now she's a cashier at a thrift store, of which there are worse things to be, but maybe not lower-paying things to be, and having student loans, this is a problem.)
The pod here is reaching a manageable number. I feel sad when any go away, but in truth I cannot give full attention to more than about twelve.
They wander around the house, so I can't get an accurate headcount, but I think there are still fifteen here––so if any blog-friend would like one as a gift, do let me know.
FABULOUS roundup!! They are all so happy and that is what we love most about the Girlettes! It is all your doing, you realize, Auntie Fresca! Inspired us all. Maple is chuffed to see her photo on your blog.
ReplyDeleteLovely to see their travels and new lives xx
ReplyDeleteLINDA-SUE: Mir has even managed to bring happiness to a pile of books about Soviet Russia and deconstruction theory!
ReplyDeleteNow that's girlette power for you.
If I have done such a thing in my life as to spread such happiness, I shall count my life a life well-lived.
GZ: Thank you--they are happy to share their travels (esp since we humans can't travel much beyond our own neighborhoods).
Love Pearl's new hand!
ReplyDeleteAnd you do have pictures from my girlette...but its probably been a least a month ago. I wouldn't want people to think I leave you uninformed.
BINK/Anon. Time to send another!
ReplyDeleteMeg was reading along with me here and was surprised to see herself, also very happy to see all the cousins doing so well.
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