The Delight of Fairy Tales - It Begins with Father Tuck

The Delight of Fairytales - Red Riding Hood

My friend, Jenny Norden, recently asked me how long it took me to make an outfit, a costume.  I wasn't quite sure how to answer this (and I know I've brought up the subject before), but it all depends on how long I've been designing the piece in my head, collecting the proper fabrics, and drafting a pattern.  Then we must take into account that I often have to make something three times before it turns out the way I want it to.  But, for the sake of today's journal, let's just say a week...at least for this Red Riding Hood costume.

Father Tuck's Fairy Land Panorama

Let me begin by introducing Delight to you.  In my quest for finding Lawton dolls that need a reincarnation, I came upon a Wendy Laton Rose In Bloom who was in ghastly distress of a new life.  She was on one of my favorite bodies, the wood body that makes up a 12" doll, and she was missing her original dress, and all of her belongings for that matter.  The seller thought she was rare, and we've heard that before, but when I told her the actual state the doll was in, and how I'd help the doll into a good home, she sold her to me (for a decent price). 

Dressed for a walk in the woods.

It was then that I had to figure out what to do with her.  She had this smile that didn't quite fit the solemn portraits I've been creating, and a friend of mine, Betsy, suggested Gigi.  As in Leslie Caron as Gigi.  I researched the clothing, the subject of the film, and in the end decided that the doll's face was more childlike than a young woman's.  I think I'd been looking, at the time, at Tonner Halloween costumes for my (Re-imagined) Patsy, and found a Red Riding Hood outfit.  I fell in love.  It occurred to me that I'd never done a fairytale doll, or costume, and The Delight of Fairytales was born.  I gave the doll hazel eyes and a dark brown wig, completely changing her look from the blonde, blue-eyed Rose that she was. 

Dress with button attached reticule.

My own delight with fairytales goes way back to childhood.  My mother had the crumbling copies of her mother's childhood Grimm's Fairytale books, and I'd spend hours looking through the strange pen and ink drawings on the thin, browning pages.  My own first fairytale book was a Little Golden Book, Little Red Riding Hood (see below for image).  I read that thing over and over again, marveling at the fabulous illustrations between the covers.  I'm certain I imagined myself as the child on her mission, but I'm also positive I was very skeptical of how the wolf, or even Grandmother, could survive the things they went through.  Yes, the wolf dies in a tragic way, but consuming an entire woman that could resurface intact, is simply amazing!  I'm sure I would tell my mother that this was just not "logical".  But, enough of that.

With the velvet vest.

Delight is a child that has a fabulous imagination, and loves the Grimm Brothers fairytales.  She also loves to play dress up, and I won't disappoint her.  She will be receiving some beautiful fairytale dress-up costumes by some of my favorite illustrators.  Today she is wearing Little Red Riding Hood as illustrated in the Father Tuck Panorama.  With all the possible illustrated costumes to select from (and they are vast), Father Tuck's had the Grimm Brothers German feel to it.

I began with her shoes and socks.  I designed the little brown shoes with the white buttons to have that peasant look about them.  A pair of royal blue stockings finished the first day's work.

Close-uo

Since Delight is the same size as Alice Illustrated, the dress took a simple day to put together.  I used cotton sateen for the aqua dress, and white shirting cotton with tiny satin dots on it for the cuffs and bodice.  The apron is of silver and white striped cotton and hangs a bit below her dress, like an old kitchen towel, as in the illustration.  Her vest is marine blue velvet, and this piece caused me lots of difficulties.  First in that I had to recut the pattern twice for a deeper "neckline", and second because I had to pull lined velvet through a half inch shoulder area.  I almost gave up.  Why velvet?  Why the richness of sateen?  Because she's a Lawton doll and they are very used to elegant fabrics.  White double-sided silk ribbon was laced through the vest.  Both dress and vest close in the back with hooks and thread loops. 

Pointy Hood on Velveteen

Yesterday was the second day of designing the hooded cape.  The hood piece is huge.  It had to be drawn in a way that would allow the hood a point at the top, and enough fullness around the face so that you could gather it.  This cape is of red cotton velveteen, lined in red cotton sateen.

Finally, I had one more piece to make.  The reticule.  I used a small key ring as the base and wrapped it in silk ribbon.  Then I used silk dupioni to make the little round bag.  It is only cosmetic and does not open.  I looped silk ribbon around the ring and knotted it on top, then sewed a small brown button to the bodice of the dress to hook the little bag to.  Hah!  Brilliant.  A bouquet of daisies for Grandmother and a basket of goodies by Lawton Doll Company complete the look.

Delight will be costumed as Gretel, Rapunzel, Cinderella, and Snow White (no, not Disney Snow White), and possibly other fairytale heroines as time goes on.  She will need a dress up trunk, and I have the perfect Lawton doll trunk for her to store her costumes in.  Suggestions of fairytales would be welcome!

Father Tuck was chosen for Little Red Riding Hood, but will not be used again.  We have untold numbers of illustrators throughout time who've conceived their own versions of these fairytale heroines, and one will speak to me for each story.  I was telling Jenny that working with red made me happy.  Delight has a costume that will take her through the holidays, and Alice Liddell will get her red winter coat in December.  She must.

Please enjoy a sampling of a few of my favorite Red Riding Hood illustrations below.

Love,
Miss E. Mouse
 

My Childhood Book

Johnny Gruelle 1916

Unknown (to me)

Genady Spirin's Little Red Cap

Margaret Tarrnat

Vintage Paper Toy

Trina Schart-Hyman (one of my favorite illustrators, I began collecting her books when I was 16)

Fabulous!

(unknown) ...with now-a-days frocks

Carl Larrson



Off to Grandmother's House

Katy Curls' Red Play Sweater and Cunning Cap - Paper Doll Page Complete

Katy's Red Play Sweater and Cunning Cap

This is an exciting morning for me.  For this is the first time I've completed making all the outfits from a paper doll page!  I began creating for my Frances Tipton Hunter Katy Curls back on September 6, 2013.  I had recently received my precious 14" Katy from the loving workshop of Candy Anderson, and I was ready to jump into a new project. 

The Little Busybodies' Katy Curls was the first in a new series of paper dolls by Tipton Hunter for Woman's Home Companion, launched November 1922.  Katy's outfits were illustrated to introduce patterns a mother could make up for her daughter's wardrobe, purchased through the pattern department of the magazine.  She was given a year round wardrobe to include a Thanksgiving Party costume, a child's Russian Smock Dress, a Best Coat, and a Play Sweater and Cunning Cap you could crochet.

From the Womans' Home Companion, November 1922

Since my Katy came to me sans clothing, I had to begin with the chemise and under pants combination to see she was always dressed properly.  I would ask Fran to make her a pair of brown oxfords, and Patty would make her kitten, Puff, for me.  Her doll, Squeezicks, was one I had made when learning the art of porcelain.  I loved Katy for her impish smile, bright eyes, and soft, curly red hair.  And a little over a year later, she is finally, and happily now wearing the last outfit from the paper doll page.

With A Plaid Skirt and Red Socks

Sometime this past year, I'd collected several plaids to make up her pleated skirt from.  I'd also hunted through the racks at Goodwill and found an extra large women's red sweater to make hers from.  The hold up seamed to be in finding a knit of red, white and green stripes with which to make her cunning cap.  It was in the spring, at Petco, that I found a little doggy's Christmas sweater on the sale rack, and purchased it for the set.  Of course I had Alice Liddell on my mind and several other dolls (giggle), so Katy's last outfit would have to wait.  But, to be honest, the red sweater was giving me doubts.  How was I going to create the white sport stripes on it?  When something plagues me like this, I'll hold off on the entire project until I have it figured out.  I don't make incomplete paper doll designs. 

Stripe Details

I started this a couple of weeks ago with the pleated skirt, and that was a cinch.  I think I've made enough pleated skirts to sink a ship by now.  I made her a pair of red socks to brighten up the entire look of the outfit, then began on the hat. 

I discovered that by using the "cuff" band of the dog sweater that it would create a snug fit around her head, so I attached that to a square of the striped knit.  The top of the hat is stitched together in four seams like a plus sign.  I purchased whole bundles of red, white and green complimentary wool yarns to make her multi-colored pom-poms and braided the ties to swing them from the crown of her cap.  I used a crochet needle to insert one end of the tie through the pom-pom, and then into the center of the plus sign stitch finish.  This produced a "believable" knitted cap for Katy. 

The Cunning Cap

The sweater was going to be another matter altogether with design.  I made several pattern renditions of the sweater, and selected one that would be placed on the fold at the shoulder.  This would give the sweater a clean line and drape off the shoulder nicely resulting in a piece that resembled a crocheted sweated without seams.  Stripes would need to be added and this provided me a pause in the process.  Although I have untold yards of ribbon, the right kind would need to be used to produce a faux crochet effect.  I settled on Petersham Grosgrain (Ribbon Connections), in a bright white.  It took RC a full week to get the ribbon to me even though the California based business is only 50 miles away.  I love their selection, but this company drives me crazy.

And so on Friday the ribbon arrived and I began appliqueing the ribbon onto the sweater to complete the design by Saturday.  The Petersham Grosgrain is flexible and worked beautifully for the curve at the boat-neckline to run down the length of the sleeves.  I almost didn't follow the bottom three bands around to the back, but decided it would be best to do this right.  Adding this ribbon is a lot of work.  A lot of patient sewing.  I'm glad I did though.

Having sweaters in my doll clothing collection from companies like Ruby Red Galleria and Tonner Doll Company, I was able to get a good idea of how they make their knit fabric sweaters open at the back.  A turn under on the left side, and a piece of grosgrain added to the edge of right finishes the edges.  While they typically use snaps (I hate sewing snaps on), I fastened the back with my hooks and tiny thread loops.  This creates a much more snug finish. 

With Squeezicks in Her New Outfit

The hems of the sleeves and bottom were finished by sewing a band of costume stretch knit to them, then hand sewing in the hems on the undersides.  I have to admit that this sweater came out a lot better than I'd hoped.  This was my first time working with sweater knit fabric.  That cap gave me a start, the sweater gave me practice.  Katy is now ready for outdoor play after school, and the colors will take her through the holidays with cheerful brightness.

One more note, I made Squeezicks something to wear besides her onsie.  I have a very difficult time these days sewing for tiny dolls.  My inclination is to sew them as I would a large doll's costume, and you simple must have a different approach.  Finding thin enough fabrics to work with is another grievance.  But, by a lark, I dove into my closet and found an old, worn out knit top that I could cut up for her Russian play set that matches Katy's.  I could probably make a "third" one and do it even better, but I'd like to pretend that Katy made this for Squeezicks and therefore it has a child's simplicity.

The other outfit for Squeezicks may or may not ever be made.  It would require a very super thin cashmere wool in a spring green, and this would be most difficult to find.  Creating the paper doll outfits from the page was the purpose of this journey, and the accessories for Squeezicks were always optional.  But, now Katy can take her doll out on an autumn day and play with her.  

Below are photos from Katy's complete collection.  If asked which one was the most difficult (and they all had their challenges), I would have to say the Best Coat.  If asked which one I most enjoyed making, I'd have to say her Red Sweater and Cunning Cap (with skirt), this last one.  This has been a wonderful experience, and I'll have to contact Candy for another doll in 2015.  The plan is to make Jolly Jane from this line of paper dolls.

Enjoy the set of photos, and look for something wonderfully NEW in my next post.

Love,
Miss E. Mouse 



The Little Busybodies Katy Curls

Undies, Squeezicks and Puff

Play Apron for Thanksgiving Party

Russian Smock and Dress

A Variation on Pattern No. 4240

Katy's Best Coat with Bluebird Bag



Red Sweater, Cunning Cap and Squeezicks!

Alice Illustrated With Marjorie Torrey

Alice Illustrated In Marjorie Torrey

I recall Jean Nordquist suggesting to me to begin dressing the 12" Alice Illustrated in classic Tenniel fashion.  She had recently shared both her Pinterest pages and scanned composites (gorgeous by the way!), of some of the various outfits Alice had been illustrated in over time.  I was dearly wanting to try something "daring", but I felt in my heart that she was right, so that when I introduced her, there would be no question as to who she was.  We all know and love Alice in her classic blue dress with the black ribbon bands at the hem, wearing a white pinafore often trimmed in red.  But, oh what fabulous ways she's been dressed by others!

Marjorie Torrey was one of them.

Ruffled Pinny

I could not find much written on Marjorie Torrey, although she surely is one of my favorite Alice illustrators.  Born in 1899, she both wrote and illustrated children's books.  I was not familiar with any but Alice in Wonderland, but titles such as New Star of the Show, and Hoodoo That Voodoo, certainly sound worth looking up.  From what I gathered, the breadth of her work was between 1938 and 1966 (or 1976).  What I love best about her illustrations is their sweetness.  A tender charm that many illustrators in the 1950's produced with the innocence and joy of childhood in mind.  For her Alice, she chose green, with a Degas flare for the apron.

Truly Degas Inspired

I gathered together a few various shades of green in silks and cottons, and eventually chose an emerald green silk dupioni to create her dress with.  I seriously doubt Torrey would have intended silk, more like cotton, but my Alice Illustrated will be dressed in the finest fabrics I can find.  Even if it is a cotton!  While I'd taken several photo sessions in different lighting of her dress, it was impossible to truly photograph the brilliance of this beautiful emerald green.

And a Red Hair Band

This is basically the same dress as the blue Tenniel design, however I added three inches to the 19" width of the original skirt.  Her pinafore is completely different.  And, what a challenge those ruffles provided!  I had hoped to use a heavier cotton sateen for the apron, but the ruffles proved to be too heavy and wide for the straps while attempting to turn the lined bodice inside out.  The pre-ruffle length was only twice the length of the straps to allow a flowing look as in the illustration - while I usually cut a ruffle length three times the width of the piece its intended to be sewn on.  The apron is fully lined, as well as the bodice of the dress.

I also chose Marjorie Torrey's illustration as her second dress because the green had an autumn feel to it - like a forest.  However, while finishing the back with hooks and tiny thread loops, it came to me that with the red headband, and the green and white of the costume, it would be perfect to keep her in through Christmas.

Other illustrators I would like to honor with a rendition of their dress for this doll are Rene Cloke, Maria Kirk, A.E. Jackson, Gwynedd M. Hudson, Arthur Rackham, Agnes Richardson and Maybel Lucie Attwell...to name a few.  This little doll is such a perfect size to sew for.  An entirely enjoyable experience.

Please enjoy some of the illustrations from Marjorie Torrey's 1955 (copywrite) edition of Alice in Wonderland.  Notice how incredibly dear the little animals are!

Love,
Miss E. Mouse

Cheshire Pussy Cat

Upset Jury

Absolute Favorite!  The Card Soldier!  Brilliant!

Here She Is Again

The White Rabbit

Drink Me - Love the Lampshade

They Were Only Cards

No Truer Words...

When Nada Christensen shared this on Facebook, I couldn't help but save a copy and share it as a posting.

 

 

Love,

Miss E. Mouse

Autumn Mix and Match For Travel Dolls

Travel Dolls' Original Outfits

It feels like quite some time since I've journaled a posting, and it may well be that's the case.  After completing Alice Liddell's gold gown with the black pom-pom trim, I worked on a little update for one of Tonner's White Rabbit figures.  This I will share when I've made the 12" Alice Illustrated, a new dress.

Following this, we took a ten day sojourn to the red canyons and sandstone cliffs of Utah.  While it rained half the time, it snowed in the higher elevations and was a thrill to hike through.  To me, this is one of the prettiest places on earth.  And, during those rainy days, I got a lot of reading done. 

Top and Skirt Combination with Middy

The ribbon embroidery endeavor went well, and I've a good feel for working with it.  However, I didn't feel the practice bits worthy of journaling on.  Sometime in the future, I'll add such embellishments to a dress.

Upon returning, I continued work on some mix and match pieces that were requested to compliment the Travel Doll costuming on the Lawton Travel Dolls.  As you know, earlier I'd made an outfit for the boy to compliment the red and black of the girl's costume.  Requested was a middy top to go over the boy's onsie pants combination that goes under the brown middy.  And, a black silk skirt the girl could wear with the brown top, for a matching set.  A bow for her hair and a long sash to belt the skirt for a different look were also on the list.

With a Black Silk Tie

These were made and ready to go, when the suggestion for a top and skirt, onsie combination for the girl, to go with the linen middy, were added to the trousseau.  The skirt alone was made with box pleats, and the combination skirt and linen top, offered a centered box pleat with knife pleats travelling left and right of it.  This came out particularly well, and looks fetching under the top.  A black silk bow can be added through the thread loop for still a different look.

I also redid the look of the hat from the boy's outfit.  I removed the gold ribbon around the band of the hat, and also removed the button sewn ribbon that decorated it.  I made, by hand, a small wool yarn pom-pom and centered in the top of the hat.  A jaunty look for either the boy or girl

And, a Large Hair Bow

I think the pom-pom got me thinking about Alice Liddell's pom-pom fringe, and so on spec, and as a creative inspiration, I made Travel Doll, a coat and bonnet from winter white velveteen lined with white silk dupioni.  I trimmed it with Alice's "pom-pom" fringe, then added a lined bonnet for a holiday look. 

Well, that wasn't quite enough I suppose.  It seemed the black skirt needed a top separate from the brown middy it was intended for.  So I spruced up the look of the coat set by adding a red silk chemise to under it.  This brightened the look with a holiday appeal, but can be used for other skirts and tops as well. 

The Combination Piece

At some point you have to say "Done", and this was where I stopped.  The recipient liked the coat set, and I was pleased since it truly turned out beautifully.  I had so much fun dressing the two dolls up in the mix and match pieces and wanted to share them with you.

It was good for me to create the coat pattern since I want to make one up in pink velveteen for my Mignonette doll.  I'll probably do this for the holidays.  I also purchased some beautiful toffee brown velveteen that would look splendid in a boy's suit for Sterling.

Black Silk Skirt with Red Silk Chemise

Speaking of "the holidays", I guess I failed six ways to Sunday in creating new Halloween costumes this year.  While its still 8 days away, by the time I finished something, and I could only make one, poor Daisy (yes, I'd make it for her), would have to wear it through to Thanksgiving.  And, I'd have to dress Polly and Lettie up so they wouldn't feel left out of the party.

Time passes all too quickly and there's only so much I can do in a day.  However, let's enjoy what we do have for our dolls, and all the good we have in our lives.  I will not let autumn pass me by without a good hike through the leaves and some star gazing on those chilly black nights.

At least the Travel Dolls have plenty of options to take them through their happy days together.

Love,
Miss E. Mouse

And, a Pom-Pom On Top!

Boy's Onsie with Middy

For the Holidays

The Back and Bonnet

Winter is Coming!

Alice Liddell's Golden Autumn Stroll or Its All Greek To Me

Alice Liddell's Golden Auturmn Stroll

There is very little I won't do, or try, when it comes to dressing one of my dolls.  I get a vision, I think it through from start to finish, then begin collecting fabrics and trims.  Sometimes it takes a few months to find just the right pieces, and sometimes they cannot be found at all, then I dash the project.  However, when dressing my 16" Alice Liddell, it becomes an obsession, a passion, to create one of the most beautiful wardrobes I'd ever done.   After Botanical Stroll, I would wait until the end of summer, or beginning of fall, to make her the gold silk gown from the illustrated paper doll pages in The Other Alice.  And, like so many other projects I've started, I had no idea what to expect or what challenges I was in for.

The Paper Doll Costume

I'd purchased this gorgeous high quality, few slubs, silk dupioni a year ago when I shopped at Britex for my birthday.  I found, after much frustration and searching, a wonderful tiny braid trim with "pom-poms" on it.  I also purchased the double-faced silk ribbon in 1/8" and 1/4" from Ribbon Connections (the only place that has these sizes).  And, so I thought I was ready roll.  And, so I began.

One of the things I was excited about was already having a bolero jacket pattern from Alice Liddell's first two outfits.  Yay!  The dress is also the same basic design - bodice with row of buttons, big skirt.  What's to sweat over this one?!  How about paying a little more attention?!

A Full View

There I was, hand sewing the silk ribbon, two bands of it, around the edge of the jacket thinking I was on second base.  I try it on Alice and something's very wrong.  First, I notice that its too small.  Second, I notice that it won't meet in the front, under the collar.  I know immediately that I'm going to have to start all over again, and that meant designing an entirely new jacket.  It is different, very different in several ways.  Its longer, meets in the front, the drape of the curve is wider, and the sleeves are "butterflied".  I did have new sleeves designed, but these other factors simply were not taken into consideration.  So I did it again.

Mr. Richmond's Painting

I was actually glad I'd made the first one since it gave me some practical experience and practice with what I needed to do a second time.  So what happened to the mock up?  I guess I got a little over-confident.  Live and learn.  However, I will note that it was extremely useful to make my "unexpected" mock-up in silk since it will behave a lot differently than muslin.

Happy with the jacket, I began the dress.  The bodice went smoothly.  I used a tiny diamond pattern Italian shirting cotton for the collar and false sleeves.  Exquisitely beautiful stuff.  Two rows of silk ribbon hand sewn on.  A row of tiny black glass buttons.  Then I moved onto the skirt and everything came to a stand still.  My confidence flagged.

Beaded Reticule and Close Up of Motif

How on earth was I going to make that Greek Key pattern out of 1/8" flat, double-sided silk ribbon?  I turned it, I looped it, I tri-folded it on the corners.  I'd fully intended on hand-stitching this border in flat ribbon onto the skirt's border.  I puzzled like the Grinch for a day or two until I came up with a bright-eyed popping idea.  Ask someone.  Ask the experts how to do this.

I so seldom do that, ask for help.  I teach myself how to do things through trial and error.  I am a self taught artist, designer, seamstress, writer, poet...cook!...you name it.  But, Mr. Richmond and Inga-Karin Eriksson would give me a challenge and a bet to win.   Mr. Richmond being the artist that painted Alice and her sisters' portrait while on holiday.  And, dear Inga-Karin for taking the design off Alice's older sister's skirt and deciding to create a dress for Alice with it. 

Heavily Machine Embroidered Jacquard Ribbon

Let's talk about the Greek key pattern.  The Greek key design has its origins in the construction of the palace, the Labyrinth, in ancient Greek mythology.  The Labyrinth was constructed to act as a prison for the Minotaur, a human with the head of a bull.  Apparently it was quite effective.  Perhaps as effective in alluding the escape of said Minotaur, as in alluding me of constructing it's pattern in ribbon.  Almost.  It is an ancient classical motif that can still be seen today in pottery, jewelry and in architecture.  Take a look around sometime, and you'll see its pleasing design in so many things.

The Back

But, back to the skirt.  I have to admit that I almost didn't try it.  After an old mentor of mine told me I could miter the corners, I just about gave up.  That would require cutting tiny bits of ribbon in slants to make sharp corners, then sewing this all on in pieces.  Some of the pieces were about 1/4" to 1/2".  Think of the fraying!  Obviously she'd never done this before, but who would, when you can buy jacquard ribbon with this design?  Ah, but then you have color, size and texture to consider.

It was then that I considered, if I'm going to cut bits of ribbon up to do this, why not use the Heat n Bond method I used for the Halloween costume silhouettes?  And, this I did.  Thirty-two inches of fabric.  It took me two dedicated days to make this design, but it is as Inga-Karin intended.  Thanks, Mr, Richmond, for the challenge.   I did sew the 1/4" ribbon bands, top and bottom of the design, and all the ribbon on the jacket is hand-sewn on.  So give me break.  Ok?

Alice Celebrates the Wedding of the Prince of Wales

With all that behind me, I still had to attach the skirt, matching up the border design - tricky! - and continue with the rest of the outfit.  Gloves, long stockings, the beaded silk reticule, the hat, and the boots. 

This journal is getting a bit long in the writing, so I'll be brief.  I fashioned her pom-pom hat out of cotton velveteen and buckram.  Her little silk reticule has minimum beading and a bit of the pom-pom trim I used on the jacket.  Instead of making boots with elastic sides, which I just was not up for, I chose to make gaitors out of gray lambskin.  I feel this was an acceptable and pleasant alternative.  Alice's little gloves are simple mitts of gray heather cotton jersey.

Gray Lembskin Gaitors

This was by far, was a most ambitious ensemble to create.  But, its lovely, and I'm pleased.  I'll have to admit that it was a couple of friends who, in the end, encouraged me to go forward with the Greek key design, for when I uttered to them that I couldn't do it, they were aghast and dumbfounded.  I could not have agreed more with their dismay.  The design was the outfit.  With anything, if you're going to do something, do it right.  Persevere no matter what the challenge ahead. 

I will be working on a few thing for other people next, and taking a much needed autumn sojourn at the end of the month.  Yes, we're headed to the red rock canyons of Utah again.  I just love it there.  During the down times and at night, I will be teaching myself silk ribbon embroidery.  I have plenty of ribbon and three books on "how to".  Perhaps I can incorporate some of this delicate embellishment on my doll clothing in the future.

Love,
Miss E. Mouse  (Happy birthday to me!  September 18th)

Greek Mythology and the Labyrinth

A Close Up

Golden Autumn Stroll