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hi
okay i pressed one so i guess we're recording now
okay um as far as spare time they talked about i don't i think who has any spare time but
okay um
i've got a a six year old and um um well my baby's one today today's his birthday and i'm also i'm expecting and so
um um
i i don't know i haven't had much spare time lately but
okay well i've i have had some because i was working for P I E and they went bankrupt so
oh uh-huh
i've got quite a bit of spare time right now but i've been making dolls cloth dolls
and
oh have you oh you you sew the bodies and everything
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and uh
yeah it's a they're all cloth it's not uh any porcelain at all
so you sew you just sew everything up huh oh uh-huh what kind do they have yarn hair or
yeah and i make the clothes for them
and
um no you can get the little curly hair at the craft shop
oh uh-huh
oh
i made some of them with that hair and then uh
um don't ask me what the other hair i made it look like um
it looked like i made some of them with regular wigs
oh did you
i went to the flea markets and bought you know like the wigs for a dollar
oh uh-huh
then i cut a V shape out of the back of them
oh my goodness
and then sewed them on
well it sounds like you're creative
they looked really cute
oh do you sell them
i have sold five of them so far
oh have you oh
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yeah i bet how long does it take you to make one
duh
uh if i would just work all day long making the clothes and everything probably about two and a half days
oh really oh do you enjoy it yeah uh-huh
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um so
yes i really do and then i also crochet
and
oh i i i can crochet and knit um actually i started an afghan but it's been a a long time ago probably over a year ago and it's kept sitting in my closet half done right now but that it's a knitting one and
yeah
yeah i tried knitting first but i don't know i i didn't like it so then i went to crocheting but now i wanna learn how to knit again
oh didn't you
oh i enjoy yeah i enjoy knitting i i kind of like that but i just i like i say i haven't done it for a while and i do like sewing sometimes i i've made a few of the you know just the little valence curtains in my house and
you know
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things like that but it it's just finding the time for these things that you you enjoy but
yeah yeah
yeah i'd in fact i just bought a Serger in December
oh i would love one of those oh that's neat
yeah
i haven't done everything on it yet you know but just what little bit i have used it for i really like it
oh those are wonderful aren't they
you know especially making the seams and things like that you know it's
it's got such a professional finish on them
oh yeah that and that's what i hate doing is the finishing stuff it it'd be nice to have that
yeah
so i like that
oh that's neat well do you have um uh i guess you're kind of young i was gonna say do you have grand kids or anything to make dolls for
and
well fifty seven's not young but no my son's not has has has been married for almost ten years but they don't have any children
oh uh-huh
so i just make clothes for my dolls
oh well well how did you get involved in that
just um
you know just like sewing and stuff and decided to to buy a pattern and
you just
try to make a doll
so you did buy a pattern and then started from there huh
and they it turned out really cute yeah you got to have a pattern for the body you know
uh-huh uh-huh have have you ever seen those bunnies that they dress yeah i've i did make some clothes for one of those and
and uh
yes yes
aren't they cute
dress one of those yeah i have quite a few of them actually in my house i and most of them i have bought um already clothed but i did i did make the dress on one of them i kind of made the pattern up it's not it's probably not the best but i
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um-hum no i i bought a bunny pattern one time but when i sewed it up the face of it looked like a mouse
oh it did oh
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see it was too pointed
oh
so i tore it back apart again and i haven't tried another one
you haven't sewn it back up huh
no but i bought a little lamb pattern
and the material and everything to make it out of but i haven't made it yet
uh-huh uh do you do any kind of painting or anything
no i don't paint except i stenciled my wall
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oh uh-huh
i tried i tried that i did i i ended up just stenciling a um a blind like a just a roller shade but i i can i had a hard time stenciling for some reason i just couldn't do it
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oh really
and people have told me it's very easy
oh yeah i
my neighbor did it first and i seen her house and i saw how beautiful it looked so then i decided well i was gonna do it
well
and um it turned out really really good
what design did you use
uh mostly flowers
oh uh-huh and what room
you know
i've done it in all uh all my rooms
have you
i've put it in the bedrooms in the bathroom
