Thanksgiving Clothes

We don't have any family near us except for each other so Thanksgiving is usually a nice quiet day for us.

My husband spent most of the day watching football.  I spent it making clothes for the dollhouse and fooling around with little keepsakes for the shelves inside the murphy bed.

Let's take a look at the shelves first.  I don't want them too busy but I have the idea that my homeowner has tried to travel somewhere new when she gets vacation time and picks up a reminder to look at when she's home.

I started out with some drink markers I got from a site called Modcloth a while back.

I cut off the sticks and picked a couple of animals and supplemented them with a few other pieces I had.

A couple of charms minus their loops, some little shells and a few semi precious crystals.

Amethyst from Ontario, a lighthouse for South Carolina, a wolf for Montana, sea shells from the Caribbean, an elephant from West Africa and a black jaguar from South America.  The cloisonné bird is a souvenir from Korea, the topaz from Utah, the little house with the windmill from Graue Mill in Oak Brook, Il, and the binoculars are from a whale watching trip to Maine.

I'm going to live with the pieces there for a bit and try to decide if I need to add or remove anything before gluing them in permanently.

For the clothing I went through my fabric stash to find pieces that would look cheerful and colorful on the rack but still be appropriate for someone who works in an office and would get a couple weeks vacation a year.

I didn't do a lot of sewing, though glue and strategic folding of fabric was big.  I'm saving my sewing for any outerwear I need for the hall tree.  I'll have to find some patterns for little coats.

I don't think it looks too bad.  I might take one of the sweaters off and have it thrown over the top of a chest, rather than hanging on the rack.

More to do this weekend, but for now I'm taking a little break and resting my eyes.

Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving!