Olabelhe: A Dolly Tea Party

Today was quite a special day! My friend Lynn and I are huge Downton Abby fans so when I decided to make some DA inspired outfits for my girls one thing lead to another and we decided to have a full on tea party for them all decked out in their finery. Each of the girls is wearing a totally unique outfit with hats or hair accessories and most of them have beautiful handmade jewels, created by Lynn and some of them even have little purses that my mom made for them. Then Lynn who is a pastry chef, created a beautiful tea for the girls complete with tiny scones, tea sandwiches, itty bitty petit' fours, tiny cookies and chocolates...OMG, can it get any cuter??? Then we decided to have the party have an easter theme because Easter is right around the corner and each of the girls received a little gift basket with tiny jelly beans, a little white fluffy bunny, and chocolates...I told you we went all out!!!
All of these outfit will be listed in my Etsy shop over the next week or so along with lots of other more traditional Easter/Spring dresses for your dolls.

I'm having way too much fun with my girls . . .

Hugs,
Dawn

Seamstress at Heart

Sewing is one of my true passions. I started when I was just a little girl and I have been addicted ever since. I have many wonderful memories of spending time with both my mother and my grandmother watching them sew and spending endless hours in fabric shops. As a little girl I had a closet full of beautiful dresses all handcrafted by my mother and grandmother. I remember them dressing me up and taking me into the city for tea and luncheons all the time. What wonderful memories.

Now I am a mother and my children are my pride and joy. However, my daughter is somehow special. I always wanted to continue the traditions I grew up with and now I have that opportunity. Abby, who is currently ten, loves to go fabric shopping with me and help me pick out pretty fabrics. She will sit next to me while I sew and happily play with scraps of fabric, my button box, tape measure, and spools of thread for hours. When she was 3, she would go into my stash and pick out a piece of fabric and bring it to me and say.."sewing machine it mommy!" I will treasure these memories forever and I hope that she too will someday learn to love to sew like her mama, grandma and great-grandma.

"What's In A Name..."

I have received a ton of emails from people curious about the name "Olabelhe"! Way back when, when I decided to start a blog and a small business I wanted to have a very special and unique name that people would remember and that meant something! Since my inspiration comes from the most precious thing in my life...my children...I wanted "my name" to somehow reflect them. Hence, the birth of Olabelhe. This made-up word comes from the first 2 letters of all 4 of my children's names. OLiver, ABby, ELliott and HEnry! Pretty clever huh? I just love it and indeed, it works.

Monday, March 9, 2015

A Dolly Tea Party

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