Iwanna Wednesday - Nesting Dolls

It's Iwanna Wednesday. The day I get to Iwanna anything in the world. Iwanna is kinda a nick name given to me by my mom and sister who say that I WANT everything. We can walk into any kind of store and I will see something and say, "I want one of those"...that's why they call me Iwanna.

But since I've not won the lottery yet, I can't make all my Iwanna wishes come true, but I can make them come true on Iwanna Wednesday because I can blog about anything Iwanna. That's why it's not call Igotta Wednesday, cause I don't gotta most of the things Iwanna...understand now? Nevermind...it's perfectly clear to me.

So I was randomly looking for unique dolls the other day online for my niece Melissa for Christmas. And now that I remember I haven't posted a picture of Melissa in ages! I took a super cute one at Thanksgiving. She was wearing the most gorgeous flowery purple dress. Purple is her favorite color. Isn't she cute? She really loves whipped cream. She takes after me like that :-D

Anyway....I saw lots of dolls that she would love, but I also saw some really unique ones that Iwanna. The dolls I saw are Nesting Dolls. They are known as Matryoshka Dolls, Babushka Dolls, Stacking Dolls, and Russian Nesting Dolls.

I bought these Nesting Dolls for my daughter for her birthday in April of 2009. She's always wanted Russian Nesting Dolls.

When I saw these next ones the first thing out of my mouth was, "Iwanna these dolls!" I just love the color. Don't get me wrong...I love the bright beautiful colors of the ones that are pictured above, but I just love the colors in these. You can find these ($59.95) and many, many more at tridenttreassures.com. Just check out the teeny-weenie little baby ones. Join me in saying, Awwwwwww...

 

And get ready to say Awwwwwww yet again cause check out these cute little penguin nesting dolls. Oh yeah...I hear ya! These are from bestgiftexpress.com and are $39.95. (I don't usually list prices, but seeing as how some of you may be looking for unique Christmas gift ideas I thought it might be nice to know how reasonably priced they are.)

The next ones are also from bestgiftexpress.com and they just make me smile. How sweet are these? Just $55.95...don't you love the baby chick, freshly hatched? And the Rooster...isn't he just so cocky! ;-D And the mother hen just gazing adoringly at her baby chick...sweet!!!!

I am in Iwanna Nesting Heaven! I keep thinking...ok, this is the last onem  this is the cutest one ever and then BOOM...there's another one! This one is called the Yellow Submarine, like the Beatles song. These are actually the Beatles. The Walrus is Paul...can you guess the other ones? Just check out the details! They all actually can fit inside the yellow submarine. I love the Seahorse with the microphone and the octopus with the pink guitar. Can you blame me if Iwanna these?

The rest of these I found on amazon.com and I wish I had more time so I could post pictures of the one million and one nesting dolls I found there! There just isn't enough time to show you all of them, so head over to find many more such as these. . .

Star Wars!

Lighthouses

Nesting Nurses! They also had Nesting Policy Officers!

And if you're super creative...as I know many of you are. How about a blank set so you can make your very own unique nesting doll?

So is your Christmas shopping done? Aren't some of these great as Christmas Gifts? I think I would love all of them thank you very much! Which is your favorite? Happy Iwanna Wednesday and may all your Iwanna wishes come true!

A Cloche for April...not the month...the daughter!

Hi and welcome to my first ever Cloche attempt!

Marty at A Stroll Thru Life is hosting a cloche party, so I'm trying my hand at creating one. No easy task as it takes a creative mind and yours truly isn't exactly creative...most of the time. But here goes and I hope you like it!

Some of you may be asking, "What is a Cloche"? Cloche is french for bell. It's formed of a piece of glass shaped like a dome and it's purpose is to protect garden plants from cold weather and frost.

I didn't have a formal cloche or bell jar or apothecary jar, so what I did was take my hurricane lamp and turn it upside down, which makes a bell shape...hence a cloche!

I thought long and hard about what I would put under my cloche. I wanted something fall like, even though it's still in the high 90's outside. So I decided that I would do a little display for my daughter April.

A few months ago she took a job about 4 hours away and I've only seen her once since then. She's coming home this Saturday just for the day and so I figured I would go ahead and use some of her most loved things.

So here it is...my Cloche. April is collecting tea cups. This is the first one that she has found. She has four others because she's claiming the four that belonged to my former mother-in-law, April's grandmother...lol. Right now all five are in my possession. Also pictured are April's Russian Nesting Dolls which I gave her as a gift this year for her birthday...on Aprils Fools Day and yes, that is her actual birthday. I added the tray, flowers and candle just to give the display some fall colors.

I'm going to display it on my kitchen table, but I might move it on the weekend to my coffee table so I can see it while I do my "couch potato" thing. :-)

Here's a closeup of the cup and saucer. I love this picture, the way the light is reflected in the glass and mirror on the tray.

Here's a closeup of the Russian Nesting dolls...I felt they had great fall colors. The little orange candle in the background just is a nice fall color and also smells great! The little brown tray is from Goodwill and I've been debating painting it. It has a mirrored bottom and I keep it on my kitchen counter.

And the silk flowers were given to me by my sister. The rest of them are displayed in the barrel planter on my patio. I do great with silk, not so much with real flowers. I believe these would be mums?


So...what did you think of my first every cloche? I had a fun time creating it and now I hope you all head over the Marty's, A Stroll Thru Life and see what everyone else created!