A wonderful Christmas gift!

 What an exciting day in the Bleu Manoir!

Today, December 14, is the day to open our Exchange Gift.

It came last week but Maman kept it hidden from us.

It's from Tante Pauline. She lives far away. She sent lovely things for all of us.

Maman has made the pictures extra large so you can see our nice things.

Ellowyne is happy with a pretty hat and sweater that we think Tante Pauline knit for us.

Maman can't knit. She says she can't handle 2 needles at one time.

Zoe loves the chipmunk puppet.

Helena is riding the really nice rocking horse.

And I'm wearing the gorgeous sailor suit and hat which is very well sewn.

Oh, it's a very happy Christmas indeed!

Merci beacoup, Tante Pauline!

Love from Yvette Marie and the Bleu Gang

A very beautiful Christmas bed!

This is one of our many friends.

Her name is Angelique.

Her Maman's name is Carol. She took this photo of Angelique resting in her pretty bedroom after a busy day of shopping.

Now this is just what I would like to do!

Only Maman hasn't found a bed for us just yet.

Tante Julie made the wonderful quilt, and Tante Marilee made the gorgeous coverlet.

I hopped up and down so much that Maman has printed off a copy of this picture, and she will try to make me a quilt like this. Of course it will be nice once I get a bed!

Angelique's Maman said we could put the photo here in our blog.

Love from Yvette Marie

Posting a letter to Santa Claus

A little while ago it snowed, and Maman hurried and finished a gorgeous green velvet cape for me!

I also hurried and wrote a letter to Santa Claus and posted it in the nearest mail box.

This is the address for Santa Claus if you're mailing from Canada.

I do so hope I get what I want! If I do, I'll be sure to post about it here.

Love from Yvette Marie

HAPPY ST NICHOLAS DAY!

We haven't posted in an AGE! Our calendars didn't sell, so we sent them off as gifts. Oh well, we'll have to think of other ways to make dolly money for new clothes and shoes! Maman kindly made me and Helena new Christmas hankie dresses. Today is St. Nicholas Day. Maman is half Dutch because she's married to a Dutch man, so she had us put out wooden shoes last night and today they were full of gifts for each of us!

There was a new mixer for me, 3 pairs of red shoes for Zoe, Helena and Ellowyne, 2 small porcelain angels for our bedroom, and a darling nutcracker made in Germany.

Here's a close up of our gifts. Aren't they wonderful?

I tried out the mixer right away, to get started on my Christmas gifts early.

I baked special cupcakes for the girls.

If you click on the picture, you can see my cupcakes up close.

The German nutcracker is watching me!

Love from Yvette Marie

FOR SALE...A BLEUETTE 2011 CALENDAR! ONLY $12.00!

Maman has designed a 2011 calendar for all our fans.

When it's opened up, it's 8" wide and 11" long.

It's a wall calendar and it features a special 4" x 6" glossy photo of me and Zoe for each month.

Just think, you can look at us all year long!

We think the calendar designs look quite "French" and suit our photos very well.

This picture shows Zoe for the month of July.

This picture shows the month of November with me, Yvette Marie, as the star.

The calendar is only $12.00 plus postage of $4.00.

If you would like a calendar please let Maman know by posting here or emailing her at dragonfly3@telus.net

We have ONE calendar available.

All funds from the sale will go toward dolly clothes and shoes!

(Zoe and I think we have enough sisters now.)

Love from Yvette Marie

We have a new cousin!

Here is a new cousin.

Maman has been saving her dollars and they have added up.

She saved them for a while before buying Ellowyne and now this new cousin.

Her name is Daisy.

Daisy is a Kestner mold in Bleuette size. The original Daisy doll was first made in 1911 by a German company for a ladies magazine in the USA. Daisy was 18" tall. Someone got the idea to make Bleuette size Daisy's and they are called Daisyettes! A lady named Beth Golding made our Daisy.

Maman likes her face paint and her wig.

Maman made Daisy her very own hankie dress. She also finished ThierrySucette's hankie dress, which was won in the draw many weeks ago. Maman is terribly slow these days. Maybe she should stop buying things like dolls and just concentrate on sewing!

That is me, Helena, wearing ThierrySucette's new dress. I'm modelling it. Hopefully I will get a winter dress in time for Christmas. Anyhow, I did get new socks and new black shoes.

Love from Helena

(this is my first post)

A most beautiful dress

Here is a gorgeous dress made by Tante Arlene. She is a SUPERB seamstress.

Maman admires her work very much. We hope Tante Arlene won't mind us putting her picture here. I want to keep it here so that Maman will see it often and then sew one like it for me.

Love from Yvette Marie