knitted up a storm, Barbie, and rusty the van gets a make over.

Knitted new Barbie size clothes.....model Elizabeth Taylor! Why!? well because I can and I am thinking to sell on ebay for a  pond or so......this is the only finished one so far....though I do have another five waiting for finishing.....

Elizabeth model is wearing a beautiful knitted black and white dress...... I also made a bag and large hat.

From patterns I found on Pinterest, which is a new passion/ obession whatever word you want to apply to a luny me......anyway....

Monster high...Frankie Stien wears a white tube dress......I am also thinking Black, red and pink for this one and possibly some belts and bags....

All the monster high dolls now have new clothes......some with knitted lace......

Clawdeen here is wearing my favorite red with white lace petticoat....

 a black and white dress again with white lace petticoat..................

For the first time in weeks we all got into a working rusty the van and went to Otley.

We......that would be me...Monza the dog and husband Lee. The van has been off the road and in bits all over the foot path behind the house........rusty the van squeeks and can be heard about a mile away. He failed his Mot test......not on rust and squeeking and rattling as you would think.....but on a "Hub" on the passenger side and brakes......the steering is not too good either, but is good enough......the passenger seat was removed too.....that is completely ripped with no seat on the end......so unfortunately,  When sat on your back end is on the floor and legs get jammed up in the dashboard. Monza the dog likes to help a stranded person ...especially if jammed and helpless..... and takes the opportunity to jump and lick a defenseless human.....there is no escape without rescue....as a lot of swearing and levering is required. This just adds to Monza dogs fun....though generally not helping much.
So this was an advisory on the last Mot test....along with the brakes. At one point the handbrake did not work at all......
So consequently major surgery required on poor old rusty the van.
Firstly he was de signed....as he is no longer a working van. Rusty has been decommissioned. He is nearly fifteen years old. he has travelled alot of miles all over this country....he is now so old...next year he will be considered a classic!
So Lee set about ebay with his heart in his mouth to find a new......er.....that would be new to us!......hub assembly. lee and a neighbor took the old one off. Both looked very knowledgeable in their mechanics overalls.....it only took a whole day and a lot of jiggerypokery.......
Once the new parts were ordered.....this was a total pavlova of a fiasco too...... Delivery by courier was swift, only the part was in worse condition than the one they spent the day getting off.... So another was dispatched the same day......on arrival and inspection it met with approval...few!
Then this part took a day to be put back in place.......by which time the whole street was blocked, as the van was on bricks with no wheels......
as well........father in law wanted to come up. He wanted to order and pay for parts for the van. The only problem with that being.......he will not use his debit card on the Internet...... So father went to a cash point....took out cash. The cash was brought home......then Lee went out to our bank and deposited cash...then came home and ordered parts over the Internet.
Next. Father wanted to go to the supermarket.
This time we all went back out again. I went too this time as men have a different idea of shopping completely. We passed the cash point and the bank and all went to the supermarket. Father insisted on imitating the money supermarket advert
Don't yer wish yer girlfriend was hot like me..........reggae of bum.
All I can say is.....that he had no hot pants or platform shoes.
Previous adverts he has done are the fishhook building society one........which involved hooking his mouth like a fish on a line and saying
Blurrrrrrrrr
Durrrrrrrr
The recipient's never understood that one either.
So. The van is now fixed. It has passed Mot test. We have road tax. So we went to Otley at last.