Randomness...

How are you? Is it freezing where you are? We are having a lovely winter...chilly...turtlenecks and lots of tea weather. Love it! 

I have been collecting early red doll dresses for some time. I finally decided to make a dolly just the size for one of these frocks. She's a simple girl...antique black fabric from a choir robe and lambs wool hair from an old coat collar. She loves the dress!

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My blogger friends are the best! These wonderful necklaces were a gift from Lauren of http://rugsandpugs.blogspot.com/. Aren't they great? Annie loves her name and she is always thrilled to see it. We were both smiling big smiles when we opened the package to find these great old spoon handles. I must confess...on occasion...I have worn them both together! Lauren, you are a sweetheart!

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This next bit of randomness might...well, it's just plain silliness. If you read MW you know we travel with The Florida Bar. You also might know that every January we visit Tallahassee, where The Bar has it's home offices.

Tallahassee is a college town...a government town...a lobbyist town...in other words, it has a lot of visitors. It just doesn't have very many good hotels. In a town with so many visitors...especially students...well, hotels get "worn".

We have stayed in a couple of different hotels, but the past few years we have stayed in what they call a signature hotel. Owned by a well know hotel corporation, these hotels are usually old hotels that they have tried to breathe new life into...not always succeeding. Such is the hotel where we stay in Tallahassee. We stay here because they can accommodate the whole Board for their large meeting, and it is close to the Bar office.

Most of the Board members come to Tallahassee alone...their spouses pass on this trip. Annie and I love Tallahassee because we go to Thomasville, Georgia for a day of fun, and we roam around our capital city the rest of the time...they have a wonderful knitting shop.

A lot of jokes are made about this hotel. A lot! We refer to it as, "the prison". It has a very small window.

It is a very small room.

And the bathroom...

is, basically, in the middle of the room.

Separated by these sliding glass panels...frosted glass you cannot see through. Lovely. 

Needless to say, this is not up to par with our usual accommodations. We do what we have to do. As Annie says..."It ain't the Ritz!

 And to add insult to injury...or, injury to insult,

the shower floor is covered with these river rocks...they hurt your feet. Oh, and the inside wall of the shower is a giant mirror! Yikes! 

We have a wonderful time on our travels. The accommodations are usually first rate. But this one hotel, well it makes us giggle. I am always more than relieved to leave this cellblock on Saturday morning! 

Stay warm!

Enjoy the day,

Robyn