I've sewn doll clothes for years(over 40),for my DD then GD'S and now GGD's.And the other poster are correct,get the doll first.I have a soon to be 3 year old GGD,and she loves the soft dolls i make,(think rag dolls).She loves to drag them around with her for play and for bedtime.I make her the dolls and the clothes.She isn't to the stage yet where she just wants to change their clothes all the time,she just likes playing with them,talking to them etc. I've made her dolls,bunnies,bears etc,and different sizes in all of them.Then she just took over some of those sort of dolls that i keep around the house for when the kids come over. If she lives close by,take your cues from her!!My almost 3 year oldGGD plays with Barbies,but she doesn't try to dress and undress them yet.She just talks to/with them,and shows them her other babies.Make sure to make her some dollie blankets as well. I have doll patterns going back to when my DD was little 44 years ago,and for all sorts of dolls. Check your thrift stores also for old doll patterns,ours has lots of them from time to time. 2 years ago i made a wardrobe for my niece for her American Girl doll,she was 11 at the time.She was thrilled!! Kathi

I can get 2 out of 1/2 yard of 45" wide material. Cut the 1/2 yard in half where it's folded on the bolt so you've got a square about 21" wide and 18" high. Fold in half and sew up the 18" side to make a tube. Serge both ends so fabric won't fray. Put a 5/8" button hole at the top, 1" from the top edge, fairly close to the seam. Fold over 3/4" to make hem and sew down. When you've done this you will have a buttonhole on the outside of the bagholder. On the bottom of the tube, turn up a 3/4" hem, leaving 2" opening so you can insert elastic. Cut a piece of 1/4" elastic about 12" long. Insert elastic through hem and sew ends of elastic together after you've run it through. Then sew your hem shut. Back at the top, run a piece of 1/2" grosgrain ribbon 1 yard long through the top. Tie ends together so you can use this as the opening to stuff your bags in and hang from the ribbon. This is the fastest/most economical way to make bag holders IMHO.

I'll add a few more. Sears and Roebuck catalog Using a Sears and Roebuck catalog for toilet paper (in an outhouse). Corn cobs soaking in kerosene in a can on the back porch used as a fire starter for the kitchen stove. Kitchen matches (The last kitchen match made in the US was about 2 years ago.) Blow torch Bump starting a car engine. (It should have a manual transmission for this. This can be accomplished with a few automatics if the transmission has a rear oil pump. The vehicle has to be pushed fast enough for the oil pump to engage the transmission clutches tight enough to avoid slipping.) Setting the output of a generator on a car engine by moving a control brush. Fountain pen. Dictionary. Marchant calculators. These could extract square roots. This was accomplished by a series of subtractions while keeping count of the number of subtractions. It took several seconds to do this. It was using an oddity of the number system: Adding a series of odd numbers, starting with 1, returns the square of the number of odd numbers. Isn't that neat. 1 1 3 4 [1+3] 5 9 [4+5] 7 16 [7+9] 9 25 [9+16] ************ By the way, the proper lubricant for a slide rule is talcum powder or body powder. The object is to have the static friction as close as possible to dynamic friction to reduce a stick-slip action. When these two frictions are equal, the slide rule action becomes smooth. Slide rules made of bamboo usually do not require lubricants, and in my day, were more expensive. Engineering slide-rules have vertical cursor lines on both sides of the rule. These are adjustable and should be checked for alignment before using the slide-rule. These two cursors must be aligned with each other, in other words, when the cursor on one side lies on its index, the other side must also be on its index line. The index line is at ends of the scale. The reason for this is there are calculations that use both sides of the device and will be in error if the two lines on the cursor glasses are not aligned. A 10 inch slide-rule can only calculate to 3 places. Sometimes, it can do a 4th place if the answer lies between the 1 and 2 on the scale. A 20 inch slide-rule adds one more place. I have seen only one of these in my lifetime. It was a special issued by GM to some of its engineers in the 1950s. ************

I think the contractor who had the bathroom problems was probably exactly like that at home, I don't think it was intentional at all. I worked in an office building with a bathroom in the central core rather than the office suites and the floor was populated by Drs.-, Lawyers-, and Financial Services offices, and the things that would happen to those Key-Accessed-Employee-Only restrooms was absolutely Incredible. I left I note in there once that someone who regularly used that bathroom needed to seek psychiatric help. Anyway. My dad took a Second part-time job in a different hospital which lasted for a number of years to pay for the interior design and furnishings of their new house. We were allowed to use the entire house, but we weren't supposed to eat, or use things like markers in the living room. My nieces and nephews called the LR sofa the napping sofa, because it was a quiet place to go read a book. I have it now.