Bernie and I went to Dubai Festival City one Thursday evening, I met up with fellow knitter Debbie for a spot of light supper at IKEA and he went to peruse the shops. Great to catch up with Debbie and see her second Liesl knitted out of the exact colourway I wanted in Malabrigo Worsted. I showed off my then in-progress Liesl and got tips on how to spray-block the thing when finished.

After what seems like only 10 minutes with Debbie, but in reality about an hour and a half, Bernie and had a walkabout. We found this display of really gorgeous dolls around one of the foyers. Some dolls were freaky looking, you know like those ceramic dolls from a century or so ago with beady eyes and frizzy hair. But these ones caught my eye and good thing they were allowing photography. I just knew Eileen would love these!

So here you go, anak!

Yes, purple kimono. Now don’t you start nagging me to get you one!

I took this last photo just because I thought the baby llama was so cute!