Well I entered the workforce at 16, worked at the local hospital, married when I turned 18 and continued to work until for some reason our family started to increase :o). One of the fortunate ones, I got to be a stay at home mom. When our kids were all in school I did seasonal work at a nursery, this turned into full time and after 5 years was offered a managerial position. I turned it down to become a full time mom again, 'our kids' are now all teenagers, this should be self explanatory LOL. I joined a couple of Garden Clubs, took a judging course, judged fair shows, parlor shows, and helped judge several larger shows for over 20 years. I also took the judging course put on by the Pacific North West Dahlia Conference and started out to become a Dahlia judge but this entailed some travel which I wasn't able to do. I retired from judging last summer and now I get to play in the dirt to my hearts content. After reading all of your accomplishments I had to smile to myself. We who come from all walks of life meet on a common ground to share our love of gardening, it doesn't get any better. Annette

This page has some instructions for soft sculpted dolls. Click on a specific doll and it will take you to a page with the various clicks to how to's. Hope this is what you were looking for. Here is a link that might be useful: Expressions

I've been using this fabric.. it's the best price on the web that I've been able to find.. and it seems to work great.. I make cabbage patch type soft sculpture dolls. It sells on their website much cheaper than it usually goes for on ebay :) and if you want some help putting the doll together check out the cabbage patch kid sewing club on msn. http://groups.msn.com/cabbagepatchkidsewingclub/_whatsnew.msnw there are lots of ladies with tons of experience who can help you out :) Here is a link that might be useful: the fabric I use

I have had a lot of you guys reach out to get the cabbage patch doll pattern from me, I am so sorry I have not been able to get it to anyone until now. I am going to enclose the link here for anyone to get it, you will need to download each photo that you want, meaning the file has the entire book, so if you just want the patterns just download those pics. Good Luck yall! Click on the words "Cabbage Patch Doll Patterns" it is an embedded link. Cabbage Patch Doll Patterns