I gave birth to her at 3:27 am on a Saturday.
In these short two years, I've seen some of myself in her.
She's a little crafty...
...and a little domestic.
She loves being outside...
...even if it means getting dirty.
She's independent, determined (sometimes to the point of stubbornness) and has a special admiration for her big brother...just like her mom.
But she's very much her own person.
She takes an unconventional approach to life.
And she could teach me a thing or two about finding joy in simple things.
Yep, she was born on a Saturday...
...and I'm changed because of it.
I hear it snowed somewhere in the country this week. Here, the citrus trees are blooming and it smells heavenly. Nevertheless, I drew a winter dress for Clara this week for all of you who had snow and ice.
Clara's Dress 48 (741k)
During the 1910s, fashion designs became softer and lesstailored than those of the previous decade. Dresses like this one and this one were very structured, pleated, and decorated. 
It may surprise you to see that Clara’s shoes are boots, and not exactly what you might expect to beworn with a dress. However, boots were very practical, and were worn with daydresses in the early 1900s. This little clip from a postcard shows a girl wearing boots with her dress. 
This week, Clara gets to wear a 1930s double-breasted coat, the uniform of sleuths in every clichéd mystery book and movie. Clara is wearing a similar coat and hat in the black and white illustration from an original copy of The Bungalow Mystery, one of the first three Nancy Drew Books published in 1930. The original cover has Nancy in a very cute blue suit with a stylish yellow scarf. The familiar yellow spines for the Nancy Drew book covers were not created until 1962, when the books were republished. 
Clara has a cute double breasted trench coat, worn with a drapy scarf around her neck. She also has a floppy rain hat to match the coat. And finally, she has some galoshes to finish off her rainy-day outfit. Galoshes were pulled on and worn over whatever more fragile shoes were being worn underneath, thus protecting the shoes from mud or water.
Clara's dress for this week is a pretty day dress trimmed with roses. In the 1840s, the slope-shouldered look became popular, so dresses were sewn to hide the natural shoulder line, and mimic a round shouldered look. Women would practice holding their shoulders a certain way to accentuate the rounded look. The things people will do to be "in style"!
In the south, after a palm leaf drops down it has to be trimmed.
