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corvidaedream · 1 year

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tiny seth finally had his first big road test in his actual job as child-distracting assistant yesterday when i was on tea room duty.

i was sitting next to the fireplace at the little table sewing a little doll-sized jacket for him when this family with two very young children sat down nearby, and the kids were very interested in what I was doing, so I stopped my sewing & took the needle off so I could show them how the work in progress jacket goes on him, and the older child (a little boy who proudly announced to me that he's two) was fascinated

for the next hour and a half, he made seth walk around the table, pointed out different features of him & how they related to us (ex: pointing out his eyes and then our eyes, or holding up his hat, and then the boy's own winter hat, and then my frilly white cap and shouting "HAT!" very proudly), and, my favorite, picking out scrap fabric from my basket and tying them around the little rabbit as a cape or a scarf (or handing them back to me and saying "help" to get me to tie the actual knot on a few of the scarves)

he also stuffed a bunch of the fabric scraps he really liked (the very soft ones) into his little jacket pocket.

when his family finally left, the tea room was closing, so I started packing up my stuff, and he asked me to bring the rabbit back out so he could say bye to him.

10/10 tiny seth did a great job at child-entertaining and not being accidentally mistaken for a gift or being walked off with

#messages from the ouija board #sadies day job #the boy was so cute and his parents were so clearly relieved to spend some time sitting down without the kids for a moment #my official story for seth now is that he belongs to my nieces #bc lucys nieces would all be very young rn (the youngest betsey is 6mos and the oldest abigail is 4ish)#but somehow aunt lucy is now subjected to endless requests for doll clothes #and its cool bc a few adults also asked about what i was doing and i got to use him to explain mens clothing and modesty in 73 #explaining that if hes a proper gentleman he needs a jacket bc having his shirtsleeves out is a state of undress #and ive embroidered a lot of details i couldnt quite replicate for real like certain seams and lacings so i showed some people those #also two little boys last week who were elementary school age excitedly declared that he was edward tulane #which was awesome and i was like oh i dont know what his name used to be. someone lost him here and never came back for him (truth)#(but also how edward travels around in the book)#and they were like 'yes!!! that's him!!!' and had their mom take a pic of them w me & tiny seth to show a teacher #who was reading the book to them in school rn

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