Gonna miss you, Rosy

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Gonna miss you, Rosy

Can be any day now. I feel very strange. I feel agitated. I feel regrets. I feel sad, but I pretend to be my cheerful self. You all know me, I am not really the emotional type. Feelings like this are not my cookie.  Already for weeks the upcoming departure of Rosaleintje is circling like a hawk over every thought in my mind. Of course I know her departure is what we have agreed to. Of course I know that it is good for her to broaden her horizon, though for all that matters moving to the other side of town would have done the trick just as well.

But Rosy is not moving to the other side of town, no, she is going to live in Brazil. Never heard of it? Cannot blame you. To get there you do not need to cross the sea, no, you need to cross the ocean. And then it is not the small side you need to cross, no, you need to cross it diagonally.  It is pretty much on the other size of the world. Shit!!

Sorry, don’t know why I typed that. It is not a word that I do not often use. And not being equipped with a digestive system, I can assure you that I have never created anything even close to shit. But for some reason it now seems to be the right word for this place.

Thinking of it, linguistically it is kinda fascinating that I used ‘shit’. It must be the influence of the presence of all them embees in our house. For them ‘shit’ is a totally sensible word. Even more, it appears to be essential for their well being, so I was told. It seems that when embees stop shitting, they die. Seriously!

Because I know that some of my readers happen to be embees and shit happens to be a bit of a taboo subject for them, I will leave it like this. It is not my intention to upset anybody through my blog because I am writing ‘shit’. Though I have to admit that not being able to create shit myself, it makes it all the more fascinating to me. I was told that really old shit is even a collectable. But as said, better take it outside the blog. And besides that, I have other things on my mind. 

I had so much hoped to have Rosaleintje’s book finished before she would go, but that is not going to happen. This because for already many months, Rosaleintje’s book has been manoeuvred into a seemingly permanent state  of being ALMOST finished. Yes, the photos are ready, the text has been written and checked, double checked, triple checked. Even the translations into Dutch and German are ready. But now we are facing delay because the negotiations about the book size are completely stuck. This because the publisher and Koen want to have the book printed in giant size, whereas the logical size of course would be to have it printed in normal size. After all it is a book about ScoonimDolls, made by ScoonimDolls (ok, with a bit of help of some embees) and made for ScoonimDolls (and of course all other kind of dolls, but nonetheless...). So it is only logical to have the book published in normal ScoonimDolls size, which is definitely not the kind of book size that has photos so enormous that I feel like looking in the mirror when I am looking at pictures of myself in a book. Books in that size are not books, they are bundles of doors with texts and posters printed on them..

I know, it is a bit weird to write about a book that has not even been published, a book from which it has not even been decided what it is going to look like. But for me it is a hot topic, so I will tell you what I do know.

The book will be called Rosaleintje, of course, because it is about Rosaleintje. It will be a book with most of her photo stories. Not all  of them, but the ones that have been left out you already have seen.

I have taken it upon me to write most of the text for it, but since it is  a photo book the amount of text I have written for it is not much. 25 pages give or take. But it took me a hell of a lot of time because I had agreed for Koen to comment on it. This because Koen also has written a couple of pages for it and I have been so stupid to comment on that.

Of course my recommendations to his little contribution in text did not even result in the slightest encouragement for him to make even one  modification, but it did open the door for him  to ‘help’ me writing my part of the text....  I know, I should have kept my mouth shut. I should have seen it coming. I should have suspected a catch.  If you noticed that I sounded a bit agitated in my last couple of blogs, well, you now know the reason!

Cannot deny that I seriously have considered going with Rosy to Brazil. But next to the fact that it would mean giving up my job as reporter for CD, it would also mean that I have to leave my house, the workshop, Mom, my giant embee sisters, Mop and Knor (our guinea pig dolls), the B-bub*, PH04, Loes, my boss Kharn, many other dolls and Koen and Hand. Who is going to take care of Hand when Rosy and I are not around?

So, I am sorry Rose, but I have to stay.

SHIT !!

Yeah, I know, it is that clay-like stuff embees squeeze out of their bodies. So what?!

Oops. Time’s up. This was supposed to be a special farewell blog for you, Rosy, but I did not write a single word about all your good qualities, hobbies, good deeds, special quotes, funny remarks, adventures, habits, the naughty stuff...

Indeed, that is a bit awkward. Hmm....well, nobody is perfect, right?

Fortunately I have a lot photos of you in a video that will compensate for this  ;-)

 

As for the rest of you…

Say, if any of you have a normal ScoonimDoll size Portuguese dictionary that you can spare, do me a favour and send it to me. I think Rosy is desperately going to need one. Thanks.

Thanks,

Stellai

P.S.

If you have missed my previous report, then you can use this link to see it:

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(Stellai’s blog February 2017: Snow fun) 

*The B-bub are the Barbie bunch under the bed. They are family too, but nowadays they do not really participate so much our in family life. To be honest, they are the black sheep dolls of the family..... rather dusty black sheep dolls that is.

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Hi Stellai, we will miss Rosy a lot and we do hope the book will be published soon. Don´t be too hard on Koen, he´ll take care of you as that brazilian will take care of Rosy. Kisses from Brigitte, Chris

Thanks Chris,

and thank you so much for making the translation of our book into German. You're a really nice doll. Brigitte told me that she even did not need to pressure you. Amazing!!  As for me being hard on Koen, it is really a necessity, you know. If it wasn't for me, he still would be selecting photos for the book. Sighhh!!

As for he taking care of me.... I can take care of myself, thank you. In fact nowadays I have to take care of him. not the other way around. lol

 

Stellai

Hi Stellai, don´t worry, it´s been fun and a pleasure, Brigitte didn´t have to pressure me as she knows that I´ll do anything to please her, and her friends. :) For if I don´t she´ll kick my butt. devil Chris

Well, I think I can speak for a lot of us faithful viewers that Rosaleintje sure had some fun times staying at home with Stellai and the entire tall-doll (MB) family... but like most ScoonimDolls, Rosie too is destined to go and stay elsewhere in the world. crying

But you, Stellai, say you're "not the emotional type"?? Hah! As I recall, you became extremely emotional the last time I asked you about something... winkdevil

 

But be that as it may, Stellai, I've always felt that you, and Rosie -- and all of your ScoonimDoll sisters, in fact -- are forever amazing. Exquisite, even. And when something that special goes far away, I know it may really hurt for a while.

But we can always treasure the photos we have of them, and keep all the memories as vivid as we can.

Rosaleintje, best wishes to you in your new home-to-be!

Hi dear Stellai,

after reading so much about Rosi (and of course yourself) I can't omit some tears running down on my face, seriously.

You're both together so amazing and there will be a great gap when Rosy leaves the Netherlands to start a new life in Brazil.

I feel so sorry about that and I can assure you that Mia, Zoe & Amy feels the same, believe my words. 

I really hope that Rosy's book will be published soon and that she enjoys to re-explore the breathtaking adventures with embees, flying dolls and all other kind of self moving non-battery powered dolls. And: a 1:1 scaled photo book is much more fun as it is nearly lifesize for you both, just like a great moveable background poster. 

Please don't be to hard on Koen, he's a kind MB and he only wants the very best for you. 

Hugs and more hugs,

- SF -

Stellai You are not losing a friend but gaining many more!winkyesBe happy it's just the begining!angel