Lula-Jo Dolls

Why is it only ok for children to have comfort objects?

Why are we expected to give these things up as adults?

Life as an adult can be so hard, so painful, so stressful, yet we must cope and deal with what life throws at us.

I have been working on these little weighted, handheld comfort/worry dolls. A little pocket companion to bring comfort and peace in times of anxiety, grief and overwhelm.

Thought I would share my most recent dolls, made from Simone Gooding's Hedgerow Dolls pattern.

They have been inspired by the feeling that spring is trying to make an entrance, a feeling of hopefulness and hibernation ending.

My dolls can be found at

Life can be a struggle

Up until 8 years ago it had been pretty good, I think I had had it pretty easy.

8 years ago my husband was asked to be the pastor of our church. He has had no real training for this, but after a lot of prayer and talking to wise people, he accepted.

From this point, life has felt like a fight. 6 years ago I lost my mum, the fight got harder. Then we lost our closest friends as our paths had changed too much for them to stick around.

We so often feel alone BUT over the last month, God has shown us so clearly that he is with us.

Financially we have been struggling ever since we took this on, in December I was seriously looking at jobs ( being a pastors wife and stay at home mum doesn't pay!! ). Anyway, we didn't know if this was wise as it would change the home dynamic so much.

We prayed.

With minutes we had an anonymous donation.

Throughout December and January we have had several random donations. We have also just done our tax return and this morning we heard back that our bill is already covered and we owe nothing!! The donations have covered it.

God is good, He knows our needs and the cries of our hearts, He sustains us.