Making Mini Souvenirs in 1/6 Scale, Part One

  First, I have gone back and added some pictures to the post that mentions the Halloween costumes, (More Stuff We Made),from a couple of days ago,as well as a picture of the stocking treats. Also, I went back and added pictures to several other posts on Ivy's dolls. I found the accessories to some things after I did the posts on them. The updated posts include Day 313,322, 326,332,342,and 344.
  We continue to talk about 'making stuff' today. Today we're going to talk about 'making stuff' to use  as souvenirs for the dolls' vacations.
  Some of you may have read my post on doll vacations HERE. If not,let me explain this to you. When the kids were little their dolls 'went on vacation'. It all started when Emma got the idea to send Fuzzy's dolls to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus. Once she did that,Ken and I helped her with things for Fuzzy the Doll to bring back. I think that may be where the little Rudolph record I showed you yesterday came from. I'm sure that must be where this tiny postcard, from The North Pole, that I found in Fuzzy's doll stuff, must have come from.
 

  I can't remember how long after that the dolls started taking regular trips. The kids would pick a country, and their dolls would 'travel' to the doll version of that country. (They only went to 'Doll England' for example,instead of regular England,because the kids worried about doll kids being so far away alone. I told them that dolls could travel to other doll countries without worrying about not being escorted,because they were always safe, unlike real kids,who had to travel with an adult.) If you want to read the details about how the dolls were 'transported' to the countries,and hidden while they were supposed to be on their trip,please go to the previous post using the link above. If not,stay with me.
  I am going to steal from my previous post to explain the next bit.
  "The dolls would send emails home, with pictures of their adventures..."

Like this one of Fuzzy the Doll on a rope bridge in the Himalayas. I'm sure we could do better pictures now with modern computer programs.

The whole thing, like the kids' dolls themselves, started out normally. But the dolls developed distinct personalities as we played. Emma the Doll became confident and conceited,oblivious to the fact that her decal face (of Emma's real face) had worn down,and all her badly rooted, (by me) hair, had fallen out. 

This picture is from a very early vacation where Emma the Doll got her Harry Potter book signed by J.K. Rowling the Doll.

She was left with two threads that dangled to one side. That became her hair. 

You may have seen this 'behind the scenes' picture of Tammy World and Emma the Doll at the World's Halloween party. You can see the whole photostory HERE.

  While I am responsible,at least to a great extent, for Emma the Doll's transformation from sweet little girl to loud mouthed weirdo,(I 'made her talk' quite often,and somehow it went that way. It was funny!),Fuzzy the Doll was entirely Fuzzy's creation. Fuzzy the Doll,who Fuzzy got for his second birthday,became absolutely crazy. His suitcases for his trips were always full of weaponry and piles of cash. (An early version of the TSA removed his weapons before he was allowed to board the plane.) I tried to make the emails funny. (Of course, I have a weird sense of humour.My kids were used to it though. My jokes often made them laugh, and their friends stare at me blankly.) I followed Fuzzy the Doll's personality for what he did and said on his trips. When he went to a museum there were emails sent home describing how the statues looked with mustaches. Emma the Doll sent an email with a picture of Fuzzy the Doll atop Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. (Ivy's doll Blue stayed a sweet little girl. Of course, this made the other two kids think Ivy's doll was 'boring'.)
   I also liked for them to learn something about the country they had chosen. As I said in the other post,  "When Fuzzy the Doll went to Africa, he not only visited the pyramids, but a real mining town, which I had to research to find", because Fuzzy wanted him to search for gold. "I used pictures of the real places. When Fuzzy the Doll went to the Himalayas to search for Yeti... there pictures of the dolls in the village below the mountains..."---which included the rope bridge picture above.
  But something the kids loved almost as much as the dolls' emails home,were the souvenirs they brought back when they came home. I made a lot of tiny things. That is, after I thought up what someone would bring home from a trip to that particular place. The dolls went to Paris, London, Liverpool, Italy, Africa, China, the Himalayas, Disney World, Hollywood,and other places. Sometimes it was easy to think up things for them to bring back,and easy to get the things. When they went to London the first time, Fuzzy the Doll brought back a teddy bear with a British flag on it's chest. (A regular tiny bear we put an iron on flag on, which we printed on the computer.) They all brought back English soap at some point. (They went to  England more than once. With the kids being half English, they wanted to go there.)

This is Ivy's. I located the box,which was included in a dollhouse magazine,but I could only find one bar of soap. I made it from polymer clay. If I did it now I'd carve it out of real soap.

Fuzzy still had one bar of soap left,as well as these other England souvenirs. At the top is a postcard. In the middle is a tin of candy. The tin came from a bag of them I bought online. The picture on top is cut out of a catalog. The candy is polymer clay. At the bottom is a sticker,and the bar of polymer clay soap.

I made a really nice wooden box with tiny excelsior in it and little lavender coloured soaps, for Emma.It's in her doll stuff somewhere. Her things have been packed up for a while,but someday I'll dig her souvenirs out.
  Ivy has a tin of candy too.

What else is England known for? Once Ivy's doll Blue brought home a tiny package of tea. I used real tea,and the picture on the package was of a real tea package from a catalog. I have been told that child Ivy ATE the tea eventually! Blue also brought home some rose scented powder.

I made the container, and it still has powder in it.
  Some of the other things Ivy's doll Blue brought back are a Titanic print 'signed' by survivor Millvina Dean(the Doll,of course! By the way, when Ivy was little, she was obsessed with the Titanic,like I am.), and some English money,(They always brought back money.) We printed the tiny money on the computer. (Can we get arrested for Doll Counterfeiting?) The two necklaces are a jade one, from 'China', and the other one may be from 'Egypt'.

As I said, they always brought back money. Early on it was always black and white,but eventually we did colour.

Some of Fuzzy's various money.

Some of Blue's English money and souvenirs. 

Emma and Fuzzy both got mini boxes of toffee. I made the box from some gold cardboard I had. The toffee was made of polymer clay, and twisted up in cellophane of red or yellow. The one below is Fuzzy's.

 

Of course, nobody can travel without a passport. Apparently Blue even has TWO.(Isn't that illegal?)

This one I made. Blue lives in 'Playtown'. The kids all gave their doll towns names. Emma's was 'Dolltown'. Fuzzy's was 'Garagetown',because Fuzzy the Doll lived in the Playskool garage with the upstairs room. When Ivy was still very tiny Emma asked for her doll town name,and she came up with 'Playtown' all by herself. There is that earless bunny again,as well as one of the mini books I made for Blue,and a polymer clay doll Ivy made for Blue when she was little.

Blue's London tube map,and passport.

This one came from Michael's miniature section,which unfortunately,they don't have any more.

Her passport stamps.

  Those are some of the simpler things made for the doll's souvenirs. Tomorrow we'll look at some more complicated ones.