Doll-A-Day 2023 #173: Savannah Mini Pal

   Today's doll is the last one of the three I got from Emily at The Toybox Philosopher when she was selling her dolls  before moving. She's the Savannah Mini Pal from Maru and Friends.

She went to the beach on a dreary day. There was sunshine right before I tried to take her pictures, and then as I was taking them, there was a downpour and she had to duck back into her plastic bag and wait for a sunny day to finish her photo shoot.

  She doesn't have her box any more. That was so she could fit in the big box with big Savannah and my Zwergnase, but she has her certificate of authenticity.

  She is the tiny version of regular size Savannah.

She has the same fair complexion and freckles, and bright red hair.

 

The crack in my lens filter really shows up when I photograph too directly in the sunny direction. On this day it wasn't even sunny and the light still hit the crack in such a way that it left a blur through some of my pictures.

 

But not all of them, and some only faintly, like this one.

I need to remove it. It's only a clear filter, meant to protect the real lens. But it's screwed on so tight that I can't get it off. Ken says maybe we should risk it, and just break the glass out, but we're afraid of scratching the real lens. You know. The one that won't focus properly any more!

  Savannah is very pale. That's not unusual, since she's a red head. Ivy is probably at least this pale, if not more so. But if Savannah had been my mom's kid, she would have been told to "Get out and get some sun! You're pasty pale!", like I was told when I was a kid. And I spent all my time outside!

Mom never caught in to the idea that she had a red haired kid. I was most likely going to be pale. But then, she was also disappointed that I didn't have curly hair, and that I wasn't a boy. 

This was third grade. She tried to curl my hair until she gave up. My hair just wasn't having it.

There's no pleasing some people I guess.

  It was getting pretty windy too. This picture reminds me of one from our trip. (But you haven't seen that one yet.)

She looks so beachy, so I thought a picture at the beach would be perfect. It would have been if it had been sunny. which it couldn't stay long enough to get a sunny picture. There was just enough sun to make a glare in the lens crack.

I don't think I've told you how I cracked my lens yet either. That also has to do with our trip. Our cursed trip. I do intend to finish those posts, and now that I have my pictures back, and some things from the house that I bought on the trip, I can finish the trip posts.

This Savannah is one of the first Mini Pals, so she has the soft, squashy limbs. I don't think they use those at all these days. Her arms and legs are very soft and bendy, (without holding the bend.). The most recent ones have a firmer vinyl. When I tried to hold Savannah by just her arm, it bent and she couldn't stand up straight. You may have seen where I reviewed Chad, the first Maru and Friends boy. He was like this. Although the limbs are soft, and bend easily, the dolls still manage to stand okay. And their arms and legs can move outward. If you can balance them in a spread legged position, they can support themselves fine. 

She did need a prop to stand on this uneven ground. Unfortunately, you can spot it at this angle.

  They also have cute Dianna Effner faces and a really nice feature: They can tilt their heads side to side and up and down. This adds a lot to the moods you can get from them. 

  Since her first try at a photo shoot got rained out, Savannah tried again. It was the first day of the Air Quality Alert, but we did it anyway. I got a few dolls quickly photographed. Then we gave up.

   Savannah is wearing her original dress...

WHAT is in the sky?

...white undies, and shoes.

They match her dress.

They have a texture on the bottoms.

  She also originally had a hat. I swear I got the hat with her, but I must have left it in the box. Both attempts at her pictures were rushed due to environmental conditions of one kind or another.

  Our air is almost back to normal now. Give it another day or two and we should be at our usual numbers. On the day I took the second batch of pictures, Ken and I were out and about and got some lunch. The place we got it doesn't do dine in, and we went sort of across the street to the grocery store for drinks. I looked for a nice place to park and eat our lunch in the car-what I call a car picnic-  and behind the store was the most beautiful forest! The grass was mown on the slope up to a line of pine trees, and beyond that in a slight distance, was a wood. I took some pictures on the slope, and then climbed to the top of the slope to take the pictures you saw the last two days, of Hermione and Harry. That's when I found that there was a small soy bean field at the top, and at the back of that was the woods. It was a very small soy bean field. While I was sitting at the top of the slope, I heard a crash, and looked up to see two deer. They had just burst through the trees at the edge of the field, (thus the crash), and they ran along the edge of the field a short distance, and then popped into the woods again, their white tails flashing. With the overcast sunlight of the day, and all the greenery in an unexpected setting, all sort of hidden in a circle of trees, it looked sort of like a fantasy. There I was, sitting there with a camera in my hands, and all I thought of doing was getting Ken's attention so he could see the deer, which he surely couldn't have anyway, from his location in the car at the bottom of the slope. From there it was impossible to even see that there was a soy bean field. It was a beautiful sight though. I'm sure the camera couldn't have captured it anyway.

  That's today's doll. Don't forget to check out the Doll Book of the Month too.