What I did Over Christmas

  Well, you didn't hear from me, or Tammy World over the holidays. I had a lot of projects I was trying to get finished for Christmas. In the end, I had to give up on getting a couple of them done, (I'll save those for other occasions.), one didn't get finished, and I actually did finish two of them. The two I finished were ornaments I was making for Emma and Ivy. I used a couple of the miniature dolls I made, that they had specifically said they liked. Emma had said years ago that her favourite of my little people was my ice skating girl, Sonia, (named after ice skater movie star of the 30's and 40's, Sonja Henie.) She had her own day on Doll-A-Day once. You can see her HERE.  Ivy said she liked the newsboy she helped me with, printing up tiny newspapers for him to carry, and the little boy on a sled. They both had their own Days too. You can see the sled boy HERE, and the newsboy HERE.  The newsboy wasn't wintery, or Christmassy, so I picked the sed boy for her ornament. If there was going to be a problem, I thought it would be because she would have preferred the newsboy over the sled boy.

   I had a bit of trouble figuring out what to use for ice in the skating girl's ornament. It had to be something small that would curve to the bottom of the ornament, otherwise the skater didn't have any headroom in the ball. In the end Ken suggested the clear contact paper I had gotten out for one of the other things I was making that I didn't get finished. It worked perfectly. I also came across some mini trees while looking for something else that I could cut down for the far away trees in the background of the sled boy ornament. So I did finally get the ornaments finished in time for Christmas. They aren't exactly how I envisioned them, but then, what ever is? 

  Here is the skater ornament.

  Originally there was no tree in the front of the bubble. But I decided it was too bare and needed something. So I added the tree. I kind of wish I had left it bare, because the tree is too bushy and she keeps getting her leg caught on it. My intention was for her to dangle from the top of the ornament and sort of look like she was skating, as she would move when the ornament was bumped. But now now she gets her leg caught on the tree, and frequently gets stuck sideways.

  The fishing line she's dangling from is just poked through her hat with a needle, so there is no change to the doll, and she can be removed from the ornament if it's ever wanted. And in case anybody who read her Doll-A-Day post is wondering, I did put her second skate on her before sealing her in the bubble!

  Here's the sled boy ornament.

  He came out pretty much as I wanted, but I would have preferred bigger empty ornament bubbles to put them in. The only bigger empty ornaments I could find wouldn't work though, because they didn't open up. They were just to be filled with things through the little hole at the very top, things like tinsel or glitter.

  Like the skater girl, he's been kept original, and can be removed from the ornament if it's ever wanted. He's sewn to his sled, and his sled is sewn to the snow. So they can be taken out and taken apart. I did this stuff in case the girls ever want to just leave them as dolls, in case the ornament gets broken or damaged otherwise.

  The girl's opened their ornaments at the same time. Remember, I thought the problem might be that Ivy would have preferred the newsboy. Well, it was worse than that. She liked the sled boy ornament, but preferred the skater one! She had never mentioned preferring that one before! Emma offered to trade her, but Ivy said no. She was okay with the sled boy, but she would have preferred the other one. I can't win.

  So there you are. That's why you haven't gotten the post on October's doll show yet! But it's ready to go and will be the next post up, very soon.

1/6 Scale finds at Target

 Here it is, almost Christmas. I actually took pictures of a bunch of Christmas items available from Target stores a couple of weeks ago, but I have been so busy with Christmas stuff that I keep forgetting to post them. Forgetting to post something for that long this time of year is really bad, because that stuff sells out really quickly. I was at a Target, (mind you, it was a small one), just a couple of days ago, and they had precious little left as far as Christmas ornaments. But maybe you can get lucky. And there are a couple of non ornament things too. So let's go. 

  There were these little sleighs in the ornments.

There were also these thermos ornaments, these...coolers? They are, I would say, sized right for 18" dolls. And these animal heads on a wall type things.

  

They also came as tigers and bears. Good for if your cartoon hunter has a den. 

  There was this little cart. It was an odd scale though. It was too big for 1/6 scale, (Barbie sized), but too small for 18" dolls. It was more scaled for something like Tonner's Patience. And the wheels didn't really move.

I've gotten compliments on my Muppets in test tubes mask.

  They weren't at the first Target, but the other day I saw these. They are a good scale for  shelves in a 1/6 scale store.  

I can see them filled with stuffed toys, towels, blankets, etc., in a 1/6 scale store.

  There was a third thing that I didn't recognize when I saw it, but someone posted pictures online and it was a ski lift! It was 1/6 scale and made of the same wood and black wire type stuff as these two.

  This is all not to mention the little Christmas trees and other things that Target has.

  That's it for this post. Ivy is home from college and we are spending some time together. I'll be back soon though, with, you're never going to believe this! Part two of that doll show post! The long awaited doll show part two will finally be up any day now!

Doll-A-Day 2019 #229: Stardoll,and Another Christmas in August

  Ok. Christmas in August isn't a thing. Christmas in July is,but I didn't have one then. However,yesterday I made quite a Christmas haul at a yard sale. oddly enough,the last time I posted a huge Christmas yard sale haul,(Even bigger than this one.),it was also August! You can see that haul HERE. I found all these cute ornaments at one of only a couple of yard sales we went to. I made up my own box out of about 3 or 4 boxes of ornaments. They were a quarter each.

There were various Santas and Mrs. Santas.
 

And some snowmen.

The Mrs. Santa on the far right seems to be one of those ornaments that came on a stick, for decorating plants.
 

I might not keep the others,but I love this little lady.

This miniature book will be great for dolls.

As will these eensy needlepoint pieces.
 

I got these two cute girls.

They remind me of the Misfit Doll from "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer".

There were lots of mice,including these cute little guys.
 

The pink one is the cutest.

There were also these Mr. and Mrs.Santa mice.

And these white mice.
 

The one on the left appears t be missing his nose. How does he smell? Terrible.

And this one in a chimney.

There was a cute dog. Looks like he might be a policeman...dog...or something.

This cute poodle looks surprised.

There was even a Snoopy.

Or maybe it's Snoopy's granny.

Christmas turtles!

There was even Raggedy Ann and Andy.

I think they may be Hallmark ornaments. 

Their faces are flat pieces of felt.

I saw some similar yarn ornaments still in their original bags,and they were marked 1986 Hallmark. These guys just said  1975 Bobs Merrill,which is just the licensing for Raggedy Ann and Andy.

There was this drummer.

I got this little Christmas elf. I have one like her/him,but you can never have too many! Some day I want to do a tree decorated with nothing but my vintage ornament collection.
 

My favourites are these guys!

A couple of them have lanterns,the second one has a candy cane, and the one on the far right has a bell.

They are Kurt Adler ornaments from 1973.

They have cute little flocked faces,colonial era ponytails, and their side curls are pipe cleaners.
 

Today's doll is one I found at Goodwill in Indiana,where I went after leaving Ivy to go to play rehearsal.

She's a Stardoll.
 

I think she's this one.

This is the stock photo for Stardolls on Ebay. I don't see a character name on that box,but apparently her name is 'Space Style'. Huh? She doesn't look very 'spacey' to me.

Mattel made Stardolls in 2011.

This one is not wearing her own clothes. This is a Barbie princess dress I think.

Stardolls were dressed in very current style clothes. My first reaction to seeing her in this princess dress was,'Well, I'll have to find her something else to wear that suits her better.'

From this angle she looks a bit like she has the Lea head sculpt. She doesn't though.

But after looking at her again,I decided she makes a pretty good princess.

Because their proportions are so different,I would think it would be hard to find other clothes that would properly fit these dolls even if you wanted to change them. The dolls were sold as Stardolls by Barbie, but they have a whole different body sculpt,and Barbie clothes don't fit them properly.

This dress is a little short.

They have big Stardoll feet. There's no way you're getting a Barbie shoe on that foot.

Stardolls also have really long legs,and one goes to one side a bit,so they can doll a model pose.

She has molded on underwear.

She can lift her arms up and out.

She has rooted eyelashes.

Stardolls were short lived.There were only eight dolls as far as I know. They were all pretty,interesting looking dolls.

You can see my other Stardoll HERE.
 

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  That's the doll for today. See you again tomorrow.