Will it NEVER be Spring?! And the Latest Doll Sized Goodies

  My daffodils are still blooming, my Jonquils, (I think that's what they are.), are bloomed and more numerous than ever before. My lilacs are budding. However, the trees still have no leaves and not much sign of having any, and yesterday afternoon as we headed to Fuzzy's, our street looked like this:

We live on a corner, so this was our other street, where the side of our house is.

Ken's lion has snow on his head.

My poor snow covered flowers!

Are those Jonquils?

This is the spot where I took some of the Tammy World Easter photos just the day before!

It snowed all day! None of it stuck after the initial covering, and by the time we got back last night the snow on the ground was all gone. It was still really cold though. It's freezing today and it's supposed to get down to 27 degrees tonight!  

  But now, the point of this post. Here are some of the latest doll sized goodies we've found at the bin stores lately. First of all, I got really excited when I found a bunch of these balloon lights in the bottom of one of the bins. 

Why? Because they can be used to make doll sized lamps that turn on and off. I've made some dollhouse sized lamps and one 1/6 scale lamp that are non-working, but I've been wanting to make some lamps that actually light. So I snagged as many as I could find. This is most of them.

  You may have seen my review of the Maileg Ginger Brother recently.  They're also known for their little mice family. I spotted this little suitcase in the bottom of a bin.

I opened it up and found this!

The inside of the suitcase is supposed to look like a nursery.

I was so excited that I ignored what the lid said and thought I had found one of those Maileg mice, but it turned out to be a Mudpie fox with her baby sibling.

Her little baby sibling Velcros to her arm.

She's a Big Sister Fox, and her shirt looks like it would come off if you could scoot it down over her shoulders. She'd make a sweet gift for a little girl who is about to be, or has just become a big sister.

  I also found this set of tiny Lego type blocks.

It was a good find. You might remember how happy I was to find a set of mini blocks like this at Disney when we were there on vacation a few years ago. It also puts some variety of colour to the mini Lego type blocks I found in the form of a build-your-own football helmet mini block set at a bin store once. I found the box in the bin, but most of the blocks were spilled out. I dug out all of the blocks I could find and refilled the box. I didn't care if they were all there and made the helmet. I just wanted the tiny blocks.

  I have made some non lighted dollhouse sized lamps, as I said, and to make them one of the things I use is interesting beads. That's why I snagged these out of the bin.

  I saw this, and I thought, 'Barbie sized clothes rack'. 

Without the hangers of course. They don't come with it.

I think it makes more sense for that than what it's intended for.

  Ken found these American Girl sized Zelda cards.

I'm not going to  keep them. They might go on the sales page, or on Ebay.

  I saw these, and immediately thought of Tammy World. 

They are for kids, for cleaning their glasses! They're connected and you use one on your thumb and one on your finger, to clean the lenses. Because they're little shirts it's supposed to encourage kids to keep their glasses clean. Okay.

  I've already made them into shirts for Tammy.

They're done all but for the closures on the backs.

  I found a couple of these figures that I think are the bootleg Nendoroids like Emily reviewed with her real ones recently on The Toybox Philosopher blog.

It's a pretty neat little figure, with a bunch of extra hands, extra faces, an extra coat, and a hat.

  I also got some leather repair stuff. It's sheets of adhesive backed faux leather, which I thought would be good for making miniature books. I got a pack of the one kind, and two rolls of the one that you can't see well here. It's brown.

  Just about the best find was Ken's spot. He wasn't sure what it was, but he thought it was something I'd be interested in, so he nabbed it. As it turns out, he was right!

It's one of those kits to build your own tiny house, complete with furnishings.

It comes with everything you need to make the house and all this stuff pictured in it. It even has the fridge and toilet, and supplies for making the table and chairs, bed, couch, etc.

 I was pretty excited at first, but then I thought, I would prefer to design my own house and decide on my own furnishings. So I will probably make sure nothing is missing and then sell it. Maybe I'll put it on the sales page here, but if it doesn't get any interest in a short period of time, I'll put it on Ebay.

  That's it. I have some neat things to show you soon and an interesting book for the Doll Book of the Month Club this month. See you soon.

The Latest Bin Store Doll Goodies

   Ken and I went to Indiana last week to see Ivy and watch an opera she designed and sewed most of the costumes for. 

Ivy got a bio in the program under 'Artistic Team Bios'.

Here are some of her designs.

These two.

This is blurry, but you can see the back. Very pretty.

My favourite was the main witch. That's the middle one. Ivy didn't do the other two.

Practically all the costumes in this picture. Ivy didn't do the one on the lower level, far left, or the two lower level, far right and the one on the upper level, far right.

  We're very proud of Ivy. She'll be graduating in May! Four years flew by, (Although, maybe not for her!) 

Ivy and Ken after the show.

  It occurred to me that we may only be visiting Greencastle one more time, for Ivy's graduation. I had never taken a picture of the murals on the grain towers. Fuzz hated them, but I think they're pretty. So I photographed them this time.

   Now! You may remember my recent post on Bin Stores, and the doll related things I found there. Well there's more where that came from! Here are my most recent finds of doll related things and 'making stuff' supplies from the bin stores. And remember, these things were mostly $1, sometimes $2.

These rolls of faux leather, in pink, and brown, and a roll of wood grain vinyl.

Great for making miniature doll sized furniture, (the faux leather), and  flooring.

  This roll of heavy paper and roll of faux wood paper.

The blueish one looks like old countertops or kitchen chairs, from the 50's. For years I've been wanting to make a set of 50's/early 60's style kitchen table and chairs, the type with chrome table edges and legs. This paper would make perfect counter tops and table tops, and even chair seats and back for that project.

The other one looks like boards. That could be good for backgrounds or floors.

A mat made of faux grass. Great for dioramas and photographs. It's the size of a large welcome mat type rug.

This double picture frame has hinges so it can be opened up, or folded shut. Good for a mini door or window frames.

This anatomy set is just about 1/6 scale. It would be great for a school scene.

It even comes with a sheet that identifies all the organs and explains what they do. 

I know these things are filters of some sort...

... but when I saw them I thought, "Windows!"

 

I pulled the filter bit off. See what I'm saying?

Ken spotted these battery operated mini Christmas street lights.

I'm not sure how I'm going to use these molds. They'd be okay for making doll sized purses if I wasn't worried about them opening. But I'm me, so they'd have to be 'usable'. Anybody have any suggestions for something flexible that would work in these molds?

I got this Barbie sized outfit.

It's made by Leo Glint. I'd never heard of Leo Glint, but looking it up, it seems that the only doll clothes they sell are what they sell as Blythe clothes.

I found these felting tools. I gave my sister one too. I'm not sure what kind of felting they're for, but I'll figure it out.

A whole bag of China markers. I know they're just glorified crayons, but I've always loved writing and colouring with them, since I was a kid. Ivy is the same way.

More little silicone molds that make flowers.

I found these keyrings. They're little mittens, somewhere between American Girl and Patti Playpal size. They're actually suede, which I don't do, but they were there on $1 day, so they might have been thrown away the next day. That's a waste. The poor cow would have died in vain. I was hoping they would be interchangeable so they'd make a pair, but the thumb is a separate piece, and only goes one direction.

These wood sticks are for labelling your plants. They'll work for making stuff too though. They even come with a marker.

I think this is nail art stuff, but the tiny shapes and glitter could come in handy for something mini.

A boatload of tiny plastic containers. They'll be useful for keeping tiny bits in.

I showed you the mini doll cases I was making a while back. (If you missed that you can see it HERE.) I never finished them because I never could get both halves of the cases the exact same size so that they fit together properly. Well, problem solved! These are the same size as the cases I was making.

I have no idea what they are for.

I found another one of those air vent record player air fresheners. I thought maybe somebody might want it, and if not, I can give the spare air freshener things to Emma for hers,(If she has even bothered to use it yet.)

This little string of lights would look good in a mini restaurant.

And these little lanterns would work too. These are Valentine ones, but I also have some purple ones that are just flowered.

I've found several different types of paint brush sets. My sister is quite an artist, so I got some for her too.

This glitter is super fine.

Tiny foil butterflies!

Little skateboards.

A set of wooden stamps.

Little 'jewel' dots in various sizes.

Metallic stuff.

A little...case.

More doll clothes. This is weird though, because not all the clothes are the same scale.

I got all these for $1.

Maybe they're Blythe clothes too, because the hat and head pieces are huge compared to the clothes.

You know what else fruit hammocks are good for? Doll hammocks!

You know what I thought of when I saw these? Stained glass windows.

Emma went with us one day. and she spotted a box that contained these dollhouse light fixtures.

Four for $1!

Doll sunglasses and cups.

Tiny snowflakes and Christmas shapes. I can see dollhouse Christmas garlands and ornaments.

Ken found this box of tiny Chinese food.

One of our best finds ever!

I think this stuff is for cars somehow. But I see doll sized welcome mats, with a little doctoring.

Remember back in December when Target had these?!

A Barbie sized ski lift!

Metallic paint.

More paint.

A boatload of glitter.

Ken found this amazing mini Aladdin lamp! I love it! I think it's for incense, which I don't burn. (I can't stand to breathe anything burning. My nose closes up.) But imagine how cool it would look for smoke to be curling up out of this spout!

When I found these guys I didn't realize they were Elf on the Shelf 'Elf Mates'.

I do love me some Christmas elves.

Red hair and brown eyes!

There was this Gabby's Dollhouse surprise figure. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this. I might end up donating it. I used to buy up Christmas stockings and toys and candy to donate to the battered women and children's shelter. A lot of the women and their kids turn up there with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Then they stopped taking anything second hand, even if it was cleaned before being brought to them. So we'll see how much stuff I can end up with. I already got a bunch of stockings from the bins. I might try to have some stuff to donate for Easter too.

These Barbie sized furniture sets will be good for donation too. I got 2 for $1 each. They each contain a bed, bed spread and pillow, vanity table and chair, couch, 2 pillows, hangers, comb, mirror, brush,  'perfume bottle', and other accessories.

  That's it for now. I'm sure I forgot something that was a great find. This week I've been sick with a bad cold. (I tested. Not Covid.) I've been napping and taking it easy to make sure I'm good for my birthday the day after tomorrow. It's the big one: 60 years old. Maybe I'll finally grow up...Nah!