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Well, I should go down to the Minigalleri and hang some photos and my price list but I still have my headcold and there is a snow-storm outside. This show is called Dockornas Värld: mer än bara lek! (The world of dolls: more than just play!) and it runs through the end of this month.

Meanwhile, here's a pic!

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Note to self: NEVER, ever again buy the 6 mm snaps for sewing onto doll-clothing when 9 mm will work just as well and not make me crazy!!! And I had to make a new front pattern piece for the pinafore since I apparently tossed-out the old one. Otherwise, things are rolling along!

Sewing the finishing touches on the renaissance inspired grown; I'll hopefully finish it tomorrow. I haven't processed any of the zillions of photos I've taken lately and some of them came-out pretty cool. I'm not so sure an outdoor photoshoot will work so well, so I have (as usual) Plan B in the works. Off to bed now since I am freezing and want ( Read more... )

I worked on 2 doll chemises this evening; the first was a basic mock-up and the second one that I'll use in a photo. Doll clothes are hard to sew btw, since they are small scale and even a relatively small error is large in proportion to the item.

This doll was the last one given to me by my grandmother; I think she was a Christmas gift in 1980 or so. My doll had a blue, cotton "victorian" style dress and my cousin's doll had the same in red.


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This afternoon on the way home from various activities in the center of town (more about them later), I scouted and discarded several possibilities for photo ops for my dolls. The large park near to where I live, Ekhagen, is totally boring and empty. There's hardly any play equipment even and I remembered why I so seldom go there! I didn't expect ( Read more... )

Approximately 41 years ago,  when I was 4 and my little brother about 2, he accidently decapitated one of my dolls and came perilously close to being decapitated himself! Fortunately there were adults nearby who not only rescued him from my vengeance but also fixed my poor doll. She was made of plastic and her head just snapped back onto her neck. ( Read more... )