Dolls - Blog Posts
These are felt dolls I made in 2019 of Sakura and Elise from from Fire Emblem: Fates!
I made Sakura first and a few month later I made Elise. I also made a pegasi for Sakura, but both of them can ride on it.
I made them both from a pattern I made myself. (Although Elise ended up being an inch taller then Sakura, I don’t know how that happened)
I put metal flowers on Sakura’s head ribbon, and crackled agate beads on Elise’s ribbons.
Both of them are small enough to ride around in my shirt pockets! :D
I came to the realization that Heather looks just like Piers, and that is why I can't stop staring at her lmao. I had to play with their hair the straight wasn't working for me.
These dolls r getting harder to resist lol, they're so pretty 😍 💕
Garry in the Doll Room
A thing I drew some time ago that I completely forgot to post, so I'm doing it now, before we move on from Halloween for good-
Day 23: Doll (with the real Annabelle doll!)
Odd things that have occurred around me:
> childhood neighbor with house full of dolls who may or may not have poisoned her husband to death got their house randomly cleaved in half by a fallen tree
> our black cat named midnight disappeared never to be found again on Halloween night
> our other cat lived longer than her body functioned and refused to go even after the first shot to put her down. She was 23.
> My mom left a traveling group early. The next day they all got in a crash. Most died, one was made paraplegic.
> Got rear-ended in a car-totaling crash that shoved us right between a light pole and a steep hill
> Told my cousin I didn’t believe in ghosts and was rewarded an hour later with a store cooler door swinging open as I passed it for no reason.
> Heard what sounded like radio chatter very quietly in my headphones on and off for a couple weeks
> Had a visceral, vivid dream that I got kidnapped, lived there for years with other kids, then the police and our families came but none of us wanted to leave because we felt it was home. I can still remember exactly what The Compound looked like, where I kept my things, my secret stash, my team, and the area we trained in. (I have had many vivid dreams but this one messed me up for days)
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Just finished a mini y2k doll room n_n scroll down for a video of it at the end!
Ghoulia had been one of my favorite G1 dolls, so I was pretty disappointed how bland she looked G3 (even though she had green skin!). This is inspired, tho. Might reconsider getting her now.
I'm going to put this as succinctly as possible, and this is just my opinion so please take it with a grain of salt if you disagree, but stock G3 Ghoulia is pretty awful.
I wanted to attempt to do her justice because I definitely saw potential because her doll isn't bad, but Mattel putting her in rags and making the same poor choices they always make made her really unappealing to me.
So I made her some pants, swapped out her ill-fitting shirt, made her a better functioning/more art accurate beanie, gave her a better looking skateboard, and repainted her lips.
Anyways, I like her significantly better now. Pants patterns will be available soon.
Have been putting things away and these two still make me smile.
Small happy plastic things :)
Samantha wishes everyone a very Happy and Bewitching Halloween!
Toy Sunday’s Theme: Halloween
“Samantha Stevens in Bewitched merely twitched her nose and turned the mortal world upside down. Forever charming and fun, the show features the light-hearted antics that happen between a beautiful but strong willed witch named Samantha and her eternally bewildered mortal husband, Darrin.
Endowed with a wonderful cast of wacky characters, this classic 1960s television series still continues to delight television audiences with its funny stories and whimsical hocus pocus.”
As dusk approached, Rutledge hurried home, wondering if the mushrooms he saw were there before or had recently appeared, much like how they were described in a poem he had come across:
“Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly
Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air.
Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room.
Soft fists insist on Heaving the needles, The leafy bedding,
Even the paving. Our hammers, our rams, Earless and eyeless,
Perfectly voiceless, Widen the crannies, Shoulder through holes. We
Diet on water, On crumbs of shadow, Bland-mannered, asking
Little or nothing. So many of us! So many of us!
We are shelves, we are Tables, we are meek, We are edible,
Nudgers and shovers In spite of ourselves. Our kind multiplies:
We shall by morning Inherit the earth. Our foot's in the door.”
Poem is: Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/mushrooms
Goddess of the Moon (Cháng’é)
“Every year around September in the Gregorian calendar, people across Asia and around the world gather with their families to celebrate the Moon Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival).
The festival involves the serving of mooncakes and, in some places, like Taiwan, often involves barbecue parties with family, friends and neighbors. Central to the folklore of the Moon Festival is the telling of the story of the moon goddess, Cháng’é.
According to this ancient story, a long, long time ago, the heavens was home to ten blazing suns. The ten suns scorched the surface of the earth mercilessly and the earth’s inhabitants – the animals, plants and people – struggled desperately to survive in this fiery world.
One day, a brave and powerful archer decided to take matters into his own hands. His name was Hòu Yì and he took his bow, climbed up the highest peak he could find and challenged the suns.
One by one, Hòu Yì succeeded in downing the fiery orbs. Just as he was about to shoot down the tenth and final sun, however, a beautiful village maiden appeared and begged him to stop.
“If you shoot down the final sun,” she pleaded, “the world will be plunged into icy darkness forever. Spare this last sun and the world will thrive – neither too bright or too dark, too hot or too cold.”
Hòu Yì heeded the maiden’s advice and permitted the last sun to remain in the sky.
The gods rewarded Hòu Yì’s bravery by gifting him with a bottle of elixir which, when imbibed, would turn mortals into immortals and enable them to join the gods.
In addition to the heavenly gift, the village maiden, thankful for Hòu Yì’s bravery, pledged herself to be his wife. The maiden’s name was Cháng’é.
When Hòu Yì received the elixir, he did not immediately consume it. He put away the bottle in what he felt was a safe place in his home and went on a hunt, leaving his dear wife to guard the elixir. The two had decided that, at a later time, they would both take the elixir and be able to live with the gods together, never to be separated.
It was at this time that bandits who knew of the elixir’s existence, intruded upon Hòu Yì’s residence, demanding that Cháng’é give up the elixir.
The maiden, unwilling to hand over her husband’s hard-won prize to bandits, took the decision to consume the substance herself.
This ill-timed and supposed blessing of immortality had become a curse – forever separating Cháng’é from her husband who must remain a mortal man.
Cháng’é felt her body become lighter and lighter. She began to float up towards the sky, eventually landing on the Palace of the Moon, where she took up residence.
Hòu Yì, separated from his beloved wife, could do nothing. But thenceforth, he began, on the anniversary of his wife’s ascent to the moon during mid-autumn, to place fruits and cakes on altars to honor her.
This practice began by Hòu Yì during this time of year is the reason, this story says, behind the mid-autumn festival so popular throughout East Asia.”
Reference: islandfolklore.com/the-bunny-girl/
(Barbie is wearing Over the Moon Chang’e doll’s dress/headpiece) (Moon is a mini moon lamp)
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
Cora, Caramel and Cocoa wish everyone a beautiful and Happy Valentine’s and Galentine’s Day!
Happy New Year 2024!
♫ “Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my jo,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll tak’ a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.”♫
Toy Sunday for the theme: New Year
Reference for lyrics above and brief article about the history of the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne:
A Christmas Nativity
♫ “O holy night, the stars are brightly shining, It is the night of the dear Saviour’s birth; Long lay the world in sin and error pining, 'Till he appeared and the soul felt its worth. A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices, For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn;
Fall on your knees, Oh hear the angel voices! O night divine! O night when Christ was born. O night, O holy night, O night divine.”♫
Toy Sunday for the theme: Christmas
(Little Pullip and Little Byul dolls)
Baby Jesus
♫ “Away in a manger No crib for a bed The little Lord Jesus Lay down His sweet head The stars in the sky Look down where He lay The little Lord Jesus Asleep on the hay”♫
Toy Sunday for the theme: Christmas
(Little Byul doll)
Popeye, Olive Oyl and Sweet Pea Inspired Barbies
Toy Sunday for the theme: Strong
♫ “I'm Popeye the Sailor Man
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man
I'm strong to the finich
Cause I eats me spinach
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man” (toot, toot) ♫
After Sweet Pea arrived into his life, Popeye decided that he wanted to be a good role model, so he quit smoking and decided to promote a healthy lifestyle of regular exercise and eating healthy (lots of veggies).
The Sound of Music Maria Inspired Blythe
Blythe a Day December 2023 for: The Sound of Music
♫ "The hills are alive with the sound of music
With songs, they have sung for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every song it hears
(Every song that it hears)
My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds
That rise from the lake to the trees (to the trees)
My heart wants to sigh like a chime
That flies from a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook when it trips
And falls over stones on its way (on its way)
To sing through the night
Like a lark who is learning to pray
I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I've heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I'll sing once more" ♫
Mary Poppins “Jolly Holiday” Inspired Blythe
Blythe a Day December 2023 for: Mary Poppins
♫ "Oh it's a jolly 'oliday with Mary
Mary makes your 'eart so light!
When the day is gray and ordianry
Mary makes the sun shine bright!
Oh, 'appiness is bloomin' all around 'er
The daffodils are smilin' at the dove
When Mary 'olds your 'and
You feel so grand
Your 'eart starts beatin' like
A big brass band!
It's a jolly 'oliday with Mary
No wonder that it's Mary that we love!" ♫
A Christmas Story, Ralphie’s “Pink Bunny Suit” Inspired Blythe
Blythe a Day December 2023 for: Christmas Bunny
Ralphie opens his present from Aunt Clara, revealing it to be a pink bunny outfit.
Adult Ralphie: (Aunt Clara had for years labored under the delusion that I was not only perpetually four years old, but also a girl.)
Mrs. Parker: Oh, isn't that sweet? Ralphie, go upstairs and try it on if you--
Ralphie: I don't want to!
Mrs. Parker: Go upstairs right now and put on that present! She went to all that trouble to make it, now go on!
[Ralphie runs upstairs.]
[Down comes Ralphie, clad in the bunny suit.]
Mrs. Parker: Ohhhh, isn't that cute? That is the most precious thing I've ever seen in my life. (Randy laughs)
Ralphie: Shut up.
The Old Man: He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny.
Mrs. Parker: He does not!
The Old Man: He does too; he looks like a pink nightmare. Do you wanna take it off? (Ralphie nods his head) Tell the kid to take it off.
Mrs. Parker: Alright, you'll only wear it when Aunt Clara visits; now go on and take it off.
The Old Man: Take it off!