Showing posts with label Wooden Dolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wooden Dolls. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Dolls & Dreams 8/11

 

8/11

  My first dream took place in a big old school where I was working. There was a craft fair, and a woman had a table of crafts and a round basket on the floor overflowing with stuffed primitives. I had a gray rabbit in my hand and sorted through the basket finding more rabbits. An older woman behind me took three rabbits. I found another, black rabbit, with very long arms and short legs. There was a bee who had a $62 price tag on his head. There was a furry gingerbread man with a pattern stuck on his tacky backside. Removing the pattern that featured a small girl on the cover, the ginger man’s backside was covered with gingerbread scratch and sniff stickers. He was $20, and I held on to him. I found a large Holly Hobbie type of doll with a blue and red gingham gown and bonnet. Her face was soft sculpted sort of like a Cabbage Patch Kid only linen, not stockinette. Her eyes were halfway closed. She was $64. I took them both to the vendor who was busy with another customer. I waited, then put them back. I was walking down the hall where a little boy with brown hair was turning somersaults. His dad, a colleague of mine, grabbed him up, calling him sweetheart. 

  The second dream seemed like an extension of the first. Ron and I drove out to a doll show on a snowy night. The show also took place in an old school. At first, we thought that it had been cancelled, because it was dark, and there weren’t many people around. Ron was straggling, and I left him behind. I came across a family. Their boy, a preteen, said that he had gone down the hall looking for his old room, but it was vacant. The floor was dirt. I did see a big cardboard box of old dolls but didn’t want any of them.

Dana's Dreams

Dana's Dreams Two

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Mehitable Visits Crystal Cave


   Mehitable had a wonderful time at Crystal Cave. She got to meet Devon who plays bass. Mehitable was made by a violin maker. Devon told me that Meadowood Music is a fabulous place. We can have a complete quartet once we find a violinist and violist. I'm sure they'll come along. I'm going to have to make a little book full of all of Mehitable's exploits. Right now I'm working on fixing up The Three Witches Magic Shoppe Adventures in Doll Land for Barnes & Noble. 

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Apple Fest

  Joanna Furnace's Apple Festival is my favorite event. I had my first Pixie Crunch apple, it was very good. Tim and Kay are mysterious and quite big. I bought Tim, and the wonderful lady threw Kay in. She said that they had come from a world traveler's estate. I have to look into them, but my gut says they're Cambodian. Little Scott is bone and now lives in Norfolk Trolltree. Ron made up for putting Frankie in the crate with the Romeo and Juliet plate and the knit cap. 🍎 Update: Tim and Kay were handmade in Spain in the eighties, so I won't feel guilty transforming them into Georgians. 








 

Sunday, September 14, 2025

Mehitable is Ready & More


   Mehitable is all ready for her night at the inn. She loves traveling with Mummy. The brother and sister cloister dolls are sculpted, so I might get them done. Doc Holliday may be on the back burner, but I still plan to make him and maybe even his mother and Kate. We'll see. I've got the Monster High Bootique Hotel on the way. I got a deal on a new one like I had the original high school. I like them because they fold up. So, there will likely be a third season of O, My Ra! Too bad. I was watching Rom Con Revenge while sculpting on Netflix. All of these con artists originated on fakebook. If you are expecting any kind of money from Fuckerberg selling our information and calling us "dumb fucks" for using fakebook, dream on: we'll be getting about thirty-five bucks a piece. TTYL... ✨

O, My Ra!

Monday, September 1, 2025

Dreams 9/1 The Doll Making Machine

 9/1

  It’s hard to imagine a better dream than this. Mummy and I were at a Christmas doll show where I got an antique doll maker. It was a gray machine about the size of an industrial microwave oven, in the shape of a hat box. I made three antique reproductions with it. They were about eighteen inches tall, made of celluloid like the Ideal and Toni dolls from the late forties. They all had different colored glass eyes, old fashioned upswept wigs, and fabulous gowns, coats, shrugs, stockings, and shoes. There was an older lady there with a doll maker too. She made two dolls. One had a burgundy Christmas skirt with embroidered sugar plums. I took my doll maker home, and Theresa was in awe of the dolls. I made another with an ivory satin bridal gown. She had steely blue almond shaped eyes and a honey blonde wig. Theresa nor I thought that she was as impressive as the first three. 


Dana's Dreams


Dana's Dreams Two


Dana's Dreams Three Revenge of the Dream Hog


  Ron is taking me to what he says is the oldest Ukranian cemetery in America today. The Headless Horseman was a Hassian soldier. Woody, my wooden soldier, who I got from Georgia, is a Prussian soldier. They were here before the Revolution. I was reading about the Huguenot cemetery that my brother and I passed when we road the Strasburg train through Lancaster in the free newspaper that I picked up at Doll Outlet where I got Mamie Eisenhower. I used that in Fanging with Claude. TTYL... ✨







Thursday, August 7, 2025

Vampiric Council Tea

Belinda, The Lovely Cheat

  I got my copy of Belinda The Lovely Cheat a film by Michael Canadas and David Robinson. I love it so much, right up my alley. My friends would say it is so Dana. It has inspired me to have a tea party of my own. It will have to be on the dining room table. No place is safe from Sir Frankie Crisp. 







 

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

The Victoria & Albert Museum Shop


  Oh, I want everything here. Can't believe I missed it for a toy museum when I was in London. At least I can still shop there. It looks fantastic for gifts and stocking stuffers. Most of the souvenirs that I brought home for people did come from the museums or castles. 

Druidic Cat Nap