February 7th, 2010
The toys/dolls situation here around is pretty miserable but Saturday I decided to check in Kaufhof what they had and behave and behold!!! They had all the 3 Barbie in Pink dolls for 9.99 euros. For the moment I picked up only 2 of them:


I admit I wanted them mostly for the clothes and accessories than the dolls themselves, this is why most probably I will end up buying the third one as well.
Then I found this adorable Beatrix Potter duck or 2 euros at TK MAXX, I couldn’t leave her there all alone

and this cute San Valentine mini teddy bear in a book shop for 5 euros:

The girls were delighted;-)
And what have you all been buying recently?
Tags: barbie fashion fever, Barbie in Pink, Beatrix Potter, Dolls Bargain, San Valentine mini teddy bear
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February 6th, 2010
My sister-in-law and I had a dolls day a couple of weeks ago. We took lots of pictures, talked of course about dolls and …Played around
Here are some pictures of the meeting, Dani was just totally taken by Brad (who wouldn’t?):

As you can see he got quite a warm welcome
The dress she’s wearing was made by Ursula.
The other girls in meantime were taking coffee and pastries:

Arianna also showed them some new pieces she acquired for the house:

and at the end of the day Ursula even prepared a super-funny comic
read it here.
Tags: Brabie, Brad Pitt action figure, Danie Feelin' Fierce, dolls diorama, Dynamite Girls, Obitsu
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February 6th, 2010
Not sure if any of you still didn’t the last incarnation of our favourite doll, but if you didn’t check it here, just amazing!
On the flickr stream of the artist you can even find a tutorial on how some of the Alender McQueen inspired shoes were made.
Tags: Barbie, Barbie OOAK, Celebrity dolls, Lady Gaga
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December 1st, 2009
Every time I go to Italy I just fall in love with the new Pupa collection and this time I didn’t even need to fly, I just had to see it online!!! Gosh…this time it is really going to be hard choosing!!!
Pupa just released (or I just saw) 2 gorgeous collections, one inspired to Kokeshi dolls and one to Matrioskas. Here the 3 nice Kokeshi sets (but there are also some trousse ):



Wouldn’t they be also adorable gifts for the make up-dolls-fashion addicted one (=me)???
Tags: kokeshi dolls, kokeshi make-up, Pupa make-up, Puposka
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November 24th, 2009
I love paper and fashion and what can be best than the 2 combined? After seeing the beautiful work of Eloise Danch, and reading the great post from The Crafts dept, I decided I NEED this book:

“Paper Illusions: the Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave” brings to us the beautiful creations of the belgian artist, recreation of the fashion of the past in paper. The few pictures I saw look astonishing.
And here the video I found on youtube, it has been filmed in her atelier (sorry, it is in german).
Alson on my shopping list (since a while!), “Barbie sogna Caterina de’ Medici”:

The book describes step by step the creation of an OOAK Barbie as Caterina de’ Medici, created for the event “Pitti Bimbo” in 2008. The text is english-italian. I found here a nice article but in italian, sorry :-(
Tags: Barbie sogna Caterina de' Meici, clothes made of paper, Eloise Danch, Isabelle de Borchrave, paper fashion, Paper illusions, Pitti Bimbo
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November 22nd, 2009
If you didn’t check it out yet have a look at the current Barbie catalog here. So many nice things
I was fascinated by the shoes the Christian Louboutin doll comes with:

The doll itself I could even pass on but my girls NEED the boots. I mean…did you see them??? Love them
If you didn’t see yet all the gorgeous pictures from the ad campaign check them out on Refinery29, I’m saving them just now!
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November 21st, 2009
…but…I GOT A NEW LAPTOP!!! I love it!!! But it is strange, like when you move into a new flat
My stuff is still missing, the harddisk still empty, it is a bit awkward to move around but I love it
I will let you know once the move is complete.
Tags: new laptop
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November 15th, 2009
Have you ever noticed that once you started buying dolls after a while you didn’t you cannot stop anymore?
After the major splash out I had last weekend today I really couldn’t resist and got one of the Moxie Girlz by MGA: Sophina. I was very good though and restrained myself to 1 basic doll (=10 euros). I took some pictures but it was too dark by the time I got home so I will try again next weekend.
And now I’m very tempted to get hold of one of the Liv dolls by SpinMaster but that would mean to order from US and I’m not sure I want to do that…we’ll see…
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November 14th, 2009
This week I’ve been pretty sick with a terrible flu I have no idea where I got from , still I managed last weekend to go to a Barbie fair
I thought it was just a mild cold, I didn’t realize it was just the beginning
Anyway…I really splashed out this time! I bought the Diva Jazz Baby:

I love her! She has the most beautiful face I saw on a Barbie in a long time and she comes with lots of accessories, included 3 wigs.
Then I couldn’t resist and bought also Feelin’ Fierce Dani:

and…the Jonathan Adler sofa! I cannot believe I spent so much in 1 single day
I posted some pictures of them on my flickr account.
Tags: Black Barbie, Dani dynamite girl, fashion dolls, Feelin Fierce Dani, Jazz Baby Barbie, Jonathan Adler sofa
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October 14th, 2009
Talking about the Steampunk Ellowyne pattern in the previous post reminded me of a beautiful Dress-up game I saw on Deviantart: Clockwork Couture. Already the name is great and the flash doll is absolutely cute but look at the clothes! They are really detailed and sophisticate, I would love to have them for a real doll. Mhhhh….I could try to persuade my sister-in-law to give a go at sewing them
And…not dolls related…but always gaming, I’m downloading Gatheryn, an online game set in a Steampunk world. It is still in Beta version but the screenshots look interesting. The only downside is that most probably my laptop is not up to the task, I remember when I downloaded Forbidden City: I didn’t go much further than that unfortunately
we’ll see what happens.
Tags: flash doll, free online game, Gatheryn, Steampunk flash doll
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