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.

Since I saw the trailer for the movie I cannot wait to watch it in February. It looks great. As I think you understood by now I love stop motion movies and the story seems enchanting. The password to enter the site is “buttoneyes”, but you will need more of them, read the great post from Toycutter blog to find them out. Waiting for it I will most probably buy the book.

The first thought that came to my mind when I saw the trailer was actually how to get hold of some dolls, ok…I admit I’m a bit single minded I would have loved for the moment some paperdolls or even better a papermodel but I couldn’t find any of them. If anybody knows where I can find a papermodel please let me know! I found though the italian trailer for the book

thanks to JacketFlap site, thank you

I saw Forbidden Planet will sell some figures starting in february but to be honest they look more like static figures rather than dolls. I found though these interesting serie of articles on Mary  Robinette Kowal journal on how she created three OOAK dolls commissioned by Subterranean Press. I just browse quickly through 2 of them but I plan to read them well and carefully after I’ve done the boring bit of the day (AKA ironing)

Here I found pictures of the Neca’s puppets and then again a great article about the set of the movie from Animation World Network site.

I still want some papermodels though

I  finally started to put together the antiquarian shop and I realized I need much more props, I want it to be really jam packed like a real shop, here anyway is a first peak into it:

A couple of japanese friends (Jenny and her little sister) went today to visit Momoko and brought her 2 beautiful decorative teapots for her Japanese shelves. They are made of gemstone and Momoko was absolutely speechless, such a precious gift.

Here she’s looking at the first one:

and here comes the second one:

Momoko was so moved that she hugged Jenny, the later one was pretty embarrassed by such display of gratitude:

By the way, if you are wondering where Jenny’s little sister is you have to know she’s too shy, she didn’t want any pictures taken of her but if you look carefully you can spot her in background.

All right, all right, they are not properly “dolls” but the historical figures created by George Stuart are just amazing! Plenty of inspiration there for OOAK artists and anybody loving historical costumes and costuming!

The site is still under constructions but at least for France and England all the figures are already in the Gallery, for the other sections there are still just the overview pictures, but still plenty to enjoy!

If you have few minutes, well…actually, a bit more than that, check his impressive gallery and let this incredible pictures bring you back into the past.

Just to mention it, I came to the Historical Gallery trough the Historical Dolls News and Acquisition blog by Mary Harrsch, very very nice, definitevely worth a look, and it is now on my blogroll.