So…here is the rest I picked up  today at the flea-market: lots of Vintage My Little Pony by Hasbro. I do not collect them but for the price I paid I guess I could always re-sell them on Ebay. I have to say they are terribly cute, I like them more than the modern versions

I got the doll from the same seller, she’s marked Mattel 1989 and she’s in quite good conditions considered the fact that the body is made of stuffed fabric.

That’s all for this weekend but next Sunday is again Flea-market time so come back to see what I found.

This weekend is going to be fully packed: food shopping, hairdresser, barbecue at friends, cooking, family reunion, dolls day…but could we not find some time for a small flea-market? Especially when the weather is so gorgeous??? Of course not!

So this morning we got up early and off we went Here is part 1 of my finds: Barbie and a couple of “fashion dolls”. In part 2 I’ll show the remaining toys.

Here the first 3 dolls I found, 1 euro each: Jessie and Woody from Toy Story plus a cute brunette Peggy (Petra’s sister):

Then all the below stuff for 15 euros, included 2 pregnant Midges (the 2 face variations) and the grandmother from the Happy Family, plus a couple of nice My Scene Barbies and tons of Barbies and accessories (all from the same seller):

Stay tuned for part 2 and I hope you all are having a great weekend as well!

Here below is the rest of the stuff I found today. Nothing so exciting as the Growin’ Hair Barbie but still cute stuff for very nice prices

Let’s start with the shoes ( my girls are as much shoes-obsessed as I am):

fashion and accessories:

this was just 1 euro together with some of the shoes so I took it:

The dolls below are pretty recent ( end of the ’80, ’90) but I loved their sweet faces and they are in lovely conditions:

Sindy needs some cleaning up but aside from that nothing wrong with her:

vintage furniture are always worth, especially for a couple of euros:

and I really couldn’t leave there this cute fellow for 50 cents:-)

No need for words…

I’m a May child, still few days to go to my birthday, but I already received my gifts

My husband bought me 2 June Pullip (the small ones) from the Alice in Wonderland collection, they are so adorable, still debating whether I should debox them or not, but most probably I will do:

Yesterday I got Jabob from my sister-in-law and he’s definitely going to be deboxed, the girls can’t wait!!!

and this is one of the gifts I bought myself

she’s a fierce beauty!

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)???

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…

I was browsing around for some quality reading (AKA dolls reading) and I found the digital version of “Fashion/ Forward“, a mini magazine (a supplement to Dolls Reader) dedicated to fashion for dolls. I love that the outfits and accessories are presented and described as in real fashion magazines.

Brenda Cox is one the designers reviewed in this issue, look at her beautiful creations for our favorite doll: Barbie! and start to dream

Don’t miss though the preview of Gene paper dolls and the review of the a steampunk bride dress and pattern for Ellowyne: you can download the instructions and patterns itself here.

The only disappointment is that you cannot download the mag as PDF file but..oh well…we’ll survive.

If after this dolls and fashion galore you are still lusting for more check out the Dolls magazine. From the home page you can download (as PDF!!!) the digital preview of their December issue. They are just few pages but really nice I’m totally in love now with Goodreau Upside Down Oz collection!

ok…ok…I’m a bit single minded…but not really! I don’t always lust after dolls or dream about miniature furniture. Sometimes I also get fascinated by paper (dolls, models, craft) and I have a soft spot for fashion, even just looking at clothes lift my spirit and if I can buy even better. I love for example the new blog I stumbled upon:paper fashion! I’m tempted to write to the owner and ask to post a nice paper-doll as freebie, it would be stunning!

Another blog of fashion illustrations I like very much is Flushbunny, look at the fashion sketch inspired to Jem dolls, don’t you love it? And let’s not forget the fantastic Irina Ivanova’s flickr stream.

But here are my faves

I would really like to post tons of links, I think fashion illustrations are just art on their own and they remind me very often of beautifully crafted paper dolls (ok, so perhaps after all I AM SINGLE MINDED).

And this reminds  me also of what is most probably next on my wish list (the one for things I can actually get ): it looks like a nice set

It comes with patterns, a paper doll and much more.

And a new Barbie calendar for the year to come:

I will let you know if I ever come around buying them

I’ve been surfing quite a bit in the last few days Here is a selection of nice dolls-related tutorials I stumbled upon while looking for other stuff and I thought about saving the links and sharing with you all.

Washi paper dolls

Make a Barbie card

How to make Dolls bedding

How to make a Dollhouse sofa

How to make a Felt Matrioska doll via Feltorama

How to make miniature dolls hats (this is much simpler than all the other tutorials about miniature hats I saw)

How to knit an Harry Potter doll ( I’m not able to )

Let me know if you try any of them