This evening I got lost in DeviantART. I didn’t visit the site for a while and I almost forgot what amazing stuff you can find there.

Here are some of my favorite paper dolls, but really a small selection: Sweeney Todd and Mrs Lovett, they are really nice and you can download them with the DOWNLOAD button on the left handside or from the link at the bottom of the page.

I also like the flash paper doll of Mrs Lovett:

Mrs.Lovett flash dress up doll by *Rinmaru on deviantART

If you want to play, give it a go.

Another flash paper doll is Jessica Rabbit, just drop dead gorgeous

And then, again a traditional one, John Travolta as Edna in Hairspray, just great!

Edna Turnblad Paper Doll by ~Cor104 on deviantART

Just go to the site and you will spend hours browsing

It looks like the idea of using dolls, specifically paper dolls, to advertise products is not so new. Here is the leaflet promoting a tobacco brand, the customers were promised a free paper doll posted to them when sending 6 coupons from the product packages. I think it is from the  19th century:

I found it on the digital gallery site of the New York Public Library.

It looks like the company anyway was fond of paper dolls since they published also some farm-yard animals pd on the Blackwell’s Durham telegraph, here you can see them.

Here you can actually see the list of items available for customers according to how many coupons they sent in. Basically a “loyalty program” ante litteram, fascinating!

So… we are almost in the middle of the week, spring is coming and to cheer you up even more: PAPER DOLLS!!! Here few ones I collected recently, hope you enjoy them:-)

For a start Prom Night 2009 by Kim Brecklein,  a nice, neat pd and I like that you can colour it up.

Then  Cutie Cut-ups from Castle in the air (23rd of February post), it takes time to download the 2 PDFs but it is worth, the dolls are beautiful, especially if you love vintage costume dolls!

These are the ones I love more, some paper dolls from “The Wizard of Oz”. They are a scan from a Dover book and I’m seriously considering hunting for the book. Check also the rest of the blog, it is really informative and visually stunning. I love for examples the tini-mods dolls and again the scan is very good and I love fashions from the sixties Not really paper dolls, but I NEED to mention it, check one of my new conatcts on Flickr: myvintagevogue, gorgeous photostream!

Another nice paper doll, modern but with a vintage flavor, is Back to School from Lucia Rodriguez portfolio.

And again from Terry Pettit site, these beautiful paper dolls by Helen Page in period costumes, found via Enchanted Serenity of Period Films, definitely a blog to bookmark!

Last but not least a stunning pd of “I Love Lucy”.

Have a nice rest of the week

Yesterday I’ve got lost in Youtube after almost 9 days of no-internet (terrible), but today I went back to Flickr

I found just by chance some great paperdolls of the Joan Holloway character from “Mad Men” and these great fashion drawings by Irina Ivanova.

We also went to our first flea-market of the season, fairly small but I found a couple of nice things, I will try to post pictures in the afternoon, stay tuned!

Finally a lazy Sunday after a couple of busy weeks. And on a lazy  Sunday what else to do than surfing ? Here are few freebies I found on the net: from the Dolls Magazine site you can download for free the march/april issue of the magazine. All featured dolls on this issue are a sneak peek at what is new for 2009. If you go to the archive section you can also download february and the special holiday issue, great stuff!

Another special thing I found is this awesome virtual paper-doll of Samantha, from the “Bewitched” TV serie. You can print it out and have a traditional pd. I love the outfits, so sassy and with this sixties feeling! Here you can get a sweet Tabatha paper-doll complete with clothes.

And then some amigurumi patterns These ones you most probably saw already, since they have been online for a while: amigurumi patterns for Lord of  the Rings characters. But they are so good that I cannot skip them

And a free amigurumi pattern of Bender found via Cuteable blog.

So…have a nice lazy dolly Sunday

Wherever I look nowadays I see Hello Kitty popping up and I start to like her

So here some links for the Hello Kitty lovers out there : a nice paper doll, a paper craft,  some canvas patterns,  an amigurumi pattern (by the way I love the blog it is published on) and a knitting pattern. Look at this beautiful collection on flickr and get inspired! For sure I wished I had a bit of more time and patience to improve my crocheting skills and give a try at creating such beautiful things

Surfing around I found a nice blog called “Position:absolute”. It doesn’t seem to be updated very often but all the posts deal with topics I’m interested in like photography, IT stuff, even a bit of art. I landed there because of this absoultely great post about designer paper toys, lots of nice toys for free, papertoys of course Amongst all of them I love the paper ghettoblaster, I wonder about the scale though.

To this list I would add the cute paper dolls from The Toymaker and the animals paper toys from Fantastic Toys.

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend and if you have any nice link to share with me and my readers, please do so! We collectors spend so much money on our toys that it is nice to get some freebies now and then

It looks like many of my readers appreciated the post about Celebrities paper dolls, so here again a selections of what I found around

To start a paper doll of Grace Kelly, I mean…more of a celebrity than this you cannot possibly find. I’m not sure whether the outfits are reproductions of actual fashions worn by the princess or not, In any case it is a nice freebie to snatch up. From Gail’s page you can actually download tons of celebrities paperdolls, so start to check it out when you have plenty of time available

Here too you can find tons of nice paper dolls to colour and cut out included Sofia Loren and 2 outfits, but also Hercule Poirot and a full set inspired to Firefly. Have a look, definitely worth!

And be happy…TOMORROW IS FRIDAY!!!

I realized I didn’t share for a while any of the new links I’ve got recently, so here they are and this time the theme is “celebrities paper dolls”.

To start with a very famous little girl If  you like Shirley Temple, here you can find her paper dolls, on the same page there’s also a “virtual doll” you can play with. Have a look, the game is most probably not what you’ re expecting Actually the whole site is very nice since it is dedicated to Shirley Temple dolls.

On this page a great find: Marlyn Monroe paper doll and 31 costumes from her  24 movies, absolutely stunning! It could be a great inspiration for whoever wants to try recreating the outfits for “real” dolls.

Not an actress but definitely another celebrity, Lady Diana and 13 dresses, as far as I can see they are paper reproductions of outfits really worn by the the princess through the years.

As usually, many thinks to all the people who shared with us this wonderful things And stay tuned…I will try to post some other links in the next days, and of course…if you have any as well…share it with us.

Finally friday evening!!! Here again are some things I found while surfing and I thought to share them with you

Look at this page of lovely freebies from the FantasticToys site, the paperdolls are adorable and they come with their own dollhouse and puppet theatre. Or check these nice Betsy McCall paperdolls out, lots of them filed by year!

If you are good at sewing (not my case unfotunately)don’t miss this absolutely great page with many clothes patterns for Fashion Dolls from Doll Reader, from Bluette to Riley. Grab them till they are still on line. And again great downloadable free patterns from Daniel Bingham Design Studio, here you need to enter name and email address but they are worth! I love the totebag. All 4 free patterns come in double size: for 11 and 16 inches dolls.

That’s all for today but if you have some links to share with us please do so, my readers and I love freebies