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

Today I was all excited because we planned to visit 2 big flea-markets in town and even if the weather didn’t look good we tried anyway but…oh boy…on the way in it started raining cats and dogs. We anyway went to the first one hoping it would stop pouring down but no chance.

After getting soaked for 20 minutes we just went back home

I’m so disappointed and no nice finds for me to show. So I thought about posting about some of my nice recent “virtual” dolls finds: paper dolls!!!

The first one is Betty Boop from Paper dolls and other paper toys blog. I love the fact that the doll comes with clothes inspired to famous movies, included “Gone with the Wind”.

Always on the same blog I found some Modern Barbie dolls, they are really nice, they look like Fashion Fever girls. So all together a site to bookmark.

Then surfing around I saw these pd from The Office. They are not really paper dolls in the classic sense since you cannot change their clothes but I liked them and I’m a huge fan of the show. If you never saw The Office you need to pick the DVD up, it is just hilarious.

Last but not least some Nancy Drew pd from Tangarang blog (I never read the books but I believe they are quite popular here in Germany) and not really paper dolls but paper models of Final Fantasy characters , who didn’t play at least once with the game? I actually tried really just once long ago but it was too complex for me

I bet they could be beautiful props for dolls. Bathroom, kitchen, living-room and garden! Have a look at them on the Konica Minolta site. They look so…Kawai!!! Found via paperkraft.

What a lazy start of Friday evening…

Downloading…

StyleZone

Free Fashion Doll Printable eBook (pursues/handbags)

Patty Reed Paper dolls from Simplicity

Watching…(trailers)

Astroboy!!! I cannot believe it! They made a remake

here the trailer

and Wonder Woman! I cannot watch it without thinking to Linda Carter:

here the trailer

Browsing…

few books on Google Books. I love it, you really can have a good look at some books before buying like:

Les Petite Dames de Mode: an Adventure in Design

Fashion at the edge

The Jumeau doll

Hope you are having a a nice relaxing Friday evening as well

Here some of the things I’ve been looking at today:

Beautiful kawai robots paper models, found via makezine blog.

The latest post from BibliOdyssey: Claremont Fashion Plates.

This amazing Monchichi Flickr set, from Monchichi-King.

“In Yuzen Blossom” Giselle-BIC Exclusive (by the way I LOVE HER!!!)

and what are you looking at?

Like all women I love shoes and I also love miniature shoes This evening I was surfing around and looking at miniature shoes when I found this!

The artist, Carlos Molina, made them with paper! I find them awesome: miniature paper shoes!!! You can have a good look at them on his flickr photostream.

While writing the previous post some Rexona advertisements that were on TV a couple of years ago came to my mind.

Here is the first one I found on youtube:

and here the second one:

Here You can find some additional information and all the 4 advertisement clips aired at the time.

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!

Even if you are not a Dookie-poo fan, have a look at the amazing paper-craft sets published on Dookie-poo paperjam, they are amazing and for free! I bet they could suit other small dolls.

And if you need more cute dioramas here again the link for the rooms of the papermuseum, lots of sets have been added recently so check it out again!

But the find of the day, thanks to Lady Ciccia’s blog, are these adorable printies. Honestly, have a look at them (all the pages, not just the first one), they are adorable

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