Doll Fair, Hannover

Breakfast @ Lilly's café.

As you can see, my 70s Pinkys arrived here last week. :) The need to have proper pictures taken, but unfortunately the sun has been hiding today.

After breakfast on sunday we went to the Puppen & Baren Market (Doll & Bear Fair). I wasn't particularly excited because honestly, most of these antique doll scare the hell out of me. Ok, not so - I am not that squeamish to be scared by a piece of plastic/resin, and I also respect other people's tastes and passions in life - but to me some of these dolls are creepy and downright ugly.

To my surprise, they didn't have only antique dolls, but also loads of clothing, wigs, shoes and 1/12 antique furniture to sell. Everything was so tiny, perfect - and expensive. And even some of the old dollies were really cute.

This one below I would have brought home with me - she is some sort of old replica of an old british type of doll, and in fact is a vintage wooden ball jointed doll. Lovely, but 180 euros was more than I had in my wallet.

Sorry about the blurred/dark photos, but the light was poor inside the place and I was a bit shy. I really don't like to take pictures in expositions because some of the people can be really rude if they don't like to have their merchandising photographed... more on that later.

You can find more pictures here. :)

Little homes

Supper is almost ready! (yep, lil' plastic ones get hungry, too)

I am so in love with those Sylvanian Families dollhouses I have to refrain from building an entire lilliputian city. Not to mention my huge 1/6 doll house. Some scrapbook papers arrived today and I am 90% sure I have wallpaper glue on my hair right now. I have to finish most of what I can before next saturday when I'll be leaving my home for a long, long time (and that makes my heart feel a little bit smaller than it actually is... but on the other hand it makes me happy as I realize now my heart has finally started to call this place home).

But for now I gotta be happy, because the sun is shinning after almost a week of tedious grey skies and rain - and it's time to finish wallpapering the doll house, fill up my iPod with good music and pack some dollies.

Family shot

Been very away. Lots and lots to do.
The radio is playing tacky pop versions of christmas classics all day and I can't take it any longer.
I should listen to my CDs instead, but I can't be bothered to keep changing them.
I should switch it off, but I can't be bothered with the silence.

I don't know if I'll have time to go Spain or not. Not sure if I'll leave to Brazil on February or January.
But I feel I need to be there before my mother does something really stupid that she will end up regretting bitterly later. And I won't be around to feed her candies.

On a - much - lighter note, Pullips.
Some old family pictures, before Marigold and Dahlia arrived.
Pictures taken last summer. What a giveaway on how much I've been into dolls, lately...

In the attic...

Husband will be away for three days, I was going to have a mega-dollie-party, but my plans failed as I woke up this morning with the headache of the century + vomited all the great dinner we had at Moita's, a portuguese restaurant. The situation is so bad that I didn't even bathe today - I'm feeling miserable.Plus, after dinner I made Alaric take me out to dance and so we went to good old Chicago Rock, where a girl dressed like Alice in Wonderland (some stones heavier than the original character, though) was spinning round in the middle of the dance flour as she was Madonna at Hung Up video. Like, H-E-L-P.

I went to bed half past two in the morning, and I hate to admit that I am not used to this sort of thing anymore. Here I wake up early and go to bed early. Two weeks to go to Brasil, suitcase being packed, so much to do.

Out of complete boredom, been sewing for the girls.
Blossom decided to model one of the outfits. Not great pattern, but what the hell. :)

A bit of saturation and the little red fur coat looks more like a living thing. :)

Snow.

It started a while ago and doesn't look like it's gonna stop so soon.

Not enough to cover the ground, I fear - that's what they call "wintery showers" here, these short episodes of light snow. But anyway, it's lovely to be able to see such a thing from my window. Also, my vintage Skipper arrived. I dressed her first in a cheap Takara Licca Alice dress:

She has a lovely hair colour, though it's missing a few plugs (which you'd probably expect on a 1963 "played with" dollie).

Now she is wearing a pink vintage Skipper dress, a pair of Dollheart blue maryjanes and feeling pretty and loved.

I got my first, extra-cheap eyes in the mail on wednesday. Pretty fast service and shipping. They charged me 10 dollars to ship 3 pairs of plastic eyes and 3 pairs of lashes, but if you consider that the TOTAL value (including shipping) was 23 bucks, it was hardly a bad deal.

I ordered two 16mm (green and brown) and one 14mm (blue) that turned out to be very small. Agnes looked simply beautiful with the brown ones, but I didn't like the green on her. Isobel looked lovely with both. So I gave her the green eyes for now. It took me some time to figure out how to deal with the putty, but I think they look nice on her:

Me loves some tomatoes!

Last saturday I took Benjamin to the Central Market. She loves to visit her uncle John at his shop, because he's nice to her and gives her fresh tomatos. She *loves* vegetables (such a rare kid). Everybody loved her, told her she was the cutest thing and she came back home so full of herself.

Three more petites arrived. Now it's only two to go. But I'm kinda sad because one of them arrived with a broken arm. :( Will post pictures later.

And tomorrow we're gonna have the Bonfire night. I kinda demanded to be taken there (not that it wasn't offered...) as my halloween sucked big time (all alone at home, as my husband was in London, eating rice + farofa and watching Rosemary's baby on TV). We already have tickets for the local Bonfire and I promised myself to be a GOOD GIRL and remain THIN by keeping AWAY from those... burgers, fries, hot dogs, caramel apples, pop corn and... fries.