davidd’s A DOLL A DAY 2022

[davidd]

She is very pretty -- how come she is so pricey?  I saw a couple on Mercari & eBay for $1000  

Yay for finishing a project.  It is kind of a fun detail to make the chair feet out of something like that.  Peeking out at the bottom there, they look good.  Your model looks rather critical though 

I had no idea when I purchased, and then sold, the City Chic Barbie that she would end up being an extremely limited edition and in high demand. I should have known. The sweater-dress is one of the nicer Barbie outfits I have personally seen. And the doll itself has a very pretty head sculpt. I do recall, now, that one of the reasons I sold that Barbie is that she was difficult to photograph. The screen-printed eyes were extremely reflective, in that flat, fake, obviously painted sort of way. I just have to tell myself that I invested the proceeds from the sale wisely and generated far more than $500 in value over time... although the reality is probably that I just pissed it away.

Yeah, I think my thinking was that the empty brass shells, in addition to looking pretty cool, resembled miniature cannon shells, and seemed like the kind of thing this Old Soldier might have in his office to remind him of his younger days in the trenches with an artillery brigade. Plus, as I mentioned, they make stable, weighted feet for miniature furniture.

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18 September - A Doll A Day 2022:
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18 September – The Space Girls Found the Templates
for Rebuilding their Rocketship

While clearing, organizing, sorting, and sitting and sobbing out of frustration and rage, I found these Space Girls, and later I found the paper templates I made as the first, and only so far, step in building them a rocketship interior.

Finding the Space Girls reminded me why I purchased one of those doll bodies pictured a few days ago. I believe one of those bodies was intended to become a Space Girl, but I don't remember if she was going to be Posh Space or Sporty Space.