davidd’s A DOLL A DAY 2022

[davidd]

She deserves a spa and some glam-up time, like relaxing at a bar or something. 

Yes, I agree. Indeed, we all need some serious time off!

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17 July - A Doll A Day 2022:

17 July - Doll Heads! Doll Heads! Roly-Poly Doll Heads!

This head is supposed to resemble 1970s film actress Caroline Munro.

[Alliecat]

I don't know who she is, but she looks a lil scary    Kind of an odd choice for the eye position on the manufacterer's part.  Is she for a custom figure?

Of course, I don't know what your options are for acquiring supplies out there on da island. Do you have to mill your own lumber on site from mighty oaks you hew down with an axe?

No, worse.  You have to brave the Home Hardware store and TRY to get information on prices and availability.
I had a conversation 2(?) weeks ago with the owner, got estimates for the decking, he was going to have a price on railings in about 3 days....
This is the way it goes, it seems.  Instead of businesses wanting customers' business, the customers seem to have to beg for the business.  I'm fed up with chasing people!!
And no, it has a hole in it and the railing is basically detached in one spot, so something needs to be done.  But since it will be me and Handyman Guy, I'm not very enthused.

As for your novels, sounds like fun. Mess with your characters some, see how they respond!

Oh boy.  18th century pirates team up with starfighter pilots to, ... um, raid alien ships for treasure...? 

I think I'd rather do that than the deck

She deserves a spa and some glam-up time, like relaxing at a bar or something. You've been making her hold drainage goo and garbage bags

  Some of us have been telling him for ages that these girls need a vacation.
If there's much more goo and garbage, there might be a dolly revolution!

[enofelli]

She deserves a spa and some glam-up time, like relaxing at a bar or something. 

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17 July - A Doll A Day 2022:

17 July - Doll Heads! Doll Heads! Roly-Poly Doll Heads!

This head is supposed to resemble 1970s film actress Caroline Munro.

erm. is the head an answer to what i said or? sorry i'm dumb, i don't get it

Some of us have been telling him for ages that these girls need a vacation.
If there's much more goo and garbage, there might be a dolly revolution!

Indeed. They need a paid vacation. At least 14 off days annually.

[davidd]

erm. is the head an answer to what i said or? 

  Oops! No, no, not at all! My response apparently got eaten by the forum!

We need to be feeding this forum more regularly and in greater quantity so that doesn't happen!

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18 July - A Doll A Day 2022:
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18 July - "Looks good, huh? What's next?"

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"Shoving these 40 pound -- that's about 20 kilos for our foreign friends -- sandbags in to position

should keep us busy for a while."

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Not shown: filling the forty pound (20 kilo) sand bags. Ten of 'em.

[davidd]

A Doll A Day 2022:

19 July - "Yeah, we're starting a project! Ya wanna make somethin' of it?"

"'Make something of it!' I see what you did there! That's funny!"

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20 July - "Hey! A little help here? Please?"

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21 July - Uh oh! What's this? The Suits at Corporate have

come down from their ivory tower to check on progress?

This must be serious!

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22 July - "This is looking familiar! I wonder what it's gonna be?"

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23 July - "Ermmm... too much oregano?"

[Alliecat]

Fun perspective on the 18th one.
I would not want to be lugging 40lb sandbags around! Is it particularly hot there?

So, either another spaceship or are the Pinkys finally getting their beach house??
Who's the gal with the ruler, is she one of the seamless ones? She's cute.

Add some salt and cook it a little longer, girls, it'll stop squirming...

[dargosmydaddy]

Yay, Pinkies!

Who's the July 20 girl? She looks cute.

Always love it when the tentacles make an appearance...

[davidd]

Is it particularly hot there?

So, either another spaceship or are the Pinkys finally getting their beach house??
Who's the gal with the ruler, is she one of the seamless ones?  She's cute.

The weather has been unusually, and unpleasantly, warm for the past week or ten days, hovering around 90˙F/32˙C during the days. Fortunately the nights cool down nicely... usually.

Neither a spaceship nor a beach house, but this particular project is beginning to put me in the mood to potentially tackle the beach house rebuild next.

The doll with the ruler is a 16-inch Tonner "Lady Action" doll, which uses the Tonner "Fit 16" body and a "Tyler 2" head sculpt -- so sez da interwebz.

Who's the July 20 girl? She looks cute.

Miss July 20 is a Sekiguchi Momoko Chocolate Cigarette doll, "Barbie" size. Yes, that's what she was called, although she came with neither chocolate nor cigarettes.

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24 July - A Doll A Day 2022:
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24 July - Miss Noir from Accounting checks on Project Progress

[Alliecat]

Yay, a Pullip makes an appearance.
Now I'm even more curious as to the nature of the project.

[davidd]

Now I'm even more curious as to the nature of the project.

The nature of this project is increasingly coming to look like all my other projects: grand ambitions that result in half-finished junk piled in the back of the storage shed.

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25 July - A Doll A Day 2022:

25 July - Mister Bear in a Rocking Chair

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Today is my grandma's birthday. Or, it would be her birthday, if, well, you know. Anyway, this little rocking chair belonged to my grandma. She used to enjoy telling the story about her parents purchasing this chair for her when she was only three months old.

I'm not sure when Mister Bear's exact birthday is, but since he is a Dan Dee "100th Anniversary Teddy Bear" he was manufactured born in 2002, so that makes him twenty years old this year! Mister Bear was a "dump rescue" a few years ago. I found him sleeping in a dumpster at the local refuse disposal center. I brought him home, cleaned him up, and he spent a couple of years standing guard duty in the storage shed before being promoted to the position of greeter in a vacation rental cabin. Now Mister Bear spends his days in a rocking chair swapping stories with guests from around the country and around the world.

A sad little fact I read today about the popularity of Teddy Bears is that the first two significant Teddy Bear Museums that opened in the mid-1980s when Teddy Bears became something of a fad -- one in the U.S. and one in England -- closed around 2005-2006 and their collections were auctioned off. That would have been shortly after the 100th anniversary (2002-2003) of the creation of the Teddy Bear.

Another sad little fact that I noticed several weeks ago is that a recent television biography of former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, after whom the iconic Teddy Bear was named, did not mention the Teddy Bear, nor use it as an example to illustrate Roosevelt's popularity. The narration told the viewer that Roosevelt was popular, but, c'mon, man, it's television! The "Show Don't Tell" rule applies! It would have taken only a line or two to mention the plush toy inspired by a Roosevelt hunting incident.

One additional fact I learned today; or rather, a new vocabulary word: deaccessioning. Apparently that is what rich people do with their unwanted old stuff. They don't "sell" it. They "deaccession" it. I learned that fun fact in an article about the current state of the vintage Teddy Bear market:

https://auctiondaily.com/news/4-trends-i...-lockdown/

[dargosmydaddy]

I remember you posting about Teddy's rescue-- so glad he's enjoying his second life! He looks very comfy in your grandmother's chair, and like he'd be fun to shoot the breeze with.

[davidd]

I remember you posting about Teddy's rescue-- so glad he's enjoying his second life! He looks very comfy in your grandmother's chair, and like he'd be fun to shoot the breeze with.

Yes, Mister Bear is staying busy and productive while enjoying a comfortable semi-retirement.

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26 July - A Doll A Day 2022:

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26 July - Janie, Triv, and Addie spent the day Burying Conduit

and Running Cable Thru Trenches in the Rain

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[Alliecat]

WOW.  I sometimes think about how some of us take our supposedly “display” “collectible” dolls out in places we probably shouldn’t, but I think you get the prize for having them out in the rain and the mud. Another terrific set of “work” photos.

I remember Mister Bear’s rescue too. Great to see him again. And all spiffed up too. He looks adorable there.  I love it that he is now in your grandma‘s chair being an ambassador 

[davidd]

... but I think you get the prize for having them out in the rain and the mud.
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I love it that he is now in your grandma‘s chair being an ambassador 

You take your "collectible" dolls out in the sand and salt water, so I think we're even!  

His title is am-bear-ssador! 

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27 July - A Doll A Day 2022:

27 July - Magic Mermaids... except the Name has Changed!

I first encountered mermaids like this nearly ten years ago, back in 2013. At that time they were marketed as Magic Mermaid Sea Party, and they were so grotesquely hideous that I simply had to purchase a set. Or two.

I saw this updated version of the Magic Mermaid Sea Party set today in the peg toy aisle at a grocery market, under the name My Mermaid Play Set.

Way back when, a set of three mermaids included three hairbrushes and one sea plant. The new set of two mermaids includes two hairbrushes, two sea plants, and a turtle and a cuttlefish!

I think the new version is the better deal, because cuttlefish!

But I didn't buy it.

[Alliecat]

You take your "collectible" dolls out in the sand and salt water, so I think we're even!  

His title is am-bear-ssador! 

True… That’s when I think about how they aren’t supposed to be “played with”.  But the PTFCo crew does not do mud!
Am-bear-ssador is perfect! 

Are the mermaids supposed to do anything like change colour…?