davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[Alliecat]

The neighbours were still too close for my liking. Yep, I see quite a few houses that make me wish I could be on one of those flip shows 

Looks like the girls are hard at work again!

[davidd]

30 March - A Doll A Day 2025:

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As Things Stand

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Doll standing on top of a dresser where I was working on some stuff the other day that I never got around to cleaning up.

[Alliecat]

"All we have is where we stand..."
I just heard that quote recently and already forget where.

[davidd]

31 March - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Response for The Doll Chat Game on one of the action figure forums.

Forum members keep typing questions and comments rather than having their action figures as the questions or make the comments.

In this response, I am trying to gently illustrate the freakin' concept!

Because, seriously, how hard can it be to take a picture of a doll and type a caption underneath the picture? If ya wanna get fancy, "include quotation marks to indicate speech."

Anyway... I'll count this as my "A Doll A Day" pic because I just put this together here in the last fifteen minutes or so.

31 March - A Doll A Day 2025

[Alliecat]

It would take me a lot longer than 15 minutes to do several pictures with captions and frames and so on.
I take it you did the "poorly applied wash"?
People don't read instructions. The concept is probably too different for some? And no one online has an attention span longer than a bug's, so it's much quicker to just type their replies

[davidd]

And no one online has an attention span longer than a bug's, so it's much quicker to just type their replies 

I think that's why people love Instagram. The don't even have to type a reply, they can click "like" and if they're feeling super-involved they can paste in an emoji as a response.

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1 April – A Doll A Day 2025:

Dollar Store find:

I found three different characters, but I only bought one... for now.

This line of $1.25 figures even has a backstory! I wasn't ex-pecting that from a Family Dollar Store toy line.

[Alliecat]

Ha. OK, apparently the tree spirits are a thing… These gals don’t strike me as particularly tree-like, but whatever. Kinda cute. Any articulation?

Ditto Facebook on the practice of scrolling past and just “liking” everything. It becomes meaningless.

[davidd]

Any articulation?

The arms move at the shoulder.

I see sellers on eBay asking as much as ten dollar apiece for these.

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2 April - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Kicking Back Between Takes

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Lexxi and Rachel (TBLeague S41 and S44) chilling out between photo-story scenes.

Here's their latest arcane and action-packed installment, posted in response to the arrival of Lexxi's "arch nemesis," Miss Suki:

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[Alliecat]

Nice action shots. I like the third one. I bet they were fun to pose.

[davidd]

3 April - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Like Big, except Small

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I honestly did not care much at all for that movie, except for the piano keyboard dance sequence.

I should probably see if I can find some decent but inex-pensive 1/12-scale clothes for these two, although they seem pretty content so far with their Endless Summer lifestyle.

[Alliecat]

I recall liking "Big"; seen it a couple of times, ages ago.
Can't say I've ever heard of this piano brand. Do you play?
Yes, they should probably have some clothes, especially since you live in Antarctica where nothing blooms....

[davidd]

Can't say I've ever heard of this piano brand.  Do you play?
Yes, they should probably have some clothes, especially since you live in Antarctica where nothing blooms....

Acrosonic is a model line manufactured by Baldwin.

I took lessons when I was in my early teens for a few years, but I was never very good and I've since forgotten everything I learned, which wasn't much to begin with. I feel guilty now for the money my parents wasted. I feel foolish now for not investing more effort in to learning. In retrospect, I realize that because playing the piano did not come easily or intuitively to me, I did not try particularly hard.

I was looking at "1/12-scale action figure clothes" on eBay yesterday. One shirt or sweater or skirt costs half the price I paid for the entire figure. I'll try looking at playline dolls at Walmart or in the dollar stores and see what I can find.

I guess I should learn to sew, but that would likely go even more poorly than did my failed attempt at the piano.

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4 April 2025:

TBLeague 1/6-scale action figures following a picture session for a photo story

[Alliecat]

Wow, she’s actually standing in that position on her own!
Yes, doll clothes can be ridiculously ex$pensive. I see many that cost way more than I would ever spend on myself! AliEx-press has some very inex$pensive clothes. Worth a look. But wait – are you allowed to buy stuff from China anymore??
I remember learning to play one piece on the piano. That was it. I know where the keys are but that is about all. Never did that well with instruments where you were doing one thing with one hand and something else with the other. Flute, sax, whistle are more my speed.