davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2025

[davidd]

4 October - A Doll A Day 2025:
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The visitors are running late, so I have time to sneak in a quick shot today, which will mean less "catch-up" next week!

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Hula Girl Vase and Hula Girl Dashboard Bobber Doll

[Alliecat]

Did you bring a lot of Hawaiian souvenirs with you or did you end up buying them later once you got homesick?

[davidd]

Did you bring a lot of Hawaiian souvenirs with you or did you end up buying them later once you got homesick?

Some of each.

And speaking of feeling homesick for Hawaii....

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5 October - A Doll A Day 2025:

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Potential Pinky Street Revival

About ten years ago, shortly after I moved to Utah from Hawaii, I began to miss Hawaii and to miss the beach house diorama I had constructed there for my Pinky Street 10cm / 4in doll figures, so I started work on a new diorama for them. The project morphed in to a pub or "dive bar" with an exotic surfing theme.

Real life has a way of getting in the way, and the diorama project never got finished. Indeed, it barely got started before being stashed away in the back of an increasingly cluttered storage shed.

Recently, while I was "surfing" Flickr (as one does), some older Pinky Street figure photos caught my eye; some were my photos and some were by others. As a result, I felt the dormant embers of my Pinky Street enthusiasm (which once bordered on obsession) begin to "flickr," and I began to think about resurrecting and perhaps even finishing the "new" Pinky Street pub project.

So here it is. Garish, in'nit? I used some surf stickers from Hawaii, some pictures from a couple of cardboard beer cartons, and for some of the wood trim I repurposed a few wooden blocks from a set of home-made blocks that my grandpa made for me when I was a wee li'l kid, practically Pinky Street size myself. Well, maybe not quite that small, but originally I was too young to even play with blocks. Thus, those wooden blocks have been around pretty much my entire life. I do not remember a time when they were not around, usually in a box at my grandparents' house, and later when they came in to my possession.

I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do here, but I'm starting, or re-starting, by glueing back together some pieces that have fallen apart.

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6 October - A Doll A Day 2025:

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ReMent Resurrection

Recently, while I was "surfing" Flickr (as one does), I ran across a photo of a ReMent miniature bar set, which reminded me that I had purchased that very set quite a number of years ago with the intention of using it in my Pinky:st pub project. The ReMent set has sat since, still in its shipping carton.

Until today. I finally opened the shipping carton.

This is supposed to be a "complete set." The original ReMent bar came as "blind box" packages, with several packages required to complete the entire assembly. I hope it is actually complete.

In looking on eBay today, I see that the asking price for a complete set is in excess of $200 USD. That could possibly put a damper on my project. For two-hunnert bucks, I might be better off trying to sell the ReMent bar! However, a look at "sold" listings indicates a recent real world selling price of $60 USD. Adjusted for ten years of inflation, that's probably less than I originally paid. In that case, I'll keep the bar set and carry on with my build.

[Alliecat]

Haha, yeah, always look at "sold" listings. Asking prices are frequently stoopid.
Your wee gal in the first 3 pix looks a bit sad that things have fallen into disrepair. Might be fun for you to finally finish it. And how sweet that you still have your grandpa's blocks from small kid time. What a great idea to include them.

[TrueFan]

Man, Rement used to be so great back in the day.