by Elizabeth A. Allen
Little Meghna and Ethancitx go shopping.
Mannequins are played by MGA Rainbow High and Shadow High dolls. Store clerk is played by Novella, a Soom Uyoo romantic head on a hybrid resin body with bad articulation.
Continue reading The dorklets in…Little Allison’s Sleepover IV!
Little Allison calls Ethancitx, who has some trouble finding the phone. He goes to get some cosmetics from his older sister Little Meghna’s room, but is caught by Little Meghna. Oh no, where is Little Meghna taking Ethancitx?!
Ethancitx is a custom 3D sculpted, painted, and haired sculpt by me on an extremely hybridized body. Little Meghna is a Mattel Barbie Fashionista partially repainted by me and rehaired with a wig, on a Spin Master Liv body.
Little Meghna likes team sports and particularly likes to run. She is, however, very sarcastic, and she doesn’t think much of motivational quotes and inspirational sayings. I made her posters with free Canva templates. Continue reading The dorklets in…Little Allison’s Sleepover III!
Silencitx has an idea for the sleepover. She calls Little Allison and then goes to buy candy at the Body Shop.
Silencitx is a Mattel Nutcracker and Four Realms Clara head, repainted and rehaired by me, on an Obitsu 24 body. Store clerk is played by Hot Toys Princess Leia from Star Wars A New Hope or whatever it’s called these days.
The Body Shop is played by two roomboxes made by Bitty House. Most of the furniture is from Mattel Monster High Coffin Bean sets, either G1 or G3. Most of the drinks and snacks are either from Mattel Monster High G3 dolls or G3 Coffin Bean.
A shot of the entire Body Shop set shows that the roomboxes have walls of different heights, much to my distress. I have to extend upward the walls on the left.
Continue reading The dorklets in…Little Allison’s Sleepover II!
Little Allison feels overwhelmed by the mess in her room. She calls her friend Little Theo for help. Continue reading The dorklets in…Little Allison’s Sleepover I!
The Shuz Store debuts its annual Stupid Bags Collection, much to Marie’s consternation.
The Stupid Bag Collection is inspired by the padlock, basketball, and THIS IS NOT A DESIGNER BAG bags from the recent MGA Rainbow High Mini Accessories Studio release. After inventing the Stupid Bag Collection, I found other stupid bags from some MGA LOL OMG dolls [the TV and the folded newspaper]. Then I supplemented then with some hilarious transparent backpacks from MGA Rainbow High Junior dolls. Behold — the Stupid Bag Collection!
Just to make it clear — I do not think that any of these bags are actually stupid. They’re weird, tacky, unusual, largely impractical, and amusing, but calling them Stupid Bags accurately transmits the Shuz Store’s sarcastic sense of humor.
Working in the Shuz Store today is Daisy Bee, a slightly repainted Mattel Barbie Fashionista 91 head on a modded MGA Rainbow High Delilah Fields body. Patronizing the Shuz Store today is Marie, a Mattel Generation Girl Dance Party Mari head on a Spin Master Liv body with Mattel WWE hands.
Continue reading Hardshippers Daisy Bee and Marie in…Stupid Bags I!
In a sequel to the earlier dressing up stories, Silence and Night head to the Shuz Store before Halloween some 30 or 40 years later…
The “big dorks” of Hardship don’t appear in a lot of photostories, so I decided to invite them in. Silence is a custom sculpted, painted, and haired head on a BCS Clara body. Night is a Takara Cy Girl Blaze head, repainted by me, on a Hoy Toys female action figure body in “Cuban” skintone. Brocedony is a ThreeZero King Ezekiel head on a Hot Toys narrow shoulder male body. The Magister is…well, the Magister.
Yes, Night is missing her right eye. She showed up in Hardship under mysterious circumstances without it, and no one has ever learned what they were. Little Night has an empty eye socket to represent her lack of an eye. Big Night has a custom glass eye that’s entirely black, with a white skull where the pupil should be. I can’t paint such a minuscule skull, so just imagine one. :p
Continue reading Big dorks Silence, Night, and the Magister in…Dressing Up III!
Silencitx and Little Night discuss Halloween costumes.
In case it’s not obvious, the Elder Witches [the Magister, the Stylist, and the Hippie] are parents of Little Night and her younger sibling Little Day.
Continue reading Dorklets Silencitx and Little Night in…Dressing Up II!
The Shuz Store is ready for Halloween, and so are Silencitx and Little Night!
If you’ve seen any of the stories taking place in Hardship, Vermont, you’ve probably seen much of this stuff before. Masks are mostly J Dream gachapon. Vintage ad posters are graphics I made for some 1:6 scale pulp magazines a while back.
Continue reading Dorklets Silencitx and Little Night in…Dressing Up I!
Little Night tries to help Little Day roller skate. It doesn’t go so well. Finally they decide to do something else. Continue reading Dorklets Little Night and Little Day in…Roller Skating II!
When Moose Toys came out with Real Little shuz wave 2, there were funky roller skates as part of the offerings! I immediately became obsessed with kitting out all seven dorklets in roller skates. They’ve been sitting on my shelf, waiting for an opportunity to skate, for about a month, however. Today one of the dorklets, Little Allison, and her mom Elva got a chance.
Little Allison [who grows up to be the Allison in my recent Allison in Wonderland photoshoot] is a Jakks Pacific Juku Couture Kana head, repainted and rehaired by me, on a body that is Spin Master Liv from neck to waist, Obitsu 24 from waist to upper thigh swivels, and Spin Master Liv from mid-thighs to feets. This seems to be the best compromise I have found for kid bodies in other colors besides extremely white and slightly peach. Unfortunately, the Liv arms only have single-jointed elbows, but the tight, flexible Obitsu abdomen/pelvis allows for very expressive bending, curling, and crouching poses. This hybrid body can also wear shorts and teeshirts without showing any mismatching skintones. Plus the double-jointed knees are pretty decent.
Elva, Little Allison’s mom, is the black Curvy BMR 1959 head, aged, de-glammed, and given locs by me, on a Mattel Made to Move body that doesn’t fully match but I don’t care. She used to be the standard height, but I shortened her. I’ve finally found the secret to shortening MTMs. Instead of hacking through the thighs [which are solid and therefore composed of the thickest plastic on the doll], I now remove excess length from the hollow middle section of the abdomen and then from the ankles. You can significantly reduce the doll’s height this way with no harm to general proportions. In fact, the shortened waist helps the elbows and the hands to fall at more realistic places.
Continue reading Dorklet Little Allison in…Roller Skating I!
Despite Ebru’s dramatics, the Red Queen Serial Killer rampages after Allison Wonderland. Allison Wonderland defeats her foe, however. Huzzah! The Red Queen series ends. Continue reading Hardshippers in…Red Queen V: “Success”
There is some confusion between the characters of the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts. Allison and Carnelian don’t really have problems with it, but Ebru does. Continue reading Hardshippers in…Red Queen IV: “Ebru Finds Out”
Carnelian is all set for her role as the Red Queen in the Alice in Wonderland photoshoot. Or is she?
Carnelian’s case of bloody tools comes from Ringdoll’s Jack the Ripper Misty Midnight figure. Continue reading Hardshippers in…Red Queen III: “Carnelian Is Prepared”
Allison figures out who the Magister is playing, despite his best attempts at obfuscation. Ebru reveals her plan. The contents of the Magister’s hookah are left to your imagination. Given that he’s an Elder Witch, though, it’s probably something magical and trippy…Continue reading Hardshippers in…Mystery Shoot II: “Who Planned This?”
Allison fumbles with the electricity on set and discovers the Magister hanging out with some lightup shrooms. They have an elliptical conversation in which he acts just as mysterious and frustrating as the Wonderland character he’s [probably] playing. If you remember which character sat on a mushroom and said to Alice, “Who are you?”, then you’ll know who the Magister is playing. The hookah might also give it away.
Yeah, I said hookah. I made him one with a glass paperweight as the water reservoir, a brass candle holder as the neck, the platter from the Battat Glitter Girls Sweet Shop that holds the candied apples, and a 1:12 scale TV antenna. A mini lava lamp would have probably finished off the stack of things more realistically, but I think a TV antenna on a hookah is funnier. The nozzle off the side and the mouthpiece are pieces of colored dowels. The tube connecting the nozzle and the mouthpiece is string hot glued to the nozzle and the mouthpiece. You’ll have to wait till next time to see what comes out of it! Sure, the whole thing looks out of scale, but this is Wonderland, so weirdness is standard.
Background mushrooms are just 2D decorations quickly made from scrapbook paper with colored pencil embellishments. If you’ve been following my doll photostories, you may have seen the lightup shrooms here and there. They’re Japanese gachapon that I got off Ebay, and they’re remarkably useful for adding a little strangeness to any scene.
Continue reading Hardshippers in…Mystery Shoot I: “Groovy Shrooms”
Allison and Marvin get together and cause mayhem, much to Ebru’s consternation.Continue reading Hardshippers in…Mad Tea Party V: “Silliness Breaks Out”
Ebru finds the perfect Red Queen in Carnelian!!
!!!Action!!! juice is played by J Dream gachapon.
P.S. Carnelian is actually a witch, which makes the pun even better. >:)
Continue reading Hardshippers in…Red Queen II: “Ebru Finds a Red Queen”
Ebru goes scooting and helps Carnelian.
Ebru is a Mattel Barbie Extra #1 head with makeup enhanced and hair adjusted by me. Dress is from Mattel Barbie Fashionista 90 [aka the gay Barbie]. Her sunglasses are from the Mattel Star Wars C3PO Barbie. Ebru’s scooter is a Vespa with sidecar. Cool, right?!
Carnelian is a Coomodel/Ouzhixiang Monster Files No. 4 Witch head and outfit on Takara Cy Girl 1.0 body. Shoefeetz are from MGA Bratz. Giant gummy bear is from a Mattel Barbie Extra playset. Luggage on wheels is from MGA Rainbow High Rainbow Vision Sabrina St. Cloud. Continue reading Hardshippers in…Red Queen I: “Carnelian’s Finds”
Allison and Marvin are not listening to Ebru, who is increasingly exasperated.
Leaning Tower of Pisa burger is from Rement. Mug with pan flag design [and many more Pride designs] can be found at PrintedByStovall.
Continue reading Hardshippers in…Mad Tea Party IV: “Prop Problems”
Felix has to deal with Marvin, who is having some problems with his character.
Marvin is a BCS Baron Samedi with facepaint removed. [He had half his face painted white because he’s a likeness of the character in Live and Let Die.] I love the headsculpt. Though it’s meant to portray a very energetic and unhinged character, the wide open mouth is surprisingly versatile, especially when combined with the wonderfully sculpted hands. When he’s not playing the Mad Hatter, Marvin sings for Hardship’s rock band Flaming Hot Pussy because, with that face, how can he not?!
Mirror is played by some MGA LOL OMG Surprise packaging.
Continue reading Hardshippers in…Mad Tea Party III: “Very Sensitive”
Felix, who does lights, goes to see where the missing stars are of Ebru’s photoshoot. He fixes Allison’s problem.
Felix is some action figure dude, probably by Dragon/DML. Shirt is a dress from a Mattel Barbie Fashionista. Loafers are from a Mattel BTS doll.
Allison is a custom sculpted action figure head by Eric Barclay, painted by me. Wig is by Culte de Paris. Outfit is by Peppermint Circus.
Dressing room is LOL OMG Surprise Rocker Boi packaging that I added a curtain and curtain rod too. I also modded the interior art.
Continue reading Hardshippers in…Mad Tea Party II: “Poofy Sleeves”!
Ebru plans a super awesome Alice in Wonderland photoshot…at least it would be awesome if the stars showed up!
Ebru is a Mattel Barbie Extra #1 head with makeup enhanced and hair adjusted by me. Dress is from Mattel Barbie Fashionista 90 [aka the gay Barbie]. Coat is from MGA Shadow High Storm Twins.
Backdrop is a Mattel Ever After High Way Too Wonderland playset. Isn’t it freakin’ awesome?! Most of the mini tea party stuff comes from Rement. The Cheshire Cat is needle felted by WoolMiniatureOK.
Continue reading Hardshippers in…Mad Tea Party I: “Where Are the Stars?”
The Master is back! The Third Doctor is bothering the Master about sweaters [“jumpers” across the pond]. So is Jo. As I may have mentioned, Three is a Titans 3″ vinyl Third Doctor head with repainted face on a BCS body with mostly BCS clothes, but Integrity FR Homme blazer. The Master is being played by the Magister, a Roger Delgado likeness that I resculpted and repainted, and a Hot Toys short, narrow body. Jo is a custom sculpted, painted, and wigged action figure head by me on a Mattel Made to Move petite body with BCS Solitaire hands. Continue reading DW characters in…Sweater Sale X!
Brocedony finds the sweater of his dreams. And it’s on sale! It’s an overwhelming moment.
I must admit that I love taking stern, armor-wearing figures, like the Threezero King Ezekiel that Brocedony used to be, and turning them into casual characters with a sense of humor.
Nychthemeron finally exits the dressing room. IT’S VERY LOUD IN THERE, OKAY? We see why. Like I said earlier, the dressing room and mirror props come from LOL OMG Surprise packages. They look cool in person and even cooler in photos! Continue reading Hardshippers in…Sweater Sale VIII!
A new side of the Shuz Store appears — the dressing rooms! They’re played by MGA LOL OMG packaging, which is very clever and cute and complementary to the LOL OMG dolls’ style. The style also feels perfectly at home in a tacky clothing store like the Shuz Store.
Frossinaffe is waiting and reading. She’s a recent Mattel Barbie Fashionista Mattel Big City Big Dreams Lyla head on a Mattel Barbie Made to Move body. Brocedony is a Threezero King Ezekiel [The Walking Dead] action figure head on a non-matching [and thus covered] Hot Toys short narrow body. Hands are from a Takara Cy Girl! Nychthemeron, in the last frame, is a Mattel WWE Superstar head on a Takara Cy Girl body.
Shuz, as usual, are played by Moose Toys Real Littles shuz. I had to stick in the roller skates from wave 2 because they’re just so cool. They’re the glittery ones with a lightup feature. I can’t remove the tabs to get the lights to work, which is fine. They’re quite fabulous as it is.Continue reading Hardshippers in…Sweater Sale VII!
Aphanarit wants another cute sweater. Reeve tries to help. Aphanarit is a Mattel Barbie Looks #10. Reeve is a Prettie Girl made by the One World Doll Project with shortened torso and added double-jointed elbows from Obitsu 24. She’s wearing a coat from one of the Mattel Barbie Cutie Reveals over a dress from a Mattel WWE fashion doll and some MGA Rainbow High shoes. Continue reading Hardshippers in…Sweater Sale VI!
Dom is hiding from the Magister, certain that the Magister will smite him with powers of magical mental manipulation. Will he? Continue reading Hardshippers in…Sweater Sale V!
A miracle has occurred, and the Magister has taken a break from playing the Master to terrorize Dom visit the Shuz Store.
The Hippie acquires a sweater. Dom is shocked. There is more discussion about Elder Witches. Then the OTHER one shows up. Continue reading Hardshippers in…Sweater Sale III!
Caveat’s comment about Hardshippers having no sense of style comes back to bite him. The Elder Witch known only as the Stylist appears!! She is a repainted/resculpted/rewigged head from some collector doll on a Mattel Made To Move body with action figure hands. Her sock sweater says, appropriately enough, HAIR STYLIST.
Then the Elder Witch known only as the Hippie shows up! They’re a custom sculpted/painted/wigged head on an Obitsu Slender Male body with BCS action figure hands.
The third Elder Witch, the Magister, is busy playing Delgado Master and will not be appearing unless some miracle occurs. Continue reading Hardshippers in…Sweater Sale II!
I have made many 1:6 scale sweaters out of socks over the years, so this miniseries shows how hilariously tacky they are.
Caveat is the store clerk. He finally got some ungloved hands! The first shopper is Dom, some DML action figure dude rerooted and repainted by @dollsahoy in the previous millennium. The shopper who can hear colors is Ghoulia, a repainted Mattel Claudette [?] head on an MGA Shadow High body. Sock sweaters are played by actual socks for 1:1 scale human beings that I used to make doll sweaters.
Yeah yeah, you all know the guy in black as the Magister, but here he’s playing Roger Delgado as the Master in Doctor Who for comedic effect. Ethan is playing himself. Both the Magister and Ethan are custom sculpted and painted [and, in Ethan’s case, wigged] resin heads on Hot Toys small narrow shoulder male action figure bodies.
Continue reading Hardshipper meets Doctor Who character in…The TCE!
Don’t worry — they’re not inside the chest freezer. They’re just excavating in it. What will they find?? Chest freezer is played by an Ohio Arts tin lithographed recipe card holder from the 1950s or the 1960s. The bright, lovely graphics will go well with my tin lithographed stove! Dessert packages and desserts themselves are played by Moose Toy Shopkins, some of which are pretty useful, if you can disguise the fact that they have cartoony faces. Continue reading Dorklets Night and Day in…The Chest Freezer!
Shuz Store drama continues. Salesperson of dubious skill is Caveat. Customer is Aphanarit, one of the recent Mattel Barbie Looks metallic series. Shuz are played by Moose Toys Real Littles Shoes. Caveat’s opinion does not correspond with my own because I think Real Littles shuz look good on everyone! Caveat is just being a jerk. Continue reading Hardshippers in…The Shuz Store IV!
The Shuz Store is only nominally involved here. The real star is one of the many sweaters I’ve made out of novelty socks. It’s time for a parade of dubiously sewn fashion! Stay tuned! Purchaser of the sweater is Evan, a Mattel Wizarding World H**** P***** Luna Lovegood head, dehaired and slightly repainted, on a generic fashion doll body from Aliexpress with legs shortened and feet replaced. Interlocutor is Terra, a Mattel Barbie head, slightly repainted, on a Mattel Creatable World body, covered up because it doesn’t really match her head and also because I added non-matching double elbow joints from an Obitsu 21. Continue reading Hardshippers in…The Shuz Store III!
The Shuz Store strikes again. Megan is clerking, along with Caveat. Customer is Priscilla, a Mattel Wizarding World H**** P***** Bellatrix Lestrange with slightly customized face paint and restyled hair. Shuz are played by Moose Toys Real Littles Shoes, which are all amazingly tacky, and I love them. Priscilla is obviously looking in the wrong store.
Continue reading Hardshippers in…The Shuz Store II!
You wouldn’t know it from the comic below, but I have developed an elaborate shoestore set — named the Shuz Store — on my set desk. The first of several Shuz Store adventures features Missy and Megan. Missy is a custom sculpted/painted/wigged head on a Playmates Toys Billie Eilish body with added upper arm swivels. Megan is a Mattel Sterling Silver Rose Barbie [Hispanic version] head with faceup enhanced by me on a Spin Master Liv body. Continue reading Hardshippers in…The Shuz Store I!
The Master has been rummaging in the Third Doctor’s closet! …At least for the first shot. They’ve also been shoe shopping together… Continue reading Three and the Master dispute over fashion
Another tale from Hardship, this one features Harry and Missy shopping for…a garden gnome?! Continue reading Garden gnome shopping at the candy store?!
Jyll got me a Glitter Girls Sweet Shop for my birthday, and it made its debut as a shoe store in today’s photostory.
Starring Saba, an American Girl Girls of Many Lands Saba head on a Spin Master Liv body with custom wig, as shopkeeper.
Also starring Ethancitx [the dorklet in shorts] and Meghna, his older sister. Ethancitx is a custom sculpted/painted/wigged head with a body made from at least 5 separate bodies [including Obitsu 24 pelvis/upper thighs, unnamed AliExpress action figure arms, and Spin Master Liv legs]. Meghna is a Mattel Barbie Fashionista head with custom wig and faceup.
And introducing Battat Glitter Girls Sweet Shop as the shoe store! The shoes on the outside rack labeled Shoezies are, surprisingly enough, Hasbro Shoezies from the early 2000s. The rest of the footwear is Moose Toys Real Littles shoes, which fits with the playful aesthetic of the store.
Continue reading Dorklets visit a shoe store!
I went outside in the shade for about two hours and took pics of the dorklets having snacks at an outdoor concession stand. Why is Sharmila, the concessionaire, wearing a 1700s French court dress? Why not?! Continue reading Dorklets outside at the concession stand!
For those of you unfamiliar with Hardship, it’s a small town in Vermont populated by your average small-town weirdos, some of whom are witches. Magic is real, and so is time travel and teleportation, and we even see a little bit of magic at work in this episode.
Continue reading Hardship Toy Adventures V — another fortune telling machine!
For those of you unfamiliar with Hardship, it’s a small town in Vermont populated by your average small-town weirdos, some of whom are witches. Magic is real, and so is time travel and teleportation, though none of these are really relevant to the Toy Shop Adventures.
All of these dolls are customized 1:6 scale action figures, about 12″ (30 cm) tall or less. Qingting, with the skateboard and historical Chinese clothing, is a Pleasant Company/American Girl Girls of Many Lands Spring Pearl. GOMLs were a line of 9″ dolls, sculpted by Helen Kish, wearing detailed, high-quality, accurate historical outfits and wigged hairstyles. They were each accompanied by a book that centered around the character and her experience in her country during historically significant times. Characters hailed from Ethiopia, China, India, Yupik territory [in present-day Alaska], etc., but the most popular [and therefore expensive] of them is the step-dancing Irish redhead. I have the kid from India and the kid from France coming, so you may see them in future installments, although probably redressed.
The very creatively named PJ [in pajamas] is a recent Mattel Barbie Looks head on an MGA Rainbow High body. She’s wearing Robin Sterling’s amazing pajamas!
I was trying to come up with hilarious reasons that Qingting would need three dogbots and PJ would be in her pjs, but then I decided it was funnier if the reasons were left to the imagination. I do have an answer, however, for the reason that the mini figure in the gravy boat [actually a curry boat] appears: because she and her friends amuse me.
Remember how I said that lots of the stuff in the toy shop is gachapon, or miniatures from Japanese vending machines? The dogbots are a perfect example. If they look familiar, it’s because they are small plastic representations of Sony AIBOs, or robotic toy dogs, produced between 1999 and 2006.
Continue reading Hardship Toy Shop Adventures IV — toy shop mysteries!
For those of you unfamiliar with Hardship, it’s a small town in Vermont populated by your average small-town weirdos, some of whom are witches. Magic is real, and so is time travel and teleportation, though none of these are really relevant to the Toy Shop Adventures.
All of these dolls are customized 1:6 scale action figures, about 12″ (30 cm) tall or less. The Hippie, who likes plants and sparkly things, is a gender-optional Elder Witch and spouse of the Magister and the Stylist. They are on an Obitsu slender male body. I sculpted their head in a digital rendering program, painted it, and made the wig myself. They have plant powers and extensive gardens.
Continue reading Hardship Toy Shop Adventures III — the tasty potion!
For those of you unfamiliar with Hardship, it’s a small town in Vermont populated by your average small-town weirdos, some of whom are witches. Magic is real, and so is time travel and teleportation, though none of these are really relevant to the Toy Shop Adventures.
All of these dolls are customized 1:6 scale action figures, about 12″ (30 cm) tall or less. The Magister started off life as a very frowny likeness of Roger Delgado as the Master from Doctor Who. He eventually developed into his own character, a nearly-400-year-old witch who loves the whole classic villain aesthetic and has the power of forcing people to do what he wants, though he strenuously avoids using it these days. He is married to the other two Elder Witches, the Stylist and the Hippie.
The set pieces are a little bit of this and that, with a lot of World’s Smallest/World’s Tiniest products, as well as a significant amount of gachapon (miniatures from Japanese vending machines). I made many of the books on the bookshelf, either from printables by others or my own designs. The Magister’s cookbook, Gelatinize It! [“Turn every dish into a quivering masterpiece!”], is one of my own creations, but based on actual promotional cookbooks from the 1950s. I just had so much fun writing the cover copy that I decided to show it off.
Continue reading Hardship Toy Shop Adventures II — the scary [?] witch!
I have the time and the props, so here is the first in an occasional series of inconsequential events occurring in the Hardship Toy Shop!!
For those of you unfamiliar with Hardship, it’s a small town in Vermont populated by your average small-town weirdos, some of whom are witches. Magic is real, and so is time travel and teleportation, though none of these are really relevant to the Toy Shop Adventures.
All of these dolls are customized 1:6 scale action figures, about 12″ (30 cm) tall or less. Rosie, who’s trying to get her fortune told, is a recent Mattel Barbie Looks head on an MGA Rainbow High Vanessa Tempo body. Bailey, the clerk, is a Medicom Bambi that I redressed. Farrier, who is looking at a book, is a Big Chief Tenth Doctor that I redressed and repainted the hair on. The Cactus Kid, petting the stuffed sheep, is a Mattel Kelly Club head on an Obitsu 11cm knockoff body. Pammy, holding the dogbot upside down, is a Medicom Pampy head (from the same set as Bailey) spliced with Obitsu 22cm parts for more articulation. She is Bailey’s younger sister.
The set pieces are a little bit of this and that, with a lot of World’s Smallest/World’s Tiniest, as well as a significant amount of gachapon (miniatures from Japanese vending machines). Zoltar is a cheap miniature for sale from Running Press. He lights up and talks (in a fake Russian accent) with the help of 2 AAA batteries. To my knowledge, he does not actually say anything about his butt. 😉
Continue reading Hardship Toy Shop Adventures I — the rude fortune teller!
The pizza party begins with a nap and ends with revenge.
Continue reading Dorklets Night, Day, and Ethancitx in…Cooking Pizza XI!
Time to work on the pizzas with tomato sauce… Continue reading Dorklets Night, Day, and Ethancitx in…Cooking Pizza X!
With the first round of pizzas finished, the dorklets have run out of cheese. Night sends Day to the store. What could possibly go wrong?
The grocery store is played by the other part of my 1959 Wolverine tin lithographed set, the deli counter of which we saw earlier in Cooking Pizza IV. Because the backdrop is just 11″ high, I chose a shorter customer to appear with Day in the store.
Continue reading Dorklets Night, Day, and Ethancitx in…Cooking Pizza IX!
Day takes over pizza making. How will Night and Ethancitx react?! Continue reading Dorklets Night, Day, and Ethancitx in…Cooking Pizza VIII!
While the pizza crust is pre-baking, Day comes in to help!
Continue reading Dorklets Night, Day, and Ethancitx in…Cooking Pizza VII!
Night and Ethancitx actually settle down to make their crust and let it rise. Continue reading Dorklets Night, Day, and Ethancitx in…Cooking Pizza VI!
Night returns from shopping and discovers a table with absolutely no snacks on it whatsoever!!! But she recovers, and she and Ethancitx gather ingredients for tomatoless pizzas [because I do not have a mini pizza sauce in my possession yet]. Continue reading Dorklets Night, Day, and Ethancitx in…Cooking Pizza V!
Night runs out to purchase some ingredients.
The deli counter just came in the mail today. It’s part of a lithographed tin grocery store set made by Wolverine Toys in 1959. There’s also a folding backdrop including an illustration of a grocery store and shelves where mini foods can be stocked, but that will show up later. Originally the set came with a scale, a phone, and mini food packages, but I just got the deli counter and the folding backdrop.
The deli counter has a colorful illustration of salads, pickles, and very red meats — still vibrant after all these years! It originally stands just about 2 or 3 inches high, so I washed it with some warm water and dish soap and then mounted it on the counter of my Mattel Barbie Coca Cola Soda Fountain. I covered the scratched, stained countertop with white paper. The red on the deli counter matches the red trim of the counter set, creating a convincing deli. I added some silly signs, a few of my many kitchen appliances, and Sappho the Lesbian Love Bot [played by a 13″ Mego Jamie Sommers Bionic Woman doll with new wig and outfit] for the clerk. Then I was ready to play!
Continue reading Dorklets Night, Day, and Ethancitx in…Cooking Pizza IV!
Ethancitx arrives ready to cook, but finds no one, so he cleans up until a toy robot distracts him. [Happens to the best of us.]
Continue reading Dorklets Night, Day, and Ethancitx in…Cooking Pizza III!
Day replaces the snacks that they ate, but the replacements are intercepted by the Hippie… Continue reading Dorklets Night, Day, and Ethancitx in…Cooking Pizza II!
Night is preparing snacks for Ethancitx, who’s coming over to cook with her. But Night’s little sibling Day finds the snacks first! Continue reading Dorklets Night, Day, and Ethancitx in…Cooking Pizza I!
Ethancitx watches people roller skating and finally gets up enough nerve to do it himself. He keeps falling down, though, until Silencitx and Harry arrive with a solution!
Continue reading Dorklets Silencitx and Ethancitx in…The Roller Rink!