I found Pleasant Company's trunk for Molly!
It was $20 and I found it in a pile of stuff in the garage (!) of my local thrift store.
It's a wonderful piece, but Molly is not my girl, so this trunk is going to live with a friend instead.
Mattel probably does not owns the rights, but I would 100% buy a bookmark or a Christmas ornament that looks like the PC logo plate on the trunk.
My dollhouse already has a cloud mural on the ceiling of the first floor. Yesterday, I was seriously considering printing copies of genuine ceiling murals and adding them to the center of each ceiling, allowing the clouds to show along the edges.
These murals were under consideration.
Today, I am more considering doing a rosette medallion in the middle of the ceilings of the living room and library instead.
That feels more upper-middle-class to me, rather than "Italian prince palazzo."
Or, of course, I can do the medallion in the living room and the unicorn mural in the library.
That might be the way to go.
Do I want to do realism or fantasy? Tsk, tsk, choices, choices.
I found the rosette on the Lowe's website by searching for "rosette." Here is the link.
There are different ones out there. This one is plastic. I am hoping that will be more light-weight, since it has to stay on the ceiling.
Today, I am more considering doing a rosette in the middle of the ceilings of the living room and library ore considering doing a rosette in the middle of the ceilings of the living room and library instead.
Just two more doll pictures from this week.
Kavi and Samantha!
I love classic birthday Samantha with her pink striped dress and teddy bear.
The dress Kavi is wearing photographed pink-ish, but is obviously orange. It's gorgeous on her!
My much second older cousin Willard collected antique dolls.
I remember visiting her house and being jealous of the beautiful dolls in their glass cases.
I brought my American Girl dolls to show her. She said she might think about getting one, but I am not sure if she ever did or not.
Which is to say that I was thrilled to find this low brow china headed doll at an antique store for $45.
There are a lot of reproduction antique dolls out there. I am reasonable certain that this doll is an antique. I am not so sure about her dress. The fabrics look modern.
I love her pink boots!
My grandma said that she "had a little china head doll that she loved."
I wish I had asked her more questions about her childhood doll, but I always imagined it being one of these dolls. They were produced until 1940, so it is certainly possible.
I found a Molly wearing Addy's prototype dress at the Salvation Army, the one that never has anything good, that looks like the land of lost hopes.
The one in walking distance from my girlfriend's apartment, so I joked that we are going to have to start taking romantic walks to the thrift store to look for AG stuff.
Anyway, it took me a couple of months to take a picture.
I was absolutely thrilled!
I sill need to get a picture of Molly. She is all cleaned up, but she still has loose limbs.
I have had some amazing thrift store finds in my time, but this one is definitely one of my best.
I am trying to take more pictures of my dolls! I try to spend five minutes a day now changing an outfit or taking a picture in the backyard. It helps.
I don't have to wait to have enormous amounts of free time to do something with the dolls!
One of the projects that I would like to make some day is a doll-sized version of Belle's library gown with really lush fabrics.
Belle's my favorite princess, and this is my favorite of her gowns. Even if AG makes it, I am not sure I trust them to do it right.
Original dress:
Inspiration:
I found Pleasant Company's trunk for Molly! It was $20 and I found it in a pile of stuff in the garage (!) of my local thrift store. It...
