Happy Halloween!

 Hey Gang!

Hey, all you ghosts and ghouls! It is time for "Mortala Of The Night!"

Here is our hostess...Mortala! 

Hello, it is me...Mortala! Hey everyone, and Happy Halloween!

I'm here with my friends. My black cat Pyewacket,

Zombie Baby,

Dead Head at the piano, and

Skelly the Bat.

It is time for our movie.

Our movie tonight is one of my favorites!

Salem's Lot!

I had a poster of Barlow on my coffin room wall as a young woman.

A special thanks and rest in peace to Vanessa Morrison! She made the piano that Dead Head is on.

This is my first time using it on my blog. I have a few things by her and they are all treasures! She passed in 2017 this month. She is sooo missed!

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Gifts from a Dolly Friend!

 Hey Gang!

I recieved some really great  handmade doll clothes in the mail from a fellow blogger and Youtuber Shasarignis Barbie & Co.  I remember a while back when she sent her lovely fashions to Van's Doll Treasures Vanessa!  I thought...how wonderful that must be to receive such wonderful clothes for your doll! As with many of you, I do miss Vanessa and think about her blog and her presents in the dollyverse!

 If you want to see some of the things I was sent, here is a link to some of the handmade fashions that have been created.   I will show you some of what I got and how truly wonderful they are!

So any of you who have hand sewn a item knows that the smaller the item, the smaller the stitch need to be! So to have tiny, even,straight hand sewn stitches is challenging!  

You will note that the vest is lined with buttons! The over lock stitches are excellent and the garments are fun and flirty!

Name tag inside of vest!

Hem!

I showed them to my husband who was very impressed. His father used to be a tailor and showed him how to sew. He admired the stitch work.  We had a long talk about different types of hand stitches and how it is a lost art.

A few pieces model by a few of my dolls! Don't tell Ms. D! She didn't know these came in and there were modeling opportunities!

Jewel

Francie

Shiori

Lielit

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Something New For Nola!

Hey Gang!

One of my first purchase for the new year was pants for my Nola (Big and
Beautiful Dasia). Guess who I purchased them from?  That's right!
Vanessa of Van's Doll Treasures.  She is selling very nice Dasia  clothes.
So if your Dasia needs clothes, check her out!

I purchased the beige hound's tooth pants and the palazzo pants! First let me say
that I am a big fan of palazzo pants.  There are a few in my wardrobe!  So to
have my dolls wear something that I enjoy wearing is a plus!

The pants are navy blue with a pink pinstripe!  The perfect combination of masculine and
feminine!

 She pairs it with a pink sweater.  

It is her pink for the love of her live Macy's cancer sweater.  

I removed the patch.

The pants are really well made!

 Seams are serged! 

 Here she is in her hound's tooth pants!

 They are a slimmer fit.  I paired them with a white shirt and a peach sweater/jacket!

 She sometimes adds a hat!

I still need shoes for Nola.  She needs brown and black pumps.  Any suggestions?

BTW, there are many accepted names and spellings for hound's tooth.

Houndstooth, hounds tooth check or hound'stooth (and similar spellings), also known as dogstooth, dogtooth or dog'stooth, is a duotone textile pattern characterized by broken check or abstractfour-pointed shapes, often in black and white, although other colors are used.

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Dancing!

The other day I was changing a few posts on my blog that went a little wonky when I changed the format of my blog.  As I was looking through old post and I came across the

Dance Of Rouba. 

It is one of my favorite posts that I have done. I loved seeing KiKi dance! Articulation of the SIS Cara body that I used for KiKi makes for a good photo! Yes Mattel that is why dolls need to be articulated and it is why we need more articulated bodies in more complexions.

I also thought about Vanessa’s new dance studio in Morristown too. No doubt we will see some great dancing with the articulated dolls that she has there too.


I have seen a few photos on Flickr of dolls dancing and I wanted to share with you some of my favorite photos of dolls dancing on Flickr.

One of the first I remember seeing was this post from Alrunia of Trichelle on a Liv body!  I wasn’t into Liv bodies then (Have times changed!) but I like these shot of her in movement.

Next is Madicix  and the Dolls Dance Academy. You will notice that there are two dance studios alone with a doll waiting area.

Dia 777 did this shot of her dance troop. I'm not to big on the many versions of the Desiree/ Artsy head sculpt but there is something about the tilt of her head in this shot that I like.  Here is one of the boys too!

The cute factor is show here with Zahara in this blue outfit by tru_fashionista

I am a big fan of the Tango head sculpt( I only have one) and I love her in this photo of her instructing.

I really love this “stomp the yard style” shot done by aneky43251called Breakin’ It Down!  She has some awesome photos and action shots in her photostream

Last but not least is this dance troop. I found this Westside workshop beautiful and funny at the same time!

OK that's my rant!



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My New Favorite Things!

I wanted to show you some new diorama items I recently purchased from thrift stores and flea markets and what I got from the International Black Doll Show and Sale!


So here we go… I told you I got the gardening set from the Black Doll Show.

My gardener will be Angelina!

Outfit and hat.

 I love the little tools!

Someone recently gave me some Barbie size tools too.

They are a little off scale wise but certain dolls aren't as picky as others!


Next I got this rug at my favorite thrift store.

Xia is our model today. She is dressed in a Miya inspired outfit. Doesn’t she look cute!
I was looking for something like this for someone especial! The rug will go to Chief Running Bear for his home.

Also going to his home is this desk! If you read dbg’s post of Black Doll Collecting on the International Black Doll Show and Sale, you will remember Linda Hayes saying she had a desk at the show. Yes, that right! The early bird gets the worm… or the desk! This is the desk she had for sale! I will give it a hit with some Old English and maybe add some feet to it before sending it to him.

I also purchased from Ms. Hayes is this Power Team guy. It’s funny, I was going to purchase this guy on the Dollpage but the seller already had a sale for him. So now I have him anyway. No name for him or anything yet.

Close-up!

I also from Ms. Hayes is Halle Berry! I immediately rebody her! She is on an AA Fashionista body. She had some pretty strange eyelashes too! So I gave them a trim. I do think she a beauty!  Sometimes she looks like Halle Berry and other times she looks like Nicole Ari Parker.  Haven’t figure a her name either but it will come.

Close-up!

I got these cassette holders from the dollar store.

The will make great chairs for my folks to sit in! When I read Vanessa’s post on Wedding Reception Crisis Averted, chairs were mentioned as a possible issue! I learned from her to pick up chairs when you see them.

I found this sofa which you have seen with Sydney

(Thrift store)
I got these!  This is my original.  It is a candle holder. They show up a lot at my favorite thrift store.  At first I paid then no attention.  Now I look in that section first!

This is my first one!

It had a piece like this in it.

I removed it.

Now I have two!

(Thrift store) I will do the same with these.

(Flea market) two more of these. I already had two

(Thrift store)


and two more of these also to add to my chair collection. Can you have too many chairs?

I purchased this picnic table for my park.

This table and three more came from Style In Scale. Thanks Jennifer! Words don’t do these tables justice! I plan to follow her direction on cleaning. I learned something in the process of purchasing the tables. It cost more to send something from Canada to the US than it cost to send from the US to Canada. That was something I didn’t know.

This table is from my favorite thrift store.

Some lamps from the dollar store. They had these in a few colors….I may need more.

I got an Etch A Sketch…

these, which reminds me of the game Connect Four

 and my extra Foosball table.

I also received some pizza  and breakfast from Vanessa of Van's Doll Treasures!

Xia: Maybe just one slice?

I need to get another of these! Hey Van, What else  ya got?

A little something for Fiona!

I also got a few things for my wee ones!

A car and

Trucks!

Ok! I couldn't pass this up for 5.00!

Now my horses have a home!

Yes, it need some work... will I get to it....maybe!
Yes, I went a little hog wild for a minute!



I’ll show you more dolls later.

Thanks For Looking!