Big adventures in a small world

Category Dollhouse

Back to the treehouse

While the Mia Fiarello team is making their way to Camellia, let’s check in with the treehouse sisters. When I started working again on this story, I realized how incredibly slapdash and haphazard I’d become about setting up for episodes… Continue Reading →

My Doll Adventure 32 – Rosie solves it all

As we catch up to Rosie, after her last episode when she found that Fetch had stored away all of her dream objects in her cupboard, she appears to be . . . well . . . dragging a big… Continue Reading →

Rosie is the brains of the adventure

And, we’re back. Lovely week off seeing my family, dancing at a wedding, and all-in-all having a great time. We’re to the point in the plot where everyone-who-isn’t-Camellia shares a single episode. In the one I’m working on now, Lily… Continue Reading →

Underfoot: A visit to the dollhouse

The girls start their adventure in a world largely in their own scale – a visit to Lily and Rosie on the My Doll Adventure set. They start with a visit to Lily Then Jinjur stays behind for Lily to… Continue Reading →

My Doll Adventure 14: Rosie’s fairy adventure

Another quiet night at home, playing with paper fairy dolls. It’s hard to keep all of my dolls safe. As soon as Camellia safely washes ashore and tames the panther, poor Rosie is kipnapped by fairies. She’s about to enter… Continue Reading →

Building Lily’s world

Lily is the first of the dolls to have two permanent diorama spaces – one outdoor diorama space (in her secret garden) and one indoor diorama space (in her room). The indoor space was simple to put together – it… Continue Reading →

My Doll Adventure 11 – Daisy and the mysterious stranger

Daisy’s story continues with a meeting with a mysterious stranger. . . . second shoe dropped. You can probably tell that this is the other half of the torn photo we saw in Daisy’s previous episode. We’ll have a chance… Continue Reading →

Gradual stiffening, in miniature

Lily’s garden wall of brick and foam represents the idea of gradual stiffening – the second, but probably not the last, time I’ll mention the influence of Christopher Alexander and his pattern language in my work. I like to think… Continue Reading →

A garden wall for Lily

No matter who wins the presidential election of 2016, there will be a wall. It will be strong, it will be solid, and no one under the height of 5 inches will be able to scale it. They will, however,… Continue Reading →

My Doll Adventure 08: Lily and the case of the missing doll, part 1

Lily has less of an adventure and more of an adventurous life. Her story begins with a little mystery and a small client. Continue reading at mydolladventure.com  

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