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Category Dollsbe Strawberry – “Fern”

On Our Own 03: Fern’s Story

***** Fern is now my official representative in the 1/4 scale dolls. I love Willow’s quiet grace, but I am neither quiet or graceful. I love Olive’s take charge spirit, but that’s not me either. Fern, little as she is,… Continue Reading →

Bringing dolls to life: Animated GIFs

I did a little playing around this last week animating the littlest sister in On Our Own. I’ll never be a stop motion animator – mainly because I haven’t the patience, but also because my dolls’ movements have so much… Continue Reading →

Starting Fern’s Story – Adventuring with dolls

It seems I often find my dolls like this, sitting in chairs (or benches, in this case) waiting for their adventure to begin. In Fern’s case, she’s about to start a grand-ish adventure, if I could just figure out what… Continue Reading →

Overhead: First night in the treehouse

After building a rough platform in their last episode, Fern and Olive are finishing off the floor of the treehouse. Well, maybe Fern is doing most of the work. When it’s all done, they relax and admire their work. Then… Continue Reading →

Dancing dolls

I take back everything I said about Olive’s (my Iplehouse Amy doll’s) posing ability in my previous post. Apparently, although she’s not always able to resist the forces of gravity, she can totally dance. I think her dancing ability comes… Continue Reading →

Building the treehouse

Early morning, and Olive and Fern are busily discussing the treehouse. Olive scouts out a likely tree. And then the sisters get to work. Willow arrives with some refreshments and all three sisters admire their handiwork. ******* Next week is… Continue Reading →

From each according to their abilities

My fashion dolls all have pretty similar posing abilities. The two dolls on the Barbie Made-to-Move bodies (Lily and Daisy) are easier to pose than the two dolls on Obitsu bodies (Camellia and Rosie), but they all pose in pretty… Continue Reading →

Up Above: Planning the treehouse

My Up Above doll adventure starts out slowly – two sisters sit in the glade behind their house and plan out how they might build a treehouse. ***** I got one day of clear weather, so I was able to… Continue Reading →

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