Big adventures in a small world

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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 →

My Doll Adventure 31: Rosie’s Pirate Adventure, part 2

In her last episode, Rosie was carted off by pirates. In this episode, she finds herself being carried through a jungle: And brought before the queen: from whom she receives a map: Afterwards, the pirates dump Rosie back in her… Continue Reading →

An odd day

An odd day here in doll adventure land. I started the day getting laid off, and ended it driving a dead possum up to Vancouver, WA. And still, in-between, I managed to work up a few Rosie dreamland shots. Here’s… Continue Reading →

We’re heading towards the finish line, here, with the conclusion of Rosie’s final dream adventure. After that, it’s just a hop skip and a jump away from the conclusion of my year-long adventure. For Rosie, apparently the pirates have taken… Continue Reading →

My Doll Adventure 30: Kissing the children goodbye

Sitting by a waterfall, Camellia recalls the night when she parted from her daughters Holding the note she’s just written, she tries to comfort Daisy Then tears a photo in half, and hands half of it to Daisy And reaches… Continue Reading →

The freedom to change one’s mind

If there’s one thing I was certain of on Friday, it was that I was going to take a year off from reworking the My Doll Adventure series once I’d wrapped up the first draft. Naturally, the first thing I… Continue Reading →

My Doll Adventure 29: The Stranger’s Story

We ended Rosie’s last episode with Frank placing a story in the local paper seeking any info on the girls’ (Rosie and Daisy)’s mother, Camellia. This week’s episode starts with someone reading that article. Over coffee, someone reads the day’s… Continue Reading →

Attention to detail – creating a sense of a complete world

Attention to detail has never been my strong suit. It always seems to hinder my mad rush forward. But a world without detail, even a very little world, starts to feel as if it’s floating in space – unanchored to… Continue Reading →

My Doll Adventure 28: Rosie’s pirate adventure, part 1

In Daisy and Lily’s last episode, Daisy, Lily and Frank talked about the day that Frank had found the girls – toddler Daisy and her baby sister Rosie – at the library where he worked. This week, Frank joins the… Continue Reading →

Pirates on the windowsill

There’s always that moment in a Rosie adventure where I try and figure out who going to whisk her away on her dream adventure. For her doll adventure, I always knew that it would be my “big” dolls (China girl,… Continue Reading →

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