Big adventures in a small world

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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 →

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 34: Worlds in motion

After the flurry of activity in Rosie’s last episode, it’s oddly quiet today. In Silverton, OR, not a creature is stirring.   And everything is quiet in Syracuse, IT as well. I wonder where everyone could have gone? Ah, *there*… Continue Reading →

A sense of place, revisited

In one of my first posts, I wrote about trying to find a place for Camellia in the real world. Her location was difficult to find, since I needed a livable, sparsely-inhabited island which might house a panther. Since there’s… Continue Reading →

My Doll Adventure 33: Back to the beginning

Camellia recalls the night she fled. There had been a dance. Camellia dances with the stranger, and then sees that Cado is watching And then, when she realizes that Cado has left, she goes upstairs to find him . …. Continue Reading →

In the Picture: Endless summer

The start of summer finds two sisters luxuriating in their freedom. OK, maybe they’re the tiniest bit bored. By evening, they settle in to watch a little TV. Oh, great, it’s Night of the Living Dead. Hearing a sound at… Continue Reading →

In Scene: Plotting out the final storyline

Strawberry (now Fern) threw all of my plans into disorder. I was going to have four un-related 1/4th scale dolls hanging out in a treehouse. Then I fell in love with this somewhere-between-1/6th-and-1/4th-scale doll, who fit so well with two… 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 →

Turning a photographic novel into a graphic novel

Looks like I’m playing around with the second version again, while I’m supposed to be finishing the first 🙂 But I had an idea I wanted to see the adventure in more of a graphic form. Fortunately, Photoshop (and, in… 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 →

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