Yay, poseable LOTR awesomeness!!

One time during my break between classes I decided to walk down to a nearby thrift shop, where I found this gem, for only $4! Yes, it's a Barbie scale Aragorn doll!!! Unlike Kneeless Beach Ken, this guy is fully poseable.

Why doesn't this Ken have working elbows and knees?! D: Lol :D

During my break between classes I went down to the shops and checked out the Goodwill. That's where I found this guy, for $4. As you can see, his knees and elbows don't bend :/ That's a little disappointing...how would he ever go down on one knee to propose, or to kiss a lady's hand in a courtly manner? Even most Barbies have slightly bendable knees. At least his hair looks cool, and isn't the stiff molded kind, lol.

A Big Little Coffeemaker

Among other things, I also found this coffeemaker. They said it was 1/6 Barbie scale, but it's actually a tad big for her. It's not too bad though, and it's battery powered, which makes a cute "brewing" effect, and it lights up too. I'll have to upload a video eventually so you can see for yourself. :)

Lately I've been ordering some fresh things to liven up the little house. Here's a neat gem I found, for about $6...And yes, that is a working electric plug there :) Now I just have to wait for the matching outlet to arrive!

Remodeling the Dollhouse!

For about 2 years now, my dollhouse has been sitting in the closet of my shared room, so as not to take up too much space. It was, after all, just over 5 ft in height, and each room was a little over 12" in width and depth. Even being in the closet, though, it took up a lot of space - and it's bulk made it hard for me to get it out of the closet to take photos! What with college studies and all, I needed to find a way to make it easier to work with, while freeing up some storage space at the same time. So I decided to take it apart and remake it a little. It no longer stands the way it used to, but worry not, it hasn't been destroyed! I've just folded things down a little. Now, flat boxes/panels FTW! :D Now it can sit conveniently on my closet's top shelf, leaving some actual walk in space.

Since I've taken it apart, I decided to take some pics of one of the rooms before I demolished it. The curtain in that room actually can be pulled down (though it takes a little adjustment and effort). Pic #1 is the location for a light switch I attempted a few years ago. It did indeed work, but had some quirks, as I made it from bits of stuff around the house...more on that later...

Keep watching :)

The Color Pink Is All In Your Head!

Today I learned something amazing about the color on all those Barbie boxes.

From a technical, science perspective, the color you see in the background of this blog doesn't really exist. It's just something our brains make up. All the colors in the spectrum have their own specific wavelengths of light, except for pink! So then how is it that we see pink at all, let alone so many shades of it?

It's due to a sort of "blank space" in the light/color spectrum. Red has the longest wavelength, violet the shortest, while all the other colors inbetween have wavelengths of varying degrees somewhere in the middle of those two extremes. Yet, between  red and violet themselves, there is a blank canvas space, so to speak, where anything goes. In this space, there are all types of light in the universe, but we can't see them, so our brains create pink to compensate for that! Pink is actually white light without the green wavelengths. Even though it's science, it sounds rather magical when you think about it. Doesn't it make you wonder what other colors we might be missing, that we can't even fathom? I do.

Here's the link to the original article I read this from, on a site called "Life's Little Mysteries". It's a favourite of mine, filled with all kinds of weird, interesting stuff like this.  http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/no-pink-light-strange-snapshots-2101/

Custom face Barbies!

Today, after nearly a year, I finally read a comment left by someone named Mary. She said:

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I really like your blog, I always visit it whenever I had time, I really like your posts especially those about dolls and I hope to see more from your blog, so excited to read your future posts. Anyway, I found this website http://www.ThatsMyFace.com/f/custom_doll_head that can create a super-realistic doll heads of anyone from just a photo. Imagine making doll of yourself, your kids, your boss or your favorite celebrity! Apparently they can make the heads in many scales to fit Barbie-like dolls, Tonner dolls or even smaller figurines like Polly Pocket. Anyway, thought it might be interesting to your readers. Best regards, ….here is the link for the pic: http://www.thatsmyface.com/tmp/ThatsMyFace_doll_heads_s.jpg

November 14, 2010 1:07 AM "

I wish I'd gotten back to this a lot sooner! After school started last year I didn't keep up with my blog very well. I thought this looked pretty cool, so, finally, here it is! I wouldn't mind trying this myself, but for Barbie scale dolls it runs from $99.00 just for a head to $129 for a full Barbie/Ken doll. A Polly Pocket custom head is $49. I should order a custom Barbie head for a real face someday though, because it just so happens that I have a headless Barbie body that I got as a kid (I found it, didn't decapitate it lol).