Kana's Toy Box: Wooden Farms and Paper Dolls

Kana here.  I'm hijacking the human's blog because she clearly does not do enough with it.  Also, I have more opinions.

Kimono models and origami salesdolls

Last weekend, the human dragged Shepard and me to the Marketplace at Birka, this giant SCA shopping event.  The human had a booth selling kimono and other things, and Shep and I were pressed into service as models for her.  We got to stand there for 12 whole hours smiling at everyone.  Before you ask, yes, those are tiny crane earrings, and yes, the jar is full of tiny origami cranes, and no, we don't know how many are in there, but the human thinks somewhere around 2700.  We haven't bothered to count yet, you see.

To make up for all that work we did, the human bought us some cute new toys.

A tiny wooden town

There was this vendor selling little wooden toy sets, so the human bought both the town set and the village set.  (I mean, we'd all rather have Felicity's ark or Josefina's toy farm, but there's a limit to the human's budget.)

The little town comes with a tiny church and 4 houses, 2 horses (one broke, but the human glued it back together), 4 trees, and 4 little people.  The village set comes with 4 houses, 8 people and more trees.  I think I like the town set much better.  Sadly, the human forgot the name of the vendor she got this from...

Who says paper dolls are out of style?

And then last week it snowed.  And snowed.  And snowed.  Now, back in the old Pleasant Company days, I heard that dolls got these little 'winter amusement' sets with paper dolls in them.  So the lot of us pestered the human until she made us our own paper dolls.

 Two are old fashioned French dolls and two are 1830s style fashion dolls.  Each doll came with a few different outfits and sometimes a ton of accessories.  (The paper dolls are almost more spoiled than we are...)

This one is my favorite because it came with five whole dresses and things like books and teapots and plates and a little set of paper dolls for the paper doll.  That reminds me.  I should start pestering the human for more dolls for us...

If you want to make these for your dolls, you can download the patterns here.  The human got the originals from the United Federation of Doll Clubs site (http://ufdc.org/doll-news/) and scaled some of them down for us.  To get that cardstock feel for the dolls, just glue the doll to an index card before cutting it out.

French Bisque Doll 1
French Bisque Doll 2
1830s Fashion Doll