chestnut horse

My favourite season begun, so while enjoying September sun & October rust I was makin Autumn photos.

My cute Taliesin will show you how to do a chestnut horse, a very popular toy in Poland and whole Europe I believe ( at least it was popular like 25-30 years ago when I was kid).

Today I will show you how to make a chestnut horse.

European chestnuts are the best for it

You will need a knife, toothpicks or other sticks and of course chestnuts.

First you need to make a hole in one chestnut and five in other one - one on top, for neck and 4 on the bottom.

Connect chestnuts with toothpicks. Add legs.

Your horse is ready!

It should look like this.

You can use it as a decoration.

I have a bowl with an Autumn treasures.

Will add remaining chestnuts to it.

And horse!

There are leaves, chestnuts, pines canes, this chestnuts horse and small wooden hedghog.

That's all!

Bye! Enjoy your chestnuts horses!

Etsy store

Dusting off my blog.Lately I'm not very active online, there's many things that keep me off internet - sewing doll clothes,looking after 11 cats (one will have an eye removal surgery today at noon), some 195cm longhaired guy with amazing body, meeting old friends, you name it.

Anyway, nust finished another bunch of dresses for my very few ladies (and for Etsy store too), as always neckleging my poor guys. Majority of them is lying nude in a storage box, yet I just ordered another 4 hommes from upcoming Integrity Toys convention, seems like they are addiction. One day I will sew each of them at least one complete outfit, I promise.

Was trying to make some interesting photos of new dresses but I failed miserably.

I'm selling some of my outfits on Etsy - www.etsy.com/shop/moonandthememories

April - new body of Jaime

Recently I purchased 7 homme bodiees from Integrity Toys one especially to upgrade Jaime. Untill now he was on cheerleader Ken body. Colour of new body, hungarian skin ton, is a perfect fit for this head.

Jaime chillling in the nature with his little stalker Mia following him.

Mia is rerooted and partialy repainted Blue Burhart doll from Inegrity Toys. Can't remember if I already wrote this before or not.

Photos were taken in front of our still not finished home. A friendly neightbour surprised us with a visit!

5 x Integrity Toys guys

Short post just to show that this blog is still alive :)
Last month I got 5 new guys. One was ordered in February, price of some was too good to pass them, one was rare so I simply HAD to buy 3rd same doll. Every excuse is good, haha. Sometimes I wonder why did I buy female dolls at all!

From left to right:
1)Dynamite Girls "Love Revolution" All American Auden
2)Fashion Royalty Dark Hunters Acheron (looking somehow very ugly, haha)
3)Dynamite Girls "Love Revolution" Take It Easy Cruz
4)Poppy Parker "Baby it's you" Chip Farnsworth III
5)Dynamite Girls "The Terrible Trio" Handsome Devil Damon

Cruz and Damon are partialy repainted, Cruz by Ebay seller, Damon by me.

Close up

Auden

Acheron & Cruz

Chip & Damon

Soon I should post an entry about all of my Integrity Toys guys, it's a shame they are never in the spotlight!

handmade cardboard furnitures

As I wrote some posts earlier, I'm planning to make all furnitures to my planned doll room in shabby chic style. Of course, being me I got distracted at the very beginning of work, and started to work on furnitures to my other planned doll house, in bold colors, Frida Kahlo inspired. I managed to make just a few things in both styles before I got distracted again, so now I stopped to work on doll rooms/house and started to work on grocery shop. I wonder how far I will be with it before something else will get my attention :P
All furnitures are made entirely of cardboard, that's why they are far from being perfect.

Anyway, here are those few pieces for shabby chic room and those in Frida's colors :)

Those things were made for mexican styled home of John's family. I'm working on it since a year, making this and that, random pieces that one day, hopefuly, will be gathered together in a finished home. I'm rarely writing anything or introducing any doll characters, but my sister and I are enjoying our private doll's pantheon and drama on a daily basis, just not taking any photos.

John will help me to show some decorations I made meanwhile I was making other things.Those were planned for shabby chic room, but got stolen by Johnny :) ( sweater and top are by me too)

Shabby chic furnitures. Looks more "shabby" than I originaly planned! Dresser was already shown in this post http://playscaledolls.blogspot.com/2014/03/challenge-2014-d-and-handmade-dresser.html , but since I changed handles I decided to show it again.