Applejackson » dolls house http://applejackson.co.uk IRREGULAR POSTS ON IRREGULAR MATTERS Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:25:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Dolls and their houses http://applejackson.co.uk/2010/03/08/dolls-and-their-houses/ http://applejackson.co.uk/2010/03/08/dolls-and-their-houses/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:42:27 +0000 applejackson http://applejackson.co.uk/?p=343 There is no real point to this post I am afraid, there are just some doll-themed links I want to share with the wider world. As a treat I have included a picture of me and my fabulous feminist fingerpuppets (L-R Joan of Arc, Frida Kahlo, Sojourner Truth and Virginia Woolf) which I got as a gift at the weekend. The weekend before International Women’s Day! Oh yeah, I’m topical.

Anyway. It all started when I watched a cute documentary on 4oD about the people who build and buy doll’s houses. They are all – you may not be surprised to hear – gently eccentric. It’s lovely, anyway: ‘Hello Dollies’

Which reminded me of three things, as well as delivering a crushing desire to get myself a proper doll’s house rather than the fugly beige plastic 70s disaster I actually had as a child.

  1. Phoebe’s excellent DIY doll’s house in Friends, which beats Monica’s posh one hands down. Here’s the clip, with Spanish subtitles for your amusement and education.
  2. The wonderful and rather godlike fact that you can buy small bags of trees and shrubs from any good hobby shop. Why don’t I have them all over my flat?
  3. A website of modded, one-of-a-kind fantasy / celebrity Barbies which are Quite Something to look at. Here’s my favourite – vampire pirate Barbie.

That is all from me on dolls for now. Over and out.

scary pic of me with my amazing new feminist fingerpuppets! on Twitpic

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