Outdoor pictures - Paola Reina dolls

My original plan was to take summer pictures of my newest Barbie dolls, when we went annywhere I took the dolls with me, but I never got around to take tghe pictures. 

Last week my boyfriend and I visited my parents because he had to help them move some outlets in their living room. I thought this was a great oppotunity, to take some outdoor pictures in my parents wonderfull garden. It would seem most obvious to bring my Barbie dolls, but I was getting exhausted with those dolls, so I decided to bring my Paola Reina dolls instead. I took the opportunity to take some outdoor pictures of my Paola Reina dolls, in my parents wonderfull garden. 

Lisa wanted to explore right away, she found a beautiful hydragia, that were changing colors

Lias best friend Sara went looking for her, she wanted to make she she had not gotten lost.

Sara took her plushie and went out to explore on her own. 

Amalia looked around to find some flowers that would match her dress.

A portrait of Amalia.

My favorite photo of Amalia, the light was just right. 

Sara liked the vegetable garden, she found a very pretty pea blossom

My favorite photo of Nina, she found some cute white flowers growing in the lawn. 

Nina wanted to spend some time with her best friend Amalie, they found a nice rock to sit on. 

Nina couldent' find any red flowers, but she found this beautiful red berry on a rose bush. 

Lisa was drawn to the smell of the thyme, and she loved the small purple flowers. 

Lisa saw a bee on a very weird looking flower, she was quite facinated. 

Lisa found another flower with a wonderfull smell, Amalia allso really liked the lavender, beacause of its purple color. 

Sara found a pink rose, that she fell completely in love with.

Amalie remembered how her sister really liked this euonymus, last time they visited the garden. 

Nina joined her best friend, for the last photo of the day. 

I am extremely happy with these picture, I enjoyed spending siome much needed quality time with my adorable Paola Reina dolls. 

Surprizamals

Not that long ago I talked about kitty in my pocket, and I recently got a shelf up for my figures, but they are not the only surprise toys I am into lately. Surprizamals are verry small, and super cute plush animals who are hidden away in a round ball. I thought I would continue to enjoy these after the surprise was over, because they are a good size to be plushies for dolls. 

I got my first surprizamals on my birthday in march where I was in a couple of toystores to buy myself some birthday gifts. I found surprizamals in Toys R Us, I was very surprised  and exited to find them, since I thought they were too awsome to make their way to Denmark.

They had both season 1 and 2, thankfully it is easy to see the difference since the balls are different colors, there is allso sticker on them with the plushies you can get and it says which season it is. I decided to get 3 surprizamals from season 1, here is the season 1 checklist. 

Here are the 3 plushies I got. 

The first is Maddie the monkey, who I think look more like a hippo, especially because I have a plushie that is a light purple hippopo. Not that this plushie is actually light purple as seen on the checklist, the color is more like grey with a purple tint to it.

The next one is Tammy the tiger, she could use a few more stripes but otherwise looks great. 

The last is Jinx the cat, who on the checklist looks like she is a eggplant purple color, but in real life she is the same color as Maddie. This was a dissapointment since I love cats and the color purple, so I realy wanted Jinx. I still like her, she is very cute, but she dosen't look as awsome in real life as she does on the checklist.

I wonder if any other of the animals have toned down colors in real life, or if it is just the purple once. And I wonder if there is a jinx out there with the correct purple color. 

I was still happy with these small plushies though, and I really liked how they looked with my Paola Reina dolls, so I recently decided to buy two more from season 1. In the store I discovered that you can see the color of the plushie you are gonna get, if you look though the two holes at the bottom and top of the ball. It is a nice way to avoid doubles or finding the exact one you are looking for, but it allso ruins the surprise, so I dont really know how I feel about it. This time around I asked my boyfriend to pick out two for me, and check that the color he could see were not white or purpleish grey. That way I avoided doubles while maintaining the surprise, but the more plushies I get, the harder will it be. 

When I checked out with my surprizamals, the lady at the counter was so nice to give me a poster with season 1 and 2 on it. In season 2 I really want to get the purple elefant and red crab, but I like all the otehrs as well. 

I opened the first ball a little, and saw a bit of brown and tan, so it is either the lion or the giraff.

It's the giraff yey! giraffes are one of my boyfriends favorite animal. 

He is super cute, and I am very happy with him 

Here is the info sign that was hanging off his ear, I keep all of these, but I wont be calling the plushies by their given names, when theyn move in with my dolls. 

I opened the second ball a bit and saw some light blue, I think it is either the bulldog or the elephant.

It is skip the bulldog! I like that he is a bright color.

I must admit that I was hoping for the elephant, since I am not really a dog person, but my preference does not decide what my dolls enjoy, so he is a welcome addition to their plush family. 

My Paola Reina dolls love their new plushies, they are so cute together. I really think surprizamals are a great size to use as dol plushies, since they are so small. I have some upcomming pictures that wioll show how great the surprizamals look with my paola Reina dolls. 

some of the old plushies.

It is very important to me that things fit together, therefore I decided that my dolls will only use their new plushies (with a few exceptions), since the old once are a bit too big and bulky. Another reason for my decision is that I dont want to drown my dolls in plushies, and I don't want to hold back on buying surprizamals. 

So I am packing the old plushies away, which is quite diffifcult for me to do, since they are great plushies and a few of them is speciel to me. I wish I had somewhere else to put them, but for the moment I dont, and that saddens me a bit. 

It werent really my inetentions to end a post about cute plushies on a sad note, but it is something I really needed to talk about, and I am hopefull I will figure out what to do with the old plushies in the future. 

Barbie Bohemian Fashion pack.

My doll Cassie didn't really have annything to wear when I got her, so I have been wanting to buy some clothe for her for quite a while now.

I did end up finding her an temporary outfit, but I was still looking for something better, since this jumper dosen't have the print on the back, and I dislike that alot.

I allways thought the bohemian fashion pack would be perfect for her, as I imagne her wearing warm colors and I thought the bohemian style would suit her. I was lucky to find the fashion pack in a danish toy store, a couple of weeks ago. 

The dress in this set has warm eathy colors and an interesting pattern that goes all the way around the back. I was positively surprised to find that this dress has a decent lenght and a lose fit around the legs, I thought it was a tight fitting mini dress. The set allso contains a very pretty orange belt with a yellow flower decoration, that is ideal to use with this dress.

But I have seen some people useing the belt as a headband, so i decided to try that, and I like it better as a headband than a belt. The set allso came with brown gladiator sandals, that look good with both outfits.

The second outfit is more casual, with a top, shorts and a shirt. The shirt seems elegant and light, withn its sheen material and pretty flower pattern. The shirt kind of make the outfit, since it would be a little boring without. The shorts are pretty standart and boring, I do like the orange/yellow top, but I wish it was more orange, since I am laking orange clothing for my dolls. 

Overall I am very happy with this fashion pack, I am glad Cassey finally got some nice clothes, and I think the outfits really suits her. 

I allso got a accessory pack, contaning some things that looks good with the bohemian outfits. I choose this pack mostley for the belt, the bracelet and the necklace. The binoculars and the drink is nice accessories as well, but the sunglasses are completely useless. 

I thought the orange bracelet looks nice with both of the new outfits, but the necklace allso looks good with the drerss. 

The dolls can hold the binoculars, and I like that they are blue. Unfortunately for me, the doll In ahve who are most likely to use binoculars, is a liv dolls, and that wouldm look weird with tghe big head and eyes. But I do hope a Barbie dolls might want to use binoculars one day.

And that is all I wanted to share, for now. 

A place for my figures

I took a break from my blog because of school. I want to get back to writing and sharing stuff, but there is so much I want to talk about, so I find it difficult to know where to start.
Therefore I am starting with the thing that got done today, since it is fresh in my mind and I am pretty exited about it.

After I started collecting schleich bayala figures in december 2015, I have slowly started collecting more figures. First I strated to collect kitty in my pocket figuires, that are very cute and looks great with my liv dolls. But I allso bought some finding dory figures, buying merchandise is not something I uselly do, but I really liked those figures. I even considered collecting schleich kats, but I decided against it, since I dont want to collect too many figures, and schelich is pretty addictive so I better not. 
A few of my kitty in the pocket figures lives with my liv dolls, but I had no idea where to put the rest of them, let alone the finding dory once. After talking with my boyfriend about it, we agreed that we did have a bit og space for some small shelfs, and that was all I needed.
We could not find shelfs that was small enough, but my handy boyfriend decided that he would cut some from leftover wood. Today it was finally done, and I am very happy with the result.

We found some space right besides the small living room window, and above our whiteboard. 

My boyfriend made 3 shelfs, so there would be one for teh shelf as well, they deserved a better place that being Stached above the schleich bayala figures. 

A closer looka at the figures.

i am very happy that my zelfs got a better place, I really do enjoy them even though I stopped collecting them. 

I really like kitty in my pocket figures, I am a cat person, and I love how cute and fussy they are. Right now I opnly have those form series 1, I hope series 2 come to the danish toy stores soon, series 2 of puppy in my pocket is here so I really think the kitties should be as well. 

I think the Finding Dora figures are very nice, but if I found some figures I like more, I will probablly end up removing the Dory figures. 

I kinda hope I find some new interestiung figures I like, because it is allways so exiting to start a new collecting, but then I allso hope I dont because it can be exhausting and I dont really feel like spendingn money and time on a new collection right now. 

That is all for now

My Tonner dolls

I realised that I have not talked about my Tonner dolls. I talked about getting my first Tonner doll, and I mentioned wanting to get another doll, but I have not talked about the dolls themself

The Deja Vu male viking, was the doll I feel in love with, I knew I would regret it if I did not buy him. 

It was really a sepciel experience for me to open him up, I felt like I was discovering a tressure. I really enjoyed unpacking all of his accesories, I love that he came with so much.

Deja vu, Halvar

I know his clothing is not historical acurate, but to me it looks close enough. His clothe is so very well done and detailed. I really love his detailed tunic, and his simple but well done cloak. I  allso really like his long curly hair. I really love his whole look.

His face is handpainted, his eyes are so detailed and beautifully painted. I like how detailed his facial hair is. I kind of wish he had a full beard, but I understand why they could not do that. I think he has a very nice serene expression, he looks pretty thoughtful. 

Here he is with all of his accessories. His axe looks like a butterknife, I would like to try and make him a new one. His helm is very nice, I like the details. The shape of the helmet is very realistic, exept for the horns, I dont like the horns on teh helmet at all. His sheild looks absolutley awsome though, I just have trouble making him hold it. 

I had high hopes that I would buy another viking doll, to keep him company. They did make two female vikings, but they were dressed up in weird female varrior outfits. I was hoping for a female  doll dressed in a nice viking dress, and decked out in viking jewelry. But then the Tonner doll company announced, that they would stop making their current doll lines, so the hope for a proper female viking went out the window. I still did not want my guy to be alone, so I looked into some other Tonner Deja vu dolls that I really liked. These dolls were dressed in beautiful dresses inspired by medieval fashion. That was not a hinderence for me though, as I quickly decided that he could fit in mideval times as well. The hinderence however was that these dolls were discountiued, so I had to go to ebay and paitiently wait for a doll to show up for sale. Luckily for me the doll I wanted the most, showed up on ebay in the beginning of march. She cost mored than the guy because, she was a limited edition convention exclusive. Fortunately I had some vaccation money, so I bought the doll as a birthday gift for myself.

Deja Vu, Lady Arabella

I LOVE her gown, it is such a beautiful color, the material is very soft, and the design is so elegant. I could go on about the details in this dress foever. I allso love her red hair, and beautiful hairstyle. The color of her face does not match the color of her body (notabily neck and hands) which were probably why teh seller wanted to sell her, but that does not borther me much. 

She allso have a beautiful handpainted face, and she has fake eyelashed. I like her slightly open mouth, I think she has alot of attitude. 

Here is the couple are together. I named him Gerion, and her Lianna, they are named after charcters from the Song of Ice and fire bookseries.

Their permenet place is on a shelf in my white bookcase, but I allso took some pictures of them on my Liv doll shelf with the forrest poster background.

These dolls are really speciel to me, and I love them both. I am so happy with these two, that I kind of want another Deja vu lady Arabella. But I dont think another doll will fit on that shelf, and right now, and I really am satisfied with the two dolls I have. I am going to wait and see what happends next year, maybe I will add another Tonner doll to my collection then.