Today's the Day!

Well in our doll world, today is March 17th or St. Paddy's Day. That means the wedding will be happening today.

The photographer is all set up and ready to take pictures of this event.




Here is the Groom's father and family members.











This is the Bride's Grandfather Sorenson and her two Great Aunts, Hilde and Bettina. Hilde is the flashy one with the hat!



Oh here comes the mother of the Bride so I guess the ceremony is about to begin!

Note: This is the same church where Kathleen O'Sullivan and Captain Mackenzie Martin got married just after WWII. There is a planned parallel here as Mrs. Martin is now the Matron of Honour for her neice Mikki (Micaela) who has long admired her aunt and followed in her footsteps in becoming a nurse. And so it was a great honour that Aunt Kathleen returned home to Ireland for this occassion.

The wedding procession is about to begin. So come on over to the Dolton Blog to see the ceremony.

Bratz Girls

Here's my two new additions that I got at WM today. They are 24" tall I believe. Yep 24" , I just measured them.
Check out the Dolton blog for some scenes!

Mel had a Jane day!

Today I had a Jane day and Melton's population rose by seven dolls. It started this morning when I went to walk my dog. She hadn't had a good walk with me in several days since my fibromeyalgia was flaring. We took it slow and easy and went all the way downtown, 17 blocks. As we took the back streets, I didn't realize how far we had gone until I saw the square a block away. I needed a rest so I went to the square where there are benches. While I was resting, I remembered seeing a couple of dolls that I wanted to buy last December, but just didn't have the money. I thought I'd take a peek in Family Dollar, and they were still there. This is the skateboarding Flava Tre whom I didn't have I have 2 others but not him. I also got Beach Glam Nikki who doesn't have the huge feet. $11 for both.

Later, I needed to go pay the gas bill and when I was finished, I realized it was lunch time. A few miles down the road is a little town called Savoy which has the best honest-to-god smokehouse Bar B Que in Texas or possibly the known universe, so Tom and I decided to get some. As fate would have it, there was a yard sale going on in town and we were looking for a small table to put my new printer on because it is too big to fit on the shelf where I have the old one. I saw an old typing table which will be just right. On the table next to it were 3 badly damaged doll boxes. The boxes had some water damage, but the dolls in them are all perfect! I have Autumn Glory Barbie, The Barbie Loves Frank Sinatra set, and the Grand Ole Opry Barbie and Kenny Country Duet set. All were NRFB, but the boxes were crumbling. Possibly from tremite damage! I got all of them for $15!!!! Is Mel a happy camper??? Heck yeh!

Academy Awards Night in Dolton Heights

I will admit I rarely if ever watch the Oscars, but I do like to see the
stars all glitzed up walking the red carpet. So this year I decided to set
up my own scene for the occasion.
VOICEOVER: Hi I'm Denton Shaw live on the redcarpet at the Awards Show. Here we are at the entrance viewing the stars all dolled up (pardon the pun}for the big event. I can't tell you how much in awe I am over seeing all these
big stars in person! Oh look there's Richard Silkstone the MC for the event.
Let's see if we can get an interview with him. "Mr. Silkstone" he calls but
Richard keeps walking.


Couples on the Red Carpet


Beth and Peter Silkstone.

Denton continues unabashed by the brush off: "Look here comes Richard's
younger brother Peter Silkstone who is up for an award tonight. With him is
his wife Beth, who he met while making this movie. It would be nice to see
him win for best actor."




New young couple arriving at the awards.



Now let's go inside for the show!









Richard Silkstone the M.C.
Does he look nervous? LOL

Valentines

A BELATED HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
Brianna and Chris took us out for dinner Thursday night, and after we got home and everyone was in bed I decided to play for a bit. I brought out two playline Valentine Barbies (actually found 3, that's why the population changed), and redressed my Monte Carlo On Location doll and Suite Retreat. They got the Bond and July birthstone gowns. Diane-doll is wearing her Dolton Valentine Ball gown. Hope you all had a nice day!

More Fun In the Snow

Well today was a lovely day to go outdoors and play. Yes we had lots of snow! But it was sunny and actually quite warm. The snow was thick and wet but I didn't even need a coat! As you can see the Venetians had a great time out in the snow.
Climbing the hill. The snow was waist deep and so climbing the hill proved to be quite a struggle. Don't worry I put plastic bags over the dolls feet and legs so they would not get wet and damaged! Actually the snow is hip deep on me! At least I didn't need doll stands LOL
Here Ashley is going to be a dare-devil and try going down head first! At least it will be a soft landing LOL
More pix on the Dolton Blog

Fun In the Snow

As I mentioned on the Yahoo Blog I took a couple of Venetians out to play in the snow. By the time I got them dressed and the snow shoveled (into a hill) it started to get dark. So I didn't have time to bring everyone out to play like I wanted. Tomorrow hopefully I will be able to set up the whole scene. Meanwhile here is Anthony and Ashley out tobogganing. Climbing the hill! Boy this is hard work!
Here we go!!!
Can't you just hear Ashley screaming all the way down the hill! LOL
I had trouble positioning them and didn't want to force bending her legs in case they broke in the cold.