Lottie’s World: Horse Grooming

Here’s my current collection of doll horses.

I didn’t intend to build a small collection like this. I just started with one horse, the Barbie horse (far right), because it was the only one I could find at the moment, then I found the Battat horse (far left), and thought, hey I don’t have a bigger horse oh this must be nice. Then I forgot about it. Then recently I found two horses from the Spirit Riding Free line and suddenly remembered the movie. It was so good! I haven’t seen the series yet and I only know of Spirit, the one with the dark mane, but the other one, I had to look up. Its name is Chica Linda, but I digress. 

So I thought of taking pictures of the horses with Muddy Puddles!

With the Battat Horse

Not the best shots because I was using natural light and I feel that the size of the horse blocked the light on Muddy Puddles’ face. Oh well.

With the Barbie horse

There’s nothing much to say here, lol.

With Chica Linda

At first I was doubtful if I could take decent photos of Chica Linda when she’s looking down like that, but her pose somehow shows a story here, like komaybe she’s asking for pets, haha. I totally forgot to add to place the body brush on Muddy Puddles, oops.

With Spirit

I actually got Spirit with a missing tail, and it’s an easy fix with yarn, but I haven’t replaced it because I ran out of brown yarn. So for these photos, I made sure to position Spirit and Muddy Puddles this way so that we don’t see his lack of tail.

As for my life updates, I’m back in the city. I don’t know if I’ve written about it before, yes I’m back, but I’m living on my own. Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes it’s not, but I can deal with it. I just got my booster shot the other day and experienced some side effects like my vaccine site swelling, a slight fever and tiredness but I read that’s just normal. While I was sick, I slept most of the day to recover and drank lots of fluids. I don’t have fever anymore and feel much better, but have lost my appetite. I’m just eating my meals because I have to but I’m not enjoying it. It will get better, I just know it. Hope this finds you in good health. Stay safe!

Doll Impulsions (Part 8)

Remember when I used to write about my doll impulsions? LOL well it's back now.

I saw this lot of dolls over at Carousell, and can't help but notice the AA doll and the vintage articulated doll.

She looks familiar but I don't know what the name of this doll is! She looks beautiful, right?

And is this a Betty doll? Her ankle joints are cool, I think those are there because she's actually a bicycling doll.

Saw these dolls on OLX. 

Doll no. 8! Why is her head so huge? What kind of Barbie is it?

Isn't Doll no. 16 Drew from Fashion Fever! Oh she's lovely! If I were still interested in collecting more Barbie dolls, I probably would be all over Drew.

And is that teen Skipper in the middle?

By the way, I saw this set of bootleg dolls at the mall. I was so tempted to buy it.

There's Elastigirl, Violet (holding her mom's chest, haha) and Jack Jack! I almost gave in, almost! I had the chance before to get an authentic (secondhand) Violet Parr doll but I hesitated. Getting the bootleg is the next best thing, lol.

Oh I finally saw "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" on Netflix the other day. What a great film, and Spirit's never-say-die attitude is inspiring! At first I felt like I was gonna get bored because the film didn't have much dialogue for the main characters, but I stayed patient and the film got really better and better! I read that Spirit from the "Spirit Riding Free" Netflix series is actually the offspring of Spirit and Rain from the movie, so I wonder how Spirit Jr. takes after his parents. Hmm I probably should check out the series online, then maybe I'll have better appreciation of my Lucky doll.

Aaaaand I went to two toy sales this month! I shall discuss that on the next post! Happy Holidays, everyone!

Spirit Riding Free Lucky Doll

I got my gift a few weeks back. It came all the way from Canada!

It's Lucky from Spirit Riding Free. We don't have the toys here in Manila! But I do have a Netflix subscription (well it's my sister's, actually. Hahaha!) so I can check out the show later.

I noticed that Lucky has white specks all over her face. I'm afraid that they might be molds, yikes.

I opened the box and brushed off the specks. She was fine afterwards.

Upon inspection, I noticed that the back of her top has a red stain, possibly from her pants.

Her boots are really huge!

I removed her clothing and found stains on her body!

There's a red stain on her left hip.

And stains on her legs! They can't be removed with acetone!!!

That means... no shorts for Lucky, heh.

I've already added Lucky to my display, as seen here.

Lucky has a sweet face that I like. I think she looks smart, too. The other dolls, Abigail and Prudence, are really cute, and I wouldn't mind having them.

Dolly Finds and Lottie's World: Forest Friend Lottie

I swear, when I'm out by myself, I look for miniature items or things that I can use for my dolls. In this blog post, I found three things.

This display case with a clock! I thought it would be a nice backdrop for a fashion or tourist photo shoot. It was really heavy, and quite pricey for my budget so I didn't get it. But if I get motivated, I could totally craft one.

A laptop spotlight! It would probably look great on a photo shoot doll scenario. It's something you have to plug to a computer though so I don't think I could use it for my own shoots, and I decided not to get it. I don't need my laptop to occupy my desk just so I could turn this thing on.

This one, I did get though. It's a fairy door set! I didn't even know such thing exists until I looked it up online. There are actually people who purchase this stuff so they could decorate their house with a fairy door. Amazing!

The box is heavy, and the door is actually made of concrete or something. It sure is solid!

I later found out that the door is too short for Lottie, boo!! But I just had to use it as a prop so I just made adjustments for the photo shoot!

Here is my new Lottie doll, Forest Friend! She's a gift I received from the Lottie team for joining their Instagram takeover! Thank you, Lottie Dolls! She's so cute!

I found a white polka-dotted hard green felt, and I thought it would look nice together with the pink door! It totally worked!

This is the first time I used the orange plastic flowers I bought from the department store. They are cheap and just the right size for my doll photos!

I was experimenting with the light, by the way, so I have similar photos but the shadows and lighting are quite different!

I had a miniature cactus, which I thought would look cute on Lottie's lap!

Here's how my set looked like. On the photos you couldn't see the grass on the ground. That's because I didn't want to show the box I used to raise the door higher so that it would fit Lottie. It would have been really nice if the door's size was a perfect fit. I would have had more fun taking photos.

In other news, I got a new secondhand doll, by the way, lol. It's Mrs. Heart from the Barbie Heart family. She has a unique looking face mould! I still have to work on her hair, and her lip paint has been scratched off so I have to do some repaint as well.

And I'm not sure if it's pushing through but a relative coming home from Canada bought me a gift: it's Lucky from the Spirit Riding Free doll line! I'm so excited to get her, if I do get her, lol, because she's articulated and we don't have Spirit Riding Free here in the Philippines!! Fingers crossed!