Ikea Furniture

Ikea has this great living room set scaled for 11 1/2 inch dolls. I actually got this a couple of years ago, but never got around to posting any pics. Here are some photos of when I first got the set and deboxed it. Hopefully I'll get around to taking some photos of them in the cabinet and with some dolls hanging out but since these are what I have now, these are what I'm posting.

The coolest thing about this set is that they are all replicas of items they actually sell at the store so you could potentially buy all these pieces for your living room and then have a tiny copy of it in a cabinet, Ikea inseption! Of course, you will also need to customize a doll to look like yourself.

I already have the coffee table, but mine is red, and I have been considering getting that chair for this thing I want to do to my front porch.

The box itself is very nice. It's covered in drawing of living room accessories that can be punched out and colored (or left as is, they look pretty cool black and white) and used to decorate the background of your living room.

The drawings, like the furniture are of actual items they sell at Ikea, or at least sold at some time, I haven't seen that clock in awhile at the store.

I'm still making up my mind if I want to paint those or not. I will probably end up making copies on cardstock so I can have both.

I just realized I forgot to take a picture of the other side of the box. The bottom is just writing and upc code.


I love how easy to open these boxes are and the stuff is just placed inside in little compartments. no ties to wrestle with or excess of material to throw out.

Here's everything that came in the box. The rug was a surprise. I could kinda see it before I opened it but I thought it was just a piece or cardboard, not actual fabric.

So you get a sofa with a removable slipcover, a shelf, a coffee table a side chair, a rug and a cushion for about $15 which is not bad considering the plastic is really nice and thick. The rug and the cushion are kinda flimsy, but it's still not too bad.  This set is going in my display cabinet, but it would hold up to play just fine.

Here's the shelf unit thingie. You could use it horizontaly of vertically.
It's a really cool piece because you can fill the cubies with all sorts of tiny thing you might want to display.

The first thing I did with that cushion was to cut off that ridiculously large tag.





Here are all the pieces out of the box and in one of my shelves.

They also have a kid's bedroom playset that I got last year for xmas that I will be adding pictures of soon.
I really hope they keep adding one of these every year, It will be fun to have a whole house worth of stuff to display with my dolls. I would like them to do a kitchen next, that would be nice.

Curvy Barbie - Sporty

I knew I wanted to get one of these dolls as soon as they were announced. I also knew since she wasn't going to fit into regular Barbie clothes, I was going to get one of the sets that came with two additional outfits. This is why it took me so long to finally get her even though the first one that came out with blue hair was very tempting. A lot of them are very tempting, but since I don't have the money or the space to get all the ones I want I plan to limit myself to one of each.... for now!

I wanted a curvy one first since those were my favorites being that they are the most different ones from traditional Barbie. My two faves were the sporty one and the one with the emoji top (mostly because of the fabulous blue dress that one comes with, which truly shows off those curves). So I just left it up to fate and got the first one I saw in the store. I might still get the other one since having a Caucasian one and an African American one still fall under the parameters of "one of each". Rules were made to be stretched.

So here she is in the box, which btw was a pain in the ass to open. It's not an actual box to open. its the plastic glued to the cardboard and I mean GLUED. but look how cool she is!
And I like that her outfits are things I would actually wear!

And here is the back of the box showing her in her other outfits and some pics of four of the other  sets

 

Here she is in the outfit she comes in. A black dress with a turquoise net overlay, turquoise sandals, a white purse and a black cap. 

I was a little dissapointed that the net doesnt go all the way around but then it has this little detail at the back that makes it cute anyway.

And the best surprise by far was the hat. Usually I hate doll hats. Either they don't stay on properly, or they come attached with a million plastic thingies and if you ever remove them, the hat will never stay put again. So imagine my surprise when not even one plastic thingie! The hat stays beautifully on its own and you can even wear it backwards for a different look.

And while we are looking at a close up, isn't she pretty? I like her minimal makeup, it goes with her look and it also seems more like what a real person would wear. No need to wear glitter to work everyday. She does need her nails painted though.

She has a very cool hair color too. It's kinda brown I guess, with bright magenta highlights that made me think at first she has purpleish hair.

Its really nice and silky too and I'm sure the fact that it's so straight also helps the hat stay in place. I'm sure the curly headed dolls won;t be as hat friendly.

She's supposed to be sporty, but since she's my doll and I hate sports I'm going to take sporty to mean comfortable. She even has flat feet so she can wear comfy shoes! Another thing that makes her different and I love it.

I tried to get a good picture to show you her feet, but it was hard to hold the doll and the phone to take a pic and when I tried to set her down she would just not get into a good angle. But you get the idea.

She comes with blue sandals and bright pink sneakers so that's not exactly versatile. I'll be going on a hunt to find her a few more shoes so she can have options.

The problem with a doll that has different size clothes and shoes is that outfits will be hard to find. but then I think that's one of the things that will make her so fun, the challenge of finding stuff for her to wear.


I know at this point you are expecting the body comparisons and I agree I should have taken the pics, but my friend got me one of the petite dolls for my birthday and I haven't opened her yet. I want to do the body comparisons with all three body types I have so far...maybe also add a vintage one or too also. So I'll try to get that done in the next couple of days.

So lets take a look at her alternate outfits instead. First the yellow skirt and white crop top with pink lines.

I tried to put the skirt a little lower on her hips but she's so curvy that it just rolls up to her middle so I guess it's a high waisted skirt. I thought it looked kinda boxy in the promo pics but it's actually really cute in person. She comes with just one pair of shoes and purse for the two extra outfits, bit it's okay because the sneakers allow her to stand all by herself so she'll be wearing them a lot.

The fact that both outfits consist of two pieces allows for some mix and matching. Here she is with the white top and the black skirt from the other one.

The skirt is sparkly! I couldn't tell that in the box but that's pretty cool. It's a little see through though so she needs to be careful with that back light.

The black and white stripped top is my fave piece and I would like one in my size so I can wear it with leggins, thank you very much.

 

 I don't think you can see it too clearly on the photos but there is pink stitching on the top that matches the sneakers and purse.

I was wondering if the top would work as a dress by itself but that slit is too damn high.

I need to give her a name, I don't want to just keep calling her Curvy Barbie. Maybe Carmen? I'm not sure.

Her shoes and purse are transparent jelly like type and I just happened to have this soap box I got at Walmart to make a suitcase from a tutorial I saw on Pinterest and all her things fit in perfectly, even the hat, so that was a good thing too.

I'll post the finished product once I add the wheels and handle, but even as is it's a pretty good start.

That's it for now. I'll be back soon with Petite review and size comparisons.

Mi World Accessory set - Daity Queen

 

I have been seeing these miworld at the stores and I've always thought they are just adorable. I love little tiny things, specially when they look like actual real tiny things. It is now, however, something I would collect. It would take too much space to get these playsets and they are not really in scale with any of my dolls, even though a lot of the accessories are. 

This is where these accessory sets come in real handy. They are inexpensive samples of miworld, they have a lot of different ones to choose from and they are on clearance at Target so they are REALLY inexpensive right now. Hmm....I was so exited to get these when I saw them that I didn't even think of looking if the whole  series is being discontinued or if it was just a few that were put on clearance.

clearance!!!

 Well, the site is up and says 2016, so at least we know they are still making the toy. I'll do more research later.  Back to the review.

They were actually $1.49 when I went to pay for them so yay! I got 2 of them but we'll just be talking about the Dairy Queen accessory set today because that's the only one I took pictures of so far.
I don't know if you can tell, but I was too curious to see what it would look like to wait to take a pic before I opened it.

 Inside the bag, there was another little clear bag holding all the goodies and a sticker sheet taped to it.

BTW, I really intended to rotate this pic on it's site, but I can figure out how to do it on the blog and I'm too lazy to rotate it and upload it again plus I know myself and if I leave the site I will get entertained arranging all the other photos I have been meaning to catalog and god knows when I'll come back to this so I'm going to just keep on typing and you can deal with this sideways picture.

So this is a refill set for their Dairy Queen playset and it comes with four drinks (Orange Julius Smoothie, DQ milkshake, a Blizzard and something called Artic Rush) and two sundays.

I'm going to go ahead and admit right now I have never been to a Dairy Queen so I don't know what any of these things taste like but I bet they look just like the real thing.

here's a closeup of the little bag

 The stickers seem like a brilliant way to make it look like a fun little addition but really just cut down on the assembly line. So I have stickers left over or was I supposed to put them on both sides of the cups? I saved them so I guess I can just go back and add them.

 Here's a view of the front and back of the package. It advertises another set with two drinks, a hot dog and an ice cream. I remember seeing another set that was two hot dogs and two drink and something else but I didn't notice if that one was DQ also or something else.

All the food seems to be the right size for fashions dolls, so I will be getting more of these,





Here are a couple of before and after photos before and after the stickers were placed.

And here we have the ice girl from the Make a Monster set enjoying a frosty beverage.  It kinda matches her, which now I think it might be a little weird. Like I hope she is not what Artic Rushes are made of.

Next up, the Build a Bear accessory set, as soon as I take some pics.