Business Day

"Meet Penn, Ellowyne's new . . . um? Friend? Look out Rufus, Ellowyne's heart is about to be stolen!"

TONNER STOCK PHOTO

Penn, Business Day was produced by Wilde Imagination in 2015 as a limited edition of 500. He features the Penn head with 17" Matt body. He has dreamy inset cobalt eyes, non-removable wigged mink hair, is  articulated at the elbows, wrists, knees and ankles.

Penn arrived wearing a pale blue button down shirt beneath a smart navy and grey hounds-tooth jacket, with black pants, white socks and black shoes.

I wouldn't say he was in pristine condition as one ankle is looser than the other, but he is worth what I paid for him. Which was less than what he was originally (US$179) and without the costly shipping expense, as he was from my own city. I guess once again, I was lucky to be in the right place, at the right time.

Something about him reminds me of the puppets from the TV series "The Thunderbirds". Does anyone else see the likeness or is it just me? :)

Well although he arrived today (Sunday), I've been rather spoilt this week, aside from Tyler, I also received a further three Tonner dolls; Lizette, Parnilla (Thursday) and Ellowyne (Friday). but photos of those dolls will appear later.

I'm still on the hunt for Amber and maybe Rufus (Ellowyne Wilde) as well as Mortimer (Evangeline Ghastly), but no hurry.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend!

Tyler Arrived

Yesterday! This is the second or maybe the third time Australia Post has delivered to me on a Sunday. She was a late in arriving due to the Covid restrictions in place around the world. It's taken five weeks, so you can imagine, she is a very welcome arrival.

I am so pleased I ordered her, even though she was made as a large edition, she is really gorgeous! Even hubby has taken a fancy to her. :) You will find all her details in this post, so I won't bore you by repeating it. However, here are some photos which I took this morning.

Tyler may not pose well due to lack of articulation, but she's so lovely to look at and the detail on Tonner dolls is spot on as you can see by the shoe here . . .  the base of the shoe matches perfectly with the colours in her gown and the inner sole is actually covered in the same fabric.

I hope your week is off to as good a start as mine!

Remember These

The books I ordered back at the end of July (27th to be exact) finally arrived yesterday, much to my relief. I never thought parcels would take so long to fly from USA to Australia, but I guess when they no longer fly direct and travel via Tokyo, Japan delays are to be expected, but six and a half weeks?

Also included was a little surprise, two 2019 dolly magazines, which I thought was a very kind gesture by my sender.

I shall enjoy reading these later, however, the first book I began to read in bed last night was "Tonner". It was interesting reading about him and his career and difficult for me to put down, but at Chapter 7, I fell asleep. :)

Mine are not the best photos I know, but they will give you an idea how well this book is illustrated with beautiful photos of Robert's early gowns when he was with Bill Blass and all the wonderful dolls he produced over the following years.
Big hugs,
X

Possibly Clairvoyant

I haven't had much enthusiasm for taking photos lately, actually I have had very little enthusiasm for anything other than buying dolls, dolls and more dolls. This may change when the darn things finally begin to arrive though . . . I b****y well hope so!

I did try to cheer myself up by revamping my blogs and sorting out which dolls belonged to which blog etc. But that didn't work out so well, I still felt blah.

The other thing that I have had difficulty coming to terms with is finding a decent editing program. I was really happy with the one I was using. Then my computer crashed and I lost it. At first I thought I'd simply purchase the latest update of the same one and all will be well in my world . . . except it no longer had all the things I used and liked about the old one.

So it was back to spending on dolls again and it didn't take long before I found a pretty Prudence to be friends with my Ellowyne and Lizette. She's another purchase from Jeff.

Possibly Clairvoyant was produced by Wilde Imagination in 2015 as a limited edition of 500 which retailed at US$189. She features a Prudence head on an Ellowyne body and has inset brown eyes, rooted chestnut hair with a red streak, articulated elbows, wrists and knees.

She is another MIB as shown here in Jeff's photos (left) and on the right you can see how she is close up . . . her eyes look a deeper brown in Jeff's photo.

Her outfit consists of what you see in the Robert Tonner's Wilde Imagination photos which also show how gorgeous she looks out of her box.

Well I have nothing more to add today and I'm afraid if I stay here chatting I might end up boring you all with my own crappy feelings of frustration which I know many are suffering from right now in Melbourne . . . I'm off to drown myself in a bottle of wine!

Shadow Figures

Parnilla has a friend on the way . . . I am feeling so lucky to have found this one MIB and for less than retail.

Shadow Figures is a doll from the Evangeline Ghastly line which was produced by Wilde Imagination in 2015. The limited edition of 350 retailed at US$219.

This doll features the Evangeline Ghastly head, with inset amber eyes, applied eyelashes and mink rooted hair with sandy blonde highlights and ruby lips.

Her body is hard plastic with articulated elbows, wrists, knees and ankles.

These are Tonner photos, but my gal is looking pretty good too! I will post photos of her when she has arrived. I am hoping to repaint the inner part of her eyeliner without removing all of the original face paint.

Dressed an airy chiffon sleeved cape featuring a collar of lace bejeweled with white faux pearls, golden cut crystal beads and sequins.

The cape is complimented by a matching chiffon bodice and flowing skirt.

Underneath the chiffon, she wears a pair of glittering gold and white sequined pants. and gleaming gold peep-toe heels.

Although I like the colour and fabrics used in her gown, I would like to  revamp her costume a little.

I am not fond of the cape as it is. The beading is far to heavy and tends to swamp her neck, and the front of the cape doesn't drape as well as I'd like it to. I'll probably remove the cape altogether, and providing I can find the right fabric, make her one that allows the rest of her costume to shine through.

Wish me luck!

P.S. Check out this repaint and you will see why I want to change her eyeliner. :)

Spring Has Sprung

Finally the weather down-under is beginning to warm up and the sun has come out to play in a blue sky! This has all given rise to new enthusiasm for updating my blogs and rearranging pages so they are in the correct blogs . . . I am even becoming more familiar with this New Blogger . . . so it seems some "old dogs" can learn new tricks.

Hopefully the new look will make it easier for readers to find the things they enjoy while they are visiting here. I'm not going to write much today, however I will share a few things with you, that made me smile when I saw them . . . and let's face it with the world as it is today, we could all do with something to make us smile!

Stay healthy, keep yourselves and your loved ones safe, be kind, but most of all be happy!