Everyone Needs Playtime

In our hectic, modern lives, many of us focus so heavily on work and family commitments that we never seem to have time for pure fun. Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we stopped playing.

When we carve out some leisure time, we’re more likely to zone out in front of the TV or computer than engage in fun, rejuvenating play like we did as children. But play is not just essential for kids; it can be an important source of relaxation and stimulation for adults as well.

There doesn’t need to be any point to the activity beyond having fun and enjoying yourself. By giving yourself permission to play with the joyful abandon of childhood, you can reap oodles of health benefits throughout life.

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Challenge Meme

Seven years ago I issued a challenge to celebrate 20 years of the modern BJD, that I had also done three years previously. As things have be...

Monday

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!



Thursday

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

Sunday

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!