Hi everyone,
Charlotte was another sofa sister who received her Dazzle in the mail. Remember she’s only 5.5″ little… so just imagine a teeny tiny little doll like that in your collection. Charlotte already apologized for the picture that’s blurry…
Picture 1 shows all the furnishings that came with Dazzle–a cheval mirror, a sewing machine (!), a table (with a sewing box on top), and a stool, plus a tiny bear.
Picture 2 is a close-up of the sewing machine, and the tiny piece of fabric and miniature scissors that came with it. There are also the table and the stool. I’ve taken the lid off the sewing box so you can see all the little notions inside (they are not removable).
Picture 3 shows Dazzle in her “sewing room”. The furnishings are actually a bit small compared to her size, but they sure are cute!!
Picture 4 shows some of the accessories that came with Dazzle. In the back, there are her clear carrying case and the paper doll with two dresses to cut out and play with. In the foreground you see the cloth bag she was in inside the carrier, a card with her story written out and, on top, some pictures of her, which are printed on card stock.
Picture 5 shows Dazzle with the pattern, instructions, and a pre-cut dress to make for her. She is just so cute!
Picture 6 is the ornament my cousin and his wife made for me, which I mentioned receiving recently. The ornament itself is laser-cut in two layers; sandwiched between is a picture his wife took of the trilliums near where they live in Upper Michigan. It’s printed on vellum or something similar, and is translucent. Sooo pretty!
Thank you Charlotte!
Dazzle certainly is a tiny little thing, but at least she doesn’t take up much space. She could sleep in a teacup I think… and her accessories might fit in a soup bowl! :o) I’m glad you are enjoying her.
Well, I’ve discovered you can still sew even if you have a cough. I think I am finished with Molly’s set, but I’ll still show Joy and Linda’s pictures tomorrow…
See you then,
Blessings, Jeanne
Thank you for showing my pictures, Jeanne! I have had Dazzle (I call mine “Daisy Dazzle”) sitting on the sofa beside me this week. She is just so cute, I am really happy I got her!! I didn’t leave her things set up, but did have to watch the video carefully to figure out how to put all those little boxes back into her designed box.
What video?! You will find it here https://rubyredgalleria.com/doll-set/1522-55-dazzle-with-furniture-box-set if you scroll down a bit. The lady speaking is the designer, and she’s a little hard to understand at times, but there are captions, so it’s easy to follow along. You will see how beautifully packaged she was (something I forgot to take pictures of) when she first came. By the way, in the video they show her coming out of the packaging wearing her tiny little panties; in reality, they were in the bag with the dress and I had to put them on–a little tricky, since they are so tiny!
As to the ornament, one thing I forgot to mention is that I grew up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and it is my most favorite place in the world. I well remember picking trilliums in the woods across from my best friend’s family farm. My town was Stephenson, which is in the little part that juts out to the south, close to the Wisconsin border. It’s 43 miles from Escanaba (es-scah-NAH-bah) where some of my maternal relatives lived back then, and 100 miles south of Ishpeming (ISH-peh-ming), where a number of my paternal relatives lived (and some maternal ones lived there, too). I still have one cousin in the Escanaba area, and I think three in the Ishpeming/Marquette area.
I will keep my laptop out tonight, and hopefully remember to check comments thru the day, although I’ll be at church in the afternoon for a while.
Jeanne, I’m so glad you are feeling up to sewing again. That means you’re on the mend! Just don’t try to do too much too soon, lest you have a relapse!
Thank you for sharing your pictures of Daisy Dazzle. She’s so cute and I’m so glad to have her too. Your pictures highlight everything that came with her so nicely.
I came across a picture yesterday from a vacation my family took to Northern Michigan when I was about eight years old. I hadn’t seen it in decades. We were in a cabin on the shore of Lake Michigan. It was really the only vacation I ever remember us taking. Very pretty ornament!
Thank you, Susette. I ordered her mostly for the accessories (I sew–how could I resist?!) but I fell in love with this little doll. She is so sweet. I call her Daisy.
My aunt and uncle had a cabin on Lake Michigan, and we spent portions of every summer there, swimming in the lake and getting burned to a crisp, I’m sure (it was the 1950s!). Later on, they sold just the cabin and, in the middle of winter, moved it about a half a mile up the lake (yup, they towed it across the ice) to its new location. My uncle built a beautiful home on that spot, complete with indoor plumbing (which the old cabin did Not have!). Years later, they sold it and move to Arizona, where they lived until my aunt died. My uncle spent a few more years there, and then moved back to Mich. to live with one of their sons for the remainder of his life.
Thank you for the compliment on the ornament; I love it!
Dear Charlotte, Dazzle is adorable. I love that she has a sewing machine. You will have to teach her to sew so she can make beautiful clothes for herself.
Thank you, Dorothy. Yes, I think she’s already looking over the fabric in my sewing room, and deciding what she wants first! (laugh)
Charlotte, Dazzle is darling, (as if you didn’t know)! She certainly has a lot of fun accessories to play with! I have a large dollhouse and a sewing machine very similar to that in it, and wonder if it might be the same size. The sewing accessories are so cute, and everything looks like it must have been fun to open each little package and envelope! Oh, yes, it is hard to fit things back when you are finished and forgot how there were in the first place! That video really helped and I enjoyed seeing it!
Your ornament is just beautiful, snd I see why it is a very special one to you. I also now see why the flowers are called trilliums, since they have three flower petals. I hope you keep it on display all the time, instead of just on a Christmas tree! It looks almost like a stained glass ornament!
Thank you so much for sending these pictures to Jeanne, Charlotte! I think when we show these little snippets of our life, we all get to know each other better!
Jeanne, hopefully you are doing better, and I can’t wait to see Molly’s new dress! Keeping you in my prayers!🙏🏻
Thank you, Linda. I’m not sure, but I think the machine might be fairly close to dollhouse size; I will have to measure it. For comparison, though, Dazzle is 5-1/2″ tall. And on the machine, the flywheel goes around and the treadle goes up and down.
I’m glad you got to watch the video. The designer lady is just charming, I think, and very enthused about the doll and accessories. She’s fun to watch.
I do think the ornament will stay out most of the year, at least. At Christmas I do something different at that spot, so might move the ornament to the kitchen window for a while. I don’t know that I would hang it on a tree, as it’s fairly large (and we haven’t had a real tree in a number of years now–just easier as Ron got so frail).
It does look like stained glass, though, but it feels more like a vellum paper to me.
Charlotte, Dazzle is so adorable, Just the cutest tiny doll ever. Oooh, I love her.
Your precious ornament is really lovely. I love the U.P. and have been there many times as my sister in law (hubbs sister) has lived there for so many years, raised kids there and everything.
This hand made creation is just stunning. Yes, I would hang it all year ’round.
Well, today I am full of emotions. The walk through was exhausting! Goodness, then I went over next door to my new neighbors Sammy and Bill, and Sammy had fallen and broken her upper arm (humerus) a terrible thing! Then we came home exhausted from all of the information about everything. We had a good inspector. Today is the pre-pre-settlement walk through and I lost a lot of sleep last night thinking about every anxiety triggering worry. Terrible haha. I am going to try to eat properly this morning so I have some energy to be alert this afternoon at 1:00
Thank you so much for your compliments on the English Paper Piecing endeavor. Hand sewing is fun but this was fun in the beginning and then it because a task.
I am so grateful for your generous praise. I am taking it all to my heart 🙂
I read all of the comments yesterday too and I enjoyed reading every one of them!
Joy, your sneaky escapade had me on the edge of my seat. I also wonder what will happen the day your hubbs finds all of those babies in your room of treasures. That will be a happy surprise!!!
I hope all of you have an enjoyable happy sunny day.
Here it is beautiful outside. I should do gardening…. but I have an inspection to attend at 1:00 pm. I wish I could send a twin of me… but the alert assertive one!!
Oh Rosemary, I’ll be thinking about you today. I hope everything goes well and that there are no glitches. So exciting to have a new home.
Thank you, dear Rosemary. Yes, she is certainly an adorable little girl!!
I love the U.P., too. (My car has three bumper stickers about it, one proclaiming that I am a “Yooper girl”!! [a yooper is a real word, and it means someone from the U.P./upper peninsula of Michigan].) My heart has never left the U.P., even though I’ve lived in the greater Seattle area since Oct. 1960! I don’t like mountains–oppressive to me, and too high–so I am in the wrong state! Haha. If I were younger, I would probably move back to the midwest, but at 79, that’s not likely to happen.
I’m sure this is/has been an emotional (and emotionally exhausting) week for you! Prayers for calm and enough sleep, etc., and that all goes well each step of the way.
I’m sorry to hear about Sammy’s broken humerus. That’s what I did 2-1/2 years ago, you know, and even though it wasn’t my dominant arm, I was surprised at how limiting it was–I had to learn to do things differently! Had to have Ron on hand when I took a shower, to help me wash my hair, for instance, at least the first few times. Putting clothes on was a challenge; I chose things that were as loose-fitting as possible, and put the broken arm into its sleeve first, things like that.
My EPP project was smaller than yours, and I found I was learning things and adjusting how I sewed as I went along, so not all my edges were as perfectly aligned as they could have been. I don’t know that I would do a Large project that way, but I might do another small one, as it’s certainly a portable project, and gives you something to work on for a while!
Well, if Jeanne is doing sewing, hopefully, she is starting to feel better. Such a bad one whatever it may be.
Thanks for the fun comments on my successful doll acquisition yesterday. Was busy yanking out more weeds about to set seed. Ugh.
Absolutely loved seeing Charlotte’s Dazzle, this morning. Thanks so much for sharing Charlotte and Jeanne. I will have to visit the video later, but am looking forward to viewing it. And I’ll have to look in the box again for that pre-cut dress. I didn’t see it when I opened the box. I’m sure that it is there somewhere as I really didn’t even have time to open everything. Although, I do have Dazzle sitting on the couch dressed, at least, and looking forward to a play outfit, I think she said. Her voice is like a whisper as she is so petite. Not a clue where to find a pattern for a pair of shorts and top for someone so tiny. 🙂
Now, I’m on a potato salad mission. I haven’t made it in a long time, but promised to bring it for our get together with grands and family on Sunday. I’ll need to check and make sure that I have everything needed to make it Saturday. 🙂
Thank you, Joy.
In the box, there is a plastic bag with a zipper top; inside are the pattern, the instructions, and the precut dress. I am going to photocopy the pattern and instructions, so I can leave the set as original as possible. It’s just so delightful to look at all those little things!!
I am wondering if a Riley pattern might work for shorts for Dazzle. I found I had a couple of Riley patterns when going thru the sewing room stash the other day, and she is quite a tiny doll, also, so it might work. I think there are some sites that offer free patterns, too, and Doll Castle News has had them occasionally, also. (You can order back issues if you find out which ones have the patterns.) I will try to remember to look thru my stuff and see if I have any websites, etc. to share.
Your potato salad sounds good! Haven’t made that in quite a while. Maybe soon!
Your photos of Dazzle really tell her story. She is just right for a dressmaker and doll collector. Ruby really comes up with some charming themes for our collections.
The trillium ornament is very special and deserves to be on display throughout the year. I was not familiar with that flower until we moved to the Smoky Mts. They are wild on all the trails in the early spring. I took many pictures of them because they are the sweetest little flowering plant.
Good luck with the move Rosemary. Soon it will be behind and the fun will begin.
Praying for your recovery Jeanne.
Thank you so much, Debbie. If you get a chance, I hope you’ll watch the video of Dazzle, too (link above). The gal that designed her did the video, and she is such a charming gal!
Yes, trilliums were part of my childhood; we’d go into the woods and pick them, although I don’t remember them doing particularly well in a vase. Some wildflowers just don’t, you know? And occasionally we’d find a pink one or two, which was always a treat as they are usually white.
Thank you, Charlotte and Jeanne for the fun photos. So tiny and cute. I loved seeing them.
Rosemary, I am cheering for you to get thought all this and be able to enjoy moving soon. Moving is hard, I know. I dread it if and when we have to.
Jeanne, I am looking forward to see Molly’s finished outfit. I am glad you felt well enough to work on it. I hope you feel better every day.
Thank you so much Sissy; I’m glad you enjoyed my doll!
Praying that Peyton’s hand continues to heal!
Your Daisy Dazzle is so cute, Charlotte. I’m sure you will enjoy her and she’s the perfect size to take along places.
The trillium ornament is beautiful. I love the UP/Mackinac Island as well, only topped by Nova Scotia and PEI. 🙂 We stayed in a B & B in Michigan’s UP that had a stand of birch trees and wild blueberry bushes.
The trilliums are blooming here as well. They are so lovely.
Thank you so much, Laura. I am enjoying just picking her up and looking at her when I watch TV at night. I will be sewing for her soon, but at the moment I have some other projects in the works, including an Amer. Doll outfit for our ASG’s doll-dressing charitable efforts for Christmas this year. It’s our second year to do it, and last year they had gotten one boy doll among all the girls, so I volunteered to dress him. I made PJs, t-shirt and shorts, and slacks and a shirt to go with it.
I’ve been to Mackinac Island at least twice that I recall-once when I was maybe 11 or 12, and then again when Ron and I were there 20-some years ago. It’s a wonderful place!
Oh….wild blueberries. My absolute favorite. I love any blueberries, but there is NOTHING like wild Michigan blueberries! Nothing!!
Thanks again, Charlotte, for the information about the wonderful video. I hadn’t seen it and it’s great! How wonderful that Cary shared so much information with us. She speaks English very well and is a very exciting designer. Everything about the set is so well thought out. I did take pictures as I opened the box so I’d remember how everything was placed. One wrong move and you’d be unable to fit everything back into the cute little box. Shan and Yu Ping are having fun with Dazzle in the little mini room kit I ordered from Michael’s also. More pictures closer to Halloween. That’s a little clue! Thanks again to Christina Marie for sharing hers on RRFFs website.
You are so welcome, Susette. I just happened upon the video when I clicked the link to see the doll! Yes, I think Cary did a great job hosting it, and showing all the details. She seemed so thrilled and excited that she could do so!
Oooh, a mini room kit!!! I can’t wait to see what kind of Halloween doings your kids have in store!! That’s an awfully long time to wait, though!!
Charlotte thank you for sharing your photos of Dazzle. I can’t imagine making anything that small.
Rosemary, I hope you will show us a photo of your house when it is finished. My brother in Texas is having a new house built too, I guess he is going through all your trials and tribulations. It will all be worth it in the end. You will love it.
You’re welcome, Anne, and thank you for your kind words.
I actually have sewn for dolls that small–and even smaller! I had a friend who had a “frozen Charlotte” who was less than 2″ tall. He asked if I would make a new dress for her–poor thing had been wrapped in a scrap of ribbon for years! I had to kind of invent it as I went along. Perhaps one day I will send Jeanne those pictures, as I did enjoy that challenge and thought the dresses (I made two, as I had another idea after the first one was done) turned out pretty well.
Dear Jeanne, I am glad you are able to sew now. I hope your cough will go away soon.
Happy 7th day of May!