Gummy Bears?

So I have decided that Calypso will be getting a Littlefee El as her well soul mate :) I just need to save up for him! Her story is unfolding bit by bit and he is going to be a HUGE part of it...
Anyway, the tinies met Calypso for the first time today (she's been shy). They decided that they would share one of their favorite snacks with her to welcome her! Calypso is my shy girl. She doesn't say much yet, and she is very unsure of the others still. But I bet over time she'll share her story with them ;)

This is a SUPER short story as I had to leave for class, but was so happy with how well sueded Calypso turned out, and all the poses she can hold now :D YAY!
I'm off to finish Calypso's cloak... here are the girls!

"Here you go! Lucy and I were just about to have a snack, and thought we'd come over and say hi! You're new here aren't you?"

"..."

"Hmm... shy huh? Well we just thought we'd say hi. I'm Rhea, this is Lucy!"

"ww-what do I do with it?"

"OH so you DO talk! It's a gummy bear! You eat it, see like this!"

"ww-why, why would I eat a bear?"

"..."

"she's interesting isn't she Lucy?"

Hurricane Sandy and the Tinies

Ok so I found my pictures from the Hurricane and figured I'd upload my little tinies Hurricane Sandy story :P

So I live on the east coast, and we were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy this last month. We were fortunate and didn't loose anything other than trees and power for a little while. My wonderful boyfriend James is in the national guard and was activated to go help before the storm. Rhea thought he was VERY handsome and went to go check out his hat ;)  

Anyways, the tinies will take over now!!

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Mom said there is a BIG storm coming!! We don't have our own house yet... We better make one! Come on Lucy!

"I. CAN. HELP."

"Sure Danbo!!"

"We have a LOT of bricks Rhea..."

"I. HELP."

"Yes Danbo we know, thank you!"

"Is it tall enough yet?"

"Not quite!"

"Mommy says this is her favorite picture! I think it's because we're all working so well together! Look how tall our house is!"

"Hey Lucy do you think I can- uh oh!!!!"

(I must butt in, I love Danbo in this picture... I just picture him going "NOOOOOO" just him staring and holding out his arms x) oh so cute!)

"Oh no!"

"UH. OH."

"Rhea!!! Now where will we go when the storm comes!!!"

"It'll be ok Lucy, mom says we can stay in her house, she'll protect us! And then maybe one day we will have a real house of our own."

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24 hours later....

Rhea came outside to inspect the damage with me. Lucy was still too scared, Rhea wanted to pose by one of the trees that fell. This tree was as old as I am! We planted it when my parents first moved into our house. 25 years ago! We were lucky it didn't hit the house! (Side note, my dad and I spent HOURS taking this apart and dragging it to the street, but again we're lucky it fell away from the house!)

We ended up loosing power for about 24 hours only. Again very VERY blessed. I'm not a huge fan of power outages, but Rhea and Lucy seemed to have a BLAST with the LED lanterns! 

We ended up missing Halloween because of Sandy, but a few days later (Nov 5th) we had a rescheduled Halloween and the girls got to go trick or treating! Here they are with some of the spoils :)

That's all for now!! Calypso is going to make another appearance soon and the tinies are going to go on an adventure! Hope you all like the pictures! 

It's always so fun to share :D

~Megan

BJD Coloring Books

Woohoo! So I had this idea to make some coloring books for my girls, so today I got started on patterns and figuring out sizes. The end result, two different sized coloring books, (one for tinies and one for YoSD- as they are the only two sizes I myself own xD) 

I WILL be selling these on etsy as soon as I iron out all the kinks! 

As of right now I have coloring books for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and just a general winter themed book! 
I am also planning on making: My Little Pony, Valentines Day, Birthday books, Seasons (i.e. Spring, Summer and Fall to go along with the Winter one I made now) a Military book (some of the proceeds of these sales will go to Wounded Warrior Project), Pets/animals (maybe things like "zoo animals" "horses" "birds" etc), maybe a few 'movie books' (ie Brave, Toy Story),  etc etc. 

I would LOVE to know what sort of coloring books you guys would like most! And if you would also want the colored pencils I made with the books, or as a separate order (I know some people already have art supplies for their dolls). 

These are full coloring books, they have a cover and back and contain anywhere from 10-12 small pictures and puzzles (any additional pages and the book starts looking bulgy) All the pictures are different and each book has wide variety of styles and activities that are unique to the book. I designed and put these together myself :)

Anyway I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I do x) 
~Megan

My dolls modeling these fabulous coloring books today are my Soom Beyla Calypso and my Obitsu tiny Rhea :) (Lucy refused to cooperate with me... so she will be in other pictures ;P)

"Whatcha making Calypso?"
"Coloring in this picture of an angel... look at her pretty hair... Gosh I wish I had hair"

"Mommy said she ordered you some last night!! It'll be a little while before it gets here, but at least it's on it's way! I'm coloring a little girl playing with some animals! See?"

"I guess I'll color this Christmas tree in then, I want the angels hair to match mine!" 

Rhea: *scribbles* "hehehe"

"What's so funny Rhea?"

"I'm coloring my penguin in red, hehehe"

*hums* oh coloring, I like coloring, gonna make some pictures to give to Lucy, coloring *hums*

*I'm bored with this page... what else is there?*

*this is more like it!! Charlie Brown and Snoopy!*

*hums* colorrrrrinnnngg yeah!!

Thanks for checking out our new coloring books!! Mom is gonna upload some of our art in another post :D

Bye!!

Meet Calypso!!

Hey there :)
So I have a bunch of fun little picture stories that are in the works, but I HAD to share with you guys my new girl, and my very first resin dolly!!
She came home November 20th and I am so in love with her! She is a Soom Beyla and her name is Calypso :D She will be going out for her faceup soon, but I couldn't wait to start taking pictures of her right away! There will be plenty more pictures of her and the tinies coming up! Her wig is ordered as well, so little by little she is coming together!
Anyway, enjoy!!

She needs a bit of sueding as she likes to touch her face, and her hooves like to kick up... ah well she's happy :P 

Love this dress. Bought it from a friend online :) her hooves are stinking cute and I love her horn :D

Calypso says: wanna know a secret? My mom's room is a mess *hehehe*

 
Pretty little lady :D

Just chillin :D

Ok I'm off to go work on her cloak I'll post pictures soon!!

Megan

Happy Halloween

So it's late, but I did just start the blog now x)
Here are the tinies having some fun on Halloween!

btw I see Danbo as being a little robot, he talks robotic in my head, and therefore he talks robotic here ;)

Hey Danbo, look these pumpkins have lights in them! Just like you do!

Hey guys whatcha up to?

Look we found a light up pumpkin!

Cool! But come on mom wants to take some Halloween pictures, come on!

Rawr!! Mom made me this awesome Red Panda costume from scratch! She's so crafty :D 

"cheeseeeee"

"WAIT! Lucy!"

What is it Rhea? 

Your costume.... you have ears just like mine now!!

leavesssss

Happy Halloween!!

<3 the tinies!

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Did mom finally leave?

Good, come on I need your help!

Did you find anything in there? 

Oh my gosh I've never seen so much candy in one place!!

Here help me down, I have some for each of us

This stuff is great!!

Look at the size of this peanut butter cup!!

Danbo... Danbo can't reach his mouth

Now it is a Happy Halloween :D

Rhea's surprise

Last time we saw the tinies, they were making friends with some other dolls... lets see how it's going!

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"Rhea I heard you're quite the little gymnast" 

"Hmm... well I do love tumbling and climbing around on things!"

"Well guess what that's what I do! Look here, I'll show you how to do some tricks on the balance beam!"

"Like this?"

O- oh, um o-ok... 

Hey, this is actually pretty cool!

Mom bring the camera!! Come see what I can do! See I can do a split... well sort of!

And look at how good my cartwheels are getting!

Look I can even balance on one foot!

That's it, I decided I want to be a gymnast! Now if I only had the right clothes...

Introductions and a surprise!

Hi all,
Welcome to The Dolls in the Attic. It's me Megan from TheButterfliesAttic :) this is going to be a blog dedicated entirely to the many different dolls that inhabit my home. I will be making photo stories, sharing things I have made and just sharing my doll world with you guys here! Dolls you'll see here include:
American Girl dolls
Ball Jointed Dolls (or bjd's)
Handmade dolls (crochet and otherwise handmade creations by me!)
and any other doll related stuff :D

I wanted to thank you all for visiting, I'm really excited to get this started! Special thanks to Wendy and Miranda W for encouraging me to start this blog so that I would have one central place to share my dolls/stories with everyone :D You can check out Miranda's blog here

So I have a few bjd's home with me right now. Rhea is an obitsu Neko with kitty ears (^^ so cute!) Lucy is a Hujoo Suve and Autumn is a 27cm pixy headed obitsu.

I do have some older stories (Halloween and Hurricane Sandy things etc) that I will upload when I find the memory card the pictures are on x)

But without further ado, I'd like to present the tinies; Lucy and Rhea who will be taking over at this point:

"Hey Lucy, have you seen the mouse?" 

"What mouse?"

"The one for the game"

"Um.... no?" 

"Quick little mouse, take the dice and RUN!" 

"HEY! Give me that back. Oh... hi mom, we were just playing" 

"Look girls, you have company! I found these in the basement"

"Hi there, who are you? I've never met you before!"

"I am one of Megan's first dolls, she's had me since she was a very little girl! She even named me Megan, cause we have the same sort of hair!"

"Hi I'm Lucy! Rhea and I are still pretty new around here"

"It's nice to meet you Lucy, hey you know what, I found some old clothes earlier that I'm not using I bet you would be able to wear some!"

"WOW! Thank you"

"Rhea LOOK! That nice doll gave me some new clothes, won't mom be surprised!"

"I wonder what else mom found in the basement for us!"

"Lets see here"

"Hi there girls!"

"Wow *another* doll!"

"I'm Stacy, your mom and I used to play for hours when she was little. she told me that you and I are very alike."

"Look she can bend her arms and legs sort of like us Rhea!" 

"I have a gift for each of you!"

"Wow look, new toys that are our size!"

RHEA! Look there are more toys in here!

Wow cool! I wonder what other things we might find in here

.....

We'll have to check in later and see what the tinies find!