Review of Amelia Thimble

Oh, gosh.  This girl is a ridiculous amount of cute.  Amelia Thimble is the tiny, 4"/10cm doll by Wilde Imagination, the same company that does the Ellowyne Wilde dolls.  She's resin, and a true strung ball-jointed doll in every respect.  ... Very like the Asian ball-jointed dolls (BJDs) that are popular now, although Wilde Imagination is an American company. 

She's been around for a couple years now, but in case you've never seen one in person, I'll tell you about her.

She has a changeable wig and eyes.  Underneath her wig she has an easy-to-open headcap held on with magnets.  Her eyes are held in with putty inside the hollow head.  The very first thing I did when I got my Amelia Thimble was to re-position her eyes to be side-glancing.  ... I had to use a toothpick to help me, since her head is so tiny! 

This particular Amelia is from 2011 and called "Cute as a Button."  It's sold out on the Wilde Imagination web site, but still available on eBay.  I adore her dress: It's sewn well and a nice quality, and comes with separate bloomers underneath.  Her default curly wig was too frou-frou for my taste, so I pretty much immediately switched her to this braided "Heidi" wig by Kemper (size 2-3" medium brown).  Her shoes are plastic and not anything special, but they fit her feet well.  The shoes didn't stain at all, despite being red.  She actually was packaged wearing her black wig and red shoes in the box, and there was not a single stain on her!

Her eye size is 6mm, in round or half-rounds.  I've heard oval eyes won't fit in her eyewells.  The acrylic eyes in these photos are the ones she came with, and as you can see, they're quite pretty. 

It's unbelievable how tiny this girl is!  She's dollhouse-sized.  In these pics she's posing with a Mini My Little Pony unicorn.  She's also a good size to utilize the accessories that come with Mini Lalaloopsies, and of course, dollhouse furniture and things. 

The last photo is meant to give you an inkling of how small she is.  I've posed her next to a Pinypon and a Mini Lalaloopsy.  Yes, the censoring is silly, but you know how people are.  I didn't want the blog hosting site to see the picture and yell "Eeee!!! Naked resin!!!" and close down my blog.  LOL.

Right out of the box, with her original wig and eye placement.

From left: Pinypon, Mini Lalaloopsy, and Amelia Thimble.

Review of The Barbie Look: Tea Party fashion

I had to get this Mattel outfit for my Poppy Parkers.  It's "The Barbie Look: Tea Party" set that's being sold as a separate fashion.  I got it at Target; I'm not sure what other stores sell it.  It comes with the fascinator-type flower headband you see in these pics, as well as the tea set.  The tea set is plastic, but looks really nice!  The painting is wonderful.  You can tell they actually made an effort to make the tea set look realistic and in-scale with their 12" dolls. 

The dress has snaps in the back and is lined.  The fabric is soft and a good quality.  The belt is a separate piece from the dress and is plastic, but it doesn't look bad with the dress.  I'm so impressed with this set that I now want the Barbie Look fashion with the red evening gown. 

Here the dress is modeled on "Dream Teen" Poppy Parker, my sultry goddess.  It's a perfect fit for the Poppy body. 

The set was $25 USD.  It's higher than you'd expect to pay for a 12" doll dress in a store, but when you consider Poppy Parker clothing sometimes goes for twice that on the secondary market, the price doesn't seem so bad. 

By the way, this is literally the first time I've ever redressed my "Dream Teen" Poppy.  Boy, she must be so glad to get out of her default outfit!  I think this Mattel fashion really suits her.

 

Doll giveaway!

My very first blog giveaway!  I'll be giving away this Pinypon fairy set to some lucky person.  To enter, please post a comment (any will do) in the comments section below this post.  Just don't post as "Anonymous." (Although ... it would be pretty funny if 30 different people all posted as "Anonymous."  LOL.)  Please don't post your e-mail. ... I can get that later from whoever wins.  One entry per person.

A random drawing for the winner will be held Saturday, March 23rd, so check back then to see if you won.  Shipping cost is on me.  :)

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Review of the new Target Pinypons

 

Target stores have just started carrying Pinypons.  We (my 5-year-old and I) played with two of the sets today.  One was a car set that came with a yellow-haired Piny, a purple car, and a picnic basket with a themed set of dinner items.  Apparently Pinys like to eat pizza when they picnic!  ;) The other set we opened was one of their new fairy sets, which came with a blue-haired fairy and a translucent unicorn with a mane that looked like whipped cream.

Ga, the cuteness! 

If you haven't seen these before, the hair is all interchangeable, their bodies twist off at both the waist and the neck so they can exchange upper and lower body parts, and the heads even turn around to reveal a second, alternate face on the backsides (covered up by the hair).  They're only 7cm tall (a shade under 3").  They come with tiny accessories like hearts, flowers, stars and butterflies that you can stick on them at various places ... also interchangeable.  They aren't suitable for a toddler who still puts things in his mouth, but my 5-year-old loves them. 

The fairy has removable wings, which is something I didn't expect.  It's a nice touch.  The glitter hair was driving me crazy (small amounts of glitter on the fingers if you touch it directly), but my daughter Eva liked it.  I asked her which she liked better, glittery hair or the regular hair, and she claimed to like both equally.  The unicorn's head turns.

My daughter was really enchanted with the picnic set, and wanted to play with that right away.  I have to say, the car is SO CUTE.  It has flowery wheels, seats up to three Pinys and is sturdy ... really nicely-made.  It's not a piece of cheap junk that's going to fall apart after five hours of play.  The Pinypons are nicely-made, too, but have a zillion itty-bitty accessories that would get lost in a heartbeat if they weren't kept together in one box.  At my house, I've designated a big purple plastic box as "The Pinypon Box," and that's been working so far to keep everything together.  Thank goodness, because my girl is pretty messy!

Their alternate faces. The unicorn is saying "Huh? What's so funny?"

I photographed their alternate faces as well so you could see them.  I adore the blonde's alternate face.  She looks like a cheerleader in mid-cheer, or something.  LOL.  This might be the single happiest doll on the planet.  Her shoulder bag is removable as well, by the way, if you twist off her head.  As I said, the heads are meant to come off, but at the same time, they are fitted well enough that they won't fall off on their own during play.  You have to twist the head and apply a little pressure to get them off, which is pretty much perfect.  You don't have to worry about rolling heads traumatizing your preschooler.  LOL.  At this point, we have 16 Pinypons (Eva got a bunch for Christmas), and only one of them has a loose head.

They seemed quite pleased to try on each other's hair.

Picnic basket in back. 

AND BY THE WAY ...

I have an unopened pink fairy set to use as my very first blog giveaway!  More on that in a later post, so please check back later to sign up for the giveaway.  You can see the picture of the giveaway prize down below.  ;)

Just had to include this pic 'cause it's cute. :)

Blog giveaway prize! Details about the giveaway in my next post!