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Beautiful diorama!

AUTUMN FLOWERS COTTAGE 1/6 scale handmade miniature dollhouse by Nerea P…

As dusk approached, Rutledge hurried home, wondering if the mushrooms he saw were there before or had recently appeared, much like how they were described in a poem he had come across:

“Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly

Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air.

Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room.

Soft fists insist on Heaving the needles, The leafy bedding,

Even the paving. Our hammers, our rams, Earless and eyeless,

Perfectly voiceless, Widen the crannies, Shoulder through holes. We

Diet on water, On crumbs of shadow, Bland-mannered, asking

Little or nothing. So many of us! So many of us!

We are shelves, we are Tables, we are meek, We are edible,

Nudgers and shovers In spite of ourselves. Our kind multiplies:

We shall by morning Inherit the earth. Our foot's in the door.”

Poem is: Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/mushrooms

Instructions from Sylvanianstorekeepers here

Using cardboard and black paper punch outs...

...I crafted two miniature shutters for my 1/12 scale Castle Tower dollhouse.

These shutters will eventually be situated near the two tiny windows of the small tower.

I used this Christmas decoration for lighting the small tower; see photo below, it temporarily decorates The Great Hall fireplace. I love it ❤️

These punches I used for miniature hinges and such for the shutters.

I love it when I use my craft supplies for different kind of crafts.

Work in progress: I'm building a Castle Tower dollhouse.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)

Vintage Crewel Embroidery Pattern by PastPatternPaloozaCo

In addition to the Barbie playline Halloween toys, there have been a number of Kelly dolls and friends of Kelly themed around Halloween. And of course, this makes a lot of sense - many of the best traditions of Halloween are for children.

Happy Halloween Barbie & Kelly from 1997 shows Barbie taking Kelly trick or treating while Kelly is dressed as a pumpkin. I did in fact see a pumpkin costume for small humans today while out shopping so I can confirm this is a longstanding tradition.

Halloween Fun Barbie & Kelly in 1999 had Barbie and Kelly in matching leopard costumes, as well as apparently shadow puppets for the kids to play with.

This 1999 collection also contained a Li'l Friends of Kelly collection. My favourite of these costumes is Tommy in the bottom corner as a skeleton.

Kelly Merry Monsters was a Target exclusive series from 2009; Kelly herself was a pink-themed vampire.

Her friends Kayla and Miranda were Frankenstein's Monster and the Bride of Frankenstein which I think is an odd choice. These weren't particularly topical in 2009 to my knowledge, and I think it's an unusual choice for Mattel to put two children of the same gender in a matching couples costume.

Even after Kelly changed her name to Chelsea, there have been additional Halloween themed dolls in her doll line.

We see a great many similarities in costumes again - for example, in these two sets pictured above, there are two different variants on a ghost costume. I would be tempted to say it's a reused costume, but the ghost has a different expression on the otherwise very similar costume.

My favourite is the middle one here where she is a cute little bee!