May you find yourselves blessed...

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank each of you for being so kind and supportive. Many of you have enriched my life so much in the last few months that I cannot help but be grateful. I pray that each of you have a blessed and happy holiday. If you don't celebrate Thanksgiving I hope your day is filled with smiles and precious moments too! :)

The third and final installment of the tour will be posted this Friday. I will respond to everyone's comments soon. Thank you for the continued support and I apologize for the delay in my replies. I am trying to play catch up. :) Please bare with me.

Oh, and on a last note. I entered the dollobservers.com photo contest. I hope the following photos give each of you a chuckle. But remember, if you are going out on "Black Friday", please be SAFE!! No object is worth your life or the lives of others.

 

Thanks for following all of my doll antics! :) 

-Cat of A Doll Affinity

Part Two of The Dream Doll Room :)

Before I get started I just want to state how amazing it was to get over 300 blog views between the hours of midnight and 4am! :D How neat is that? I feel so blessed being able to share Julie's hard work with individuals from all over the world! Many of you have stated that it is like you're there walking through, and I wanted so much for each of you to view it in that way. It is like a museum. What I didn't mention in my last post is that Julie invited A Doll Affinity to shoot an episode of Doll Drama in her spectacular doll room!! It will be sometime early next year, as we agreed that waiting until after the holidays is best. :) No worries, I will let you know when that episode is on its way. And Episode 14 should be on its way within the next two weeks. I have to get some characters and props. 

Alright, let's continue to view the amazing...

To kick off Part Two of the tour we will be viewing the corner shelf that is directly to the left of where we ventured in  the last post.

 And yes, you can and do get lost in this little corner of 1/6 paradise! :)

We Start with a continuance, and the final installment of "Antiques and Treasures".

I looked through this area for awhile! I'm sure each of you see why. These 3 pictures are in order from left to right. This is all one diorama on the top level of the corner shelf.

The glass cases are such a classic touch.

Look at the little dolls, on the top shelf, behind the shoppers!

The second shelf is mind blowing. Prepare yourself!

"Second Time's A Charm! Resale Boutique":)

 Again, you will notice the genius use of candle holders! :)

Now we arrive at the 3rd shelf down...

 Again, these are from the left to the right of the dioramas.

 You can sort of see the track lighting, I mentioned in the last post, in the picture above.

 How warm and inviting is this? :) 

 The 4th and final diorama in the corner shelf...

 Just when you think the details couldn't be more eye popping...they are! :)

 I love the covered wagon shelf. 

The following 2 set ups are on top of this diorama shelf... 

Now, onto a shelf display she has placed next to her stunning doll cabinet. I didn't get a picture of it in it's entirety, so I will show you the few shelves I did get pictures of. Such a neat display idea for those of us that don't have a lot of space. :)  

I loved her art studio idea. From the realistic paintings to the little paint sets, this lovely artist is ready to create! :) 

 

This is the 2nd shelf in this unit... neat isn't it? :)

 

And this is the last shelf I got a decent picture of.  So cute!! When I saw it I completely broke out into saying, "awww". :) 

Well, that is all for the Part Two installment! Stay tuned for the Part Three Finale of the tour.

Thank you to all of my new followers and friends for being so encouraging!!

May you be blessed and smiling upon viewing/reading this.  :)

-Cat of A Doll Affinity

Part One: The Dream Doll Room at the Doll Club Party ...

Okay, before I even get started here I should state that I will have to break this down into multiple blogs. There are TONS of quickly taken photographs (aka the opposite of awesome). I tried my best to capture everything, but once you see what I’m referring to, I think you’ll understand. So, here goes…

Our doll club party took place at Julie’s house. She has the mother of all doll rooms.  Her diorama set up made me rethink how I do EVERYTHING in my dolly-verse. She had amazing tips/tricks and great stories to go with the various rooms and pieces she has used. It was an informative and amazing opportunity to talk with her about her exceptionally creative and breathtaking doll room displays.  She has been working on this doll room for nearly 17 years, so none of this happened over night. And I want to thank her for giving me permission to photograph, and share all of her hard work with each of you via A Doll Affinity.

When you first enter the room this is what you see…

 In the above picture, you get a good view of the diorama shelving. What you can't see of the room is the other shelf on the far left. The stores and dioramas in this corner shelf join and flow together. You will see them later in this post. I should also note that her shelving was custom made by her dad, and he skillfully installed track lighting in each area. My camera flash also ruins your ability to see that. Again, I am apologizing on behalf of my camera and it's oftentimes clumsy operator.

 I love the cloud paper. The effect in this room literally takes your breath away.

 Next, you see her very stylishly dressed ladies posing in their respective cabinet. 

What you may not realize from the photographs below is that in most of the shelves the dolls go back a few rows. She has some multiples, but a lot of her multiples are my favorite dolls of all time. :)

 So pretty!!

Please excuse my flash on the doll cabinet's glass. 

My camera decided it didn't want to cooperate. Surprise.  Or perhaps the fault is all mine for being too excited to think the shot through. 

We will begin the room by room tour with the shelf below.....

The diorama's are very detailed and I tried to break most of them down into 2-3 shots to capture as much detail as possible. I encourage each of you to click on the pictures so that you may see better detail. You won't regret it. :) 

The first store I went to was the "Western Shop".

 Sorry that Papa Cowboy and his son went kind of blurry. Auto focus...ugh. 

On the plus side, you can see a lot of detail on the vest and saddle rack. ;)

 

The next room in this shelving unit is the Native American's store. 

 How cool is the black stand holding the beautiful pottery?! :)

This next diorama is part of one of the "New to you! Consignments". The other part is in the adjoining shelf.

Candle holders, a small wine rack and stylish magazine cutouts helped to create this amazing little shop!

This makes me want to shop til' I drop! :)

The last diorama in this shelf is one of my doll dreams.

Introducing half of the"Shop and Go Market." 

 

 

Look at the little cutie in the ducky rain slicker! And the Coca Cola machine!!

 I didn't get a chance to ask her where all of the realistic produce came from.

I will definitely make a point to ask in the future.

Onto the next shelving unit located to the immediate left of the one in the pictures above.

Yes, it does just keep getting cooler! ;)

I am going to go backwards this time, because we just covered the first part of the "Shop & Go Market", and the "New to you! Consignments." Both of the bottom Dioramas in this shelf are the 2nd parts of those, or perhaps these are the first parts. Either way, they are the same shops continued. :)

The Bottom Diorama in the next shelf is the other side of the "Shop & Go Market." 

I don't know why, but I fell in love with the area in the above picture.

Look at the little pretzels and slushies/icees! :D

 

The following pictures are from the other part of "New to you! Consignments."

Another genius use for candle holders in 1/6 scale retail! 

Love this!!

SHOES!! SHOES!! SHOES!! :D

Can anyone say SHOES?! I love a good pair of cute shoes! 

It doesn't show, does it?

The last 2 shelves I will be showcasing in Part One of the "The Dream Doll Room" tour are the top 2 dioramas in this shelving unit. They make up an Antiques shop!!! This is jaw dropping in person. You can stare at it for days and continually find something you missed.

The top level of "Antiques and Treasures"...

The Second level of "Antiques and Treasures"...

 Well, there it is, Part One of the tour. I will try to have Part Two up and running tomorrow. :) 

I have no idea how many parts there will be. All I can tell you is that they will be amazing. I took these pictures thinking of each of you, as we all love outstanding dioramas! :)

Oh, and as for the rest of the doll meeting. There was delicious food galore! Sadly, I didn't think to take pictures of it. I just ate it. Imagine that? ;) 

The charity raffle (all money is donated to a charity of the club's choice) was a blast. Many members bring in nice doll stuff and they place brown paper bags in front of each item. You purchase 30 tickets for $20. Or, 12 for $10 and yes I made that complicated for them. If any of you gals read this...sorry about that. Thank you for helping me out Laura! :)

I spent $30 in tickets and won the following (except for the Alexis Liv doll, she was won in the Doll Story I mentioned in my last post):

 The Happy Family stuff you see was part of an amazing diorama put together by one of my fellow doll club members...

I brought it home and tried to re-create it with the space 

I had available in order to photograph it better. However, the first picture of it is the original. 

You just can't see it very well due to the odd lighting.

Here are some pictures...

And it came with this adorable NRFB Baby Krissy set...

 At the time of writing this everything has been worked into my own doll room, or stored away.

I have taken pictures of it, but I will leave that for a later post. 

I will say that one of the stores in my mall got a serious upgrade! :)

Hope all of you had a great weekend and I look forward to hearing from all of you!! 

-Cat of A Doll Affinity