{"id":13763,"date":"2018-09-12T16:16:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T23:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=13763"},"modified":"2018-09-12T22:54:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T05:54:50","slug":"little-girl-doll-for-the-victorianna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=13763","title":{"rendered":"Little girl doll for the Victorianna"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t usually put dolls in my dollhouses, but I made an exception when I bought a little resin baby for the nursery.<\/p>\n

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Since then I’ve been keeping an eye out for dolls to put in the other kids’ rooms — I need a little girl (age 4-ish) and an older girl (age 12-ish). An eBay seller named karens-mini-bears<\/a> makes adorable baby and kid dolls, sometimes in half scale, but they’re usually 24-hour auctions with a lot of people bidding, and I haven’t waded in.<\/p>\n

Recently I saw this little girl on eBay<\/a>, offered by seller by_lana<\/a>, and I loved her on sight. The short, messy hair, the little smile, the dress — she just looked like the right doll for the little girl’s room<\/a>. I hit Buy It Now and paid… and then I looked more carefully at the description. She was only 1″ tall, which would be 24 inches in half scale. I Googled “How tall is a four year old” and Google informed me that the average four year old is 40 inches tall.<\/p>\n

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I emailed the seller but she’d already sent the package. She told me not to worry, if the doll was too small she accepted returns.<\/p>\n

The doll arrived (very quickly from the UK!) while I was working on the Robin Betterley kits<\/a>. She’s small next to the dollhouse, but maybe not *too* small?<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, yes, she’s too small. Especially when the room is strewn with toys, she looks like, well, a doll. Not like a child.<\/p>\n

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I sadly emailed the seller to tell her the doll would be too small. She refunded my money and graciously told me to keep the doll — excellent customer service, but I felt bad that I hadn’t looked at the measurements more closely before I purchased.<\/p>\n

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A few weeks later by_lana listed another 1:24 doll<\/a> with the same short brown hair and an equally adorable face, but this one was more like 1.75″ tall (the equivalent of a 42-inch tall child). I wanted her! But I was nervous about bidding after the last one hadn’t worked out. I reached out to make sure it was okay and she was again very gracious, telling me to bid and not to worry about the first doll.<\/p>\n

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This one was an auction. I bid, but not enough. Afterward I wrote back to the seller to tell her I hadn’t won, but I’d be keeping an eye out for another doll that might work.<\/p>\n

A few days later she contacted me — she’d posted two more 1:24 dolls that were the bigger size. This time they were Buy It Now and one had the brown hair I wanted<\/a>. I snapped it up. (As of this writing, the other one is still available<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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The new doll arrived yesterday, and she’s the perfect size. Here she is next to the small one. Half an inch makes a big difference!<\/p>\n

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Here she is in the room. I’m not sure about her long hair… I really liked the shorter hair on the other two dolls. I might try to cut it, but I don’t want to mess it up.<\/p>\n

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Her head turns and her arms and legs move a little bit. Some of the other dolls were pictured in a sitting position on the auctions, but this one wasn’t, so I’m not sure if I can make her sit. I don’t want to break her.<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to photograph this room without the pictures coming out dark. I put the dollhouse down on the floor to take these pictures, positioned so the sun coming in through the (real) window was also shining in through the dollhouse window.<\/p>\n

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This turned out to be an excellent eBay experience, and I hope any of you who are looking for children for your mini scenes will check out by_lana’s auctions. She also does 1:12 scale.<\/p>\n

Now I need to find an older girl doll for the other bedroom<\/a>. I actually saw one on eBay last week<\/a>, but the bidding went too high for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t usually put dolls in my dollhouses, but I made an exception when I bought a little resin baby for the nursery. Since then I’ve been keeping an eye out for dolls to put in the other kids’ rooms — I need a little girl (age 4-ish) and an older girl (age 12-ish). An […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58,19],"class_list":["post-13763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-greenleaf-victorianna","tag-half-scale","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13763"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13785,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions\/13785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}