{"id":6133,"date":"2013-10-09T21:54:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T04:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2013-10-09T21:58:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T04:58:14","slug":"the-ingalls-family-in-half-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=6133","title":{"rendered":"The Ingalls family in half scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since completing my half scale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=5208\" target=\"new\">Little House in the Big Woods cabin<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been looking around for some dolls to put inside. Normally I&#8217;m not a doll person, but this house is modeled after the (fictional) Ingalls&#8217; family&#8217;s house and I wanted a (fictional) Ingalls family to put inside. Since my cabin is 1:24 scale and 1:12 dolls are much more common, that made the task of finding my perfect family even tougher.<\/p>\n<p>Then I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/PrairieCrocusStudio\" target=\"new\">Prairie Crocus Studio<\/a> on Etsy &#8212; a fortuitous store name for my Little House on the Prairie-inspired project. Laurie sells patterns for dolls and pioneer-style clothing, which would have been perfect if I was any good at sewing. Which I&#8217;m not. I contacted her and asked if she could do a custom order, reducing her usual 1:12 dolls to 1:24 and clothing them for me, and she said yes! <\/p>\n<p>A couple of months later, the dolls are finished and she&#8217;s shipping them to me tomorrow. Here are the pictures she sent me while she was working on them. Pa is about 3 inches tall, which would be 6 feet in real life. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/little-house-cabin\/dolls1.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>Cute and creepy without hair! Ma&#8217;s eyes maybe should have been brown, but I wasn&#8217;t sure and couldn&#8217;t find a reference in the books. I knew that Pa, Laura, and Mary all had blue eyes. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/little-house-cabin\/dolls2.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>What a difference clothes and hair make. I asked for a blue dress for Mary and a red dress for Laura since that&#8217;s what they always wore in the books. The clothes are not removable. Pa&#8217;s beard turned out perfect!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/little-house-cabin\/dolls3.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>After seeing the finished dolls, I asked Laurie if she could braid the girls&#8217; hair. She did, and I think it looks great. I might add some embroidery floss &#8220;hair ribbons&#8221; to the ends.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/little-house-cabin\/dolls5.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/little-house-cabin\/dolls6.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/dollhouse\/little-house-cabin\/dolls7.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to get them into the cabin. Now I just need to find an appropriately sized baby Carrie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since completing my half scale Little House in the Big Woods cabin, I&#8217;ve been looking around for some dolls to put inside. Normally I&#8217;m not a doll person, but this house is modeled after the (fictional) Ingalls&#8217; family&#8217;s house and I wanted a (fictional) Ingalls family to put inside. Since my cabin is 1:24 [&hellip;]<\/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":[19,32],"class_list":["post-6133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dollhouses","tag-half-scale","tag-little-house-in-the-big-woods-cabin","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133","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=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}