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[dollcommercials]

Jewel Hair Mermaid Barbie Commercial (1996)

[dat2ndaccount97]

Behold, a *nearly* PERFECT Barbie. I say nearly only because her hair needs extra care to not become a matted, tangled mess that sheds like crazy, and her hair is just a tad too long imo but that 2nd one's a me thing. Otherwise 10/10 perfect dolly

[oatmilk-earlgrey]

Someone made them look like vampires!!!!!

[dolligrafik]

Transylvanian Families

[azurele]

*packing my suitcase for a 3 day trip* hm, but what if I need my terracotta warriors..

[goobersplat]

Barbie 1992 Tag Along Wags Puppy Dog

[the-red-ring-of-death]

how i saw this thing for a solid 10 seconds

[undergroundrot]

A Victorian dollhouse, late-1800s

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

this looks sturdier than most real houses built in the last 50 years

[dollsahoy]

Here's my first try at the motorcycle jacket pattern from Doll Coordinate Recipe Vol. 5, accidentally printed in Barbie size as detailed here (which is fine because I was intending it for a Barbie anyway, it's just a little generous on her)

I acknowledge that it's not perfect, both to let people who might criticize me for its mistakes know that I know I made mistakes and it's fine, and also so people who might look at it and say, "No, you're wrong, there are no mistakes here" can maybe consider looking past the mistakes in things they make and say "It's fine."

The decorations are motifs cut from two different fabrics and adhered to the polka dot cotton with fusible webbing

Now to figure out the rest of the clothes for this doll

[dollsahoy]

How it started

I did interface the collar and lapel facings

The fiddliest part:

not only because that's a slashed opening at that scale (I didn't face it, but did use fusible webbing to hold the folded/pressed edged in place), but also because I stubbornly interlocked those zipper teeth by hand, because I wanted to leave the rest of the zipper still functional (and with the bottom stop in place), which meant only using the unzipped parts above the pull. And then I had to remove all of the zipper teeth at the ends, so they wouldn't be in the seam allowance; this was done by clipping them off with sprue cutters.

Here it is once I got all the parts assembled and ready to sew together

I used some deep stash items for this!

[drawmyhearton]

Her hair is so sooooooft 😍

I didn't mean to straighten her bangs though. I just wasn't careful while doing the boil wash 😅

[drawmyhearton]

Oh is that kanekalon? :o

[dolligrafik]

I'm... pretty sure that Hula Hair Barbie has kanekalon – or at least every played-with messy-haired instance of the doll I've ever seen did; doll-grade kanekalon gets matted in a very specific-looking way... unless they made versions of Hula Hair with both kanekalon and saran? Like they did with the Sparkle Beach dolls? IDK. I can't fully tell by looking if the doll in this video clip has kanekalon that's in good condition, or saran. I assumed kanekalon because as far as I know, Hula Hair has kanekalon. It can be conditioned and straightened to feel very soft and silky. I've definitely performed some miracle revivals on matted messes.

[drawmyhearton]

Her hair is so sooooooft 😍

I didn't mean to straighten her bangs though. I just wasn't careful while doing the boil wash 😅

[dolligrafik]

Hanging out at the sculpture park

[otterloreart]

Investigating Miniatures

I've been saving a lot of miniature images as reference lately, and thinking about miniatures. I quite like miniatures, and their popularity is on the rise... but I can't help feeling annoyed every time I see a lot of them, because so many "mini brands" toys are literally just cardboard boxes. You could print them yourself! In fact, websites exist that have old printables.

The first one I found has a section linking to other websites. I went to its home page and its entirely AI images, so I won't endorse the main site in general. It links to a lot of older pages though- it looks like maybe this site was taken over by someone recently, but still has old webpages linked (I'm talking 1999 old). Heres some horrible AI trash:

One of the links is to Small Stuff's Print Mini, which has a great gallery of free printables. Most of these are in the vein of older/vintage objects, including tube TVs/monitors and are not branded. Here are some of my favorites so far:

Morandi Sisters Micro World is in Italian and English, the site features printable wallpaper, floor, and decorative objects as well as sections on how to create DIY modeling clay. Last updated in 2013.

Custom Dolls, Houses, Miniatures (2010) has a whole bunch of PDF printables on this page, as well as links to other pages. MANY of those links don't work, but you can use them to find live pages- like MuffaMiniatures Etsy, which is still active and sells patterns!

Hitty Print Mini is a site now only accessible by the wayback machine. A lot of the pages are broken, but there are some available printables that are pretty cute. They're sized for a slightly bigger doll. I like the pet-themed printables and the books too.

Jennifers Printables is one of the most cohesive, still-in-existence sites I've found. It says it was founded in 2001, but the date at the bottom of the page is 2021, so it still might be a bit out of date. But theres TONS of cool stuff on here. I like the grocery sections, and the history information they include on the pages

Just some interesting resources. I don't want to link to sites that seem majority focused around selling things, but there are absolutely more free printables online. It's becoming harder to source these, too, because there are a lot on google images but link to pinterest or something.

Anyone else have any good sources? I'm interested in seeing gaps in what is available,too.

[dogsigil]

Pinterest is a really good resource for this, just searching "miniature printables" or "dollhouse printables" will come up with some good scans.

I will plug my own miniature pinterest board which does have SOME printables on it.

900+ PERSONAL// 1:12 SCALE ideas in 2026 | doll house, dollhouse miniatures, miniature crafts

Mar 28, 2026 - Explore Alex Smith's board "PERSONAL// 1:12 SCALE" on Pinterest. See more ideas about doll house, dollhouse miniatures, minia

Canva has lots of templates for making your own I understand, both paid and free. I'm sure there are YouTube tutorials as well.

[dogsigil]

Better links now that I'm not actively working:

My favorite tutorial for getting printables to look good:

https://lifeinmini.com/high-resolution-printing-miniatures/?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=organic

Good old MyFroggyStuff printables (1/6 scale, but can be scaled, they are also copyright free or "frog-brand"):

https://myfroggystuff.blogspot.com/p/printables.html

AND her other technique using magazines and paper advertisements:

Quick Youtube search gave me:

Love Alphastamps for ephemera in general but they have some digital printables as well as physical sheets. Great mini store with great sales too:

https://alphastamps.net/collections/types?q=Collage+Sheets

Nonomininostalgie has several printables and tutorials, just google translate the page from French:

https://nonomininostalgie.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_3968.html

Free boxes, papers, Christmas stuff and sewing supplies:

https://dee-dawdesigns.com/downloads/

Whole page of projects, many which include printouts:

https://joannswansondiyminiatures.blogspot.com/

Site has a whole bunch of printables and projects, google translate from Finnish. She also has books that are for sale, I just don't think I can get them as an USAmerican:

https://maria-malmstrom.blogspot.com/

Artisans In Miniature (AIM) emagazine archive will have printables and tutorials:

http://www.artisansinminiature.com/photo_2.html

Mi Minimundo is in spanish (sometimes) but has TONS of tutorials in general and several printables:

https://heloise-miminimundo.blogspot.com/search/label/Imprimibles

A few holiday themed printables:

https://minifanaticus.blogspot.com/p/miniature-printables.html

French page but various food printables:

https://miniatursite.e-monsite.com/pages/imprimables/

1/6 scale breyer stuff and a great bagged salad tutorial:

https://lastalliancestudios.blogspot.com/search/label/printable

https://lastalliancestudios.blogspot.com/2019/07/diy-miniature-salad-tutorial.html

Lilliput Homes has some printables in German:

https://www.lilliput-homes.de/bastelb%C3%B6gen-mini-verpackungen-und-zubeh%C3%B6r/

[otterloreart]

Wow so many links, thank you!

Also, @sylvaniancritter mentioned in the comments they have a gumroad with mini labels and book covers! Original post where they link it here.

[dollsahoy]

THIS IS HOW WE PLAY WITH DOLLS

[dollsahoy]

I’m playing with my toys again

[dolly-blog-moment]

Starting a collection

[drawmyhearton]

i know why you would boil a doll head, but what's up with the toaster oven?????

[dolly-blog-moment]

I think the poster said they were making clothes for their custom out of clay so they’re baking the clay on the doll? Never seen this method done before

[dolligrafik]

And here in the candid section, we've got this snapshot taken mid-faceplant.

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Standing on a monolith!

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These small abstract sculptures at a park look like big sculptures for the dolls 😄

[dolly-blog-moment]

The dollblr tag is for posting about dolls (bjd, Blythes, fashion dolls, customs, etc.) please don’t use it for unrelated aesthetic posts

[dolligrafik]

At least when you're looking for doll hobbyist posts on tumblr, you're not getting quite as weirdly jumpscared with AI doll "content" like you get on Instagram.

I do wish we had more dedicated tags on tumblr though, tags like "barbie" and "dollblr" tend to get flooded by spam of pin-up photos of conventionally attractive human women. Or that damned AI imagery (I blocked soooo many AI spam accounts while searching for "generation girl barbie" one time. They had nothing to do with Generation Girl Barbie. I think the search just thought that "generation" meant I wanted AI-generated pictures of... "girls" that "look like Barbie" 🙄😣

But, I mean, when you actually find actual doll hobbyist accounts posting pics of their dolls and dioramas and creations, that stuff tends to be pretty AI-free on tumblr. On Instagram, it looks like at least half of the actual real doll hobby people are putting their own footage through AI shit and making "videos" of it where the dolls "move", or that really creepy unsettling FaceApp toothy smile, or adding AI backgrounds instead of perspective/scale trick photography to make the dolls look in scale with real backgrounds, or instead of building dioramas, or instead of editing in the backgrounds themselves...

Actual hobbyists using AI instead of engaging with their actual hobby 😭