Jul 17, 2025
My enormous house panther making friends.
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My enormous house panther making friends.
Finally all done! These dresses took me about three days each.
You've met Chenyu (left, silver eyes) and Chunlan (right). Center is their cousin, Paige.
I was ten when the American Girl of Today line was released. #4 and #6 drew my attention early on. #6 wasn't around long before she was changed to be blonde and green-eyed, so now 6.1 is very hard to find and very expensive when you do find her. (Though this last two weeks I have seen two of them in Facebook groups - for much more money than I wanted to spend.)
Paige is not an official 6.1. I made her using a 1995 Samantha as the base, and the wig and eyes from a pre-Mattel Pleasant Company #4. So she does have authentic parts, only instead of being assembled in a factory in 1995 she was assembled in my kitchen in 2025!
I always thought 4 and 6.1 looked enough alike to pass as siblings or cousins. When I was writing out their character backgrounds in my head, they fell into place for me on their own. (I don't intend to write any official stories. I just really wanted background to feel connected to them as characters in their own right, rather than just "dolls I liked as a kid.")
One more dress to finish the set so I can debut one more doll, but I seriously cannot get over how different they look when the *only difference* is their eye color!
Today's dolly mail was a mix of AG and non-AG. For AG stuff, I got Chunlan the undershirt for the Chinese New Year outfit, since she didn't have that when she arrived.
I also got a PC Meet necklace for Molly, shown here in comparison with the reproduction I ordered a week or so before. There's nothing wrong with the repro, just that it's obviously bigger; I'm thinking of asking Middle if she wants it for her Molly.
These two were also in today. They were made in a mission village in China - the seller's note card says they were purchased in 1981 so they're older than I am. The red one is going to a fellow Discord member for her Ivy, and the blue one is for Chunlan. They're about 7.5" tall, a little bigger than the AG small dolls but still a good size for a doll's doll.
And this is just ridiculously cute. I haven't decided yet if the little doll will get a Chinese name or an English one.