Showing posts with label doll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doll. Show all posts

Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Happy End

Don't we all like a good story with a happy ending ?



The other day, I found a doll in dire state...

Monday, 21 September 2015

Outside the box...


Pour la version française, lire ici

Sometimes a collector is facing a real dilemma... 


Not only about scarce storage space... or how to best preserve these precious and numerous 60s cardboard from humidity... but... but... 


Tuesday, 15 September 2015

Ready for their close-ups ?* III

*Alors,... photogéniques ? III 
(The 1970s-1980s)

For the 1940s-1950s see here and for the 1960s see here

I love to take photos of dolls at close range... It reveals different traits of their personality... Sometimes it even change or intensify the perception we can have of them...
Here more sample of my dolls (sorted by decades)...

J'adore photographier les visages de poupées... Cela en révèle parfois un peu plus sur leur caractère, leur personnalité ou la perception que nous avons d'elles... 
Voici un autre échantillon de mes poupées (par décennie)...


1970s
Années 70


Friday, 11 September 2015

Ready for their close-ups ?* II


*Alors,... photogéniques ? II 
(The 1960s)

For the 1940s-1950s see here

I love to take photos of dolls at close range... It reveals different traits of their personality... Sometimes it even change or intensify the perception we can have of them...
Here more sample of my dolls (sorted by decades)...

J'adore photographier les visages de poupées... Cela en révèle parfois un peu plus sur leur caractère, leur personnalité ou la perception que nous avons d'elles... 
Voici un autre échantillon de mes poupées (par décennie)...


1960s
Années 60






Friday, 26 September 2014

Ready for their close-ups ?* I

*Fin prêtes pour être immortalisées ? I 
(40s-50s)

I love to take photos of dolls at close range... It reveals different traits of their personality... Sometimes it even change or intensify the perception we can have of them...
Here is a sample of my dolls (sorted by period)...

J'adore photographier les visages de poupées... Cela en révèle parfois un peu plus sur leur caractère, leur personnalité ou la perception que nous avons d'elles... 
Voici un échantillon de mes poupées (par décennie)...


1940s
Années 40





1950s
Années 50


Monday, 6 January 2014

Miss Twist has a new Companion... (Episode 7)

   (*)

One of Miss Twist's friends has been sent to work in Peru for the next three years and she has asked Miss Twist to take care of her beloved dog while she is away...

It's all new ground for Miss Twist, as you will see...

Ladies & Gentlemen, let me introduce... Mirza !

Une amie de Miss Twist a été mutée au Pérou pour trois ans et elle lui a demandé de prendre soin de son toutou adoré pendant son absence... 

Miss Twist n'a pas beaucoup d'expérience avec les chiens, comme vous allez le constater...

Mesdames & Messieurs, laissez-moi vous présenter... Mirza !

Tuesday, 24 December 2013

Top Off your Tree !

An Angel or a Fairy... ?

If you are looking for some idea for the top of your Christmas tree, look no further...



Here is a
Tilt-Top Magazine exclusive
on what 
Mrs Emma Peel
&
Mr John Steed,
none less... 

... chose to top their tree off with... in 1965 !
...

Thursday, 31 October 2013

Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Miss Twist and the Pumpkin in the Vegetable Patch (Episode 5)

Miss Twist trouve une Citrouille...
(See here for / voir ici pour Episode 1Episode 2Episode 3 & Episode 4)

On the following day, Miss Twist decided to do some gardening and visited the vegetable patch...
Le jour suivant, Miss Twist, couverte d'une petite laine, alla faire un tour dans le jardin et dans le potager...


























On arriving there, she was struck by how much the pumpkins had grown !
Sur place, elle trouva que les citrouilles avaient beaucoup poussé !

Monday, 28 October 2013

Miss Twist in the Forest of Heartache (Episode 4)

Miss Twist a des regrets...
(See here for / voir ici pour Episode 1, Episode 2 & Episode 3)


Miss Twist's infatuation with Marin Sailor came to nothing (see Episode 3)...
L'histoire avec Marin Sailor (voir Episode 3n'aboutit malheureusement à rien...

Friday, 13 September 2013

House & garden ! Maison & Jardin

After a long break this summer, it's time to re-start this blog... and I have a question for you...

Does anyone know the maker of this all plastic living-room set ?



Here it is as in a complete set...

Sunday, 14 July 2013

Miss Twist sails to Love (Episode 3)

Les marins sont bien plus marrants...
(click on French title for song / cliquer sur le lien pour la chanson)
(See here for / voir ici pour Episode 1 & Episode 2)


Miss Twist has at last been enjoying the beach for a few hours. Her friends dropped her off there 
for the rest of the week-end and went on their way... She had a long awaited picnic lunch on the sand and is now lying down under the shade of a large parasol...
Miss Twist profite enfin de la plage depuis plusieurs heures... Ses amis l'y ont déposée pour le reste du week-end avant de poursuivre leur route. Après un léger pique-nique, la voilà allongée sur le sable à l'ombre d'un immense parasol...

Monday, 24 June 2013

Behind the illustrations (1976 Panini Album) I...

Update (January 2014) More details on the illustrations in a new post


Following the publication of this album and a question on Flickr by Foxy Belle, I looked more closely... Where the Barbie Panini Album 1976 got its inspiration from...



Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Minichou's false Return ? / Minichou, un faux Retour ?


I was lucky enough as a child to be offered one day the delightful Minichou/Pti'chou* doll by Gégé (in fact - I don't know why or even how - I got two of exactly the same one - Maybe both my grand-mothers had simultaneously the same idea ?... so I played with one a lot and as a result the other one is still in a very nice original condition...)
J'ai eu la chance, petite, de recevoir en cadeau l'adorable petite poupée Minichou/Pti'chou de Gégé (en fait j'ai même eu deux fois la même - je ne sais pas très bien ce qui s'est passé, peut-être mes deux grand-mères ont eu la même idée ?... Alors j'ai beaucoup joué avec l'une et l'autre est encore aujourd'hui dans un très bel état...)

1968 (My twins)
You'll guess easily...

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Miss Twist and Baso the Dog (Episode 2)

(If you haven't yet you can read here Episode 1)
(Vous trouverez ici l'Episode 1)



























Miss Twist and her friends have been welcomed in but as they were about to sit down for a cup of tea, they were invited into the garden to be shown a new feature and she discreetly stayed behind...
Après avoir été accueillis par leurs hôtes et alors qu'ils étaient sur point de prendre le thé, ils sont tous passés au jardin pour admirer un nouvel ornement... Miss Twist est restée discrètement en arrière...

Friday, 17 May 2013

Meet Miss Twist... (Episode 1)...



It's spring at last and Miss Twist is off for the week-end...
C'est enfin le printemps et Miss Twist part en week-end...

Sunday, 28 April 2013

Pink-Gingham (English version)

Pour la version française, voir article suivant...





When you hear Pink-Gingham... what does it make you think of ? 

In France, it immediately evokes Brigitte Bardot and the little dresses that she contributed to make fashionable in the 1950s... (Hang-on, you are thinking right now, this is not a blog about celebrity, isn't it ? Or even about fashion ? And if you do, you would be right, just read on and you’ll see...)

Tuesday, 16 April 2013

New Blog on the Block...


I have been building behind the scenes a whole website for the past two years now with all that it implies and I have finally decided that it should be just fine to carry on (or re-start and write new material) here on Blogger, so bear with me until I learn the ropes of this new tool... First of all transferring some of our website's original design features... And then writing my first post...



© Ysé & Stylb - Miss Twist (1963) and Miss Bonne Nuit (1957) by Peynet/Technigom



I don't know exactly where I am going with this blog yet... 
It should be all about vintage girl's toys with a twist but not only... Let us see...



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n'hésitez pas à me le faire savoir en commentant ci-dessous... 
Si la demande est suffisante, je me ferai bien sûr un plaisir de publier
tous mes textes en bilingue...