A couple of weeks ago, over on Facebook, I lamented missing out on a lovely miniature chair (the very one pictured below) from online vintage emporium Winter’s Moon.

I thought it would make the perfect doll’s seat. But someone snapped it up whilst I was actually browsing it, but before I could get my card out.

Astoundingly, my whingeing roused the power of t’interweb to spring into action…

A lovely lady, whom I had neither met nor spoken with before, commented that she had one just like it in her loft – and moreover, she would be happy to send it to me!

We agreed to a swap (her mini chair for one of my mini moggies)… and the deal was done.

So I sent off moggy, and yesterday, as you can see below, I became the proud owner of the perfect miniature chair for dolly display purposes!

Great timing, as the doll I just completed is the perfect fit to sit on it…

Polly Pink’s hair is made from some amazingly-coloured wool I thrifted just last weekend.

I can’t imagine what anyone might have wanted to knit from it, but as a hair colour it seemed perfect.

Unfortunately her tresses have come out a bit orange in my photos, but in real life the colour is a tad less tangerine and smidge more of a bright, salmony-peachy-verging-on-the-edge-of-fluorescent-y, coral pink.

The colour initially made me think of Frenchie in Grease.

Although when I looked her up, Frenchie’s hair was actually nowhere near that colour…

However, the colour seemed to me to scream beehive... and I set to work.

But, like a beauty school dropout, I messed it up. Having cut my strands too short and started sewing them all wrong, I cut my losses, changed my mind and instead of a beehive ended up with a bob. Not unlike my own experiences at the hairdressers.

Feeling I’d let myself down a bit, I made a simple shift dress trimmed with a few sequins…

And then, because I still wasn’t satisfied, and it’s actually a bit parky to be swanning around in a summer frock, and because I had some fabric that looked just right with that hair, I decided to make her a coat.

I just wish I could make myself a full-sized one of these…

I found the perfect tiny vintage buttons in my tin…

Much better!

And more seasonal. The perfect spring outfit, in fact.

Another bit of wardrobe (not to mention weather!) wish-fulfilment. Which is nice…

But I’m still hankering for a pink beehive. ♥