My favorite pirate, Captain Jack Sparrow Johnny Depp Pirates of The Caribbean 17” doll LE3000 from 2007, arrived today. He arrived at my place secondhand, without a hat, bandana, or pistol, and one of his belts broke right on him. But that’s fixable, and I’m happy that such a dashing man will spice up Toner’s ladies’ company.

Today at the Wurden flea market, I found and bought some interesting dolls: a Sindy Soft Body doll from 1995, a school set, and two Barbie Little Friends babies—a boy and a girl, a retro Barbie Little Friends baby, and a Babysitter Skipper set with three triplets holding on for hugs. Overall, I really got lucky visiting the market this year.

At the doll and doll miniature exhibition, I bought a custom Blythe doll imitation, a small articulated custom doll in the style of Anne Shirley, an unidentified Kelly baby doll with a short haircut, a Barbie Little Friends doll with violet eyes, another Headley from the 12 Dancing Princesses, an unidentified Barbie possibly from the Holidays series with cut hair, a Barbie California girl from 2004-2005, a Barbie with the Fairytopia Wonder Fairy Joybelle Hada Azul 2004 mechanism, and an unidentified retro Stacy doll.

Following instructions from the internet, I crocheted a small elephant amigurumi.

I’ll brag today about my gift from dear friends—it’s a Barbie in honor of the popular contemporary artist Keith Haring.

I knitted a combat little dragon talisman for a dear childhood friend, our defender and warrior of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This is also my second gift dragon, because the first one burned down in occupied Mariupol. I believe that this little warrior will protect and save his master, and he will return alive and unharmed.