Daddy brought me a beautiful doll figurine as a gift—a geisha in a red kimono with a fan. Such dolls are placed as a talisman on Japanese ships.

Today I bought Ron Weasley from the “Harry Potter” series. I wanted to find Hermione and Harry, but they were already sold out. I’ll have to order online. And Ron is very nice and flexible; only his hair is styled.

Today, the second part of my gift from my husband arrived. This is a brand new Joy doll from the Kathe Kruse Kruselings series. It came as a set with two outfits – a New York schoolgirl and a fairy with wings. The set also included a booklet and a comb. Clothing of good quality, with finished seams. The designer of this beauty is Sonya Hartmann. The dark doll has very curly, long brown hair and brown inlaid eyes. The girl’s height is 23 cm, and she has fully articulated legs and arms. The box is designed with a forest fairy tale theme.

I’ll boast about my gift from my beloved husband—it’s a Jollina ballerina doll from Zapf Creation. Doll from 2008, not new. She is as tall as Paola. The most amazing thing is her mobility; she can assume almost any pose. She has drawn eyes and gorgeous light blonde hair. It was sewn in very neatly; the hair only straightened after washing and brushing. The original accessories included pointe shoes, a tutu, and a hair tie, but I received her in a non-original ballet leotard and colorful elastic pants.

Today, in honor of the holiday, Masha decided to give her classmates and teachers Valentine’s cards, so Mom had to work hard and make these hearts.

And now I was asked to decorate the hall in Valentine’s Day theme. It took a little longer here, but the result turned out to be beautiful and delicate.

Stumbled upon some very cute dolls from Mattel’s Harry Potter series today. They are shorter than Barbie, more like Skipper’s size. Ginny Weasley appealed to me the most. Cute ginger-haired articulated girl in Hogwarts school uniform with a wand and cloak. In the future, I plan to buy the remaining characters from this series.

We bought Anechka the last missing Disney Princess Ariel mini. The doll came with an extra dress and hair accessories. Now Anya has the whole set of mini princesses.

I searched long for an opportunity to acquire a younger sister for my Elena, Princess of Avalor. But it’s very difficult to find a doll with unmoldable legs separately from its sister for a reasonable price. But then I found a used set of Singing Sisters on eBay in good condition. So now I have two Elenas and one Isabel from Avalor. But the Elenas are also different from each other. The newcomer has a guitar and sings two little songs if you turn her wrist. The only drawback, in my opinion, is that her legs aren’t as pretty as my first doll, Elena. Also, there should have been a book with the dolls in the set, but they were only sold with the guitar.

And Isabelle is a very sweet, blue-eyed doll, shorter than Skipper, with articulated hands and wrists and rubberized feet. She has long black hair, but she uses a lot of hairspray on it.

Today I put together a small topiary from a “Creative Ideas” kit that our friends gave us. It included foamiran color templates that needed to be assembled, beads, and seed beads. I managed to finish the work in half a day. I planted a tree of happiness in a miniature pot because the plastic cup from the set got badly crumpled.

And I also made a frog keychain from a pixel art kit, because Masha has cooled off to this kind of creative activity for now.