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[ewein2412]

This is my birthday present from Amanda.



Basically, in the war of The Diddy Things, she wins. Although Sara’s comment was, “You are both as bad as each other.”



It made not be as blindingly obvious to everybody as it is to me that these are the heroines of Code Name Verity. It all arrived in the mail yesterday and it was like the scene in A Little Princess where they open The Last Doll. The room was in CHAOS as we unpacked everything. “Oh!” cried Ermengarde, darting forward, “she has got an opera glass in her hand - a blue and gold one!” … only in this case it was a gas mask, or a pair of aviator goggles, or a row of hairpins on someone’s tiny pajama pocket, or seamed stockings…



I can’t possibly do any of it justice in a couple of photographs but I do need to point out that the coats and flying jacket are FULLY LINED, and the gas mask bags are exact replicas of the 1940 ones I bought for us off eBay, and there are pockets in the coats, and their duffle bags are printed with their surnames. Beneath their clothes they are wearing tiny undergarments which I won’t show you. (Bear in mind that Amanda is the woman who once made me a John Constantine doll complete with earring, packet of Silk Cut cigarettes, and a tattoo of a tree on his bum).





Amanda says she found the patterns on eBay and etsy… then she had to go and do all the same research that I did about the ATA and the WAAF and the Special Operations Executive. As a result of this project her 5 year old daughter now has Barbies, because as Amanda’s partner pointed out to her, “You can't play with them and not let her…” And she adds that there are some scary people out there if the websites for 1/6 scale war time items are any indiciation. "There are all these WAR men dolls and websites for grownups... that is where I found the goggles and the map bag.”

Comments

[jess-ka.livejournal.com]

That is beyond awesome. (I love this kind of stuff.)

[miladygrey.livejournal.com]

Oh, they are wonderful. And now I reallyreally can't wait to read the book!

[camille-is-here.livejournal.com]

Amanda is awesome. But I always knew that!

[estara.livejournal.com]

Belated happy birthday, first of all.

And after that I'm speechless.

O.O

Kudos to Amanda!

[sovay]

and there are pockets in the coats, and their duffle bags are printed with their surnames.

That's amazing.

I read about a Mabinogion retelling, I think of you: Fflur Dafydd, White Trail.

Happy late birthday!

tanita says:

[(Anonymous)]

Happy Birthday - goodness, what fabulous bits and pieces of awesome. I am terrified of collecting anything, because then I'd have to dust it, but this -- wow. I would be so charmed.

[tigertrapped.livejournal.com]

So amazing. And Happy Birthday! xx

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I love the umbrella, and the hairpins lined neatly in a row on the pocket of her pajamas.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I glanced over this post before and thought, "Wow, cool details," but now that I have read Code Name Verity I know how amazing and perfect and brilliant these dolls really are. So thrilled for you! I too have a friend who makes me dolls of my characters, and it gives me such joy just to look at them.