Growing Girlettes

iPhoto labeled a batch of photo "Memories" GROWING UP. Entirely their invention.
How did they know to chose the photo of Racer with her underpants on her head? Along with Minnie Sutherland here, she went of live with Sarah of Circles of Rain in London where they didn't grow up--but they did get more sophisticated (though suitably little-girl) clothes.

BELOW: Here they are with Sarah's girlette pod in the Halloween costumes she made them last year (photo borrowed from her blog--you can see many more terrific Halloween photos there):
Racer in the skull cap, second from left, and Minnie in the red dress and bat/cat ears is second from right.
The most excellently named AMF is the pumpkin. Sarah wrote, "She is called AMF because she arrived in the box of an Adjustable Milk Frother."

 

 It's warm this weekend--I have opened the window to set the smelly batch of dolls in the windowsill. After a vinegar bath and a baking soda spa, they are already smelling much better.
Hopefully the fresh air will blow away the lingering dank odor.

They fly to Fiona in Berlin on Monday! All except Stripe, the Orphan Red Doll (far left), who lives here now.
Good thing they were cheap to buy (even counting the cost of vinegar & baking soda) because they will cost a fortune to mail.