Obssession over props and in-scale objects.

I'm not a propaholic but I do have a couple. I haven't found any hairs for SD yet but that's the main type of prop I am looking for currently. Otherwise I have a guitar that I bought a few years ago (decoration), a few small candy boxes that were miniture since they were trial sized (I wanted the candy, free prop was a bonus ) and a few small plushies that decorate my bookshelves that work VERY nicely with dolls... That being said I love to watch for potential props or things to convert for dolls. I don't generally buy them but I like brain storming ideas to get options incase I want something in the future. I'd love a nice chair, tea set and mugs for my SD dolls and I would be prop happy for life.

Also things need to be relatively in scale for my doll family, msd looking small in a chair is fine, my msd are younger and that's normal. Some chairs are over sized or rather small in RL so as long as I can swing it realistically - I'm game.

 

I have noticed that American Girl is pretty much in-scale for SD. Yes, AG dolls are 18" tall which would be the big side of MSD but they are all kids. It's sort of like how a Mini Dollfie Dream is not a 1/4 scale doll but a 1/3 scale little girl. I just got my Obitsu boy another guitar, and the four of them a set of plates and mugs. It is perfectly in scale. Also a lot of the erasers coming out of Japan are perfect 1/3 size food. McDonalds Japan did a set of mobile phone straps, and those were also well-suited for Dollfie Dream which means they would probably be fine for most SD stuff. I do love getting in-scale stuffs for my dolls and am not fond of "scale fail."

 

I found an old thread about that with a link to AG appliances. Unfortunately, the link was old and they were sold out, but there was a stove and washing machine and all kinds of great stuff. It didn't seem terribly expensive considering the size either. I'm getting to the point where I really want to start accumulating more props/furniture/accessories so I can really start doing more in the way of photostories. I have almost all the people (finally), now I just need their stuff.

I do have a nice fiddle for Cait that came from a souvenir shop in Nashville, and an SD sized toaster for Liam from a dollar store (why they had a mini toaster is beyond me). But as he has no kitchen, there's not much I can do with it, lol.

 

Like someone said before my doll is a doll living in a human world. The only prop I'll get for him is a bed... and that is more because I want him to stay somewhere at nights. ^^'
Though I really want to make him a little room... gah, I can have both, right?

 

At first I didn't pay too much attention to doll props but I've been craving a chair hardcore lately. Other than that and some more stuffed animals, I'm not too interested in props.

I do have this really cute stuffed puppy from McDonalds (some build-a-bear promotional happy meal toy thing) that's great for my yo's.

 

I'm not a 'propoholic' or anything, but I will admit to having stolen a soccer ball off a Foosball table because its PERFECT MSD size. -_-U oh well.
But it does bug me when people use really random objects and call them 'props'. I can understand if they really tried, and its just a little too big or a little too small, but theres a limit to how crazy big/small something is before it just looks ridiculous.