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Hello and welcome back to a new post on the Travelling dolls series, a series where I take my dolls with me on trips and talk a bit about the places that I visit. This is the third post of this series, and so far you seem to enjoy these type of posts.  This year I won't have any holidays from work until September, so we weren't planning to travel this summer. However, it turns out that there were two days of bank holiday falling on Thursday and Friday, so we had a nice mini-holiday of 4 days. This is long enough for a quick escapade to somewhere that isn't too far away. So, we picked Teruel, which is roughly 3 hours drive from where we live. Teruel is the capital of the province of Teruel, Aragón. Teruel is well known for its gastronomy, being very popular the ham from there (jamón de Teruel). It's also well known for it's beautiful towns and the mudejar style buildings that still remain ( Read more about Mudejar architecture  in this article from UNESCO ) . We do ...

And, before you know it, it's already September.  I'm so glad that summer and the unbearable heat are going away, and it's finally time for fall, my favorite season. To kick-start the month, let's do a Photo compilation of the photos I've been sharing on Instagram these past two months.  Let's start with two photos that I took during our trip to Vielha, but didn't include in the post. First, this photo of Chloe during our excursion to the Uelhs deth Joèu and Artiga de Lin. I took it at one of the very first spots we found, and I love the result.  Also, this photo of Victoria that I took in the Carlac forest.  Most of the photos I shared these past two months I have already shared on the blog, but I have a couple of "extras" that didn't make the final post. I took this back when I wrote the Room in a bookcase post but didn't include it in the final post, so I edited it for Instagram.  Similarly, I had photos from the "limewash effe...

Hello dolly friends and welcome to a new post from the Travelling Dolls series, a series in which I talk a bit about the story of the places I've visited with the company of my dolls. Last year I wrote the first post in this series when we travelled to Albarracín  and I loved having the chance to talk about a place in Spain that maybe isn't as well known to people from other countries. You also seemed to find it very interesting, so I thought it would be interesting to do it again. When we thought about travelling this summer, first we considered going to Vienna, but international travelling is getting so expensive, so we decided to stay in Spain again. Pretty much like last year, our criteria were to find somewhere that is cooler than our hometown, isn't too crowded and that has yummy food. So, after a lot of debating, Mr. Monster suggested Vielha, in the province of Lérida, Cataluña. Vielha, also spelled Viella, is located in northern Spain, very close to the borderline ...

Hello again! Can you believe it's July already? Where does time go? I have done nothing of what I had planned for before July! Like every other month, it's time for another Photo compilation , the series where I share all the photos I've posted on Instagram, and tell you a little backstory about them, and even sometimes share some behind the scenes photos (once in a blue moon, actually).  Let's start with my favorite photos. I took these photos back in April, during the Easter break, in a nearby town.  Last time we visited this town, I mentioned how cool it would be to take photos there, so on a day off we had, we went back with dolls. It's a residential area that is far less busy than downtown, and it has some parks in between the houses. The parks aren't very nice, but I still managed to take this photo of Chloe, which is my favorite.  I like the result of outdoor photos, especially when it looks like the doll is out there in the real world, but they can be a ...

Hello again! Welcome to my 7th post this year and 200th post overall. Today, as every other month, we're doing another Photo compilation, where I share all the photos I've taken for Instagram but haven't been published on the blog before. Today's post comes out a bit later than usual, as I've been quite busy with school, but I've also had some family events to attend that have taken up most of my spare time. Let's start this compilation with a photo that I took back in February, but didn't share on my last photo compilation . If you read that one, you know I took this photo at a lovely little nook I found by the beach. I posted this one in March, but I usually share all the photos of the same "batch" together, even if one of them was published in a different month. However, for some reason I forgot to include this one. Remember my last doll review ? Well, thinking that that doll had a petite body, I wanted to take photos with her and the vitili...

Hello dolly-friends and welcome back to another Photo compilation , the series where I share all the photos that I shared on Instagram and other social media during the previous two months. For some reason, it's March already, which means time to share the photos from January and February.  As some of you know, my ring light broke, and I had to repair it, and also in January I got sick and had to do a lot of catching up with school. Because of all of this, I didn't publish any new photos during January. In fact, most of them are from the same photoshoot, and I've just been spreading them through the month of February.  Back in early February, I had quite a relaxed week at school, so one Saturday I asked Mr. Monster if we could go somewhere to take some outdoors photos. We didn't have any clue on where to go, so we decided to try to go to this beach area that has lots of rocks, since we thought it would be quiet. We know the area, but we aren't super familiar with it...