Nisse's Personalities

Who are my Nisse's?

I needed to update my group's data base, so I will work up some of what I have observed so far.

Audrey:
Personality: Audrey is generally a quiet and thoughtful little girl.  She is calm and gentle in nature, but can tend towards taking charge of a situation.  She is the most logical of the children and often corrects them if she feels that they are wrong.  She likes order and routine and most of all, rules to be followed.  She is a neatnik, and very fussy about her hands being clean, even though her hair is always a tangled mess.
Likes: stories about princesses, poetry, tea parties, stormy weather, pretty pictures
Dislikes: messiness, sticky hands, games played without rules, loud voices.
Favourite Toy: Her doll
Favourite Book: The Princess and the Goblin
Favourite Foods: tea cakes, tarts, honey, vanilla ice cream, pudding
Gift: to read people's unguarded thoughts (however she is too young to understand most of what she reads).

Hamlet:
Personality: Hammie is a robust little boy full of a sense of adventure in his own little world, as he can tend towards insecurity very quickly.  He likes to tease the girls but mostly just because he wants to play with them.  Otherwise, he is often content to play by himself, lost in his own imagined adventures.
Likes: cowboys and indians, games without rules, pretend play and good adventure stories
Dislikes: having to take a nap, taking a bath and having to learn the alphabet. 
Favourite Toy: his collection of cowboys and indians
Favourite Book:  Wind in the Willows
Favourite Foods: french fries, hotdogs, corn and peppermint candy canes.
Gift: Hammie can find lost or hidden things without looking for them.

Pandora:
Personality: Although Pandy has been blind since birth, she is never hindered by it.  She is often bold and takes off in unknown environments to explore.  She is easy going and generally pleasant unless someone is rude to her.  She is more sensory in disposition and will often take her clothes off to feel the warmth of sunshine, sit in cool water when hot, wriggle into some very soft fabrics and be entranced by the smells of cooking and perfumes.  If a situation gets unruly or uncomfortable she will often pretend to be sleeping, but she is listening intently.  She is great at sizing up the direction an argument is taking and see points others have missed. She hardly ever argues, but will make comments about other's faulty logic.
Likes: stories about fairies and babies, soft fabrics and to take naps.
Dislikes: being bossed around, being asked to look at something, being forgotten.
Favourite Toy: A stuffed lamb (given to her by Audrey) because he is so soft
Favourite Book: Winnie the Pooh
Favourite Foods: pizza, strawberry ice cream, pretzels
Gift: Pandy can see without sight.  Her world is not dark as some might suppose, it is brilliant with colour and full of images as they are in the sighted world.  Her problem is depth and perspective, leaving her to have to feel to move around objects.

Zoelina (I thought her name was Zoe, I have been corrected!):
Personality: Zoelina tends towards mothering.  She worries and tries to keep everything in balance whenever she can.  Zoelina has a lot of little fears, mostly of the dark, of monsters and of getting into trouble.  She has a generous heart and often rescues animals and others from harm.
Likes: paperdolls, stories about animals, cutting up paper, making things, beads and dressing up
Dislikes: rough games, loud noises, adventures
Favourite Toy: her box of paperdolls
Favourite Book: The Borrowers
Favourite Foods: japanese food, rice and sushi, noodles, fish, chocolate cake and ice cream, chocolate candy
Gift: Zoelina can see the past.  Zoelina can often look dazed, but it happens when she is seeing something that already happened long ago and trying to re-orientate herself to the present.  Sometimes she frets over what she has seen, but she is getting use to it.  She often thinks of them as "stories" and will tell them to the other children.

 

Olwen:

Personality: Olwen is an older child, and "old soul" as some are called and far more of a serious nature than the younger children.  She is careful, meticulous and observant.  She tends towards reflection and consideration.  She reads a great deal (mostly romantic novels) and likes poetry to be long and just a bit wistfully sad.  Olwen has great longings, the unknown ones that comes with knowing that childhood will soon pass into something else.  She is frequently has crushes on people, often not realizing that they are longer on this earth.  She doesn't pursue her love affairs, she only dreams about them as any 12 year old would.
Likes: jewelry, books, drawing, embroidery, magic, forests, old fashioned clothing
Dislikes: trousers, running,
Favourite Toy: Her doll
Favourite Book: Anne of Green Gables
Favourite Foods: Olwen can't abide strong flavored foods and practically lives on buttered toast and gooseberry jam.  Rice, potatoes, pudding and fruit are eaten.  Olwen will not touch meat at all.
Gift: Olwen can transport herself back in time to a real place, a real moment.  She can only be an observer, cannot connect with the events she sees.  She doesn't have (or hasn't learned how to control where and when she goes back, but it seems for now to be one place, in the year 1823. 

Missing Indian

 

Pandora:  I come back from potty.

 

Zoe:  Hammie is being bad!  Hurry, Pandy!

Pandora:  MOVE!  You're in the way! 

 

 

 

  Hamlet:  I am NOT being bad!  You just took MY Indian!

 

 Audrey:  I didn't take your dumb old Indian!

 

Hamlet:  Then Zoe took him!

 

Zoe: OUCH!

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Picture added:

DZ Bodies

Although they all have the same body type, each one of my nisse children have very different body movements, ways that they pose and I have been marveling over it.

Audrey is a perfect poser.  She is smooth in her movements, holds poses well and can cuddle up in my hands. 

Hammie has less fluid movements.  He is more kicky, doesn't curl up as easily.  Wearing jeans does hinder his sitting down movements.

Pandora has hands that tend to cup inwards, giving her a ballerina look.  She curls up like a baby for sweet cuddling.

Zoe is poses well, stands good, but her head tends to fall backwards, but this may her her heavy wig.  She is not as stiff as Hammie and not as fluid as Audrey. 

All of them pose better than any resin BJD I have ever had, so this is not a complaint, but more of an observation of the differences which ends up being a part of their personalities.   I have been spending time recording their ways, their styles, the little quirks of each one.  It still amazes me that each one, in his or her way, just tugs at my heart.  I would have thought that one would stand out of the bunch, but each has such a strong unique personality.  I am loving the whole experience.

I have had a new issue come up and that is the cubby beds I had made up for them.  There is a metal rim across the barrier and one day I noticed that Zoe's head was bouncing on it!  With all the rumbling, bouncing and sometimes this can get to be severe enough to make me feel as though my liver is turning into pate.    So the children have been staying pretty much in the basket, which keeps them safer, but  doesn't give them much room to play.  Lately, I have been taking one out a day and spending the whole day with them.  I use either the "car seat" which is a hanging cup holder, or let them sit up on the ledge with a seat belt.  The tiny bungie cord is wrapped around the strap that holds down the CB radio and clasped in front:

Hamlet likes it when it is his turn to come up front!

Uh Oh.

 

Audrey:  PANDY!  You are going to fall down!

Pandora: I have to go potty.  I find it.

 

Zoe: Pandy can't see anything.  I will help her.

 

Audrey:  I think the potty pot is in the cupboard.  It might be locked!

 

Pandora:  Uh oh.

Audrey's Moment

 

In the right hand corner is my knee with my mouse resting on my leg. I am laying on my bed, on my side playing computer games.  It's a typical evening in the truck.  Husband is sitting in my seat eating dinner.  He'll soon set up his computer and sit there until bedtime.  Excuse my messy kitchen, I haven't cleaned up yet.  I took this picture because I wanted to get the hanging basket.  This is where the Nisses play during the day, usually the basket sits on the bed.  At night, when I sleep, I hang in on a hook that is on the side of Husband's top bunk.

 

 

 

  

Last night, when I went to lay on my bed, I saw that Audrey had gotten out of the basket and was laying on my pillow.

 

 

She had been missing me.  We've been such close companions and she was feeling a bit left out since Pandy and Zoe arrived.  I scooped her up, let her rest on my arm while I played my evening computer games and all was right with the world again.

 

Still just thinking about projects

I haven't had as much time for dolly play as I would like, but I have been letting the children take turns sitting with me. 

 

Zoe has really captured a wonderfully curious look, I just love how each one of my BB's are so different in looks and personality.  I love Zoe's grey eyes, the wig needs work, but if the one I ordered specifically for her ends up working better, I will see what to do at that point.  I see Zoe as more of a tomboy with a short hair cut, but these braids are so sweet too. 

I continue to totally engaged with Pandy.  I thought a sleeping/dreaming head would be boring, but this little one pleases me with her sweetness and surprises me with her very strong presence.  The pink tennis shoes are too much and I can believe that at my age, I am sqeeing as much as I am. 

I am working on plans for the trunk I received, trying to think of how to make it a playroom without ruining it for any potential future use.  I still sort of dream of a fine lady to have a trunk-house but I doubt I will ever find her.  Besides, the children are what keeps me smiling. I am thinking of making a mattress with a foam back to change the bed into a sofa, make a matching cushion for the wardrobe section and find a table that fits next to the sofa.  I did find a small wooden chest that can fit under the vanity that could hold the chamberpot.  I am keeping an eye out for a chest of drawers to fit inside too.  What I am not yet sure about is the "era" to work in.  Old?  Modern?  Scandinavian?  More of a nursery look?  Change the wallpaper?  What colour scheme?  It's all so delightful to consider.

In the meantime, I need to make more sweaters, scarves and mittens and when I am done with that, I really want to learn to make socks.