jewelry boxes

Okay, I really need help remembering what in the hell these things are called….
There little ballerinas in jewelry boxes. You wind it up and they spin with music… It’s not a music box.. But what are these TYPE of box things call!?!? PLEASE HELP ME REMEMBER! >_<

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well it starts off with me about to take a bath. but its not in my bathtub or restroom. the bathtub is like one of those old white shallow ones with the four legs at the base. well anyway, i turn the nob, get undressed, then slip in. i put my headphones in my ears. pick a song, close my eyes then as soon as my ipod leaves my fingers onto the table beside the tub i hear like a sniffle. i freak and open my eyes an once i do im no longer in a restroom. im in like a desert outside, where the ground is cracked and gray. ugly. i look down into the water but its not water anymore either, it this black sticky tar looking stuff. i slowly stand up and im wearing clothes now, but im still cover in this disgusting fowl smelling gunk. i get out of this tub and start to walk. everything is dead. the sky is like black, depressing and hopeless [[i have a sort of odd obsession with the sky in reality so this really hit me hard in the chest when i see it]]. then i finally see a sliver of silver light in the horizon and i just start running to it but the more i run the farther it looks so i stop. then it just disappears, and its completely pitch black. then this LOUD purr of what sounds like a huge generator vibrates through the air and i turn around to see a single beam of light shining down on a woman, slender, and in a black tutu. a ballerina i guess. she starts to dance in place, spinning and moving her arms around. she reminds me of like one of those ballerinas in jewelry boxes. I get closer to her and see the black crap that im covered in is in her hair. like gel slicking her hair back into a bun. i get to the edge of where the narrow light meets the dark but i dont step into the light. but when i do that shes spinning and she very slowly stops. like in slow motion. then finally she freezes. and i stare at her. for a real long time, until i muster up the courage to step forward. but before my foot goes forward i stuck a deep breath in like im being strangled and i wake up.

nearly half way on the floor hanging off my bed. im guessing i scared myself wake by the sensation of me falling.

but i REALLY REALLY want to know what this means. i have really strange dreams, im just really lost.

any help?

please and thank you. ~♥
the ballerina girls skin looked powdered and polished, her face i couldnt really make out but her eyes were blue and that was all i could see of her. that and the outfit she was wearing. black corset, tutu but pink shoes, which were dirty.

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I’m looking for any information on the wind up music mechanisms which are found inside jewelry boxes (like the ones with the spinning ballarina inside), I would like to mainly know about the cylinder music mechanism (especially about how small you can actually get them, the length of time the tune it plays and its rate of rotation ie: to spin the ballerina) rather then the disc ones, any information would be greatly appreciated (I’ve come to my wits end on searching for more then a simple explination lol) Thanks :) Any websites, videos, books etc. would help, i just need to understand the physics behind a music box.
if you don’t know the answer, don’t comment.

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how many teenage girls still like those little wind up ballerina dancing music jewelry boxes? I LUV THEM! i got one today! what is your opinion on them for teen girls?

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how many teenage girls still like those little wind up ballerina dancing music jewelry boxes? I LUV THEM! i got one today! what is your opinion on them for teen girls?

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I would like to make my own jewelry boxes and want to have a tiny ballerina pop out but I do not know where I can buy them in bulk.

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Trying to find one of these for a little girl, but so far I’m seeing only jewelry boxes with ballerina figure inside, which is not what I want.
Thanks for any tips!

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