Babysitter Club Dolls

Hello Doll Friends!

I am seemingly on a roll lately with the vintage dolls and toys. I don't know if would exactly call the dolls I am about to show you vintage because they've come out since I was an adult... But some of you younger adults who played with these as children might think of them that way. Babysitter Club Dolls came out in the early 1990s and there were seven of them in the collection. If I recall correctly, they were about $40 each back then. I was a merchandiser for the toy department at Kmart in Hawaii at the time and I loved the dolls then, so I remember right I am pretty sure. I didn't get them back then... I didn't have kids and couldn't justify the cost of buying them just because I found them pretty.

Fast forward to about a year ago when I was telling my daughter about them because she had just read one or two of the books. I went to show them to her on Ebay and low and behold, I looked at exactly the right time because I found the entire set, all seven dolls, for $40 on a BuyItNow. I didn't even think, I just hit Buy. That is what one cost when they were new like 20years before! The whole set had never been played with, only displayed. They'd never been removed from their original clothes! Such an amazing find! So they arrived, my daughter and I oohed and awed and then we packed them up awaiting a spare moment to brush out their hair and photo them properly and introduce them to you! 

So, Doll Friends, it is my pleasure to introduce, the Baby Sitter Club Dolls!

And one by one, I will introduce them in alphabetical order... 

Please meet Claudia!

Dawn

Jessica

Kristy

Mallory

Mary Anne

And Stacey! 

So that is all the whole set! Tune in next time for an introduction between Babysitter Club Dolls and American Girl, TollyTots and Hearts for Hearts dolls at an amazing game party!! 

Thanks for stopping by! See you next time I hope!

Vintage Toy Kitchen for 18" Dolls!

My children's Grandma, my husbands mother and Mom of my heart, when she built her House of Dreams (the house she waited 35 years to have because she was a military wife) she made a room just for my two kids. Her Little People she called them, and it was a magical room, filled with toys and books and games from both her and my husbands childhood. When she passed away and the house was being sold, I was asked if I might like any thing special to remember her by... I chose a few things, her favorite robe, her scarf collection, a favorite quilt and the toy kitchen I am about to show you. So, as you may imagine, I love it. LOVE IT. I love it because it was Moms, at her house for the kids and that my kids played with it when they were little bitty and I love that it just so happens to be correct scale for another thing I love, 18" dolls. I love that I will be able to use Mom's kitchen in my little doll blog. I have had so much fun taking photos of it with the dolls!

It's marked on the side "Mfd by Wolverine Supply and Mfg. Co. Pittsburgh PA"

So I also love that it was made in America! Very cool!

As you can see, the door has printed on grocery items in the door.

And it's very much a mirror to the real appliances they had at the time. Refrigerators, or ice boxes as my own grandmother would call them, used to be much shorter.

The stove is also very accurate. If you look on the top left "burner" is what looks like a pan lid printed on it but it's not supposed to be a pan lid. Stoves in this era had a kind of slow cooker built in to the stove that was recessed into the stove. So that is what that I supposed to be.

So much fun to put it all together with the dolls!!

 

Thanks for stopping by! See you next time!!