My Famosa Nancy Collection So Far...

Greetings and Salutations Doll Friends!

I've been working on making posts about various collections of dolls  I have in the Doll House. One of my favorite but also one I realized recently I don't pull out very often, are Famosa Nancy dolls. 

I've done several posts about them in the past... Here's a list in no particular order if you're curious starting with one about how I found my very First Famosa Nancy Doll from eBay!

Then there are:

Famosa Nancy Snow White Doll

Famosa Nancy Model for Madame Alexander Vintage Dress

Famosa Nancy Wearing a Rainbow Wig

For whatever reason though, for the last little while, they haven't made it off the shelf. So I decided to pull them out and show my current collection. I posted in the blogs listed above where I got each of them all except one and I am reasonably certain the last one I got was also from a thrift store. 

I think they have the cutest faces!! They can wear Journey Girls shoes almost like they're made for them... They are a tiny bit big but not so big that they fall off. They stand very well both in shoes and out of shoes. That's one thing I love about them, how sturdy they are on their feet. A lot of people might not like their hard plastic legs but for what it's worth, I think that is the reason they stand so well. 

Here they are with one of my new Adora Dolls to show you how they are, size wise, compared to 18inch dolls. They make great sisters or friends I think. 

They have the prettiest eyes! Have you ever seen a Famosa Nancy in your travels or on eBay? Maybe you have one of your own in your collection? If so, I'd love to see her!! 

Better run, my family is needing dinner cooked. 

Till Next Time!
XXOO 

Heather 

More Pretty eBay Dresses For About A Dollar!!

Greetings Doll Friends!!!

As I've mentioned in previous posts here and here and here in the past, you can often find 18 inch doll dresses on eBay for about a $1.00 each including shipping if you know what you're looking for. I hadn't browsed in a while and when I did recently, there were a few styles of dresses I'd not seen before. Fun!!

So following my regular routine of how I get dressses so inexpensively, I bid on a lot of them and ended up with a few at great prices. Crazy how sometimes you can get a dress for about a dollar and the next minute the same dress will sell for like $4.00 or more! Oftentimes you can find the exact same dresses or outfits on Amazon for around $10.00 too so it just goes to show that you should always dig for the best deal!

The burgandy dress Beth (Gotz) is wearing above was only like 26cents!! It's really pretty!! I have a pink version of the blue one and was stoked to get another in blue. 

There are several prints of both this sleeveless 'mermaid' hem dress (I think that's what it's called?) and the long sleeved version that could also be used as a nightgown I think. These styles both have zippered closures in back which I love, especially in silky material because velcro snags it and ruins it eventually... They are made really well especially considering the price!!

When the pretty dresses arrived the girls couldn't wait to try them on and have a tea party!!

Again, I need to iron... 

Here they all are, having tea!

Noel (My Life As) decided to run and try on the pink one to go with Cat's (LOTUS) blue one. This dress has a veclro closure... Still, it's super cute on. 

As you can see, I paid around a $1.00 to $1.25 for each of them, including shipping! So totally amazing!!

I also bought a few of these body suits (above) which are like leotards (I had to put some pants on her! Modesty!) 

I also got this great "SuperGirl" Dress... Although, as you can see, the S is on backwards and then the sticker came off all together!! Oy! Luckily, at least, the dress wasn't damaged by the sticker so I plan to find another S for Superman to put on there. I got the BDUs (Battle Dress Uniform) because both of these dolls are Doppleganger dolls of friends of mine who are in the US Army. So I had to have uniforms for them!

Here is a photo of my last round of inexpensive eBay dresses... I am getting quite a collection! So... Go look for some dresses on eBay for your dollies! You're bound to find something cute and for a great price if you just look!

Till next time!

XXOO
 Heather

Vintage Suzanne Gibson Reeves International 16inch Vinyl Lucy LocketDoll

Greetings Doll Friends!

So, as you know, I do a lot of 'research' on eBay to find obscure vinyl play dolls... I play with the search engines in all sorts of ways to see what will come up. Well, recently, I found some beautiful dolls created by doll artist Suzanne Gibson via Reeves International in the 1980s. She made a couple of different sizes, 8inch and 16inch and they were based on Nursery Rymes. Now that I have found them, naturally I want one of all of them but I had to start with my favorite of what I found. 

Meet Lucy Locket!

I got her on eBay as a BuyItNow for only $30 including shipping! Such a steal really!

Her face is so pretty!

She came in her original box from 1985 and even had the layaway ticket from the original purchaser. Someone went in and dutifully made payments on this beauty to the tune of $74.95 in 1985. Wow! I got her for less than half that thirty years later. Crazy. Cool but crazy.

Her costume is adorable! Top notch all around!

She is constructed very much like a porcelain doll. I often times say that vintage collector dolls made in vinyl would be great play dolls but in this case, I am going to say that isn't really the case. I mean you COULD play with her like a play doll but she doesn't have poseable limbs and her chest plate might be awkward for playtime.

She is very well made though. Her vinyl is nice quality, not shiney or brittle. It feels almost like porcelain to touch and I can see how a person might mistake her for an actual porcelain doll. I am not sure if I've mentioned it but I have a sort of dislike of porcelain dolls... Just not my thing. But I love Lucy (Ha! Play on words!) all the same. I would play with idea of inserting an armeture in her that she might be able to pose better but it'd make me nervous and I don't want to mess her up... So we will see. 

Here is the back of her. Her legs and arms are held into her body with zip ties.

Here are the markings on her chest plate back. I thought it was cool that it's stamped 1973. That's the year after I was born. Cool!

This kind of freaked me out. It looks like the glue that held the chest plate on gave out from age... Her head seems pretty secure anyway though so... I'll maybe add glue to help once we get moved. 

Isn't she gorgeous!!?? I love her! The next girl one I get will be the dark haired Miss Muffet I think. They all have same face mold but it's such a pretty one I can see wanting several. Teehee...

Here she is with Zoey, my Sasha Doll. They will be able to share clothes along with the HeartForHearts and other 14-16inch dolls we have in the doll house. 

Here is her original tag. Note the price on it from 1985. 

I think it's so interesting, the history of doll artists. I found this website about Suzanne Gibson dolls:

Suzanne Gibson Dolls

Her hair came with the original bobbie pins holding the pin curls in shape and a rubber band holding the little pony tail. The rubber band disintigrated like most do after 30 years and so I picked it all out of her hair. I was a bit nervous take out pins but it just looked so 'uncomfortable' and I figured why not... She looks so pretty with them out! I don't ever plan to 'brush it out' and will just keep the pretty pin curls in there. 

Gorgeous!

PS Notice I said "if/when I get another girl one from Suzanne Gibson."? Well... That is because I found this handsome fella on eBay for an absolute song (he was less than $20 including shipping!) and I had to adopt him for the Doll House brothers! He is on the way... He will be here soon, I hope. They haven't marked him as shipped yet even though it's been over a week. So I am hoping he's just enroute and they forgot to tell they shipped. Always makes mail time exciting! Haha!

He is Hansel from Hansel and Gretal (spell?) My daughter says she 'hates his outfit' but I honestly think the little shirt will look cool and modern if I make him some appropriate trousers. The shoes I am going to steal for my girl dolls because how cute are those! So... Stay tuned for posting about Hansel's arrival soon!

That's it for now!

Till next time!
XXOO