Hi Doll Friends!
It’s been ever such a long time since I came to say hello. I’m so sorry to have been missing in action! It seems life has given me so many things to focus on that I just never do find the time to indulge in my doll hobby anymore. I always determine, at the outset of every week, to take doll photos or make a blog post. I even have it on my ‘to-do’ list! But invariably it seems to always get ‘bumped’ to the next week and now I’ve blinked and it’s been, what? A year? Yikes! Life sure does fly by!
So I am plunging in here with a post about some treasures I found during a recent garage sale and thrift store shopping spree. First, I found two of the Disney ILY dolls! One at a garage sale and one at a thrift store. Both just happened to have on Stitch costumes, which made me laugh and decide it was a ‘meant to be’ happening. The first of the two is Tiana. She had her hair cut but so well that I had to ask the little girl who was selling her if she had come that way? I love her short curls! I got her for only a $1! The next one I got I am not sure exactly who she is? I guess she must be Anna from Frozen but I’m not sure. Whoever she is, she is lovely. She needs to hair sorted because she had never been removed from her Stitch costume and probably just thrown in a toy box to be forgotten until she was donated to the local thrift, where I found her. She still had the plastic fasteners attaching the costume to her head, which is how I knew she’d never been removed from it. So I am hoping to get them both cleaned up and dressed in regular street clothes soon!
Next, I found a Wellie Wisher, I got her for $2.99 I think… she is the blonde hair and blue eyed one named Camille. She actually rounds out my Wellie collection other than the little boy named Bryant. She wasn’t wearing a stitch of clothing when I found her so I dressed her in a dress from one of my Heart for Hearts dolls. She looks so much more comfortable for having an outfit on but still needs a spa day to get her cleaned up.
Then I found a Madame Alexander 13inch Belle Doll still in her box. She was a total impulse purchase just because she is so pretty! She was only $5 and looked so lonely on the shelf at the thrift store I found her in. So before I knew it, she was in my shopping cart and headed home to the Doll House.
Last but not least I found a plethora of 18inch doll shoes and accessories at one of the Garage Sales. I noticed one or two of the items in a big toy bin and commenced digging thru the bin until I found every single accessory in there! The person having the sale let me have all of it for $5!! Such a steal!
So, that’s my recent treasures! My poor Dollies are all in like a cryogenic sleep but I plan to wake them up eventually. Luckily Dollies are patient and I have them safe from dust! Pray I find more doll time soon! I’m currently selling items I find at thrift stores etc. across four selling platforms in addition to my part time job and… while I find it fun it takes a lot of time. I’d like to say I’m selling some of my dolls or doll items but I just never can seem to want to part with them. To be fair to them, I really should allow some of them to go to homes where they will get more attention but… then I’d invariably miss them as I always seem to when I re-home a doll!
Better run!
Hope this finds you having a lovely day!
XXOO
Heather
