New Custom Battat Little Friends 15Inch Boy Doll!

Happy Friday Doll Friends!!

Where do the weeks go? Seriously. So recently I've been on a bit of a 'smaller doll' binge with the Style Girls, Wellie Wishers, Bumbleberry Girls and other 14 inch dolls capturing my attention. I am not sure how many of you are aware, but the recent Glitter Girls by Battat are not their first attempt at younger sibling type dolls. In the early 2000's Battat released a 15inch doll line called Little Friends of which I own two. They are more like the Bumbleberry Girls than any of the other current 14 inch dolls in that they have a soft torso. Recently, I aquired a 14inch doll sized boy wig for free (a shipping error happened with the brown haired one I purchased and so they sent me a freebie for my trouble! Awesome, right?). So.... Who to convert to a boy doll?

Battat Little Friends and Battat 15inch are two of my saved searches on eBay. You know, for research. Teehee. Anyway, about the day I got the boy wig what shows up in my searches but this little dolly right here. 

Before I even thought I snatched her up with a mind of making a Battat Little Friends Brother doll out of her. She was already wearing boy clothes! (Minus the bag) 

Here she is the day she arrived. Her hair was a mess which always makes me feel less bad about chopping it all off and throwing it in the bin! 

And Tada! Another boy doll was born! The blonde to his right is one of my other Little Friends named Stephanie. She's now his twin sister and so I am playing with the idea of naming him Stephen adn calling him Steve...? What do you think?

I posed them with one of the current Battat Glitter Girls named Keltie (I still haven't renamed her from her factory given name and it's starting to grow on me...). They are kind of distant cousins afterall, all being Battat dolls. Aren't they cute in the Doll House I got from Sam's Club recently?

They decided to take a little walk....

Off they go...!

And back already!

Time for a snack!

Steve fits right in! I don't think you can tell from the photos but he has some cool lavendar streaks in his hair so he's a bit of punk rock star looking kid. Very cool. 

So, it'll be fun to have another smaller boy doll in the doll house to go with Giuseppe!

Better run!
Have a wonderful weekend!

XXOO
Heather

My Tolly Tots 18Inch Doll Collection... So Far... An Update...

Greetings and Salutations Doll Friends


I've decided to try and update my 'My Collection... So Far...' posts gradually as I get the time and photos taken. Since I just had a few of the Tolly's out for the recent amazing new-in-box clothing ensemble sets I got on eBay, I figured I might as well just make a 'My Collection' update of them.

That's all of them! I'll try and get back here later to link you to where they all came home to the Doll House. Time to herd the cats get the kids up and out the door for school!

Have a great Wednesday!

XXOO

Heather

Frann and Maru Take A Winter Walk!

Hi Doll Friends!!

Happy Wednesday! Don't the weeks just fly by? One week from Valentine's Day!?! Wasn't it just Christmas five minutes ago? Right? Being that it's February, it's still the season for snow and yesterday we got a bit of snow in my neck of the woods. So, naturally, being me, despite it being 8 degrees outside (what's a bit of cold? I went to High School in South Dakota, if you didn't go out when it was cold you lived inside 9 months a year!) I went out to take some doll photos in the pretty snow. I decided I'd take Frann and Maru...

I just love doll photography! It's so much fun!

Better run!
Have a great day!
XXOO
 Heather

American Girl Doll Brand Doll Clothes Goodwill Find!

Doll Friends!

I've been meaning to come and tell you about this for weeks... But other things keep catching my time and attention so this draft has just been sitting here undone. So, in the vein of getting a 'better than nothing' post about them up, I will tell you about them now. 

Sometime in mid December? I found all these fabulous clothes at Goodwill for $5.99. Which is an amazing, fantastic, awesome and unheard of deal!! Several of them are actually American Girl Doll brand clothes and all in reasonably good shape!! I only really took the above photo and this next one of the clothes other than the inside tags because I wanted to get them pressed and on dolls to model... The only one I managed to get photographed on a doll yet was Frann Doll wearing the denim top and red flowered skirt outfit in this post. She's in the top photo on the right hand side... It was the only photo I took of her in the outfit (duh?!) before I changed her into something else. So many blog post ideas, so little time!! Right?

There is this fabulous purple dress which is Emily's Holiday Outfit and no longer made. It was $28 new!

Then there were flowered PJs. 

And the red flowered skirt that Frann was wearing...

And this Red Vinyl jumper. 

All of the clothes were crammed into this bag that even included a baby doll! It also had a few people sized clothes and a baseball cap and randomly enough, a soccer shin guard?? So it was like someone randomly cleaned up a childs room and just stuffed everything on the floor into bags in random fashion or something? But it was a clear bag and I was able to move some of the clothes around to peek at what was there enough to know that I would get at least $5.99 worth of good stuff out of it. They tape the bags closed for obvious reasons and so you don't know for sure what you're getting until you open the bag up and look closer after you buy it.

I sorted the bag out right in my car and put all the stuff I didn't want back into the bag and drove right through the donate line and gave it back to them. No need to bring it home, right? So, Doll Friends, always look carefully if you happen to see a big jumbled bag of stuff in a thrift store. You never know what might be in them!

I'll try and get some good photos of dolls in the outfits soon and link back to this post when I get them done. Posting this in it's sort of 'raw' form might just be the fire I needed lit under myself, eh? 

Better run! Morning blog writing time passes faster than just about any other time of the day!! Have a fantastic Tuesday!!

XXOO

Heather