Mini Brands Season One Score on Facebook Auction Group!

Hi Doll Friends!!

I'm sure most of you have heard of the Mini Brands by ZURU toys. I have looked at them for a while but couldn't ever justify spending $10-$15 for a 'grab bag' style of only five mini items. What can I say, I'm far to cheap for that. As luck would have it, on a local Facebook Auction Group I am a member of, low and behold, what would be listed but a whole bag of them! This particular auction groups rules state you have to start all of the auctions on there at only a $1 and the auction duration is only 24hours. Which is kind of neat because it kind of means you get 'local market place value' for whatever you post for the most part. It's easier than eBay posting because there is not any mailing involved, it's usually 'porch pickup' after you pay by CashApp or Venmo or Paypal. Which is exactly like it sounds, you pay, they send you their address and you go pick it up off their porch. So, I bid on them and got the whole bag for only $6.00! Woot!! 

I was so excited to go and pick them up and see what I got in my grab bag! I got so many cool ones and after a bit of research, I realized that the ones I got were mostly (all?) from Season One, the very first! Apparently some of them are worth a few dollars each on eBay!! I doubt I'll sell any them because I like them so much. It'd be so fun to set up a 'grocery store' or 'doll pantry' with them.  

My favorite of all the ones I got were the Kikkoman's Shoyu (soy sauce) ones. Kikkoman is the only brand of shoyu I buy because of all my years in Hawaii. I lived there in my early twenties, my first apartment was in Wahiawa! So that is awesome to have and I am itching to set up a 'restaurant' with them. Because of my time in Hawaii, getting the can of Spam made me smile. 

Fun! 

I've posted photos of how detailed all of the mini brands I got are below. 

Then there are photos I've snagged off the Interwebs to show you the first series checklist etc. 

and what came in some of the other seasons (in the handful photos)

 So, what a fun find! 

Do you have any Mini Brands? Tell me about them in the comments!

Better run!

XXOO
Heather 

 

Finally Unpacked The China Cabinet Contents! So much fun!

 

Hi Doll Friends!

Slowly slowly but surely, I'm putting my doll room together. This week I decided it was way past time to unpack some of the 'fancy' doll teapots, teacups, stemware, unusual bottle collection and vases. I got a china cabinet for them way back in July and it's just been sitting empty. So, I pulled out the black tote that they'd just been sitting in for nearly three years and started unpacking. Let me tell you, it was a bit like Christmas! I mean I vaguely remembered what all I had but unwrapping each item, one by one, from their newspaper/paper towel wrappings was so much fun. 

See, here is all the items wrapped up. ^^

I had Erica Doll help me unpack. She's so pretty and will always be one of my favorite dolls. 

Here she is arranging my 'unsual bottle collection'... Again one of my favorite doll items. So fun!

I took detail photos of all of the items below: 

Since I linked to the post where I got the china cabinet and in that post I mentioned Ozzy, the puppy we got this summer, I figured I'd show you updated photos of him. He's gotten so big! 

Better run!

XXOO

Heather 

American Girl Doll 2023 Catalog

Hi Doll Friends!

Since I got my Claudie Doll this year, I got back on the mailing list for American Girl Doll's Holiday Catalog. It just arrived in the mail this week. It was so much fun to flip through and see the new dolls. Once upon a time, when I was little, we somehow got a catalog in the mail for 'high end' dolls and I flipped through it so often that it nearly fell apart... When I was in my early 20's, when I thought I was too old for dolls *giggles*, I'd get the American Girl Doll Catalog just because I signed up for it. Even the Sears Roebuck catalog would come out every year and I'd spend hours looking at all the doll options in it. In recent years it seems print catalogs are becoming a thing of the past so... Suffice to say it was fun to get this one and look at all the beatiful dolls. 

My favorites are probably the Shimmering Silver Holiday Doll because, well, she's gorgeous! I mean I don't think I can justify spending that much money on a doll. No shade on those people who save their pennies and buy her! I'm just more about buying 10 Our Generation Dolls or more doll clothes and accessories if I spend that. I also really love the Birthstone outfits. I love Isabel and Nicki Hoffman even though the 1990's being 'historical' makes me laugh. I graduated high school in 1991 and so I guess that makes me old but in denial about it. Hahaha.

Did you get the catalog? What were your favorite items?

XXOO

Heather 

How is it nearly November!! Dolls in stasis...

 

Hi Doll Friends,

Where does the time go? 

I can hardly believe it's nearly November or that I haven't posted on blog since early September. I just keep having other things in my life keep me too busy to do doll related stuff. I jokingly think of my dolls as being in stasis, just waiting for me to have time to go in and give them 'life' again. So I am kind of posting this as a prayer and a promise to myself and to you my dear reader, that I will eventually get back to posting at least occasionally. These are two photos I snapped just this morning in the doll room... I still have so much more I want to get done in there. 

Since I don't really have time to post much I want to shout out to a blog I follow mostly on Facebook about dolls... She's got such fun posts, even though she's had to start over from scratch recently... So since I don't have much posted, perhaps you can go give her a read because she puts so much into her posts! Here are the links to her blog and her YouTube where she does unboxings and stop motion videos. Yeah for doll bloggers!

The American Girl Mom Blog

 An American Girl Doll Blog Youtube

Since I am mentioning YouTube channels, did you know I have one? I haven't posted a video in a long time but if you've never checked it out, it's kind of fun too. Here is link:

PCR Doll YouTube.

I hope this finds you having a wonderful Autumn! 

Till I get back...

Much love to you!

XXOO

Heather