Months And Months Of Thrift Finds For The Doll House!

Greetings and Salutations Doll Friends!!

So... As I've indicated with my last several posts, 2019 has been a rough year... The last six months especially. I've been doing my best at treading the waters of the storms that keep rocking my ocean, if you will, but with only marginal success more often than not. My poor little doll blog has suffered dreadfully from it. I am slowly beginning to see things turn and can see a light at the end of a very long dark tunnel though and am hopeful that 2020 will be much much better. To be honest, I've been sunk into a depression, really, for months and months. It's only as I start to come out of the fog of it that I can realize exactly how dense the fog had become. Yikes. But it's nice to be coming out of it and slowly becoming myself again. 

During my dark months of depression, one thing I that brought a small measure of light was to stop into thrift stores and hunt for doll sized treasures. I'd buy them, bring them home, and add them to the pile of things that I would get posted 'someday'. It was honestly telling that I had hope enough to buy them, like deep in my soul somewhere I knew it would be temporary even if I couldn't feel it at the time. 

So... I finally pulled out the rather alarming amount of bags I'd accumulated in my thrift-purchases-to-show-my-sweet-doll-friend's-pile the day after Christmas. It was fun to dig into all of it, like a second Christmas really... So, I might have inadvertently included something here that I've shown you before....? I think this is all stuff you haven't seen but just in case I am wrong, sorry for the repetition. 

I love love love small books! I have so many! But I can't resist them when I see them anyway. I love books in 'real life' size too so how can my dollies not have a proper library?! All the little Christmas books you see here were 25cents each this summer at a garage sale. I love love love the Nancy Drew one!

I have several of these small tea sets... They are actually the right size for the dolls dolls. I need to pull them all out and see what all I have in total because several of the sets have a broken item or two. One thing at a time. 

So much stuff!

These are all ceramic and doll sized... I plan to put them in a doll room on a shelf as a 'collection' of one of the dolls. Aren't they cute?! For only 50cents, how could I not? 

These little quilt 'wall hangings' will make fabulous quilts for the doll house. I love quilts!

All these shoes for only $1.00!! I love my little towns thrift store!

Poor baby on the right is pretty much done-for... Not sure if I'll even try and do anything with the poor dear... I might just exchange the head with the one on the left... Especially if the 50c written on the forehead won't come off. Brown eyed Circo babies are more rare than the blue eyed ones and so... 

A whole bunch of plates... I bought them because they were priced as sets and so cheap. Sometimes they'll price by the 'eaches' and I generally leave those type at the thrift shop. 

These clock ones would make fabulous ones for a New Years Eve party at the Doll House. I'll have to see if I can pull of a small one so I can use them. 

Sushi Plates!! How could I not when I have doll sized sushi? I also have the My Life As Doll Sushi set but perhaps I didn't make a post about it? Golly... So many balls dropped over the last year. Yikes. 

These square plates are neat, eh?

Couldn't turn down that Build-A-Bear Christmas shirt... They are not a perfect fit for the dolls but the shirts work pretty well as is and other can be altered. 

This made my day the day I found it... It was one of the last things I found at that store and, after finding it, you can bet I went back thru the entire store to make sure I hadn't missed any others!

Here is what was inside!

I've researched and I think that the outfit is actually a Bitty Baby one but the shoes and headband are for the 18inch dolls and the clothes will work for them too. I'll have to take a photo of a dolly in the outfit for you. I love the shoes!

The charm was even in it! Still sealed shut!

I've been on a bit of a doll sized bear spree apparently. So many people seem to be dumping their entire Boyd Bear collections and their Ty Bears too. When I find them for a dollar or less (or sometimes a bit more if I really like the Boyd Bear) I can't help but buy them. I love Teddy Bears and so should Heather Doll, right? Haha! If you look close though you'll see I also found an American Girl Doll Bitty Baby Bear too! Score! I think he was only 10cents!

This Boyds Bear Mohair Bear is probably my favorite of all of them! It's like the old school bears back in the olden days. He's not 'soft, but rather has a sort of hard body and I love him! 

And this mini Boyds is pretty fantastic too! I'm sure if when I get my store open, I'll be selling bears for the dolls there too(and in the Etsy Shoppe that will be part of my business...) so I'll keep buying them when I see them! 

This cute little table was $3.00! The little sculptures were too cute to pass up. I think they'll make great decor when I have asian themed parties for the dolls!

Well, I'm out of time. If you have questions about any of the stuff I posted here, please do ask, I am happy to share! I just sometimes forget to mention details or don't have as much time as I'd like but I don't ever want to leave you with questions either! 

XXOO
Heather

Fun Doll Accessory Finds At Nobbies and OTC!

Hi Doll Friends!

Doll sized play food... Whodathunk it would become the obsession of a woman in her 40s. But here we are. Haha. Kidding! Sort of... 

Once you start to find correctly scaled accessories for your dollies, you can get a bit cosumed by wanting "All the things in doll size!" Teeheehee. The cool (dangerous?) part is that manufacturers are on to us doll loving people and they make, well, all the things in doll size! However, they do tend to charge a small fortune for said doll sized items. Also, most accessories sets that include doll food only have two of each item, if that... When you have a house full of dolls like I do here at the doll house, two of each will never do!! So... What to do? Where to find inexpensively priced doll sized food?? 

Erasers! As you may recall from my finding dessert shaped erasers at Walmart (in party section) for my Sweet Shoppe, they are so perfect for doll food! 

However, I'd only ever seen the dessert shaped ones before... I don't know why it didn't occur to me to search for other food shaped erasers at the time but what can I say... It didn't occur to me. 

Until I went to Nobbies looking for fruit shaped erasers... I wanted the ones I've seen in past that are shaped like slices of lemon or lime. Nobbies is a store in Omaha that sells party favors and supplies and costumes and candy at Halloween. They are basically the store front, only one in world as far as I know, for OTC. Oriental Trading Company is based out of Omaha and it's so common to me that I've called them just OTC for years... So many of my friends have worked for them in the call center that they feel very familiar. Have you heard of them? Anyway... They make neat party supplies and scrap book paper and that manner of stuff. So... I thought surely they'd have the fruit erasers and so when I was in neighborhood a week ago, I stopped in.

I didn't find fruit erasers... But I did find some sushi ones!! How totally cool!! I cleaned them out of the sushi ones and even found a hedgehog shaped one perfect for my Lauren Southern doll! (She is who I named one of my JG dolls after and in real life has two hedgehogs as pets) Sweet!! They were only 50c each! Even better!

I also found a few other doll sized items... The "finger cymbals" are perfectly doll sized and the elastic handles will help them hold them well. They cost $3.99, a little expensive for my tastes but I went ahead and got them anyway.

Then there is the music maker (with little cymbals in it... Is there a name for that? It's like a handled hand held tambourine of sorts...) and the magnifying glass. They sell those sorts for only 10cents each in their party favors bins.

The last thing I found, which I think is as cute as a bug in a rug, is this little boxed cake!! So cute!! It has six fancy slices of cake and comes in the bakery box just like a real one. It was $3.99. Not too bad... I plan to use cute stickers to cover up the words "erasers" on the box and it'll be nearly real looking! Eh?

It has a clear plastic tray in bottom of box to keep each slice in place.

The slices are so pretty! 

Here is LaurenDoll with her hedgehog! It's perfect size!

So when I got home I started thinking... "Well surely they make other varieties of food?" And on eBay I went. Sure enough, I searched "food shaped erasers" and these popped up. 

Not too bad price wise considering they have to be shipped to me. And more than enough junk food to go around! Haha. They arrived pretty quickly and each in their own plastic packaging...

They are pretty perfect as doll food!

Here are AlyciaDoll, SusannahDoll and Frann doll next to the table set for six! What a fun feast for the dolls! 

So keep your eyes open at novelty stores for erasers! Do you have any other food shaped ones I haven't found here? I would love to see them!!

Better run...

Till next time!

XXOO

Heather