Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Scarlett is wishing everyone a Happy St. Patrick's day today!  Here are some photos from the archives...

This photo is from the March Va. Fashion doll club meeting when we celebrated St. Patrick's day last year in 2015 with dioramas so I made a vignette 'croft' cottage and did an Irish breakfast with an Irish couple. Anya and Harley Ken are eating a full Irish breakfast I made. Anya wears a vintage Irish Barbie outfit.  

Janice's entry from that day...

and of course some Celtic dancers...

And some Irish Barbies from past years.  These photos except Scarlett are from 2015 March. 

May Irish BLessings rain down on you today....!

One day late...Barbie's Birthday

I totally forgot to post yesterday on the holy of holies...Barbie's birthday. But it was understandable. It is also my wedding anniversary. 

So here is my tribute to the plastic goddess we all go broke for.  This is classic black dress redressed in Betty Draper's party gown and I took that elastic thing off her ponytail to let her hair fly away loose. She looks much better and at ease now. Here she is having her cake and eating it too. She's looking good at 57. 

I've been really busy with the auctions as well writing a 1:6 scale tutorial for contribution to an E-book for a writer who asked me to help, as well as getting photos together for Poppy and Ryan getting ready to meet Poppy's parents. I took those today and hopefully can get a blog post ready. I am thinking of making Poppy's parents severely disfunctional  as I re-write the type of Doctor Dr. Parker is- not a medical doctor but he holds a doctorate in Egyptology which is why he gets along with Uncle Giles so well and wastes money on digs and travel lecturing. He married Penelope, Poppy's mother, a debutante with a trust fund, related to the Baroness, which enabled him to devote himself to archeology without having to fund it to much the regular way with grants and paperwork, but networking with the rich and famous. His wife found it romantic at first but then devastatingly boring to be in the middle of nowhere digging for pieces and bits of broken pots as she calls it  when she could be shopping for the latest fashion with her cousins .Devoted to her daughters and family, she finds her husband's obsession with dead mummys amusing at best, infuriating at worst. 

 That's the background so far on Poppy's parents.  So I hope to be along with the story line in a bit. 

Lisa

Scooby-Doo & the Attack of the Zombie Bride!

I had some fun playing with the Gothic Mansion and Zombie bride today.

I did these photos up in picmonkey. Lots of fun. 

On another note, lots more auctions up in My Ebay auctions

I have shipped alot of the American Girl stuff that ended. But here is the new stuff listed.

Lots of new stuff and NRFB dolls, so keep checking my auctions. The big spring cleaning of the herd is on. And yes, at the top that is a Misaki, from the 2010 Ye-Ye collection. 

Sheri's Dolls...1867 Party Gown

Last weekend when I attended the Capital Doll Club show and sale, I brought home another doll. Not unusual for me, but what was unusual was it was a one of a kind creation by Sheri's Dolls, aka Cheryl A. Brown. Her one of a kind hand crocheted creations are stunning. My last post showed a bunch of stunning creations of her show table. 

Above are some samples from her show table on February 27th when I attended here in Richmond, Va. I wish I could have brought more home! 

The doll I purchased was 1867 Party Gown and she was at a rock bottom price because Cheryl was moving away from Virginia and did not want to pack up these dolls and move them with her. So I got her at a tremendous deal. 

1867 party gown is in a shamrock green with tulles of lace cascading down the front, so her entire outfit is not entirely crocheted, just he bodice and the train. I love what she did with her hair. The doll is a Model Muse basics Barbie, but her underskirts are entirely finished, with stockings trimmed with lace and green shoes to match! I may re-use her for a St. Patrick's day post in a week or so.

In her gloved hands she holds a bouquet of flowers and in the other a small fan. Cheryl even finished this doll with period appropriate jewelry! I think she will go perfect with my other Victorian styled dolls. 

The piano is a prop /music box from my mother's collection, though not perfectly scaled. I thought I would do something different prop wise with her. 

New dolls added to Ebay listings...

I have added dolls on eBay listings HERE 

I had previously listed a load of dolls for people to contact me if they were interested. My blog is evidently not reaching enough people so I am taking the step to put these giftsets and dolls on Ebay with Buy it Nows and best offers. I also have added a few other less expensive things to the list. Right now as of today, 3/4/2016 there are 26 listings on ebay.

Today I listed these items-

BIN $220

BIN OR BEST OFFER $225

Auction $220

Auctioin $149

BIN OR BEST OFFER $245

Finally  Felicity's riding habit New in box at $79 . I knew I had this just found it in my closet this morning when I was going through my stash/hoard. It is amazing the amount of items we doll collectors buy and never take out of the box. 

and now for a small rant....lol

P.S. I have some Best offers on the giftsets, but please be considerate. I have already turned away one ridiculous offer on the Airways Poppy giftset. I'm attempting to sell some items, but be aware people, I'm not desperate. It is amazing to me how if you mention you are going through a traumatic time and attempt to sell some dolly items to get some extra funds to cover expenses it seems like the buzzards come out to pick your bones...LOL... Just sayin'. While my husband has had a car accident, and yes I am selling alot of dolls, be aware I will sit on the dolls before I give them away people. 

This is not directed at everyone, just those who are the scalpers who wish to live off other's misery for fun and profit. I have hesitated to say this. But then I figured, what they h-e-double toothpicks. Not getting any younger! LOL...I know there are probably others who may have experienced this in one way or another. 

And now back to our shameless self promotion....

Hopefully I can get those photos today of the new doll I got at the doll show! It's snowing and I wanted to get the auctions and dolly advertising out of the way. 

Have a great Friday and dolly weekend- Lisa

Happy Hinamatsuri Day!

On the third day of the third month in Japan, girls have a Girls' day festival or celebrate Hinamatsuri. This is when ceremonial dolls are brought out and special foods are prepared. These dolls are not played with by the little girls but are handed down in the family. 

Re-ment made a wonderful set that I was able to get my hands on before it went sky high. I still use it each year. With all the craziness going on, I was unable to get over and get the Japanese family set up this year. So I'm going to share my photos from last year. 

I have another Japanese Barbie I had wanted to include in this line up. I had purchased her at a show and never deboxed her. Hopefully I can get her out of the box and get photos of her.

Little Ivy is still keeping the Japanese traditions over here in America and carefully helps her mother and aunt set up the display. Looks like they are almost finished...

After the display is set up, Ivy's mother prepares the table for the family. The little wooden goldfish plate set is something I purchased on a trip to New York when I was about 13 years old and we were walking through Chinatown.

 

                       Happy Hinamatsuri! Great books to read for this day-

                          Little Plum by Rumor Godden ~ It tells how Miss Happiness and Miss Flower celebrate the doll festival to welcome Little Plum, the neighbor doll . A really wonderful innovative book with ideas on how to create your own dolls' dolls for this display like Nona did with matches and toffee wrappers.