Richmond, Virginia Doll and Teddy Bear show October 2, 2021

 

I had an incredible fun day yesterday at the Richmond, Virginia Doll and teddy bear show October 2, 2021 on Saturday. My Va. Fashion Doll Club members were there and had a booth (above is not them, but one of our friends' booths) and I was able to go and gather everything on my list that I wanted. I even met and acted all ''fangirl' on Angela Jones who does her wonderful Facebook auctions Live and she was on Facebook Live that day purchasing for clients/customers. She took a pic of me and I met her husband Russell too. I have purchased my Ultimate Madra Gene in Pink Envy from her. 

I met Marina and Karon my doll buddies there and we shopped and talked, and then all went out to lunch. Marina had brought along Clifford, her roommate with her and we all had fun going to Stevie B's for lunch, which is a pizza and salad buffet near the show venue. 

Here is my doll haul from my list. My list entailed looking for Gene items and a vintage outfit for the Ken doll for my raffle for the doll club raffle project I am working on, and a stand for him. 

I was MORE than successful. I was able to pick up four nude Ashton-Drake Gene dolls with their stands all from the same dealer- as well as a bag of Gene heads.

One of those heads, a Violet Waters, is an Ashton Drake, the rest are Integrity I think from my research. One is a Zita Charles, the other is a Gene Marshall, one I have not been able to identify- the sideglance 

I was able to pick up a red pair of shoes- none of which fit Gene- the dealer threw in for free. A Red suit Franklin Mint, red luggage, also Gene luggage, a mirror framed with the Gene fan,, the Gene birthday cake set- all for $70

from another dealer I was able to pick up the two hatboxes. One had the loungerie with black hose and black shrug, the other had the Simply Gene pink bathing suit with shoes, and three pairs of shoes. Both were $5 each. The dealer threw in a 12 inch Kaiser stand, so I had my stand for my Ken doll!

I purchased the vintage Ken doll pants and shirt for $1 each from my club members booth. 

I loved the dolls I purchased- one with the updo still had her earrings in and all of them had hose on. 

Ashton-Drake Swingtime Violet Waters head 

I think this is possibly a Stardust Gene Marshall 2010 from the Stardust convention 

I researched this head and found she was an Integrity 'Hostess with the Mostess' Zita Charles

2010 from the Stardust convention

This is the one I am having problems figuring out what Gene/ Madra/ Zita ?? she is because of the side glance eyes. 

The lining of the red luggage interior. It really opens and closes.

My doll room is currently being worked on, and the closet is being turned into shelves for the taller dolls. More photos will be posted later, when the room is further along, but right now this was the only place I had to stage dolls as all of my surfaces are literally covered with boxes and items until I can move the items back into the doll room,lol. from construction of the shelves and the painting when it is completed. 

Hope you enjoyed my photos.Lisa 

Va Fashion Doll Club September meeting

 My Va Fashion Doll Club had its September meeting and the theme was World Festivals or Folk Festivals /Ethnic Festivals or diverse cultures from around the world celebrating food and costumes, etc. Took me a while to understand the display theme - and I have been so busy with personal life and work that I really didn't understand the theme- were we too create a theme with our own ethnic background or pick a country and go from there??? I picked Italy because for food we had to bring a food from the country we picked and pizza was all I could register quickly- I could make Pizza . 

When I arrived, I finally understood what they were getting at- the dolls were supposed to be a festival, celebrating countries of the world, with booths set up selling their foods, products from that country. Well I bombed on this one. lol. 

Part of my distraction from club this month and the months leading up is I have been working on re-vamping and getting my doll room packed up and ready to be painted and cleaned . The room has looked like a staging place from the Hoarders and I have long needed proper shelving and places to properly display my dolls and accessories.  I have been working on packing up props and sorting and cleaning and still am not done. Almost done, have a few more things to pack before the final cleaning on the walls / and painting can begin. 

But back to the club meeting. I will show you photos of the club displays.

Below, I also took photos of Jodi's incredible doll room collection. Within her doll shelves, the dolls are stacked on risers three high, to get maximum storage space out of those shelves!! So each shelf has tons of vintage dolls in every kind of outfit imaginable! Vintage heaven!

We also did a flocking workshop on vintage , beatup Ken dolls at this club meeting. This is my Ken I did and he came out pretty well. 

Hope you enjoy the photos. More coming later!