Happy Fourth of July!

Happy Fourth of July- and celebrating our 250th celebration of America's historic milestone- 1776 to 2026! I remember as a child in 1976 being taken to Williamsburg, Virginia at the age of 11 years old to visit the 'Freedom Train" that traveled the United States with all sorts of memoriabilia - the dress Judy Garland wore in Wizard of Oz, and one of the pairs of the Ruby Red Slippers, Will Chamberlain's sneakers, and other items too, that had to do with sports and movies, but also historic items as well. It overwhelmed as a kid. My husband and I went all out to decorate this year on the house, with red, white and blue bunting and little flags next to the greyhound statues The house really looked nice this year. 

For our table decor, we are using our Staffordshire Liberty Blue Independence Hall plates and the Paul Revere teacups and saucers. I am still working on getting the bowls, and bread and butter plates. This set has different scenes on each plate, etc. The teacup saucers have the Old North Church on them. I purchased the navy blue napkins and tablecloth off of Ebay, as well as the rhinestone flag napkin rings. The flag placemats and runner I got off of Poshmark, they were really a lucky lot find. 

i had already shared the Fourth of July photos of our June / fourth of july doll club meeting, and we had some fabulous doll red white and blue photos from that meeting!

Here is one of my favorites- Linda's Uncle Sam with her 250 eagle plate!

 

The Dilemna of Unboxed dolls..

The dilemna of unboxed dolls... that is my subject for my blog post this morning. 

This weekend I was doing some sorting of dolls and thought I should do a blog post and start de-boxing my 'new' 1990's wedding day Barbies and Midge dolls and 'found' more dolls that have not been freed from their boxes. The list is long and worse, I have two dolls from the W Club awaiting payment that will be arriving soon and they will need to be de-boxed as well. I am a little overwhelmed and attempting to figure out what and where I am going to be putting them as the circus dolls have been deboxed but- their boxes need to be organized. Right now, here are the dolls  waiting to be de-boxed...

My Poppy Parkers- Sweet Sixteen just arrived a couple of weeks ago, but the Stand Up and Cheer! and Glamour Poppy arrived like- last year? and I still have not deboxed these two. Somehow, they are just lovely to look at and I cannot resist Poppy dolls with ponytails. They are so adorable. 

 

Then, there was this Fresh doll and this other doll, Fresh Squad Anthony and Jr. Rainbow High Bella, I think the name was. She was in that cute bunny outfit. I purchased them both on sale at insanely low prices on an impulse buy and have yet to debox them. I should have at least done the bunny at Easter, but forgot. I think I have another Jr. Rainbox high that hasn't been deboxed yet either. 

Then of course, the 1990's Wedding Day Midge and Alan , Barbie and Ken, Stacey and Todd dolls that I purchased some at Arc of the Thrift Barbie Palooza and the rest on Ebay. I had this whole blog post planned with a wedding diorama- totally dropped the ball on that one. 

So right now I hope to get to organizing and de-boxing but in the meantime, will be preparing for some fun Independence day/ Fourth of July photos!