Happy Holidays 2021

 Happy Holidays!

Pardon the recycled photo, but I just did not have the energy this season to plan out a new scene.

I hope you holidays are filled with joy and hopefully, dolls.

Bebe of the Lollipop Girls

I received a really cool Christmas gift from a friend -Bebe, a Lollipop Girls doll by Jan McLean.

She is totally rocks with her bright green hair and matching boots.

The doll is manufactured by Unimax and is from 2012.

As you can see, she needs a little help with her hair to get it to match her promotional picture. Over the years, the glue on the side of her head has given up, so she has white marks where the hair used to be glued down.

Plus, her hair needs to be spiked up. But I totally love her. Her face is so lovely and she is just too much fun.

Happy Holidays 2020

 Happy Holidays!

Be like Evi, and enjoy a sedate, socially distanced holiday season. (Alcohol optional.)

Doll House Christmas

Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year. I put together a quick Christmas morning scene with my doll house family. This is appropriate, since I received the doll house for Christmas when I was 8 years old in 1979.

I was surprised when I woke up that morning to see a doll house in front of the tree, even though I had received a doll house family from my Aunt and Uncle earlier that week. Inside the empty doll house was a small wrapped box. Inside the box was a Christmas tree, tree skirt, and a present for each member of the doll house family.

All that is missing from this scene is my mini-me of the doll house family. She had a terrible decapitation incident after surviving a foot amputation. The house, too, is gone, but the many memories survive.

Mom, Dad, Tommy, baby Billy, and Peanut Butter the cat celebrate Christmas morning. April must be taking the photo.

Looks like Tommy is happy with his airplane.

Dad is going to start a fire in the fireplace to warm the house up.

Peanut Butter is wondering where his presents are. And it looks like April got two dolls to add to her collection. The dolls were the type that came in plastic Christmas ornament balls with candy and a toy. Many of the toys in the doll house were from those or the Easter Egg equivalent.

Christmas Crafting

The holiday season is here and I have been busy, busy, busy. In between business, I have squeezed in a little crochet time.

Christmas balls,

A mini gnome,

Lots of Christmas balls,

A large gnome,

Another large gnome, 

And a Santa Christmas ornament.

What have you been doing this past month?

Christmas With Leneda

This year I joined a Leeann and friends gift exchange for the holidays, as if I didn't have enough to do already. But, I had Chistmas fabric already, and I was up for the challenge. I decided to design an outfit from scratch. 

I think it came out pretty well, even if the arm holes aren't hemmed. Next time I decide to sew doll clothes, I find a pattern.

I also dug through my doll prop stash and found a hat, camera, autograph book, photos, porcelain doll, and Ferris wheel, all in appropriate scale.

I thought I had done really well. Simple, but well.

That is, until I opened the gift that my secret gifter sent me. The workmanship is amazing and detailed. I really need to up my sewing game.

Leneda looks so cute in her new Christmas outfit. She told me she feels like a rich little girl in an old black and white movie.

Did you do any holiday doll crafting?

Memories of Christmas, 1975

Christmas 1975

That summer, we had moved into a new house, and we had a new baby brother. On Christmas morning my dad held me on the stairs so I could see the Christmas tree from above.

We had a real tree that we had decorated together. But under the tree!

There she was! The most beautiful baby doll I had ever seen. I had gazed at her hopefully for what felt like weeks, when ever we were at the store. And here she was, magically, under the tree. And not even in her box, but in a doll crib that had a slide down side, just like the real crib upstairs. 

She drank and wet, and was big, like a real baby.

Mom had made our stockings, and Santa has stuffed them well.

My brother also got a great present. The G.I. Joe Adventure team headquarters. It had an elevator chair! So cool.

This was one of the best Christmases ever.

A Very Roberts Family Christmas

It is December and the Roberts Sisters have completely different ideas about what is appropriate holiday party attire.

Barbie has decided on a formal gown, Skipper is wearing leggings and a sweater, and Kelly is in the cutest Santa Clause party dress.

She really is too cute in those little black boots.

Happy Holidays!

Skipper Holiday Photo

It is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas around here.

The house is mostly decorated and the stockings are hung.

So I thought it was time to do some Holiday photos of the dolls. This year, the Skipper family decided they wanted one. So here they are.

From Left to Right: Homecoming Skipper, Cool Crimp Skipper, 50th Anniversary Skipper, Skipper as Velma, Pose n Play Tiff, Safari Fun Sisters Skipper, Sledding Fun Sisters Skipper, Super Teen Skipper, and Scott.

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas

I opened up my 10 Year Anniversary Little Pullip, Princess Rosalind. In her festive dress, she blends with the holiday decorations.

Here she is with Licca, for size comparison.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you.

Making Christmas Trees

We had a fun time at Miss Carroll's Doll Study Club this week decorating small Christmas trees for Meals for Wheels.