Pepper and Pete

I recently won Ideal's Pepper and Pos'n Pete in a doll club raffle. I wasn't sure of them, but they seem to fit in just fine. 

Here they are in the Liv Doll room. I think they may stay for a while.

Pepper, 1963.

Pos'n Pete, 1964.

Now, I guess I may need to add their big sister, Tammy, to the collection.

E,F,G,H

E is for Eegee/Goldberger's Honey Lamb

F is for Fujiya's Poko Chan

G is for George Harrison by Applause

H is for Horsman's Denton Baby

Baby Denton

This is a 1989 Baby Denton by Horsman.

She is 17" tall and vinyl. She has sleep eyes, drinks and wets, and is washable.

She is adorably dressed in a pink Dr. Denton sleeper.

It even has the drop panel.

She is one of the dolls I purchased, hoping that she would be my beloved childhood doll. She isn't quite right, but really, really close.

Dolly ABCs

One of the Facebook groups I belong to is doing the A,B,Cs in dolls. Here are some of the ones I have shared with them.

A is for Sweet April by Remco.

B is for Bella, the French doll company.

C is for the Cowardly Lion by Effenbee.

And D is for Ddung, from Korea.

I'm having a lot of fun with this thread.

Traveling With Licca in 2017

As we look back on 2017... It turns out Licca did some more traveling.

She visited: Switzerland, Germany, France, Amsterdam, Orlando, and New York.

I wonder where she will travel to in 2018.

Do you have a doll you travel with?

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?

The Hunt is On

When I discovered Ebay around 1996, I started searching for a doll to replace my long gone Christmas doll, Suzy, who I talked about in the previous post.

Ebay, back in the beginning was a bit harder to navigate. Not everyone posted accurate and clear photos. Therefore, what I thought I was getting, sometimes ended up being completely different from what actually arrived.

Here are 4 of the 5 dolls I ordered from Ebay, hoping they would be my Suzy. The 5th I gave away not long after receiving it.

 

This one, while the right size, 18 inches, is Rub-a-Dub Baby.

This Horsman cutie is smaller, at 15 inches, and cries tears.

This Horsman Baby Denton is really close, but the body is of a different material and it was from the 80s.

Last, but not least, we have this sweet girl who I named Not Suzy in a previous post.

While none of them are my true Suzy, they have all found a home with me.

Hopefully I will find the real Suzy one day.