Today's picture is of two of my older big little girl dolls--the blonde on the left is Jennie (Swingy) and redhead on the right is Aimee (Baby First Step) They were made by Mattel and the funny thing is if you look at their faces and hands close you will see that they look like the little Kelley dolls (I mean before Mattel started making the football headed ones ,etc) Jaime bought them the construction hats--thank goodness she didn't buy them any tools cause they can get into enough trouble without tools. They pretty much boss everyone in the house around except for my Saucy Walker doll who is some what older than them. I will try to take a picture of her and post it before long. She is going to be 56 this coming Christmas. She spent much of her youth in my mom's wardrobe especially if any little cousins were coming to visit. Then later she spent some time on the closet shelf in her box wrapped in a pillow case to keep her clean. She lay on her back with her sleepy eyes closed so long she got to where she didn't want to open them. Once we got her to open her eyes about thirty five or so years ago she has been sitting in a infant booster seat on top of my hutch in the bedroom so she can see everything that goes on. I take her down a couple times a year and clean her with cold creme and brush her hair and give her clean clothes. She was made by Ideal. Haven't had much time for anything lately with Vacation Bible School last week and then I have all the outside work to do as well as the inside and this week everybody has the creeping crud. It has been sort of cooler the past couple of days but the humidity is high. This morning I took a couple of minutes and visited the residents at the Crossings and they let me know they thought I had been ignoring them all spring. I told them I hoped to see them more often soon. I desperately need to make guy pants as a whole bunch of mine are in their BVDs. Has anyone noticed that Hobby Lobby has put out their Christmas decorations already. I think they are getting a little ahead of themselves.
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How nice that you still have some of your childhood dolls. I only have one that survived or wasn't stolen: my Tiny Tears. I won her in a design your own cattle brand contest when I was 9. Popsicle was the company that held the contest. I wasn't thrilled, as they had one prize for a girl and one for a boy. I was a real tomboy back then, I would have rather had the baseball and glove. Of course when I opened the box, it was love at first sight...LOL. Maybe I'll take her out of my trunk and take her picture one of these days.
I still have most of my childhood dolls except for the couple that were made of that rubber stuff that turned to a bubble gum like stuff --both Bubba and Judy melted into a pile of goo but they are somewhere in bags as neither my mom nor me could bear to throw them away. I have several that were sort of composition dolls---sort of ceramic type heads and rubber arms and legs that were stuffed with a cotton batting stuff and their bodies are cloth with a "Mamma" box inside. Their arms and legs went away and I made them new ones out of pink denim the summer I got out of high school---I may make them new limbs now that there is flesh colored material. My little walking/wedding doll is in the worse shape as her wig has come off and her eyes have some sort of mold on them (poor girl) I need to get them out and do some more surgery.
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