Dolls

Beatrice and I have been checking out these beautiful antique dolls from Rogue Retro. The only one Bea likes is the super expensive Madame Alexander one. I like them all. But she says they would be mean to Jane. 

I just like the idea of a little girl having a collection of lovely dolls. Maybe because I only had Pete and Sarah when I was little. 

I still have Pete. Everyone says he is creepy and ugly, but really he is adorable and it isn't his fault that he is forever mildew stained and it isn't my fault that he spent a year tied to the top of a tree and I couldn't find him.

As long as a doll has a kind looking face, I don't mind at all if her hair is messed up or her dress is torn.

Did you play with dolls as a child? Do you still have them? 

Proud Jane

I found this doll at Miracle Hill the other day and thought she looked so proud. I fet bad for her all disheveled and yellowed. At least she was high in a shelf where kids couldn't get to her in her wedding gown. She was $2.50. I brought her home and named her Jane and gave her to Beatrice with a new outfit. She is from 1965.

When I was little I loved dolls. I had Sarah and Pete. Sarah had blonde hair that was actually pretty disgusting, but I didn't mind. She was beautiful. Pete was cute... until he got lost in the woods for a year. When I found him he was black with mildew and had to soak in bleach. I still have him. Nobody else could love him because he still looks like he has a dread disease.

I found another vintage doll recently. He has choppy, bleached looking hair that greatly resembles Sharon Needle's boy persona: