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Doll collectors? - 1/24/2008 5:32:44 PM

verukasalt

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Anybody else collect dolls as well as make them? Any particular material or type? How do you like to display them?

I like cloth dolls, 'folk art' type figures, and small vintage toys. I have a little narrow built-in shelf -- it used to house an ironing board -- YEAAH, like I needed that! I ripped the ironing board out, painted it white inside and put up some little shelves to stand my dolls on :-) Also, I got a vintage aluminum Christmas Tree the other day - I put all pink for Valentine's Day and a bunch of the smaller felt dolls I collect on it.

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RE: Doll collectors? - 1/24/2008 8:34:16 PM

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That sounds great!! Do you have a photo???

There are others on here that collect and make dolls. I make doll pets (but mostly I am an oil painter) :)

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RE: Doll collectors? - 1/24/2008 9:33:49 PM

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Hi Gwen, I'd love to see a pic of your collection! I mostly collect the old hard plastic dolls from the 50's (Toni's, Madame Alexanders, Muffies) but I also have a few old compo babies, a bunch of kiddles (one of my first obsessions on ebay). etc. but they're mostly in storage now since we needed the space for my daughter's toys! I do keep art dolls around though, like the cats I got from you years ago, a couple of weird creatures from PinkyToast, some amigurumis that I bought as we;; as the ones I made, etc. I also have a bunch of old toys, repro robots & tons of stuffed animals. Unfortunately most of it isn't organized or well displayed at all but I should take some pix of what's around.

Geez, thinking about this is making me want to get them out & organize them, but I really need to work on my website!

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RE: Doll collectors? - 1/24/2008 10:50:09 PM

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HEY! I had a whole post about my obsessive compulsive doll collecting.... it didn't get posted.
I collect too many dolls
Kiddles ( I have virtually every kiddle made... seriously)
Blythe ( the new releases, I cannae afford a vintage one, I live in hope of finding a thrift stor treasure one day.)
Pullip/Dal a japanese big eyed doll
Vintage barbie & friend
Flatsy
Emerald the enchanting witch
Mini MArtian
Susie sad eyes
Lonely Lisa
Beautiful Crissy & Velvet ( growing hair dolls)
ummm.... anything bizzare and ugly or strange or freaky or...

I just bought my self the tonner Silver witch doll... she's green, I love her

It's a problem I know

I would love to share pictures with everyone I LOVE seeing other people collections..although it usually makes me want something new!

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RE: Doll collectors? - 1/24/2008 11:20:49 PM

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I have an addiction to sculpting, but I don't collect any dolls. Why don't you guys post some pics of your collections? :)

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RE: Doll collectors? - 1/25/2008 9:22:46 AM

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Oh I forgot about Blythe, I have a couple of those too (was obsessed briefly a few years ago), and 2 mini pullips. I had a bigger one that I liked a lot but was too fragile, her foot kept falling off & therefore not really poseable (that was one of the reasons I got her, I liked the fact that they were so poseable so a foot that falls off constantly was a bit of a damper. So I sold her, I really needed the money anyway.

I remember flatsys but didn't have any. Interestingly when I was a kid I wasn't really into dolls other than Kiddles. I think I had a Dolly Darling too - remember them Nellie? They had plastic helmet hair & came in a clear roundish plastic case. I'd totally forgotten about them until I came across one on ebay & it came back to me. I also had (these aren't really dolls) TV Jones (came in a carrying case that was sort of like a TV) & the TV Jones Mouse House & Andy & Ellie Mouse Tree House. You guys probably have no idea what I'm talking about, lol. I WISH I still had those, I especially loved the Mouse Tree House. What kills me is that I came across them when we were cleaning out the garage of the house I grew up in, around 1994 or 95ish. We had a huge yard sale & I don't remember selling them or anything, but for the life of me I don't know what I did with them (unless they ended up in the attic of my father's house where we put some stuff). Now I'm getting upset thinking about them.

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RE: Doll collectors? - 1/25/2008 7:00:44 PM

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OH THE MOUSE yeah I know those they rock, I didn't have them but man I could see myself trying to get them now!
I had a swack of Dolly Darlings, but sold them a while back.I like them but, as I've said too many dolls!!!!!! I really need to pare down my collection.
TV Jones was so very cool too.

I only had one kiddle growing up , but covetd lots of my friends stuff. I really didn't have dolls or a lot of toys in general, we were poor as chruch mice LOL.
BUT I'VE MADE UP FOR IT!!!!

If I should just put a link up to my toy album in photobucket LOL

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RE: Doll collectors? - 1/26/2008 10:28:46 PM

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I only had a couple of kiddles when I was a kid too - I had the baby in the crib that I got at a birthday party (they were given out as prizes & I'd originally gotten the one in the sailboat but the girl whose party it was made me swap with her or she wouldn't be my friend anymore). I also had one of the locket ones, one of the jewelry kiddles, & one of the zoolery kiddles. Just seeing them again seriously takes me right back to being 8 or 9 years old, esp. the locket & perfume ones. That was what got me so obsessed with them back when I first started on ebay. None of my original kiddles survived but I did get duplicates of the ones that were important to me, plus a whole lot more!! I'll have to take a pic of them.

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RE: Doll collectors? - 1/29/2008 10:16:02 PM

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Daughter's toys?! Don't be silly, of course you should be playing with Your toys!

I haven't figured out how to post pics yet (oooh, big time clever moderator, huh? hehe, real up on the technical stuff

I'll fool around with it and figure it out. I took some pictures of the tree 'cause I had some of Cris Melo's cute little "Meg"'s on it.

I only had Barbie when I was a kid, she had every outfit and accessory known to man, but I was a Barbie girl. Now I have every odd little toy that strikes me as interesting, but I have weird taste - I'm always bringing home a 'dream pet' or some cute cute kokeishi, or something bizarre -- I like to play with things, I have a desk full of weird little figures I like to arrange. Right now John Quincy Adams (1970s Marx Presidents) having tea with a tiny Wade pig, Padre Pio, and a funny little salt-shaker what looks like an owl.

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RE: Doll collectors? - 1/29/2008 11:14:22 PM

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I use picturetrail.com as my photo host. It's easy and its free. You upload pics to your account and then click on the little yellow box at the end of the edit bar, copy/paste the http and viola!

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RE: Doll collectors? - 1/30/2008 9:22:39 AM

verukasalt

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Lemme try that out