Downsizing.

The downsizing of my doll collection is going well.  So far 30 dolls have been re-homed.  It is actually quite frightening just 'How Many Dolls' I have got!  All different shapes and sizes that I have been collecting over the past 20 years or so I guess.  Even though so many have been rehomed, it still feels like there is a lot more do sort through.

Sold so far.

Tressy,
Toots x 2
Roddy Baby
Rosebud
Rosebud Walker
Wooden Raikes x 2
Hitty
Cabbage Patch Plastic baby (Charity Shop)
Porcelain doll (Charity Shop)
Reborn Berenguer
American Girl Molly
Disney Doll.
Lati BJD  (Xanthe)
Berenguer baby girl
Hitty Cherry
Hitty Morag
Palitoy Walk & Talk - Brunette - SOLD
Palitoy Walk & Talk - Blonde - SOLD
Period Rag dolls x 2 - SOLD
Palitoy Goldilocks - brown eyes - SOLD
Berenguer baby boy - SOLD
Berenguer baby girl - SOLD
White Balloon Sylvia Natterer Toddler - SOLD
Kathe Kruse Otti - SOLD
Kathe Kruse Utz - SOLD
Les Cheries Chloe - SOLD
Kidz n Cats Camille - SOLD
Kidz n Cats Alistair - SOLD

I don't think I will feel any regrets....possibly with the KnC, but even then I am not sure I will, I have decided to keep four of my six KnC.  Bobby (Bobo), Hamish (Robby), Amy (Nikola) & Elle (Henriette)



I still  have a lot that are still looking for homes.  Photos on my 'For Sale' page.

Design a Friend Blonde - SOLD
Pelham Puppet - SOLD

Gotz Little Sister - SOLD

Pukifee - SOLD

Lati Lami (?) - thinking I might keep this little one for now. SOLD

Little Fee - SOLD




















Porcelain doll

Palitoy Goldilocks - blue eyes
Mini American Girls - x 2 (at least)
American Girls (need to work out who)
Toots
Tressy - SOLD
Stupsi

Anniversary Action Man - SOLD
Paola Reina Boy - SOLD
Kathe Kruse Ron - SOLD

Vintage Teddy

Probably still more to sort through!

Contemplating and Downsizing.

It has been a little quiet on here as I have been busy posting on my Sasha blog and of course Henry's blog due to our trip to Arizona and the Sasha Festival.

Peggy Sue did indeed get her own way and made it to the festival...I think she found she got a bit more than she bargained for at times, but she enjoyed herself no end.  

Photos of the festival can be found here...

Since April I have been feeling rather overwhelmed by all my dolls.  I thought it would be a transient thing, but I still feel this way several months later and think I need to downsize somewhat.  So the first I am thinking of selling are one of the Lati girls and the little Pukifee.

I realised that I haven't photographed, or played with these dolls all this year, so really it seems a shame for them to be stuck in a cabinet unloved.  I will probably keep the little girl in the middle.

So if anyone is interested, they come complete with their original boxes and I think they have spare hands and wigs....will have to check when I get the boxes down.  I will of course be taking more in depth photographs and descriptions of them.

The other fellow I think will be looking for a new home is my Littlefee Jacob.  I also dearly like him, but he just sits in a chair being neglected...

I will have quite a few other miscellaneous dolls that I hope to sort through over the next couple of weeks.

I think I may well sell on a couple of my Schoenhuts as well, but they will require a bit more thought first.

In a Conundrum...

I feel as if I am in a conundrum/facing a conundrum at the moment...if that is the right use for the word...going to look it up right now! Yes I think that word suits...

While in this kind of 'desperate' state of mind I currently find myself in...yet another side effect of withdrawing from the medication I was on...I have been thinking about a lot of my dolls again and feeling a bit overwhelmed by some of them.

First up some ramblings about my Kidz n Cats dolls. First thing I noticed when searching for some photos was that I haven't taken any of them this year!  Well apart from the one below of Bobby and Jacob in their matching sweaters...That is three months!  That in itself tells me something (apart from the fact that there hasn't been much outside doll play.

I have three boys, Hamish (Robby) and Bobby (Bobo) and Alistair.  Both Hamish and Bobby I love and Bobby has featured in quite a bit of my story telling with Henry and friends on my Sasha blog.  Alistair I just haven’t really bonded with and not sure I can really see myself doing so now as normally with the boys I love them straight away.  Not sure of the reason as I love his outfit, but is it because I have never really changed him out of it that I feel this way?

Hamish

Bobby

Alistair

I have two girls Sophie (who if I am honest with myself, I probably fell in love with her because of her outfit) and Camilla (another blonde, but with a fringe and the purple ski outfit)  I ‘ve  never really done anything with these two girls.  I find myself being drawn to another – Stine – I think it is because her face reminds me of Hamish.  Do I go down this path, try another and sell on the two girls I have, or do I try with them for a bit longer.  Do I just give up on the girls?  The other two I am drawn to are Kiki – because of her darker colouring and Evita – because her face is quite different as you can see her teeth.  But I am not really convinced with those two to be honest.  I also think Laura is lovely and have seen her ‘in the flesh’ as my friend has her.

Sophie

Camille.

Again I had to search through last year's photos to find some I had taken of these two girls.

Why am I even thinking any of this when my mind is currently ‘unstable’ I wonder? I guess partly because I have a discount voucher to use on Evilbay and all of these four dolls are available and so I could get them at a discounted price...yet that really isn't logical.

So I am  thinking about selling on Alister (but keeping his clothes…so I guess I would have to make him something to travel to his new home in! LOL

I feel quite an unease about many of my dolls at the moment.  Not sure if it IS because of the withdrawal side effects from medication I am having, or because I am now perhaps seeing a bit clearer (or not?)

Some of the other dolls I am also thinking this way about are my two delightful Galoob Baby Face girls.  They bring a smile to my face for sure, but they just sit on the shelf...

More to come...another day....