Hi! I am back! I had a shocker of a year last year on so many levels that I could not get to blogging. I wasn't doing much doll stuff and not too interested really. Didn't stop me from buying the odd doll or two though!
This mostly scruffy line-up is all of my Ideal Crissy family and friends that I went out and bought when I read Nymphaea's posts about the wonderful makeovers she did on hers. Nymphaea, if you are out there, I hope you see my post. I really miss your blogging and comments on my blog too.
Anyway, I was at a trash and treasure market recently, and I spied a Brandi in her original, if not battered, swimsuit. The seller would not budge on anything less than $20.00, but that was pretty good as once I got her home and took her hair out of the plait, I could see it was in good condition. I will still wash it though to freshen it up and straighten the foundation hair. Anyway, I remembered having a Country Crissy, and do you think I could find her in the mess in my spare rooms? I took one room apart to find her and found a lot of other dolls too. I found all of these Crissy family dolls, and counted 9 in total, which I thought was fairly good going. And I got to re-arrange my dolls in storage, and even make more space in the spare rooms.
This photo got a bit lightened for some reason.
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| Country Crissy, who started the Great Doll Clean-Up |
This is the Brandi that I got from the market last weekend. She still has her tattoo. I have already made my other Brandi (see first photo, top right) a maxi dress, and I will have to think what to dress this one in. Perhaps a beach set to wear over her swimsuit? I am particularly fond of the Brandi dolls, I am not sure why. She just looks so tanned, healthy and happy.
I am not sure who this one is in the orange spotted over-alls, but a quick check of Beth's site makes her look like a Tara. Her hair is a mess and the base foundation hair has been trimmed as has the extension. I will still give her a mini makeover though.
This ratty little ghost at the front has an badly matted hair extension. I am going to struggle dealing with this one, but I had some success with my first Brandi when I did the wet towel and warm iron technique (until I over-did it a bit and frizzed the ends).
I was packing up the dolls in the not as messy spare rooms, and found this little rotter - a Cinnamon! So I posed her with all of my "good" Crissy family dolls who arrived in good condition, or I did makeovers. She still needs a good wash and her hair cleaned, but that is a job for another day. So that makes my collection of these dolls come in at 10, hence the name of this post. Nothing wrong with round numbers!
Phew, that felt good to do a blog post! Hopefully you will see more of me this year. Please stop by and leave a comment, I would like to hear from you!!
