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HAPPY SPRING

Enufstuff — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:50:18 GMT

Toni is wishing everyone a Happy Spring and a Happy Easter.

She is wearing a robin's egg blue dress with a tiny white floral print. The dress has puffed sleeves and a Peter Pan collar. The collar, sleeves and hemline are trimmed

with white lace.

Toni stepped outside to play with her pinwheel in the March wind.

This is the dress that Toni will wear for Easter.

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Oznell — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:52:52 GMT

@Enufstuff , you outdid yourself. Toni is beautiful and spring-like in her Easter outfit, of robin's egg blue and delicate lace.

Oh, for those days of pinwheels and kites in the dancing wind!

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SportyShorty07 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:56:39 GMT

@Enufstuff What a wonderful Happy Spring post! Happy Spring to you and your family and your kitty and Toni, Enuffstuff ! I really like the outfits you hand sew and the little props that you give her- so cute .

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cheriere — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:00:11 GMT

@Enufstuff I LOVE ❤️ Toni's dress! The color is so vibrant and perfect for Easter. She'll be the prettiest girl hunting eggs.💝💝💝

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Leggett28 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:02:39 GMT

Toni looks so pretty in her new spring dress.

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Enufstuff — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:02:45 GMT

@Oznell Thank you very much. Spring and Easter are so early this year. With the changing of the clocks, the later sunset and the warmer, sunny days it is feeling like Spring.

We are seeing buds on our forsythia and some of the trees. I am

hearing more birds singing in the morning.

I love spring, especially as everything turns green again and the flowers bloom. Daffodils and purple crocus are in bloom already.

Pinwheels and kites have been spring favorites, since I was little in the 50s, my children in the 70's and for grandchildren in the 90's. I don't know if my great grandchildren have had them.

First, they would have to be distracted from their tablets and phones. I'm referring to both the parents and the kids.

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Enufstuff — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:03:51 GMT

@SportyShorty07 Thank you very much.

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Enufstuff — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:06:56 GMT

@Leggett28 @cheriere Thank you so much.

I though that the robin's egg blue would look nice on my little blonde.

I have about a dozen more Toni's who would like to model

some dresses.

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cheriere — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:10:09 GMT

@Enufstuff Happy Spring!!! I'd love to see your other Toni's modeling. You do such beautiful work!💝💝💝

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Enufstuff — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:14:20 GMT

@cheriere Thanks. I have shown most of the dresses I have made, but there are a few more. Some I will repeat, like the sailor dress that is a re-creation of the sailor dress that I wore in first grade.

I want to make some more, but I have to get motivated to sew.

The dresses that I post, were made about 15 years ago. I sold them all, but still have the pictures.

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beach-mom — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:27:01 GMT

@Enufstuff - I had a long day and I'm not in a great mood right now. I'm tired of all of the rules and regulations when you're just trying to help people who need help. Anyway. . .

I was ready to post it doesn't feel much like spring here - about 50 degrees and windy.

Then I saw your beautiful Toni. She can put a smile on anyone's face! I love her pretty dress with the mini print and the lace. It looks great with her hair and her eyes stand out. She will be one of the prettiest girls in church Easter Sunday!

Thank you for sharing her picture with us - you really cheered me up!

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cheriere — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:33:22 GMT

@Enufstuff

You're incredibly talented. I can't imagine the skill it takes to create such beautiful dresses. It's no wonder they sold too. I'm so glad you took pictures of them though. I just can't get over the fact that you made them. So beautiful!!!💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝

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Enufstuff — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:18:03 GMT

@beach-mom Thank you very much. I am so glad that Toni in her spring dress, lifted your sprits and brightened your day.

I have always loved spring, having a May birthday.

Easter was always special. Shopping for a new outfit, shoes, pocketbook,hat and gloves. Everything new to wear to church on Easter Sunday.

Of course we loved coloring the Easter eggs and getting our baskets of beautiful candies.

I loved doing all those things for my children too, especially dressing my three little girls in dresses that I made and all the accessories to complete their outfits.

To me Spring is the happiest season, so full of hope and new life.

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Tinkrbl44 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:38:54 GMT

Sorry to have to ask, but is Toni a commercial product like Barbie? Never heard of her before.

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Enufstuff — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:43:28 GMT

@cheriere Thank you, you are very kind.

Back in the stone age, when I was in Junior High, all girls learned to sew. I was 11 in 7th grade and made my first skirt.

When I was high school age, I started making clothes for myself at home and didn't have any patterns. I made two simple dresses and a boatneck sleeveless top. That was in the 60's.

It was just natural to make dresses for my three daughters. They were so close in age, many times I dressed them alike,

when they were little.

In later years, I made dance costumes for my daughters and myself.

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on the bay — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:47:55 GMT

She is beautiful @Enufstuff!

A breath of fresh spring air and she makes me smile

Thank you for sharing her with all of us!

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SportyShorty07 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:49:27 GMT

@Enufstuff wrote:
@SportyShorty07 Thank you very much.

@Enufstuff You're very welcome! I'm always impressed by your artwrok- keep up the great work and please keep us posted on future artwork too!

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Enufstuff — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:55:18 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 Toni was made quite a while before Barbie.

She was the "It" doll of the 50s. She was created in 1949, when the Ideal Doll Company collaborated with Gillette who made Toni home permanents, and Dupont who made the nylon fibers for the wigs.

There were lots of baby dolls, but Toni was the first little girl doll that had fashionable clothes and hair that could be shampooed and "permed". The famous designer, Oleg Cassini was one of the designers who designed dresses for Toni.

She was the biggest selling doll in the 50's. She was promoted

in magazines, in department stores and even by celebrities.

Every little girl wanted one. I was six years old when I got two

for Christmas.

People who had these dolls as children have become collectors.

My daughter and I were collecting them about 15 years ago and that was when I sewed the dresses and sold them online to other collectors.

You can Google or look on Pinterest and get information on these dolls. People are still selling them and dresses on ebay and Etsy.

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Kroppie — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:56:02 GMT

Thank you so much for making me smile. You made my day!
KToni is beautiful!! I am in awe of your skills. Happy Spring and Happy Easter!

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on the bay — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:56:23 GMT

@Enufstuff,

with all your talents, now I want to know what kind of dance did you and your daughters do?