Re: Do you collect dolls?

Burnsite · ‎03-10-2010

I must be hopeless, because I am looking for a Gund clown of yesteryear (which my sister loved) to give to her on her next birthday.

It was a cute clown, though--not too scarey.

I find politicians scarey rather often--dolls and clowns, umm, no.

Anniecamp · ‎03-12-2010

Kathy, you are lucky to have a Twiggy doll. They're not easy to find, and very expensive now. I also have the Kennedy dolls, with the wardrobe for Jackie. The Bette Ball dolls are beautifully made, so I have a couple of those, and of course Shirley Temple, both the 30's compos and the vinyls from the late 50s.

Burnsite, your clown is sure to show up on Ebay, eventually. Hope you find it. Smile

Quiet Rage · ‎05-12-2014

Not since I saw Chucky.

irishmama5 · ‎04-18-2013

No I do not collect or decorate with dolls, I have a doll that was my Grandmothers thats it. I have a friend that owns a Victorian home she has many dolls and they compliment her decor

Pqfan · ‎03-09-2010

Burnsite · ‎03-10-2010

PQ--are there pics of Blythe with her pink eyes showing? That would really alarm the doll-o-phobes.

In Japan, dolls are considered very potent and magical, though, so people aren't alone in thinking they are uncanny. In Japan they can be surrogates for the owner and are used in rituals--I think Shinto rituals (not Buddhist).

I just love things in miniature, have always been fascinated by tiny dolls. Which doesn't explain why I have a gi-normous Patti Playpal. I bought it as an EBay bargain for an old friend and fixed her up--and then my friend and her husband downsized to a condo and I hesitated to give it to her. I had bonded with the doll while fixing her up and couldn't sell her.

I hope my nieces have kids who like to play with dolls!

Pqfan · ‎03-09-2010

On 5/25/2014 Burnsite said:
PQ--are there pics of Blythe with her pink eyes showing? That would really alarm the doll-o-phobes.

In Japan, dolls are considered very potent and magical, though, so people aren't alone in thinking they are uncanny. In Japan they can be surrogates for the owner and are used in rituals--I think Shinto rituals (not Buddhist).

I just love things in miniature, have always been fascinated by tiny dolls. Which doesn't explain why I have a gi-normous Patti Playpal. I bought it as an EBay bargain for an old friend and fixed her up--and then my friend and her husband downsized to a condo and I hesitated to give it to her. I had bonded with the doll while fixing her up and couldn't sell her.

I hope my nieces have kids who like to play with dolls!

Hi Burnsite.

In Flickr there is a group for Blythe with their pink eyes showing.

If you google blythe doll pink eyes it comes up.

I have to go look up Patti Playpal.

I never saw one of those before.

nafecar · ‎03-10-2010

Not really but I do have a doll that came here to So Cal in 1852 on a wagon train.

Burnsite · ‎03-10-2010

Thanks, PQ--I will go and look. I really want a Blythe some day, maybe when I win the lottery.

I don't display my dolls but Blythe I would have to commune with for a while, I think.

My friend told me once that Patti P. got her through a very tough time during her parents' divorce when she was shipped over to grandparents who were a bit miffed at the sudden responsibility. She is about the size of a real 3 or 4 year old, and a new style of early 60s doll, American in look rather than fashioned on the "dolly" faces of the great German dolls.

She looks like an American preschooler, with long straight blonde hair, very 1960s. I had stopped playing with dolls when she came along but this is one of the great US dolls.

Like Blythe, she has her own bestselling book.