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[Enufstuff]

   It was such a nice sunny day in the 70's and Toni went to the orchard for apple picking with her family.

    She chose to wear her red and white dress with the apple print bodice and a little apple brooch at the neckline. The skirt is trimmed with white ric rac in the 1950's style.

   Toni is excited to help her mother to make an apple pie and caramel apples.

    This dress is from my Toni Doll Collection of dresses that I designed and sewed. They are based on the original Toni doll dresses made by Ideal and all have the attached petticoat trimmed with lace as the original dresses had.

[Malcontent]

@Enufstuff 

Your work really is so lovely.

I pray your health is better.

Thank You for posting.

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@Malcontent  Thank you so much. I am actually feeling better than I was a couple of weeks ago. Now, it is just vertigo, which I get in the spring and fall. Thank you for asking.

[spiderw]

What a lovely dress for apple picking, Toni loods so pretty.  You certainly are talented and the dress perfectly made!!!  I can remember playing with my Toni doll like it was yesterday!!!!

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@spiderw   Thank you so much. Wasn't Toni just the prettiest doll? What size was yours and what color hair did she have?

  When my cousin and I were six years old, we wanted Toni Dolls for Christmas. We were both so disappointed when Santa did not bring them.

  Later that day, we visited our grandmother and she surprised us with our Toni Dolls. We were so happy. Our dolls were the 14" size. My doll was platinum blonde and my cousin's had black hair.

  Christmas night, my parents took me to visit my other grandmother and guess what? She also gave me a Toni Doll.

This doll was the 15" size and I called her hair color "lemon

blonde".   My mother helped me when it came time to give them "perms". It was fun styling their hair.

   I kept my Toni Dolls and collected more as an adult. Then I started making and selling the dresses to other doll collectors.

  I still have all my Ginny Dolls, clothing and furniture. Did you have any Ginny Dolls? They were popular just before Barbie made an appearance. My daughters had Barbie Dolls.

[mspatmac]

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Toni look perfect as always.  Love the dress and the red shoes are a finishing touch.

Happy you are feeling better and looking forward to her Christmas outfits.  I appreciate your posting. 

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@mspatmac   Thank you very much. Toni will be back before Christmas.  She has her dress picked out for a day at the fair and

she will also be modeling some Halloween costumes, next month.

  She will be wearing a taffeta dress for Christmas.

[shoesnbags]

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That outfit is just wonderful!  Your sewing is definitely top notch.  Toni is so lucky to have you as her designer lol!

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@shoesnbags   Thank you very much. Making the clothes was fun. Now I'm having fun writing the silly little stories and posting

the pictures here.

[phoenixbrd]

@Enufstuff   I always appreciate your Toni shares...such a well dressed girl!  Your love of the craft as well as your ability is so evident.  Love Toni in her apple picking clothes from the perfect little apples on her bodice to the perfect bows on her red shoes.  Thanks for these precious shares!