Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Sylvia at Waterfront

If you are in Brunswick, Maine
on the weekend
do visit the indoor flea market.
It is called the Waterfront Flea Market
and is in Fort Andross.

Tucked away in the middle
of this fascinating place
is
Sylvia.
Now Sylvia does not like
to have her picture taken,
BUT
She does not mind if I
take pictures of her dolls.
After all, 
they are for sale.

Here is some of what
I got to see, today.

~Reproduction Bru~

Bru is a name which nearly
any doll collector recognizes.
The French dolls have been
reproduced in various forms
many times.

~Patsy Joan by Effanbee~
This one is hard plastic.

~American Child by Dewees Cochran
for Effanbee~
This beauty is also hard plastic.

~Dolly Rosebud by Horseman~
(another hard plastic)

~Rosebud Brother by Horseman~

~Applause's Raggedy Ann~
What a cutie,
don't you think?

And more...
The beautiful big composition darling,
Chatty Cathy,
more babies, more compo,
more hard plastic and vinyl...

Years ago
I started talking to Sylvia just about
dolls, but (in the interest of full
disclosure) I now count her among
my real friends. :)


Saturday, January 14, 2012

Another "ism"

Bless me Blogger for I have ... not posted for TEN days!

-- Forgive me, please, if this offensive.  I am not Catholic and have no wish to deride or upset anyone.
OK, so here it is.
Is there such a thing as
"DOLLISM?"

Perhaps "CLEARANCE-ISM?"

Does any one else do this?

"Ooo!  A dolly clearance sale!
Ooo!  I don't have a Moxie boy!
Ooo!  He's cute!
Ooo!  One third the original price!
Ooo!  I have enough money!
Ooo!  I haven't bought a doll
for a while!"

Then
"Ooo!  What did I do that for?"

I mean, he's cute, and all, but
I think I just should have walked
away. 

By the by, his feet are non-existent.
The boots come off like
Bratz.

Oh, well.  Maybe some day I'll
have this lesson down pat.

 And... yes, this is an "ism."
It's part of that sneaky consumerism.

Do not worry.  It's a small price to
pay for such a good lesson.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Well, Almost...

Yesterday's Goodwill purchase #1 on

my basic (I think) American Model by Tonner.

Didn't quite fit.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Doll Haul

Under $5

Under $3, but still my not be a good deal.

Under $3

The "Doll Shop"