No Vintage June Day Four

 I won't lie, no vintage June has been harder than I expected. I cannot tell you the amount of times I type in the first few letters of a vintage shopping website I frequent all too often out of habit. Luckily I removed it from my history so if I want to visit it I have to type it in full then do a search, which is much easier to stop myself instead of just clicking a link and letting it load. So I have not bought anything vintage online in June. I did stop at a thrift store a few days ago and almost got a vintage knickknack, but I thought about it and decided to put it back. I did buy a new doll a few days ago from China, but that's outside of the perimeters, so we're still good. I'm hoping that I'll keep June light for purchases, but I know of one expensive release that I'm hoping on getting that was just announced for later in the month. 

 Still working on getting stuff organized of what I have. 

 I got this Malibu P.J. recently in a lot with another doll I wanted and I've decided to keep her. I don't have a Malibu P.J. and while I don't love the Palm to Rear hands, I'm just going to ignore it for now. I need to decide something to do to cover her pigtail elastics, but that's future me's problem. I did have this outfit on a headless Japan Malibu body, but decided to give it to P.J. since she's got a head. Not sure if I'll get her something more 80s eventually, but I do like her skin tone with the yellow. 

 I went to a doll event last weekend and picked up this Growing Up Skipper. Originally I was going to use for a body donor for a Growing Up Ginger head I rerooted, but on closer inspection, she's a really nice shape. She's even still has her original hair ribbon. I decided to clean her up and hold onto her as is. I do have another really nice Skipper so I really don't need two, but she's here now and she's on display. I know I have her longer skirt around here somewhere, but I'm missing her shoes and the rest of her outfit. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for them.... once No Vintage June is over. 

  

No Vintage June - Day 1

 Hello Dear Readers, 

 

After some spend heavy months, I am taking June off from Vintage. I'm going to focus on enjoying what I have, cleaning up dolls, and getting dolls on display. I have a lot of things to work on, and going to spend the time chipping away at the things that have been waiting for their time to get cleaned up. 

 I'm going to set myself a goal of getting one doll dressed per week, it's a pretty simple goal, but I have other stuff I should be working on too, so I don't want to overwhelm myself or hyper focus on just dolls and ignore other stuff I really need to be doing. 

I spent yesterday working on organizing and got two dolls ready for display. 

 This doll is a redress, she was wearing Black Magic but I decided to go for something a little more casual. I've been working on the shirt for a few weeks. It has a stubborn tan stain all over the back, but it's been bleached so much it practically glows in the dark! She's wearing the wrong hat and (not shown) shoes, and I don't have any of the accessories, but that gives me something to look for when I'm back to vintage shopping. That being said, I don't really have a great way to display her accessories with her, so it's not a massive issue she doesn't have any of them. 

 This doll is a newer doll. She was a last minute splurge, and one that I really shouldn't have gotten. She came on the wrong body and it was harrowing swapping her to the right body. She has a hair cut, but luckily her hair isn't as brittle as some other oxidized TNT dolls. She's wearing Cool Casuals with fabric that originally was used for the Little Red Riding Hood Little Theater outfit. I was surprised how high cut the bottom of the top is. It's a very scanty top! She's wearing repro shoes, but only because I'm still deciding what vintage shoes to get her. She's got very Ann Margaret vibes to her and I would like to get her into some vintage footwear, but we'll see what I have.