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. 

Advent Calendar, Day Nineteen!

 Hello Dear Readers,

 I braved the great outdoors again today. I needed to go back to Five Below (for totally selfish reasons) and wanted to go in the hopes that the item I wanted was still in stock. Online it said it wasn't, but I was hopeful that wasn't accurate. I really wanted to go today since tomorrow is the first day of the last weekend before Christmas, eek! 

 Today's door is another little tiny one:

 Inside we find....

 Bows! And with that, we've filled up the front of the Christmas tree:

 I did have to move around some of the ornaments to get them to hang properly. Those balls are a bit tricky, I wish they were flat on the back so they'd sit closer to the tree. It's cute, but I'm not totally sure about hanging a wreath on a tree. It just feels odd.

 Anyway, let me show you what I braved Five Below for. They sell these sets called Teeny Tinies. Their quality is mixed, but they're small sets and some of the pieces are Barbie sized. They usually do a holiday meal themed set that I buy, but they didn't do one this year. When I went the other day I picked up a set called Dessert Display. I got it for the desserts, but I realized when I got home it had the cutest little dessert shelf with it. And I decided that shelf would be perfect for displaying my Barbie accessories. Since I've started collecting more Mattel made vintage pieces I've struggled on how to display accessories. I don't have a good way to display them with the outfits, but this way I can nicely display some of my accessories in a nice way. The problem is, I only bought one when I needed at least two. They were showing out of stock online, but I found more of them hiding away in the display. I bought three more.  

 This is a quick thrown together display of some of the pieces I already had on display. Before I had these on little vintage wooden tables that I had, but I think I'll be able to get both tables onto one display. I put paper on the shelves to go between the shelves and the accessories. Everything is hard plastic so I think it would be fine, but if I can avoid melting that's what I want to do. Isn't it cute???