Now to the post. These first few pictures are from a post that I scrapped. It involved the glow-ups of two new dolls and was pretty disjointed, so I scrapped it. The first doll is a bedraggled Just Like You #119 that I adopted off of eBay (she arrived April 29th). Pretty wild, this doll was released in 2022, retired in 2025, and now there she was on eBay, stripped and mussed. Putting her back together was an easy fix, but still! Anywho, here's how she looked fresh out of her shipper...
...after I got her dressed...
...and after I brushed the tangles out of her hair.
That was all it took to throw her into shape. Her name is Electra, by the way, and I noted in the scrapped post that she's only my second doll to have the after-2022 eyebrows. River Song was my first.
If placed too low the newer eyebrows run the risk of looking bitchy, and River Song comes dangerously close to crossing that line. Kinda fitting, now that I think of it, since Riv's namesake is a bitch. Electra's eyebrows are placed high, giving her an innocent, quizzical, kinda goofy expression, like McKenna Brooks. Keep in mind that I'm not McKenna's biggest fan. But Electra looks alright. She's a Nanea head, and Nanea dolls always look innocent...a little too innocent...
...anyway! Around the same time Mama fell in love with this Las Amigas doll, Mali.
...anyway! Around the same time Mama fell in love with this Las Amigas doll, Mali.
I don't have too many dolls that can cross their ankles like this, much less play dolls. As I said in April, Cinderella is a Zapf Creation Little Princess, by the way. I was looking for Snow White, but these dolls are kinda hard to find so I took what I could get. The Little Princesses are highly jointed and easy to carry, so I may do a lot with Cinderella in the coming weeks.
May 6th. Electra kicks back with her cat, Water Lily.
By then Electra's accessories had come. Mama said they added a lot to Electra's overall look. Oh, and here's a better look at Water Lily, because she's got an adorable face.
Water Lily got her name from the series of paintings by Claude Monet. I love those paintings.
May 8th. Chou Chou, in her usual mood.
This time I think she's mad that I let her hair get dusty.
May 10th. Kiara is just a hair out of season, LOL!
Mama and I were digging for the perfect patriotic outfit. We'd already found some nice things for the Wellie Wishers and some of the American Girls. Spoilers, we found something for Kiara too. Keep reading.
May 12th. One of my Failbook groups has a Tiny Treasures Tuesday, and Hong Kong Honey and Libra Baby are definitely tiny.
I need to dig out my tiny ball-jointed dolls, the ones Setsu-P sent. They'll be perfect for the theme! I also need to take Honey and Libra outside and pose them in the grass, to vary things up a bit.
May 17th. Pictures from another aborted post. HER NAME IS MARIANNINA!!! I need to get her a name tag, because I never can remember.
May 18th. With the temperature and humidity rising, Yuka fancied a brief jaunt outside.
Severe weather was in the cards again, and for some weird reason whenever that happens I want to play with Yuka. Keep in mind that when the weather is threatening I pack her up and carry her with me to work. It wasn't predicted to be THAT bad on May 19th, but with Yuka I take no chances.
May 19th. Kiara's Independence Day getup arrived...most of it. The T-shirt is missing.
May 19th. Kiara's Independence Day getup arrived...most of it. The T-shirt is missing.
Look at Bitty Kitty's hat!
I thought that taping Kiara's hat to her head was bad, but this is a riot!
May 20th. This doll arrived, and she is a big question mark. She was made by Playmates and made in Hong Kong, but that's all I know about her.
I found some in-package examples of similar dolls that were called "Tara," and a Failbook friend thinks these dolls were offered by Kellogg's cereal. Indeed, I found a doll just like this pet from Kellogg's, and her name was/is "Honey." She looks like she's signing "I love you" with her left hand.
I thought Ginger was a blue-eyed brunette, but she is in fact a redhead. Hence her name; Mama helped me pick that name. Tam has/had a doll with these same hands, by the way, but her head is different. She's a cute little doll.
May 21st. Ginger and Mali made fast friends.
Mama fell hard for the Paola Reina dolls during May. First there was Mali as seen above, and this is Nora. She arrived May 21st.
Nora is one of those jointed Las Amigas, which I knew existed but never had owned before. She isn't as limber as Cinderella is, but she looks a lot more comfortable than Mali does. Did y'all see the penguins on Nora's onesie??? I love penguins!
Paola Reina dolls tend to have pretty eyes, but Nora's are completely different from those of my other PR dolls. When the light hits 'em just right they shine, kinda like Printemps eyes do.
Despite what that picture suggests, Nora does not have pupils. As dark as her eyes are the lack of pupils isn't too jarring.
May 25th. One of my Failbook groups asked for brown-eyed babies, and Colin was who I thought of first.
Since Colin can't sit I propped him up against Cassandra. They make a cute pair.
May 26th is when Briana Joy arrived. I went through a brief fixation on Only Hearts Club dolls during the end of May.
Briana Joy is the prerequisite athlete of the Only Hearts Club
Here she is out of her box, with her little doggie Longfellow in tow. Kinda looks like her hands are fading; Tam said that can be a problem with these dolls.
Lily Rose followed on May 27th. She has a combo that I love, red hair and freckles.
Lily Rose is the outdoorsy type who loves to camp and...well, just do stuff outside!
Be sure to wear sunblock, chica. Most of my red-haired friends burn like a shopping list in a bonfire when the sun is bright...but then again, so do I, and I am definitely NOT a redhead. Lily Rose has taken precautions anyway with that hat, but she looks like she's already got some sun on her.
Olivia Hope is still with us, by the way. She's in storage, but unlike some of my stored items I know exactly where she is, and once I'm up and walking again I'll retrieve her.
Unfortunately for Lily Rose and Briana Joy, my obsession with the Only Hearts Club went on vacation when Mika showed up (she arrived the same day as Lily Rose, May 27th).
Brrrr, we were running the A/C that day, and those bare legs look cold. Our A/C is very efficient, thank God, but it does make summer evenings a mite chilly at Casa Pizarro. Oh well, I do have a cute lap blanket. Anyway, Mika is a Volks Mini Super Dollfie. I've wanted a Volks doll for a long time, and now I've got her (Mama and I went halfsies)! Here's a better picture of her.
May 29th. I dragged Ginger to work with me for no special reason other than that I could (she fits into my saddle bag. I have no idea what she's pointing at.
Ginger likes birds, so maybe she was pointing at them. My street has plenty of 'em, including a few woodpeckers. I love woodpeckers. Or it may have been the clouds. The end of May was very unsettled in our neck of the woods.
But then again, so was early June, and that brings us June 1st. This lovely little trio consists of Bryant, Bella (not to be confused with my dog Bella), and Ashlyn.
I'd heard through the grapevine that the Wellie Wishers were being phased out in favor of the AG Sisters, which I'd both feared and expected. Take that news with a pinch of salt though, because I've neither heard nor read anything official. Anywho, I need the whole set like I need a hole in my head, but...well, I want it, LOL. As for Bella, she's a little French doll, and I saw one of her ilk get an in-depth glow-up on YouTube. I don't know if I should trust my Bella though, as she looks a lot like a bad seed.
"Who, moi?"
Yes, you. You remind me of Rhoda Penmark. LOL, that's actually why I chose this particular Bella doll! To be fair, Bella also reminds me a little of Edith, from Dare Wright's The Lonely Doll (Edith was a Lenci doll). I don't know a lot about Bella dolls, so I'll do some research and maybe put up a post if I find enuff material. From what little I've already learned, Bella may have been the name of the company itself and not the name of the doll. Either way Bella got a lot of attention in the week after she arrived, and she could easily be found on the arm of the couch, right by me.
A lot of the other Bella dolls that I've run into since have irritated expressions. Not ugly, mind y'all, but put out. I'm thankful that my doll is more chill than that.
June 6th. I put Nora in her new summer dress. It's more fitting for June in the Bootheel than her penguin onesie. Yes, that's a box of corn Chex behind her. My favorite flavor of Chex.
The dress is tagged with Paola Reina's logo, so I think it may have been lifted from another doll. Oh well, it looks fine on Nora, especially with all those colors.
We return to French dolls on June 10th.
Her name is Praline, and she's from Corolle's Rainbow line. I love her smirky little face!
On June xx another little foreigner arrived. Her name is Carola, and unsurprisingly she's a Furga doll. Y'all probably know of old how I like those.
On June xx another little foreigner arrived. Her name is Carola, and unsurprisingly she's a Furga doll. Y'all probably know of old how I like those.
I have plenty of Furga dolls, but only one other Furga baby doll. Carola's face was what appealed to me, especially those gray eyes.
What can I say, I love European-made dolls. They're not any better or worse than those produced in China or God-knows-where, but I like their faces. Furga dolls in particular can be just about any emotion conceivable, with Carola being...oh, I'd say she's in awe of something, like my sister and I often were at a young age. Mama told me that I used to look over her shoulder at nothing and just...smile. And my sister, while in her mechanical swing, would stare over all our heads with her eyes wide and her mouth slightly agape, like she was saying "oooo" at something. Being religious, I attribute it to babies seeing angels or something else of that stripe, but y'all can make of that what you want.
June 17th, Carola got friendly with my Cry Babies, Ayla and Lady.
June 18th. This time I have Liesel, Alex, and Ethel. All fresh out of their packages.
That's a mixed bag if I ever saw one! I kinda get the idea that Liesel may have a temper, but Alex is a good baby so Liesel needn't worry.
June 19th. Ethel appears to have a motherly side to her (see above), so I gave her a smaller baby to manage. The little doll is a Potato Baby from Cloveray.
Since the Potato Baby is from Cloveray I named her Clover. She's not as squidgy-pinchy soft as Alex, but she feels nice in my hands.
I haven't seen Potato Babies of color, and that's a shame. Clover would look adorable in a dark vinyl.
June 21st. After a long absence one of my Cabbage Patch Kids pops in to say hello. Joyita Emilia was fascinated by Alex.
Another green-eyed baby joined the group on June 22nd.
She's a Disney Darling, and I've chosen to name her Winnie, after good ol' Winnie-the-Pooh. I don't know if all Disney Darlings light up and play music, but this one does, and...well, y'all know how I like things that light up.
Y'all, I think I rather overdid it with new dolls this time around! I need to focus on the old instead of buying the new. Anyway, June 24th, in the aftermath of an infuriating day, I noticed that Winnie and Alex have something significant in common: BIG green eyes.
Y'all, I think I rather overdid it with new dolls this time around! I need to focus on the old instead of buying the new. Anyway, June 24th, in the aftermath of an infuriating day, I noticed that Winnie and Alex have something significant in common: BIG green eyes.
My, what BIG eyes you've got! Their eyes close in tandem, too, meaning that when I hold one eye closed they both close.
The vast majority of my sleep-eyed dolls have individual eyes, like so.
LOL, I got to use that goofy picture twice! Winking is sadly out of the picture for Alex and Winnie, but that's a small price to pay.
June 25th. Liesel reminded me that I hadn't yet let her sit on the arm of the couch, a rite of passage for a lot of the dolls that come to Casa Pizarro. I reminded her that our floors are thin carpet on a concrete floor, and thus she'd likely break if she fell. But ultimately I gave in...for a little while, anyway.
My cats were particularly hyper that evening, so Liesel didn't stay there long. I'd have held her on my lap, but that too was occupied by a cat (remember that I have six cats, LOL). But either way Liesel was appeased, and I promised her a safe place for her and Ethel to be displayed one day.
On June 26th I took Clover to work with me...again. I'd already done that twice. Clover prefers the narrower of the two pockets in my saddlebag.
I can't say that I blame Clover. That pocket is the perfect width for her.
Towards the end of the month Treesa sent me a small box of stuff for World Doll Day (which I completely forgot). I won't make a long post longer by showing it all, but here's the star of the box.
I think she's a #4. She's kept her color better than Mama's #3, but she's not greasy like #5 can be. She's got a beautiful face.
Some of the other items in the box were Barbie-sized pets, so I may have to do a pet-themed post in the future. One of 'em is an old Kitty in My Pocket figure. I used to love those growing up. I also want to find matching dresses for my two ponytail girls, which won't be hard. I just need another copy of "Fancy Free." Thank you, Treesa!
I must say, this summer is off to a rough start. I don't even have a post planned for Indy Day, I've been so out of it. But I haven't torn my ankle up like I did last July, so that's a positive. God willing, I won't.
Stay cool,
RagingMoon1987
