Quints follow-up

This is a follow-up to my post on the Quints a few months back.  I owe a debt of gratitude to Barb the Evil Genius for alerting me to a large lot of Quints accessories running around on eBay.  I don't neccessarily want a complete collection of Quint stuff, but this lot included some clothes and some items that I'd never seen before...plus some items that I did once own and wanted to own again, so when Barb sent me the link I was quick to hit that "buy" button.  Here's what I've got for y'all today.

I don't even recognize some of this stuff.  Some of it is clearly accessories to a set that's not around anymore, and some of it...Lordy, I don't know WHERE those skis came from!  Given the amount of stuff I'll try to break it up into subsets, for y'all's sake and my own.  I'll start with the most complete set, and my personal favorite part of the set.  If y'all go back and read my post on the Quints y'all may notice that I referred to a set of wagons that I once owned.  Behold, the set of wagons was in this lot!

There are some pieces missing, but all the important stuff is here.  The wagons are intact with nothing broken, and they're even in the proper order.  Further, someone was able to accomplish what I could not do as a child:  get this little handle properly placed!

It's IN THERE, clearly not intended to come out, so I understand now why I had such a hard time getting it to go in.  Anyway, the wagons originally came with little sun visors, lollipops, and toys for each child (dolls for the girls, trucks for the boys).  My set is missing one doll and one truck, but here's what the items I do have look like.  Being pink, blue, and yellow, they'd be for Rosie (Quint 1), Robin (Quint 2), and Daisy (Quint 3).

The dolls are obvious rag dolls, with bulbous noses and smirky little smiles.  They're not terribly unlike Loonette and Molly, characters from The Big Comfy Couch.  The truck looks like one of those oversized Tonka trucks that I was very fond of in my day.

The lollipops are those infamous all-day suckers that I never saw the allure of, and unlike the toys there's one for each kid.

The candy part has molded swirl marks, and the sticks have bows on them for reasons I'll never know; given the size of these lollipops compared to the Quints' mouths those bows would have sugar-sticky slobber all over them in a matter of minutes.  Even when I owned these dolls as a kid I knew that.  These lollipops have an advantage over the dolls though, as the sticks are slender enough to fit into the Quints' hands.

Lastly, the visors.  As with the lollipops I have all five.

I was particularly fond of visors when I was a kid, as my grandfather wore them to read.  Whenever I found one I'd put it on so I could be "just like Grandpa."  I'd forgotten that until I saw these.

So here's my caboodle all decked out for a wagon ride.

And here they are in the wagons.

These wagons really do work, by the way; when I was little I'd pull them around.  Now that I'm older I can see potential problems with this set, chiefly those little visors.

They have to flex a little to go around the dolls' heads, and I worry that that may cause this plastic to wear out with time.  Maybe there's an easier way to get them on; maybe just showing the earpieces into the hair will do.

And maybe it won't.  I'll just have to be extra careful, I guess.  I love this set though, and I'm so glad to have it back in my life.

Now the territory grows uncharted, for I've never seen this set before, not even on Ghost of the Doll's website.  It's a ski set.

However, my eyes deceived me, as this set is indeed on Ghost of the Doll's site.  It is an outfit set called "Snowy Fun."  I'm missing three ski poles (one each for Robin, Daisy, and Violet), and I'm missing Rosie's and Daisy's ear muffs, but I've got all the shoes so no huge deal.  Each child has their little jacket, which is made out of terry cloth and has an attached scarf.

The front is bedecked with three little "buttons" in the form of white seed beads, but needless to say these buttons don't function.  The front is held together with a strip of Velcro.

The shoes are intregal to the functioning of the skis, as they're what holds the doll's feet to the skis, so I'm happy that I've got all of them.  They're vinyl low-top shoes with two lines of lacing in the front and a reinforced heel.

The poles are made of plastic and are like the lollipops in that they can be held in the dolls' hands.

The ear muffs are also made of plastic and are not much to look at from the front...

...but from the side they're shaped like little hearts!

Even though it's finally spring here in Missouri, here's what my crew looks like when they're about to hit the slopes.

I was afraid that dressing these dolls in such tiny clothes would be, to quote Simon Cowell, "a complete and utter nightmare," but to my surprise it was fairly easy.  I also was afraid that those little coats would be too short to truly look warm, but they do a fairly decent job of covering the Quints' bodies.  The missing poles are not immediately noticeable if I put the poles I do have in the hand facing the camera, and the ear muffs do not stay on very well so I don't miss the two missing pairs terribly.  Fitting the dolls onto the skis was not hard either, though it's easy to knock a pole or two loose when getting them situated.  This is a great little outfit set though, one that I'm delighted to have.

Now, another little outfit set that I never owned before, and it didn't have a lot of pieces to lose so it's complete.  This is called "Sleepy Time" and it's an obvious pajamas set.

These are feet pajamas that were once fairly common for babies and kids...I guess technically they still are, but now they're called "onesies."  Anyway, these have honest-to-God buttons on the front, though they're just for decoration (the front fastens with Velcro again), and the necks are trimmed with a dab of lace.

The backs have faux seats, done with lines of stitching and two more buttons.

These pajamas come with little star-shaped pillows that have bits of elastic at the top for the dolls to hold.

The fabric is printed the same as the bunting from the "Bottle and Bunting" set, but the color of each pillow varies to match the corresponding Quint.

Lastly, this set comes with a "book" that teaches basic letters and numbers.

Time for bed, kiddies!

I don't like this set as much as I like the ski set, but it sure is cute!  It adds a bit of cuddle factor to these otherwise stiff dolls.  The elastic on Robin's pillow has unfortunately broken, but that's nothing I can't fix with a needle and some elastic thread.  Very cute.

To my delight, these pajamas do not interfere with the Quints' ability to lie in their bunting.  Indeed, the fit is improved slightly due to the extra bulk of that fabric.

The rest of this stuff is a random mish-mash of accessories that came with other playsets or other sets of dolls.  These flocked teddy bears belong with the bed that I once owned, for example.

When I was a little girl I'd stick these bears in the wagons with the other toys, and indeed I could still do that today.  They also make superb accessories for the pajamas.

These items came with the vanity set.  I got the little ottomans, several hairbrushes, little hair combs for the girls, a headband for Robin, a blow dryer for Daisy, and bits of ribbon that may or may not have come with the vanity set.  Not bad, really!  All I need to complete this is the vanity itself.

These items, four and a half pairs of bunny slippers and a conjoined rattle that actually rattles, came with the rocking chair playset.  I need to replace the chair itself and the little blankets that it came with...and maybe Robin's missing slipper.

This last set...I'm really not sure if it's all part of one set or if it's two sets put together.

I know that a lot of this stuff (the tan pails nests, the birds, the flowers, and the hats for the girls) belongs to the Sunny Time Quints.  These Quints were a set of dolls quite different from my Bottle and Bunting set; they had freckles that appeared with cold water, and they only came with red hair.  Missing from this set are the Quints and their clothes, and caps for the boys.  I do have the girls' bonnets though, and I like them better than the sun visors.

Unfortunately these only sit loosely on the single ponytails of the Bottle and Bunting girls...which makes me wonder how the Sunny Time girls wore them, because they also have single ponytails.

Interestingly, no mention is made of flocked rabbits in the Sunny Time Quints' inventory, and yet I have one.  It's pink and thus would belong to Rosie...if it is indeed a Quints item.

Another set of Quints, the Playful Quints, came with bunnies, but they weren't three-dimensional flocked bunnies.  Nor were the bunnies that came with Cradle for Five, one of the accessory sets, flocked figurines.  So I guess that I'll have to scratch my head over this one; maybe it's just some sort of cute add-in that someone acquired along the way.  It fits in nicely with the teddy bears, so I'm not going to complain too loudly.  Rosie can have her very own velveteen rabbit.

While these accessories are not 100% complete, I'm very happy to have them.  They kept me entertained for a solid four hours last Monday, so that's one thing.  Additionally, instead of having to piece together a collection one item at a time I've now got a whole lot of stuff, including TWO outfit sets.  I'm particularly happy for those outfits, as now my dolls don't have to run around in their diapers.  It's wonderful to have my old wagons back too, and the other assorted little props that came along for the ride.  And those skis!!!  I've never owned a doll that had skis before.  Yeah, I know there were ski sets available for Barbie and for the American Girls, but I never had any of those.  So in short, I'm delighted with this lot of stuff, and I send out a big fat THANK YOU to Barb the Evil Genius for sending me the link, and to eBay seller It72406 for selling them to me.  Now I just need to replace the vanity and the rocking chair...and maybe find a set of Sunny Time Quints that are missing their accessories.  They're just so cute, and they're different from the Quints I already own.

Joy to all,
RagingMoon1987