Silver Bird is already ready to hit the streets and gather some candy! She's even got her little bucket, which the sticker says came from Oriental Trading Company.
Oh Lordy, I used to love Oriental Trading Company catalogs. I look back on it all and realize that most of it was just junk that could clutter up a kid's room, but to my child's eye it was TREASURE!!! A lot of the Halloween stuff glowed in the dark, so I always loved those catalogs the best.
Rita Cheryl is a little more understated than Silver Bird, but she too is ready for the oncoming fall, and the blazing weather that will inevitably come before Halloween gets here.
Rita Cheryl is a little more understated than Silver Bird, but she too is ready for the oncoming fall, and the blazing weather that will inevitably come before Halloween gets here.
I do have a jacket and footwear for her to wear when it does turn cold, but for now Rita Cheryl is happy as a lark without all the frippery.
Of course no post of mine is complete without a Cabbage Patch Kid. Mama got this for my Kids, and I promptly assigned it to Idalia Gale.
Of course no post of mine is complete without a Cabbage Patch Kid. Mama got this for my Kids, and I promptly assigned it to Idalia Gale.
There's always gotta be one in the mix who WILL. NOT. wear a dress, and for me that someone is Idalia Gale. Oh, she'll wear dresses when I push the issue, but it's like pulling teeth without anesthesia. Idalia Gale is a jeans-and-overalls Kid, full stop.
Going a size down now, I have a Halloween-themed outfit for So Surprised Suzie around here somewhere (always somewhere!), but because I'm so organized I can't find it. Never fear, I've had this outfit waiting since last winter.
There's always something available for a Baby Face doll if you know where to look, and not to brag, but I know where to look. This particular dress is an eBay find, from Luvable Creations.
This next doll is a new face to the blog. She's Lorifina, though I call her Lori.
Lorifina dolls came in simple little sleepwear, and items for this doll can still be found on eBay, but a healthy cottage industry also exists for this doll, and that's what this is here. The eBay shop is dea850, and most of the items in this ensemble are handmade. The shoes are not handmade, being Lorifina-brand shoes.
Pretty sweet kicks, I must say. These slid onto Lori's feet with zero fuss, by the way. Lori has sizeable feet, and the openings to the shoes looked kinda small, but they gap open enuff that I had no trouble getting these on her.
From the very tall to the very small, here's another new face. Meet My Mini Baby! Ayla Diamond is her name. Ayla...I've got another Ayla in my collection, but don't tell the Baby Name Genie that. I like the name Ayla anyway, so I can live with having two. Here's the new Ayla; she looks nothing like Big Ayla. My Mini Babies have sweet little faces...but they're all asleep!
Yeah, I ripped Miss Emily's blog off again, name generator and all. She recently talked about tiny blind-bag silicone babies (posts HERE and HERE), and when she mentioned that Etsy has a thriving market for clothes, I was sold. Most of the items for these dolls are crocheted, and I love tiny things that are crocheted. Crocheting something that small is NOT easy; I've tried it and it made my hands and eyes ache. This little outfit came from PaulasCrochetArmoire. As an aside, the Star Babies in the second post are WAAAAY more expensive than My Mini Baby, but the only way they're superior is in the name (I think they're also handmade, so that's something). Staaaaarrr baby, flashy little shiny little lovin' machine! LOL, I freaking love the Guess Who.
Ahem...not all of my kids are getting ready for falling leaves, fun-size M&M's, and pumpkin spice lattes. Summer Daisy is ready to soak up some rays.
Ahem...not all of my kids are getting ready for falling leaves, fun-size M&M's, and pumpkin spice lattes. Summer Daisy is ready to soak up some rays.
Thank you again, Treesa! She said she wanted to get that little outfit to me before summer ended, and she succeeded! Maybe that little outfit would look better on a neutral-colored critter like Flaxie, but I STILL haven't found Flaxie!!! The pink provides a nice contrast to Summer Daisy's fur anyway. As an aside...have y'all seen this year's Build-a-Bear Halloween cats? They are ADORABLE!!! One of 'em has ghosts printed on its fur.
Sunny love,
RagingMoon1987
Mia isn't really dressed for fall either, but she and the next two dolls look so cute that I wanted to include them. I guess frogs can be for early fall, since they're still hollering on warm nights.
There's a story behind this outfit, one that shows that our local postal service still has problems. I ordered this super-cute little outfit for Cinnamon, one that mixed go-go dancers and tie-dying, and IT. NEVER. CAME. The tracking number said "delivered," but I never got my cute little outfit. So, not wanting to give the shop a bad review for something that was out of their hands, I messaged them and they offered me my choice of the other outfits. I picked the frog dress above, as it was the same price as the lost dress and since Mia needed something nice and new (Cinnamon didn't). We see the result! The eBay shop is called Park Ave Doll Clothes, and they have a nice selection of items for a number of vintage dolls that aren't the easiest to clothe. They've even got some things for my buddy Sasha.
Lastly, here's two more of my Cabbage Patch Kids, Rowena Skylar and the beloved Candela Laura.
Lastly, here's two more of my Cabbage Patch Kids, Rowena Skylar and the beloved Candela Laura.
As usual, these were gifts from Mama. Candela Laura's set has Peppa Pig and Rowena Skylar's set has brightly colored insects. More springtimey, these colors are, but my cares are nigh next to zero. By the way, remember when I told y'all that Beryl June (one of my double popcorns) has a fan? Candela Laura does too; a friend on Failbook told me that Candela Laura was her dream Jesmar. I have seen a couple'a Jesmars that look a lot like Candela Laura does, so if my friend looks hard enuff she should be able to find one. Candela Laura kinda just fell in my lap...but then so did Rowena Skylar, LOL!
The jumble of colors and themes doesn't matter too much since fall is a mixed bag in the Bootheel anyway. Some years it stays hot until the middle of November, and another year it snowed in early October. Still other years have seen the temperatures see-saw wildly, with a wave of severe weather accompanying each swing. Last fall was very wet, thanks to Hurricanes Francine and Helene. Seriously, Helene didn't cause my area anywhere near as much trouble as she did Appalachia, and she was STILL a doozie! I hope it's a long time before the country has another terrible storm like that. I wouldn't mind a nice long soaking rain though, as the crops are starting to need it. Speaking of hurricanes...here's Erin's baby picture, taken on the 11th.
The jumble of colors and themes doesn't matter too much since fall is a mixed bag in the Bootheel anyway. Some years it stays hot until the middle of November, and another year it snowed in early October. Still other years have seen the temperatures see-saw wildly, with a wave of severe weather accompanying each swing. Last fall was very wet, thanks to Hurricanes Francine and Helene. Seriously, Helene didn't cause my area anywhere near as much trouble as she did Appalachia, and she was STILL a doozie! I hope it's a long time before the country has another terrible storm like that. I wouldn't mind a nice long soaking rain though, as the crops are starting to need it. Speaking of hurricanes...here's Erin's baby picture, taken on the 11th.
Not gonna lie, this hurricane has me concerned. She formed in the Cape Verde area, where some of the worst hurricanes form, and she's got nothing but the wide open sea in front of her. Those waters are warm, perfect for Erin to grow. So we'll see what happens. As for me and for much of the east-central part of the U.S., the weekend and the bulk of next week are looking to be hotter than the hinges of hell. We're not quite to "Everyone in McKinney is dead" mode, but we'll be close.
ALICE UPDATE: My resident black widow has had a third clutch of babies, and I've seen her oot and aboot a couple'a times, but no more pictures so far. Alice hides when I come around, and I can't say that I blame her. I'd hide too if something a trillion times my size looked at me. But Alice is alive and well, still spry, still beautiful, still nimble as a jackrabbit.
ALICE UPDATE: My resident black widow has had a third clutch of babies, and I've seen her oot and aboot a couple'a times, but no more pictures so far. Alice hides when I come around, and I can't say that I blame her. I'd hide too if something a trillion times my size looked at me. But Alice is alive and well, still spry, still beautiful, still nimble as a jackrabbit.
RagingMoon1987
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