Under the cabbage leaf: snow rose

I don't know how our mail folks managed to deliver our stuff, but I got a bootle of mail today.  The temperature is up to 28 Fahrenheit, which is a heatwave compared to the weekend, and things are melting her and there, but most of Stevenson Street is still covered.  No one on the block can get out of their driveway.  There's not a lot of stuff, but it's slick. 

And yet my mail is here!  Two things I bought for myself and two things that Mama got for me.  If I'd been thinking ahead I could've named this new doll "Snow Rose" or "Crystal Gale," seeing as both Malden, Missouri and Bangor, Pennsylvania (the new girl's origins) got hit by snow and ice.  Indeed, there was a Garbage Pail Kid named Crystal Gale, itself a spoof of country artist Crystal Gayle (LOL).  I ordered this doll on the eve of the big winter storm (January 21st, to be exact), and she's only now getting here.  After some discussion Mama and I chose the name "Rosanna Claire" for this pet.

All I wanna do in the middle of the evening is hold you tight, Rosanna, Rosanna!  LOL, I guess eBay figured out that I like redheads, since this doll popped up as a suggested purchase when I bought Rubia Emilia.  Rosanna is a Hasbro Kid with...guess which head???  Looks like Hasbro's version of the #4 head, particularly since it can take a binky.  If I'm right then that makes my sixth #4 head.  

But I don't see dimples.  #4 heads have two dimples.

Dang, I wish Rosanna had brown eyes!  I only have one Cabbie in the Patch with that combo, pretty Cleopatra Chantale.  No, my mistake, Gillian Ida and Tammi Jane have that combo too!  But the rest of my redheads have either blue or green eyes, including green-eyed Rosanna Claire.  Apparently Coleco didn't do a lot of brown-eyed redheads; Diana's Matrix only lists a few red-haired double popcorns that had brown eyes, so apparently it wasn't a favorite Coleco combo.  Babyland General doesn't have any Kids with that combo either at the moment.  Jesmar DID make brown-eyed redheads, but I digress.  Rosanna has pretty eyes anyway, plus a bumper crop of freckles.

As far as I can remember my only other freckled Kids are Candela Laura and Gary Collier.  Coleco initially didn't freckle a lot of their Kids either, just head #2 in 1983 and head #1 in 1985.

Now back to that head.  As I fumbled around with Rosanna Claire I noticed that she has some kind of bellow in her body, kinda like the one that Baby Needs-a-Name has.  I squeezed Rosanna's bellow and air came out of her mouth, making me wonder if she isn't a Birthday Kid.  If that's the case then mayyyybe that binky shouldn't be jammed in her mouth.  I mean, it fits fine, but...but nothing.  It fits fine.

In addition to Rosanna Claire I got four little outfits.  This first one here is meant for Rubia Emilia, but it's almost as skimpy as Rubia's onesie so I'll set it back for spring.

The other three came from Mama.  I told her that my other Claire, TRU Kid Alexandra Claire, didn't have much to wear, so she came through with these.  I already know that Alexandra looks amazing in green, so this St. Patrick's Day getup will see her through the bulk of March.

These other getups will do nicely for either spring or summer.  The blue one has tiny Little Bo Peep motifs on it.

That should keep me entertained until I can get to work again!  If our driveway is thawed out then that may be as soon as tomorrow.  The rest of y'all stay warm!  This cold is nowhere near over!

Love and marshmallows, 

RagingMoon1987