A little girl from Gainesville

Gainesville, Georgia, tornado town supreme.  This young lady came from there.  Meet Angel Cake, from the Denim Days line.  

Told y'all I was gonna get a Bandai Strawberry Shortcake doll!  This isn't the specific doll that goes with Vanilla Icing, but Angel doesn't act like she cares much.

Fall feels like it's a million years away right now, and yet July is mosying right along at a good clip so September will be here before I know it.  Angel is very clearly ready, scarf and all.

I wish she had a hat.  Hats weren't ubiquitous among Bandai Strawberry Shortcake dolls, not like they were with the Kenner bunch, but...well, I still think it would look cute.  Whatevs, I can always knit one.  If Angel's hair is as nasty as Blueberry Muffin's was, she'll need one!

Yeah, not loving the looks of that.  Neither of my Kenner dolls have a ton of hair either, but at least Orange Blossom and Lime Chiffon don't have a ton of frizz.

On the other hand, the original style is mostly intact.  I had to replace the rubber band, but that's all. 

Miss Emily's Bandai Blueberry also triggered her allergies a bit, so I wasn't looking forward to how Angel might smell.  Luckily the smell has faded for the most part, and the little whiff I did get was like coconut.  Didn't make my nose tickle at all, and that's saying some because my allergies have been giving it large this week.

I can't say that I like these Bandai dolls as much as I like the Playmates bunch, but I do like Angel.  Her face is all her own, and she's part of the lineup that I remember from my teenage years.  She'll fit in fine with my group of Strawberry clones, friends, and real-deals.  Maybe she can wear Moondreamer clothes???

Quick update on my health:  something very unusual came up on the ninth.  Apparently my MRI showed nothing screwy with my hip, but it DID find uterine fibroids.  I did a little reading and learned that said fibroids can cause hip pain if they're located just so and press on a nerve.  It's not common, but it does happen.  That would explain why my left leg is weaker than my right, why I have a very difficult time moving my toes on my left foot, and why this whole mess started with weakness in that leg.  However, fibroids do NOT explain that X-ray.  I saw it with my own eyes, the cartilage that should've been there and wasn't.  

Sooooo...my doctor is setting me up with a gynecologist, and at my age I need one anyway.  But get this:  I don't get to see them until SEPTEMBER 17TH!!!!!!!!  Don't worry, I won't go into nitty gritties about my visit to them, LOL!  But I just don't think that fibroids are the whole story.  Maybe I'm wrong, but with that X-ray I'm doubting it.  We'll see.

Sweet love,
RagingMoon1987 

Across the other pond: this isn't Jenny

Oh, she LOOKS like Takara Jenny, but trust me, she's not!  She's a Bandai doll named Patty.

I do have to wonder why these Japanese dolls so often get saddled with western names.  This doll is Patty, I've got Jenny, and for a spell Jenny had a friend named Jessica.  But then again, the line that had Jenny and Jessica also had dolls named Ayano, Mirai, and Shion (Ayano was my favorite).  Maybe Takara and Bandai knew that one way or another we western folk would get our hands on their dolls and would want a few names that we recognized.  I dunno.  Either way, my doll's name is Patty, and I'm just showing her off because I was unaware of her existence until about a month ago.  

On the back of her box Patty has a profile, and I can read...well, I can read her age, birthday, and blood type.  She's sixteen years old, her birthday is September first like several of my Cabbage Patch Kids, and her blood type is A.  I can't read a word of the rest of it.

Patty is constructed similarly to Licca-chan and Jenny, so I won't be reviewing her fully.  However, I will show her out of the box.  My particular doll has a full blue ballgown with copious lace.

I unboxed Patty on the same evening that I was dressing Isolde in her lolita dress, so here's how they look together.  Spectra and the Shimmerons have nothing on this lacy duo.

I hopped on Google to look for images of other Patty dolls, but the only image I found was an image of the eBay listing for my own doll.  This Reddit post, where I learned of Patty's existence, implies that Patty's run was brief and that she's hard to find.  They provided a link to a blog post, which explains that Patty picked up the slack after Mattel's partnership with Bandai ended (they partnered to make a Japanese Barbie for awhile).  Even the blog post says very little, other than that Patty is obscure and that not many folks know about her.  That's a shame, because from what I can tell Patty is just as good as Licca-chan and Jenny, but...well, y'know.  Not every doll is a hit, and since Bandai apparently had a hit with the Charmy Twins, I guess there wasn't room for poor Patty.  But that's just my theory.

Have any of y'all seen or heard of Patty?  I hadn't, so I figure none of y'all have either, but I've been wrong before!

Love,
RagingMoon1987