My Christmas List for 2015

  It's time for my yearly Christmas list. It may seem a little early, but this is for my husband Ken's benefit, (and so, ultimately, mine...), so that he has time to...ponder. 
   Some of the things on last years list found their way to my house for my birthday, if not for Christmas, so they're not on this year's list. Some of the things were on last year's list. Keep in mind I obviously won't get everything on my list. So what do I want this year?

The Beatles 1 CD/DVD.
   Whoo hoo! Lost Beatles videos!Of course some are the same ones that have been floating around in bootleg form for the last umpteen million years, and more recently have been found on Youtube. But even the familiar ones have been remastered and supposedly look so much better now.

This one is the special edition version, which has TWICE the number of videos! This one has TWO discs of 27 videos each, including a bunch a rare stuff, and also comes with a big book. I want this version...

...instead of this version.

Next,the DVD "Monty Python Live (Mostly) One Down Five to Go"...comes in BluRay.

A film of the live shows that I did NOT get to go see last year. You know, shortly before the Kate Bush concerts I ALSO did not get to see...

Ken, it can be obtained for 12.22 with free shipping.

  The Danny Kaye show has been getting released in dribs and drabs over the last few years. Apparently they're up to a third DVD now. The latest one being...

Danny Kaye Legends

One of the other two was this one.

I can't find the other one at all unless it was the Christmas one.

  One of my all time favourite series is Frasier.

Ken keeps saying I don't need the DVDs because it's on Netflix, but it won't always be there! Besides, it was recently re-released and it's cheaper than ever.

Another DVD I want, and don't judge me, is Hey Arnold! the Complete series.

 Yes, I watch kid's shows and I love Hey Arnold. I am Helga. Apparently the complete series on DVD is a Walmart exclusive, so you have to buy it there Ken.
 Ok, I watch kid's shows, but I also read. Here are some books I want:
 The book "Red, A History of the Red Head" by Jacky Colliss Harvey

My people.

   I read Johannes Cabal Detective by Jonathan L. Howard after finding it at Dollar Tree. It was good: clever and funny. I keep hoping they'll have more of them,because I'm cheap, but so far no good. I'd like to have the other Johannes Cabal books, especially the first one, since I started on number two or three.
  Here are the others.

I think this one is a short story.

  That Charles Dickens biography at Ollies.If you read my vacation post you'll know I love Charles Dickens.

I don't know if it's this one, but it's big and blue.

And yeah, ok, I also read kid's books, and I still don't have that last Doll People book:

"The Doll People Set Sail" by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin.

Say what you want, but I started reading this series of books with Ivy when she was little and we loved them. I want to know what happens.
  And now what readers of this blog will be more interested in, my doll choices for the year. They come in two catagories:
First  is Possible Doll Wishes.
  Recently when we were out for Ivy's birthday celebration we came across a booth in the mall that sold little figures with 3-D printed heads of the customer. The smallish ones were affordable, and I have always wanted dolls of my family since I saw some custom figures on line years ago. With 3-D printing such things are now affordable by puny average people like us. I told the kids I'd love to have had 3-D printed figures of them when they were tiny, to save the moment forever. It's too late for that, but I can hold them as they are now. I'd love one of each kid, plus Ken too. You can't leave anybody out. That wouldn't be the family, and that wouldn't be right. Each one of the kids could get me a figure of themselves, and Ken could get me one of him. Although I know getting Fuzz to do anything is too much to ask, as well as expecting him to spend any money on us. Last year he insisted he wanted to get me a new comforter for the bed. Instead he spent about $1.49 on me. Oh well.  
 Next is a doll I saw in England but have been having a hard time finding over here. She's Ever After High Bunny Blanc...this one

She's almost the only Ever After High doll based on Alice in Wonderland characters that I really love, which is  shame because there are a lot of them, (The whole Way Too Wonderland line.), and I love Alice in Wonderland. For the record, the other one I like, but nowhere near as much as this one, is Lizzie Hearts.

The other Ever After High doll I really love is  Duchess Swan...this one

I think she's just about the most beautiful doll the line has ever done. She's an older one, so she won't be easy to find. I've only seen her in a store once probably. That was Meijer, but it was ages ago.

 If Ken can't find her, which he can't, I also love this doll:

She's McKeyla a Project MC2 doll. These dolls have lovely faces and beautiful inset eyes. There are two McKeyla dolls in this line. I want this one, because she's articulated.
  There are also dolls I like that I'd happily take, like the Tinkerbell friends Rosetta or Zarina,which, Ken, they have at TJ Maxx.

Now for the dolls there is no chance of me getting because they are out-of-the-question-expensive. I call these the Purely Fantasy Wish Dolls:
First of these is Creamsicle Lark by Helen Kish 

Of all the Lark doll by Helen Kish, I think she's my favourite.It's hard to say though. I wouldn't turn down  My First Heels Lark

I think she's the only side glancing one.

or Lark of the High Seas

Lark of the High Seas is more recent than the other two, but that isn't going to make her any cheaper. They also made blonde Larks, but I like the red heads.
Of course, from last year's list there's still Savannah from Maru and Friends dolls.

I think she's my favourite. Actually, I think my real favourite would be if you put Savannah's hair on Jamie...

This is Jamie. They have pretty much the same face, but Jamie has green eyes, instead of blue.

I'd even take Maru herself if I really had to.

I love them all,but red haired Savannah would be my first choice...I think...
And of course I still want a Hamish doll, friend of Amelia Thimble by Wilde Imagination. But none of these are still sold on the site.
This Hamish was a limited edition of 300, so he's expensive.

Cute little freckles and...teeth!

 Little Gardener Hamish was a limited edition of 125, so you can imagine he's even harder to get.

I wouldn't turn down Hamish as Peter Pan, but I don't like the cupid Hamish or Trick or Treat/dead looking Hamish.
And then there's Garden Patience from Wilde Imagination.

She's not sold any more either.

And as I also said last year,Ashton Drake's Dianna Effner dolls Little Red Riding Hood, or Mary Mary Quite Contrary. (The jointed vinyl ones, not the porcelain ones.)

Here's Mary.

And here's Red.

There's also Ashton Drake's Dianna Effner doll Sunshine and Lollipops.

This vinyl one, and not the porcelain one wearing a flowered dress.

  Since I'll never afford a Dianna Effner Little Darlings doll, even more than I can't afford the similar looking Heartstrings Simply Rusty, I'll take Rusty.(If you've ever read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that will make more sense to you. "They hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't.")

Here's Simply Rusty.The 'Simply' dolls are undressed, in only their little undies. I want the Simply Rusty  because he's cheaper that way. I hear he can wear some Bratz Boyz shirts, which I have. As for pants, that will take some searching.As far as I know Heartstrings dolls are available exclusively from Jo's Doll Shoppe, from which I borrowed this picture.

  So that's my list for this year. I'm sure I'll keep thinking of things, but I don't expect to get most of the stuff on the top half of the list, or any on the bottom half. I'm just giving Ken choices.