Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Doll-A_Day 2019 #1: Love-A-Bye Baby

  Happy new year! Well,I thought about it for a long time. In fact, I've had a whole year to think about it.  Did I really want to do Doll-A-Day again? Well,I did enjoy it,but it's very time consuming.Finally I decided I would do it again. But this time I was smart. Over the last year I have been working occasionally on building up posts, so I'm not tied up every day. I will obviously do some posts of dolls I've just acquired, but it's perfectly ok to have some posts done ahead of time. Right?
  So here is our first doll of the year. She's our Baby New Year. She's a Love-A-Bye Baby doll.


Love-A-Bye Baby dolls were made by Hasbro.


They were produced in 1987.


The dolls are 6 inches tall. They are jointed at the neck,shoulders,and hips.


Their hair is rooted. They came in several hair styles, including curly ponytails,straight bobs,and whatever it is this one has.




 There were various hair colours,and  few different skin tones.


The eyes are painted.


Over the years many of the dolls have faded to a strange yellowy white.
I first saw these dolls when Emma was small, and she was born in 1991. It was the pre-Fuzzy years too, so it was before 1995.They must have been sitting around in the stores for a while. The fact that we found them in a chain of Going-Out-Of-Business stores could mean the stores weren't too good at clearancing out their old stock, which may have contributed to the stores' failure. In any case, I thought they were beautiful dolls. They had striking eyes and angelic faces. My favourite was one with curly dark auburn hair and brown eyes. I ended up buying several dolls, and have acquired a few more over the years.The other thing I found attractive about them was that some of them came with real wooden furniture.


The dolls were sold as individual dolls,or sets, which included a doll with a wooden accessory.


The wooden accessories included a dresser,a wardrobe,a couple of ride-on toys,a cradle,a high chair,and a rocking chair. We had the high chair, the dresser, and the ride-on.


Emma played with my Love-A-Bye Babies when she was small, but she appropriated my wooden dresser for Emma the Doll's house and keeping it forever. There was even a line of clothing for the babies. I only had one set of the clothes. Emma ended up taking one of the shirts for Emma the Doll too. (Emma the Doll got everything. Any doll that came in the house had to expect to forfeit any cool accessories or appropriate sized clothing to her.)


    That's it for our first Doll-A-Day this year. Check back tomorrow for another doll. 

11 comments:

  1. She's a little cutie, her eyes remind me a tiny bit of the Natterer dolls eyes, they're not even the same, but they just do!
    I like the little wooden accessories...and I'm with Emma, because so many dolls that I've brought home have had their accessories or their outfits stolen immediately for other dolls that I have! LOL
    I look forward to seeing your doll a day photos...I have often thought about doing this but know I'd get to the end of the first week and would already be trailing behind!!
    xx

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    1. Emma had Emma the doll and Fuzzy had Fuzzy the doll, and all things were for them. They stole all the other doll's clothes and any neat accessory that came in the house. Emma the doll's house was so cool and full of neat stuff that I collected for a year before we built it. All the kids that came over wanted to play with Emma's house.

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  2. Oh, she's cute! I'm going to have to stop reading your blog, because every time you post something new I want it! LOL, I've never even heard of this line. Happy New Year to you; can't wait to see what you have planned for tomorrow!

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    1. I hope you don't stop reading! Self restraint! Ha! Happy new year!

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    2. LOL, no I definitely won't stop. This is far too informative a blog for me to quit reading.

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  3. We had quite a few of these when we were kids! I had forgotten they had extra clothes. My parents would never buy us extra clothes for our dolls but for some reason we had the clothes for these little guys.

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    1. Hmm. Maybe you got them as gifts? We never got extra clothes either,except that one time I got the clothes for Christmas too when I got Tearie Dearie. My sister made alot of clothes for our dolls.

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  4. She's very cute! She does remind me a little of Barbie sized dolls made by Mattel, in particular the little Happy Family babies. I don't remember seeing these dolls at all, but I was in college then, and what spare income I had wasn't going towards dolls.

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    1. She has a similar chubby build,but she is way bigger than the Heart Family babies,who were, themselves, too big to really be babies to those parents.

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  5. What a cutie pie doll. She is new to me.
    I look forward to a year's worth of doll lessons. I hope their won't be an exam at the end (laugh).

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    1. I hope you enjoy the year. Since an exam would require me to remember things too, I'll let you out of that one! :)

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