Those Doll Related Christmas Gifts I Mentioned

   Hello! I haven't disappeared. We've been getting electrical work done at the house, so we've been there. I'm still clearing up things that were thrown around after the fire. I'm also finding more damage than I thought. We had wonderful pocket doors between the foyer and the living room, and I discovered the other day that they won't pull out any more. Another area of the wall in the foyer has gone from looking fine, to looking a bit bulgey, to the plaster being ready to drop out. At least the lathe is still there, so I think I can plaster that, unlike Fuzz's room, where the lathe has been chopped out. That will have to be drywalled, which I really hate. My sister tells me that I am not capable of plastering, "even if we do have it in our blood". (Our grandpa was a professional plasterer.) All I can say is, I'm going to try to channel Grampa and do it myself, because we can't afford  to have it done.

  As it has been so dark, with no electricity and the windows boarded up, there are other things I come across. With no windows in Fuzz's room for a few days, and the boards that are on them not really sealing the windows up, 'things' get in. We've had at least two birds in the house while we've been out. Ken got one out of the house, but he found a dead one in the basement. (We've had to keep the basement door open, because our cat Arky won't come upstairs, or let himself be caught. He's been down there for a year now! I got him upstairs twice, and since then, he won't come up.) So, what do birds do? Besides singing, I mean. I keep finding more places the birds pooped all over the house. And mice. It's going to be a lot of work when we get back in!

  But enough of that. I said I'd show you my doll related Christmas gifts. Here's the first one. Ken bought me this cute pig ornament when we went shopping at Jungle Jim's, a huge store where they have everything, including foods from around the world.

 

    Ken also got me this Calico Critters Tea and Treats set.

I want real yard furniture like this.

  Since it's for Calico Critters it's more dollhouse sized than fashion doll sized. It fits Tammy World's brother, Gareth, quite well.

  Not too long ago I showed you some Smiskis. Ken got me three.

One of them was an adult and a baby Smiski.

They glow in the dark, and they do it much better than the Boo Berry he also got me.

Emma got me this Alice in Wonderland Tea Party set by Re-Ment.

  It's not the whole tea party. You buy it in pieces. I got the set with the rabbit.

She also got me a World's Smallest Scrabble. I already have two, but I didn't want to tell her that. Maybe I can trade one for a different game at some point.

And Emma also got me an actual working mini Rubik's Cube type puzzle.

And this mini mini golf set.

And in non doll related news, she also got me tickets to see an Alice in Wonderland ballet in February.

  Ivy was making something for me, but it isn't finished yet. But she brought me my other gifts: three Miniverse Make It Mini Food sets.

 

There were two pumpkin pie ones. Ivy didn't know they said what they were on the label. That's okay though. You can have two pumpkin pies.

There was also a coffee set. I'll pretend it's chocolate milk. I hate coffee.

The packages were decorated with Halloween things.

Oh, Emma also got me this mini box set, with mini labels and packing tape.

  The set of boxes comes from Temu, because I liked it when I saw it on there. I wouldn't buy it though, because it was one of those things I reacted to with, "I  could make something like that."

  My sister got me this cute tiny turtle, because, how cute is this guy?

  And of course you already saw the amazing hand made Pee Wee Herman doll my sister made for me, and the cool 11" Pee Wee doll that she bought for me, and the Muppet Christmas Carol Gonzo, and the Made to Move Barbie Ken got for me. I am hoping to get back into our house sometime this month, but it's a race. Our windows are supposed to be installed on the 23rd. Yay!

Doll-A-Day 2023 #274: Tonner Effanbee Alice

   I got this doll a few weeks ago at the first doll show of that weekend. (I went to two that weekend.) 

The dealer said she is a Tonner Alice in Wonderland doll, but I couldn't find her when I looked up Tonner Alice dolls. To further confuse me, her dress has an Effanbee tag.

  I did finally sort of find her on line. The doll that came in this dress was an Effanbee doll and a Tonner doll as far as I can tell. Tonner designed an Effanbee doll?  Her name was Ruth Ann. But she had straight hair and bangs, and a black ribbon Alice band in her hair. That doll originally came with a white rabbit. I have no idea why this doll is in this dress. It obviously fits her perfectly. I have no idea what's going on with these dolls. 

I don't know if she's the doll that belongs in this dress or not. If she is, there was more than one doll that came in this dress, because I've seen the original insert for the doll, and this isn't the doll it pictures. In any case, she's pretty, and I love her outfit. She's made of a really nice quality vinyl. The dress is very detailed and made of good quality fabrics.

Her dress is a thick cotton. 

It's trimmed in lace.

Her sleeves have little buttons at the cuffs, but they don't button. That's just for looks. They close with snaps. Notice the sleeves are lace trimmed too.

Under the dress she has a slip.

And over it she has a white eyelet pinafore.

It has three little buttons.

Her pinny ties in the back.

She has white tights and black Mary Jane shoes that really buckle and unbuckle.

She has a serious face.

  She has dimples and blue eyes with brush lashes.

If you gave her brown eyes and the right wig, she wouldn't make a bad Shirley Temple.

 There's some detail in those eyebrows.

She has great squiggley hair. And look at the details on her sleeves!

  

Ken and I took a day off today to relax a bit. The idea was to have a picnic/cookout at some point. But Ken didn't have his meat yet, for cooking, and he was starving. So we ate in Roscoe Village, which we went to just for fun, and he cooked out later. By the time we got to the park to cook out, it was getting late. I still needed to photograph this doll too. I was afraid it was getting too dark, but I think her pictures came out pretty nice.

She's 21 inches tall. 

What are these flowers called?! I can't think of the name!

Look at the side of her hair. That better not get messed up, because it's beyond me to fix that.

The tall flowers are zinnias, right?

  That's today's doll. See you again tomorrow.