I'm still working on the doll show post, and the toy show goodies post. But in the meantime I have some fun things to show you from an antique mall we went to in March. March was my birthday month, so I got to choose the stuff we did on our 'Fun Day'. On one of those days we went to an antique mall. I bought a few things, but not many. But there were loads of great dolls there. It was almost as good as a doll show. I thought I'd show them to you.
First though, I have a tale to tell. I don't know how your weekend was, but mine was both fun and crap. It started out to be fun. I was going to meet my sister in Columbus. For our birthdays Emma had given us tickets to a Q and A screening of Napoleon Dynamite, with the stars Jon Heder and Efren Ramirez there. Then I was going to go to a doll show on Saturday. The problem was, to do that, I would have to take Ken to work on Friday, and pick him up after he got off work that night. On the weekends, Ken doesn't get off until 2 or 3 AM sometimes. That would have made getting up at 7:30 or so for the doll show the next morning something less enjoyable. (Like getting up that early is enjoyable anyway.) But we got lucky. Ken was going to borrow Emma's truck to take his recycling off on Earth day anyway, so we just borrowed it a couple of days early. Problem solved!
But as it turned out, we needed it more than we thought...
I go to Columbus a bit early, not having eaten. I plan to find something to eat and kill some time before meeting up with my sister. I get there, and see some garage sales. I go to a few, to kill some time, and notice signs for a big church sale Hey! That is the huge church sale where I got a room sized Chinese carpet for $5, and those Pelham Puppets and those Mini Martians! That sale is usually great! And it's going on right now! So I plan to head there. As I wait for a red light I hear a 'pip pip pip' sound. I don't think it's me. I mean, it isn't my car. Is it? Then I notice the car is getting hot. The needle is heading past medium. So as soon as the light changes I head for Target to get coolant or oil or something. There's a 5 minute oil change place right in front of Target, so I pull in. The guy looks under my hood and tells me that I'm out of coolant and that it has sprayed all over the inside of the hood and the engine. He recommends I go down the street to the next car place that does repair work. They may only do brakes and stuff though. He very nicely fills the coolant for me so I can get there. It's about a minute away, but I nearly overheat getting there. The guy there says they don't do radiator hoses or radiators. He thinks it might be the radiator hose, but he's not an expert. He sends me to Midas, about 5 minutes away. I have to stop a few times on the way so I can let the car cool down in between. I get to Midas. By now it's about 5 o'clock. I still haven't eaten.
The guy at Midas looks at my car and says I need a new water pump. It will be about $970. He doesn't have one though, and anyway, they close in an hour. But he can order one and have it done the next day. Uhh.... I'm gonna have to think about that. But now I have no transportation. My sister has to come to Columbus for the show. Can she come early and pick me up at Midas? She heads my way, but she lives pretty far from Columbus. I wait on her, but Midas closes, so I have to go stand outside. I stand out there, starving, and now I have to go to the bathroom.
I can smell something good, similar to Chinese food. I notice there is a ramen noodle place two doors down from Midas. I walk down there, with my bad leg now hurting from standing so long. I get there, and they are now drive through only. Great. I walk back to Midas so my sister can find me. Still have to go to the bathroom.
It's nearly 7 when she picks me up, and the doors open at 7 for the Napoleon Dynamite. So we head for that, passing no food places. When we get there they have food, but I can't bring myself to pay $6.50 for one slice of pizza. And I no longer have to go to the bathroom. Don't get the wrong idea. The urge had just passed, that's all.
The show was fun, even if we did have to watch the movie on screens smaller than some people's TVs, because the screen on stage had a pinata hanging in front of it. And they told some funny and interesting stories about the making of the movie.
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| 'Napoleon' and 'Pedro' on stage. |
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| Jon Heder circled the audience on a bicycle before going on stage. |
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| Jon Heder, 'Napoleon', came out into the audience and took questions. At one point he was right in front of us. I took pictures, but I was sneaky about it. No flash, and I held the phone in my lap, thus the angle |
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| The costume contest. My sister said, "I told you we should have dressed up!" Like I was going to get on stage anyway. And they made them dance! No way! |
After the show there is another problem I have been trying to solve. I have no way to get home. My sister lives over an hour from where we are now, which is over an hour from my house. And it's the other direction. She offers to take me home with her, but then how to do I get home from even farther away, when we have no car? Plus, why go even father away and have to be picked up, just for one night? Emma says she will pick me up after the show and take me home. Then it becomes she'll have AJ pick her up and I can pick her car up at her work and drive to her house, where Ken can come and get me when he gets off work. At 2 or 3 AM? It's a half hour away, and he'll be too sleepy to safely drive that. Finally it becomes my sister taking me to pick up Emma's car, which I drive to Emma's, where I sleep, and Ken will pick me up in the morning, and we'll go to deal with our car. I still haven't eaten or used the bathroom.
I stopped at Taco Bell and finally ate. For the record, I used the bathroom when I got to Emma's. But couldn't go. Ken picked me up in the morning. Before going to get the car and have AAA tow it to our town, where Ken had found he can get it repaired for half the price of Midas' cost, I stop at the local record store to nab the Record Store Day Kate Bush release, because, hey, priorities! I got the last one. And find out that nephew Chris managed to get me one in England. I had asked him to try because it supposedly wasn't going to be released here. At the last minute they added about 8000 releases worldwide. Great, because I got one, and bad, because now I have two, and the value is sunk because there are so many. So I can't even unload the English one for what it cost, plus I have to have it shipped over, which will cost a fortune. Crap. Speaking of, Ken and I had to wait literal hours for the AAA truck to arrive. AND NOW I have to go to the bathroom! I refuse to go in Midas and use their bathroom, because we didn't spend any money there, and because their bathroom is right next to the service desk, where they do their paperwork and take care of customers. I anticipate wanting some privacy for this. To make a long story short, yes, I did make it home without incident. In fact, by the time we got home, I almost didn't feel the need to go, again.
But the car is fixed and, for the moment at least, all is well. And I had been thinking that I missed the doll show. I didn't though! It's this weekend! (Thanks for the heads up Barb!)
So here's the fun stuff from the antique mall.
This is an old Shirley Temple doll, but I think she's wearing the dress from the 1995 Danbury Mont Shirley Temple Dress Up doll though, with an old pin.
This Raggedy Andy is wearing an unusual shade of light blue. Usually he sticks to Navy blue.
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| I need that little rubber Ann to match my Superflex Andy! But for some reason she is always really expensive. (For what she is, anyway.) |
The doll in orange is great. She's all cloth with a pressed cloth face.
The case was full of great dolls.
This little girl isn't strictly a doll. More of a figure really. but I like her.
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| Her tag says she's an all bisque Kestner doll. |
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| A big bisque baby and a pressed cloth face travel doll. |
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| A cute little compo girl and a mask faced bunny. |
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| A cute girl with posture problems. |
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| A cloth Mary Poppins amongst the animals. |
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| I'm not sure if this guy is sneaky, or just watching trouble and staying out of it. |
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| A couple of Patsy types and an Effanbee Girl Scout. That lady in red must lift weights. |
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| I love this kind of artwork. |
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| Cheerful Tearful in her box. |
Next to Cheerful was this little family.
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| They aren't bad likenesses. It's too bad they are just sightly smaller than 1/6 scale. |
These ladies are dancers from Bali or Thailand, from the looks of them. Anybody know for sure? Helga?
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| It's hard to see in my bad photo, but the large doll middle right is a Nora Wellings velvet doll. |
Check out these antique baby carriages.
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| I like the girl at the bottom with the big yellow bow. |
I would have bought this girl, if she had been in my price range.
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| This high chair is the same brand as my doll high chair from when I was a kid. |
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| A googly eyed pin cushion. |
This guy was pretty big. Isn't he cool? He has a mask.
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| Lots of colourful trim and embroidery. |
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| I see her as the lady's mom, and she lives with them. |
This guys tag says he's a Santa. He looks more like The Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz to me.
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| Check out the shell lady and the watermelon cat. |
I also got a couple of tiny thread dolls. They are just like the ones I showed you HERE, but they actually have faces.
I got something else that should interest you, which is going to be sold to, hopefully, pay for the stuff I'm keeping. It was in such great condition, and so cheap, that I couldn't pass it up, even though I don't want it for myself. I'll show you that soon.
