My Birthday and Lots of Dolls

   

  I had a birthday the other day. I'm a whole 63 years old now. I'm a tired 63. I'm getting white hairs, and I recently found out that my feet are too far past it to even bother to operate on. My foot X-Rays look like the drawings of a child who was just guessing what feet look like. I learned two things from those X-Rays though: You can get bone spurs on the tops of your feet too, and you can actually see arthritis in X-Rays. I figured my feet were bad, and would probably need operating on. I just didn't expect to hear that they were in such bad shape there would be no point in that. The doctor wants to get me some orthotics made, but he also expects me to buy a $200 pair of running shoes to put them in. You paying for that Doc?

  We spent the day at Emma's, and my sister came too. Emma made me a nice lunch and a delicious cake, and we played music trivia. Nobody will ever play trivia with me, (or Emma). We are too much competition. She got me, amongst other things, another Alice in Wonderland mini set, and a Hallmark mini mixer ornament. One of the things Fuzz gave me was The World's Smallest Boombox. 

It's a real wireless speaker. The buttons on top all work, and it's just the right size for Tammy World.

  Tammy World had a birthday too, of course, but she's eternally 11 years old. 

  It seems I go to the store more often now than when we had money to shop with. That's because I am always buying supplies for Ken or piking up prescriptions, or shopping for marked down produce, because cooking for Ken is more complicated now. I need a lot of fresh veg because I cook almost everything from scratch to make sure Ken doesn't get too much salt or carbs, or...pretty much anything else. Well, if I'm going to go to a store with a toy department, I'm going to check out the stuff. So I have seen a lot of things lately that I have wanted to share with you. I don't get much time these days to do posts though, so I am trying to fit this in before the pictures get too old to be relevant. Here are some of the things that caught my attention.

  These Ily dolls are nice. They're pretty, and articulated. That first one is even clearanced at Walmart.

   I spotted the Disney Descendants Rise f the Red dolls a while ago, but they are still around, and I still think they're nice.

These Barbie Deluxe Style dolls are interesting.

This one was my favourite.

  I was surprised to turn a corner and see My Buddy. He hasn't been around for a while, and I didn't know they'd redone him. His head is good, but his arms are a little weird. His arms and legs look a little stumpy.

  They've redone Jem too, but she looks a lot less like the original than the My Buddy looks like his original.

  And there's finally a doll of Carmen Sandiego, She doesn't look like the cartoon.

Remember when I posted about the Naturalistas? Well they're still around. They are way overpriced at CVS, and more affordable at Walmart, and are probably available other places too, as well as on line.

  As well as Naturalistas, there are also Latinistas.

Walmart has the Latinistas, and clothes for them and the Naturalistas.

  Walmart has a lot of dolls on clearance right now, and not all of them are in the clearance aisle. I found that most of them weren't. These Bratz dolls were in the regular doll aisle.

  So were these Baby Bratz.

  Some of the Rainbow High dolls are clearanced too. Oddly enough they aren't all clearanced for the same price.

This one in the yellow bathing suit was in the doll aisle and the clearance aisle.

 

Those were is the doll aisle, but this one was in the clearance aisle.

 Some of the OMG dolls have been 'rolled back'... :Roll Back"-ed? 

  

I only recently spotted the Fidgie Friends dolls, and they are already on clearance.

This one was in the doll aisle for $8, and the clearance aisle...

....for two different prices. 

But this one was just on the doll aisle. 

  This guy wasn't clearanced, but he was really cool.

  I hadn't seen the Barbie Dream Besties before. While Ken looked like somebody I'd want to smack across the head...

How smarmy looking can you get?

....Brooklyn was really cute.

  The My Life As dolls were clearanced. They were actually in the clearance aisle, not the toy aisles. But some of them were in one clearance aisle, for $16, or in the case of that first one, $20... 

...but this one, one of the same dolls that was in the other aisle for $16, was in another clearance aisle for $10.50

   They're were even a few My Life As outfits clearanced.

 The clearance aisle had a few of these Barbie sets for $12.

This Malibu Barbie was in the clearance aisle too.

  This pretty Spellbound doll was clearanced for $5 in the clearance aisle.

  I only just heard of Vida the Vet, and she's clearanced already.

  These Be My Bestie dolls are at CVS. They're about 2 feet tall. They are kind of cheap looking, but resemble some Disney dolls I've seen.

I like the plaid dress.

The red haired one is my favourite.

  Tammy World has had her eye on this Squishville set for months. She really wants that green bear....or whatever it is. But that price is crazy for such a small toy! At the other CVS on the other side of town, it was even more!

  But look how cute it is. And it's the perfect size to be a regular size Squishmallow for Tammy World.

  There was also this Littleistas Baby Lily doll. She's pretty cute. I guess she will grow up to be a Naturalista.

  Something I saw that I REALLY want, but won't get, is the deviled egg set from the Mini Brands Make It Spring line.




  You know I've been getting a lot of free display Mini Brands. I would love to get this one when it's empty, but that's not going to happen. Why? Well, this thing is not only attached to the endcap, but it's huge! This is Ken sitting next to the display. 



  I think they might notice me walking out with this giant display, and they might question that one. And Mini Brands are not in the budget. I hinted before my birthday, but I didn't get it. Besides, it's a  blind box type thing, and there would be no way of being sure I'd get the deviled eggs.

  That's all for now. I will try to show up more often. I just always seem to be cooking or doing dishes, taking Ken to an appointment, or I am so tired I can't think straight enough to put together a post. I'll work on it.