Doll-A-Day 248: BFC Ink Kaitlin

  Today's doll is Kaitlin.

She's a BFC Ink doll.

This is not her original outfit. She came in the greenish dress and pukey leopard print vest and really cool boots.

I like this cute shortall outfit. I thought it would be nice since we seem to be having an Indian Summer (Late warm weather. I suppose that's not politically correct these days. Native American Summer? Why is it called that anyway?)

From what I can tell this is actually a BFC Ink outfit. I got it at a yard sale I think, maybe on a BFC Ink doll, a couple of years ago.

The BFC stands for Best Friends Club.

These dolls are about 18" tall, but there was also a smaller series of dolls about 10" tall.

This is the second style of BFC Ink doll, which has more joints. The original dolls didn't have the jointed wrists, ankles, or elbows.

These dolls are really posable, but their joints get very loose very quickly.

They are also notorious for having bad hair. It tends to be crispy on the bottom.

Kaitlin's hair is actually pretty good. She still has lots of her original curl,and her hair is fairly soft.

 

BFC Ink dolls also have nice inset eyes that are fairly realistic. It's hard to get them to look like they are looking at the camera though.

 See you tomorrow for another doll.

Doll-A-Day 169: BFC Ink Aliesha

  Happy 4th of July! All my kids are too old to care about fireworks and sparklers anymore, so I will probably have a much earlier night than previous years!
  Yesterday I told you I made a haul at the local thrift stores. I made most of my finds at Salvation Army, too many to cover all at once.I'll be showing them to you over the next week or two.But today's doll is yesterday's Goodwill find. Literally.I spotted this BFC Ink Aliesha doll and bought her for $2 at our local Goodwill yesterday.

She says "Hi". BFC stands for Best Friends Club.

She was wearing the BFC Ink Fairy Princess dress,which is a bit short, especially without underwear. So After her clean up and conditioning/combout I dressed her in this BFC Ink Simply Sweet fashion I have had for a while.

BFC Ink dolls were made by MGA and discontinued a couple of years ago.

They're 18" tall. The same characters were also produced as a line of 11" dolls. The first wave of the larger dolls had the usual minimal articulation plus jointed knees, but the later dolls, like Aliesha, also have articulated elbows, wrists, and ankles.

The Simply Sweet fashion includes the cute shirt, shorts with little buckles on the pockets,a pink bag, and the yellow slip on shoes.

 I have some other BFC Ink dolls, but this is my first dark haired one, and my second of the more articulated ones.All my others are either Kaitlin or Addison. This is my first Aliesha.

 My first choices of the larger BFC Ink dolls would have been Gianna, Britt, or Yuko, but I buy what I find at thrift store or yard sales. So far those have eluded me.
Aliesha wanted to know, if so many of my other dolls have gotten to climb the pear tree,why can't she?

Oh, all right...

Her bangs look a bit uneven and choppy, but I don't think they've been cut.

She has a few scuffs and the bottom of her hair is a bit frizzy, but I can live with that. I might give her a trim. The thing I regret most is that her joints are kind of loose and she can't hold a pose as well as she should.Some of these poses were a challenge.
But she wanted to show you how well my corn is coming along...

Apparently I made a mistake. You aren't supposed to plant corn and tomatoes near each other because they attract the same parasites. Too late now. Besides,I'm all out of other places to plant anything.

But we can't figure out why the blooms on the biggest tomato plant look like they are going nowhere fast.

These tomatoes aren't near the corn, so what's up?

 As you can see, I don't plant a picture perfect 'garden' I have to utilize whatever sun The Selfish Giant and their fence have left me, so my 'garden' is scattered here and there in my yard. 
Tomorrow is Skipper Saturday. See you then.