Doll-A-Day 2019 #150: Let's Pretend

  First, the problem with the competition: Korglady says that the Followers list and the Follow button don't show up when viewing the blog on her phone. Maybe that's been some people's problem. If you can, view the blog on a computer or laptop and see if that solves the problem. I WILL EXTEND THE COMPETITION FOR ANOTHER FIVE DAYS to see if that helps. That means the last day to follow and enter will be June 5th,2019. The winner will then be announced on June 6th,2019.
  Next,I have started a Facebook page for the blog. The link is in the sidebar, so please visit,follow, and 'like' the new Planet of the Dolls Facebook page! I'll be posting a link to each daily post, and revisiting some previous dolls I've posted on,and even sharing some doll related posts I've found interesting. It will be a good place to view the blog photos without all the words too. My Flickr account is nearly full,so unless things change on that front, the photos will be getting posted pretty much here and on Facebook only, from now on. 
  Now, on to today's doll. She's this girl.

This doll is called Let's Pretend. 

I think she is from the early 1970's.
 

As her box says,she is jointed at the neck,shoulders, and hips.

She came with two doll sized Halloween costumes which seem to be miniature recreations of actual Ben Cooper Halloween costumes from the early 70's. The costumes are cloth and the masks are rubber. I bought her at a doll show a few years back,strictly for the costumes. I used them in my Halloween party photo story,which you can see HERE.

On the left you'll see Ivy's doll, Swingy Legs,wearing the witch costume. In the middle is Emma's doll, Emma the Doll,wearing the mask to the clown costume. Why is she wearing a clown mask when she's dressed as Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz"?

I think now you might see why. Emma the Doll has a cloth head cover, which I referred to as her 'head sock',onto which was applied an actual photo of Emma (the kid)'s face. It was put on with t-shirt transfer goop,but over time,(and tons of play), it wore away. I touched it up occasionally with coloured pencils, but she always looked pretty rough. I wanted her to get to be a part of the party, but she's not exactly aesthetically pleasing.These days she lives on Emma's dresser.

Here's the clown costume, on Tammy World's sister,Anne,(...of Green Gables, from the When I Read I Dream series).

In the back, center,is Swingy Legs again,with her mask back on her head. Emma the doll has the clown mask on her head too.

There were at least two dolls in the Let's Pretend series. I found a page that has pictures of both. You can see it HERE. The other doll had costumes of a witch,and a Native American girl.

She was made by Fun-World, who also made Susie Slicker. (You can see my Susie Slicker dolls HERE and HERE.)

 

At 8 inches tall, she's the same size as a Susie Slicker,so maybe they used the same body. She seems bigger though. She the same hands.

They look pretty cheap,with flashing around the fingers and a big mold seam.

She has some cute little shoes.

Her hair is thinly rooted and fairly long.

She's marked Made in Hong Kong.

Her one piece outfit is pretty cheaply made.

It closes in the back with one snap...
 

...and ties at the back of the neck.

  That's the doll for today. See you tomorrow for another doll.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #267: Huggles and Friend

  Wow! I don't know what it's like where you are, but we are suffering through a heat wave. It's been in the 90's (Fahrenheit),or close to it, for nearly a week. This is after it had been so cold that I had closed all the windows  and put extra covers on the bed.  Yesterday Lori and I went to the flea market,in a more southern part of the state, and it was monstrously hot.We both were feeling drained, headachey,and sick. Fortunately I had remembered to bring my hat, my sunscreen, and plenty of water.
  This was one of the BIG flea markets of the year. This is the one where I usually fill my cart, and yesterday was no exception. In spite of the fact that this is mostly a farm flea market,with plenty of animals and guns for sale, I usually find something I want. I told Lori yesterday that there seemed to be more stuff at the flea market this time. I saw a lot of stuff I might have bought, but the prices seemed to be extra high too. But I did find quite a few things at decent prices,and I'll be sharing those with you over the next week or so.
  Today's doll are some I got at the flea market yesterday. They're what Ken referred to last night as 'the twins on the counter'.

They kind of remind me of me and my sister we were little.

Guess which one is me...

They aren't twins Ken! They aren't even made by the same company.

First of all, I have to tell you how they were found. A lady had a corner set up with boxes of her stuff,just piled around. Alot of it was pretty nasty because, she said, it had come straight from the garage, where it had been for a long time. 'He',(I'm assuming her husband.) had demanded that he 'needed more space',so she was to get rid of everything. With that being the situation, she was willing to sell anything for anything she was offered. And with that being the situation, I was willing to make offers! I got these girls and one other larger doll with a head problem,(The problem was that it wasn't attached!), for a total of $1! It was a good deal, but I got the bargain for a reason. Here's what they looked like when I got ready to clean them up last night!

Pretty cruddy, huh? Don't think there wasn't some heavy duty soaping going on. Actually though, hard scrubbing wasn't required. The dirt came off pretty easily. They were naked when I bought them though, so I had to find them something to wear. 

I'm sure I have something better that will fit them, but today this is all I could find. These clothes came from a yard sale haul I showed you a few weeks ago.

It was waaaaayy too warm for sweaters today!

The smaller one is marked Fun World.

Fun World made a lot of dolls in the 60's and 70's. They made Strawberry Shortcake clones 'Baby Petals',and Milk Shake,Bubble Gum,and Chocolate Pudding.They were responsible for this cool set I bought a couple of years ago.

One of their most well known dolls is Susie Slicker,like this one of mine you may have seen before.

Our doll today is called Huggles, from what I have been able to find,and she was made in a variety of hair colours and outfits.

She measures about 6 3/4" tall.

Once she was cleaned the damage to her nose showed up.

 She has posable arms,but her legs aren't jointed,so she can't sit down.

She has just the sort of goofy face that would have compelled me to buy her when I was a kid! (Not to mention the orange hair.)

 The taller girl is marked only Made in Hong Kong on her back and the back of her head.

She stands about 7 1/2" tall.

She's jointed at the neck, shoulders, and hips,so she can sit down.

Or whatever.

She has a much more serious face.

I prefer the goofy face of the smaller doll.
 

Her head is sort of weirdly shaped too. Look at that.

Whether it's from years of being in a box in the garage, or she is just made that way, who know?

The lady I got these dolls from had plenty of stuff to choose from, and I nearly filled my cart at her stall. I wonder what she might have had earlier. I nearly missed her stuff entirely, because she didn't have most things out where they could be seen. Most of it was piled in boxes,so you saw what you could see of it,and that wasn't much. I probably wouldn't have stopped at all if I hadn't spotted a Miss Piggy on the ground. (We'll see her this week. I have to clean her up.)

Still my favourite. Too bad she has those weird butter lips.

 Tomorrow we'll see what else I sort out from the flea market to show you.