Doll-A-Day 2023 #232: Cool Cuts Kara

   Today's doll is one I've posted a variation of before. She's Cool Cuts Kara.

She was made by Kenner in 1990.

This doll is way cuter than the other ones I posted, even though it's the same head sculpt.

  She's 13 inches tall, with molded and painted underwear and shoes.

Her gimmick was that her hair could be cut, and then replaced plug by plug, with hair plugs that were sold separately.

The removable plugs, (which I couldn't get out!) were a lot more visible on the other doll I posted, and I also showed a doll with the plugs removed. That Kara was the Caucasian version. That post can be seen HERE.

  You can watch the commercial for CKool Cuts Kara HERE.

  See you tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 2019 #131: Garden Gal

Today's doll is this cute girl.

She's Willow.

She's a Garden Gal doll.

Garden Gal dolls were made by Kenner/General Mills.(Yes, General Mills,the cereal people.)

They were available from 1972 to 1973.

The dolls are 7" tall.

The theme of garden Gal dolls was that they were gardeners,and came with real seeds the child could plant and grow.

Willow's package said, 'Help her plant, water, and grow real flowers.'

'Complete with zinnia flower seeds, 2 flower pots,2 peat discs and 1 watering can'.

Her original outfit consisted of a pink shirt with ruffled neck,and a pair of pink and orange paid pants with suspenders. I don't have the shirt, but I do have the pants.
 

Her white shoes are painted on.

Her right hand is shaped to hold her watering can, (which I also don't have.)

Her red hair is cut short and flips under,with a flip inward at each side of her face.

There were two other dolls in the series,a brunette named Meadow, and a blonde named Sky.There was also a Garden Gal Greenhouse Playset with marigold,zinnia,and bachelors buttons seeds, a lawn chair, gardening tools,extra dress,6 flower pots,a watering can,a plastic mat to serve as the garden,(with printed brick for the greenhouse floor and printed bushes), and blonde doll in faux denim overalls. The doll that came with the greenhouse doesn't seem to have been given a name.
  Willow is such a pretty doll.

 

She has a simply painted face,but she really has a glowing little face.

  That's today's doll. Now for the latest on the lady who yelled at me. I sent her a message on Flickr messages, which I showed you yesterday. She sent me another comment in response. First,let me remind you what I said to her in my Flickr message:
 "I have added a link to your Flickr account in the blog post on my Baitz doll. I think the information and identification on your page will help people interested in Baitz dolls.
  I obtain my information for my posts from many sources. I don't consider that I used your 'description' by stating the region my doll was based on. That information came from seeing the doll you have that looks like mine,but that's like saying if I had a Chatty Cathy doll and didn't know what it was, and found a picture of one where someone said it was Chatty Cathy,then identified my doll as a Chatty Cathy, that I was stealing their description. That''s just repeating information,which hopefully we can all share for everyone's benefit.
  I would probably have directed people to your account on Flickr, but, as you haven't been active for about 6 years, I thought it was dormant.
                     Tammy"
 What she basically said was,(and I'm not using word for word quote here because the comments aren't copy and pastable unless they are posted, and I'm not posting her comment because it's in response to a Flickr message and not a previous comment/answer.):
 She can share. She learned to do that as a kid.She worked hard on her research and put it on her Flickr and Instagram accounts. Her Flickr page is not dormant because she still gets notices and views and followers(as she pointed out, like me.) She said "I would just appreciate you not taking content without crediting me. It would be the polite thing to do, especially as you took my exact words. Whether I am 'dormant' or not I should be credited. That whole part about how Baitz doll are made and that they represent German speaking countries, as well as a few others and storybook characters are my exact words." She goes on to say that even though I put a link to her page it still sounds like I'm describing my particular doll with her words. She says she doesn't understand my 'whole analogy about Chatty Cathy'.
  Ok. Here's the link to my post: http://planetofthedolls.blogspot.com/2019/04/doll-day-2019-95-baitz-whistler.html
Here's a link to one of her pages with some of that information I used: https://www.flickr.com/photos/elisabethsbaitzdolls/16485800246/in/dateposted/
  Tell me if you think I used her 'exact words'. I specifically try not to use other people's words or direct quotes, even when I use information I learned from them. I put it in my own words,(For Heaven's sake,I don't even list the countries in the same order!),but how many ways are there to say a doll is based on a region of Germany, or the dolls clothes are based on these places? I spotted the pins in my doll to verify what she said about the pins, but I didn't say it the way she said it at all. I showed the pins, and if it's a fact that the clothes are put on with pins,is she the only one who can say it? The doll I have does have felt hands and a compo face. She does have wires in her arms for posing. Her Flickr page said the legs do too,but mine doesn't seem to, so I didn't say that. I saw some of the storybook character dolls online,which verified what she said. How many ways are there to describe that without saying 'storybook'? 'Fairytale' is a different thing to me. 'Children's literature' makes me think of long children's novels,like Heidi or Alice in Wonderland. A  'storybook' is a short, old, children's story,like Little Red Riding Hood. How can you say the regions there were dolls made to represent without naming them? Can I not repeat that information just because she said it too? As far as the dolls being made in Austria, and representing Germanic countries,I knew that without her. How can I describe the doll I have without saying those things? Is it, or is it not,the same as anybody researching a doll they have, and finding a site that tells them what they needed to know, saying,'Ok. Here's what my doll is.' (As in my 'Chatty Cathy analogy.') As I  said to Ken last night, all information is obtained somewhere. Where did she get hers? She got it somewhere else. Ken pointed out today that she doesn't credit anybody with her research results. And hers wasn't the only place I drew from. The company did go out of business in 1999. I saw that online. Can I not say it without crediting her because she said it too? I ALWAYS include the size of the doll, what it's made out of, who it's made by,and what the clothes are made out of. So I was going to talk about that stuff anyway. A lot of that stuff I could see for myself. (Felt hands,wired arms,compo face,etc.)
  I know it seems that I'm freaking out here,but I'm pretty sensitive about things like this. I don't like to be yelled at, even in type. It upsets me that somebody I don't even know is angry with me. But I don't think I did anything wrong.(It upsets me ESPECIALLY when I don't think I did anything wrong.) I don't like to be unfair to people,or cheat. Why does anybody put information online if they don't want people to find it useful? I put all the info I can on about the dolls I'm posting on and I hope it helps people to identify a doll they may have,or find one for themselves if they like what they see. I know several of you have commented already and so far everyone has been on my side. Maybe you guys are just biased! But how many ways are there to reel off the same information? I didn't use her 'exact words'.
  I wavered about following her page because she hasn't posted for 6 years and there isn't any point in following if nothing new is going to be added. You can check the page for something you're looking for,but there's no point in following. I did think it was no longer in operation because she hasn't added to it for 6 years. I probably meant to link to her page so people could find information, and I forgot. (That post was done when I was pretty sick. I had a fever on and off for days and felt terrible,but I was determined not to miss a day,when I had committed to doing this.)
  Should I bother trying to explain with another 'Chatty Cathy analogy' type story again? Or should I just forget about it? I'm torn.

  An early Happy mother's Day to all the mom's out there. I'll be enjoying the day with Emma. Ivy will probably call from college. There will be a post tomorrow at some point though. I'm preparing it early. See you then.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #336: Shrunken Saturday: Glamour Gals

  I mentioned a while back that I was getting a really good crop of walnuts off my black walnut trees this year. I had a load of them saved in the old rabbit cage,which was empty,since we lost Jerome back in the summer. That way they could they be outside and dry and not get stolen by all the squirrels that always steal my pears and walnuts. That was working great for a while, as long as the gazebo was up. I had the cage out in the sun to dry the walnuts, and when it looked like rain I dragged it into the gazebo so they would stay dry. Then we took the gazebo down and there was nothing but the patio table to protect them from the rain.That didn't work. The cage filled with water and I had to dump it. Then it got filled again, and it rained for over a week,so they just lay in there and soaked. I tried dumping  it again, but it just kept raining. On top of that,even though the cage was still shut all the way,dumping it with all those heavy walnuts in there had caused the collapsible sides to come undone a bit. I don't see how,but somehow the squirrels were getting in and stealing the nuts. I knew this because the cage became surrounded by empty hulls. The rain caused the hulls to stain the patio black with walnut hull water. (That is how they make walnut stain for wood, isn't it?) I finally gave up and just took the lid off the cage so the squirrels could just take the rest of the nuts. Luckily I had brought a lot of nuts in the house and dried them, taking up every stray surface in the kitchen with nuts in trays and aluminum pans. So I do still have some walnuts, but not the huge haul I should have had.
  Anyway, today is Shrunken Saturday, when we look at miniature dolls. This week's mini dolls are these girls.

They're Glamour Gals.

This scary looking girl is Erin.

 

AHHH!!!

She's wearing a Glamour Gals outfit called Hawaiian Holiday.

This is Vanessa in Softly Suited.

This is Jessie in Wedding Belle.

 

Glamour Gals were made by Kenner from 1981 to 1983.

There was a case, a house,a red sports car,and playsets.

The dolls are 4 1/2" tall, and,some,like these girls have removable clothing. There were some dolls with molded and painted on clothes.The shoes are painted on.

There are holes in the bottoms of their feet so they can be attached to their posing stands.

They have twist waists and bendy legs.

  

There were 16 dolls in all, 8 females and 8 males.
 

 

There's a doll blog with a page with tons of information on the Glamour Gals,which you can visit HERE.

They remind me a lot of the Melanie's Mall dolls Emma, and later Ivy,had when they were kids.
  These girls were scattered around here, and in going through everything like I have recently, I found them all and put them together,and in researching this post I found that I also have a pair of Glamour Gals chaps from a cowgirl outfit. Anyway,now that they are all rounded up they can leave here together.
  Tomorrow we're getting back to the Christmas theme. See you then.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #314:Skye

  Not too terribly long ago I did a post on Kenner's Dusty doll. (You can see that HERE.) In that post I mentioned Dusty's friend 'Skye'. I had a Skye, but I thought I had relinquished her a while back to finance Christmas presents and gas bills. Well the other day when I was going through things I found her. So today we're looking at Skye.

Like Dusty, Skye was made by Kenner.

Skye appeared in 1975.

Her original outfit was a pink,one piece bathing suit.

She has exactly the same body as Dusty,with a twist waist,jointed elbows, under a rubber skin,jointed wrists,and click bend knees.

Like Dusty, who was made to be a sports playing doll,Skye has a spring action arm which also makes her turn at the waist.

Also like Dusty, she has some big feet! She also has an odd, rather unattractive neck. The head should definitely sit down lower on the neck.

She has a cute face though.

And at least she has a neck joint that allows her head to tilt side to side and look up and down.

And she has great curly hair.

I'm not sure if this outfit is original to Dusty or Skye, but they are such an odd size, that it almost has to be.

Dusty and Skye are way bigger than Barbie. They pretty much have the same body as Kenner's Darci,except for the addition of their spring loaded arm and waist,clenching hand, and weird neck. (You can see my post on Darci HERE.)

I thought the Rose of Sharon was finished until I found this bud trying to bloom yesterday. Of course, it was in the 50's yesterday. Last night it was down to around freezing, and right now it's 21! That's Fahrenheit people! I would have taken more and better pictures of Skye if my hands hadn't been freezing!

Dusty and Skye were meant to be athletes, and their hands were made to hold baseball bats and golf clubs.

Tomorrow is Shrunken Saturday. We'll be looking at another miniature doll.