Doll-A-Day 2023 #314: Lee Middleton Baby

   Happy Thanksgiving! Today we're going to see a doll of my sister's. I think she's a Reva Schick doll from Lee Middleton. **My sister says she was made by some lady, so she would have been made from a kit.** My sister named her Carmelita.

With my sister's cat. I can never tell if this is Alice or Meenu.

My sister kindly took these pictures for me, because I didn't have anything ready to post today. That's my sister, who doesn't collect dolls.

In the chair my mom's grampa made for her when she was a little girl. I realized today that this chair is almost 100 years old.

With my sister's dog, Travis.

  I don't have much to say about her, so just enjoy these cute Fall doll pictures.  

I never realized this doll had so much Fuzzy the Doll in her.

  See you tomorrow, when I'll have to come up with a doll of my own!  

Doll-A-Day 2019 #351: Lee Middleton Baby...Boy?

  Today's doll is another I pulled out of our tub of dolls for sale. He's this little guy.

He was made by Lee Middleton dolls,and was designed by Reva Schick, who designed many of the Lee Middleton dolls.

I think he's a boy. At the age this doll represents, it's hard to tell. I know my girls didn't even have this much hair when they were the age this doll looks.

He's a cute little guy. Cute baby toes.

Cute baby hands. He can even suck his thumb.

He even still has his hospital bracelet on.

He has a problem though. He's got some mildew. It would probably be removable with Stain Devils. That stuff will take the black spots out with application only. I've done it before. That stuff is amazing! I keep saying I should do a commercial for them.

So if anybody has fallen in love with this little guy, he needs a home. You can have him for the price of shipping him to you,plus a dollar so I don't feel he was a total loss.
  That's today's doll.See you again tomorrow for another one.

Doll-A-DAy 2019 #276: Another Lee Middleton Baby

  Well I tried. I really worked on that vacation post. It's just not going to happen today though, because there are a million pictures.Seriously. That's not far off. So today I am going to post the last of Lori and Norma's dolls. You've seen the other two in the photo below already. Today's girl is the doll on the right.

I saved her for last because she's my favourite. Look at that cute little face!

I thought she looked so much like a real kid,so I wanted to photograph her like a real kid in an old fashioned photo studio shoot.

Like this. I think I was inspired by Lori's baby/toddler studio portraits, and the others from those days,when the photographer put a rug covered plank on your lap and made you look up and away.

 

This doll is another Lee Middleton doll by Reva Schick.

She has blue inset eyes with applied lashes.

She also has a big open mouthed smile.

She's about 20 inches tall.

  And if some of you are wondering why I wasted time I could have been spending with my best friend, who moved so far away,photographing dolls,well,I didn't. The pictures of Lori and Norma's dolls were taken while Lori was taking a shower one night, and one morning after she had gone to work anyway.
  SO that's today's doll. Tomorrow we'll see if I can get that vacation post finished!

Doll-A-Day 2019 #275: Lee Middleton Babies

  There is a never ending line of unexpected things that keep stopping me from doing the rest of my vacation posts. They have been good things, like our visit with Ivy, and today,our visit with Emma to see her new apartment and have dinner. But it does mean that it's late and I'm going to post another installment of my posts on Lori,and her mom, Norma's, dolls. Today we're going to see two very special dolls. One belongs to Lori, and the other belonged to her mom.

We're talking about the blonde baby in pink.

We're also talking about the baby in pink and white, on the right in this photo.

These dolls were 'adopted' from the Lee Middleton factory store in Belpre,Ohio. Both are about 20 inches tall, and were designed by Reva Schick.

  The blonde baby with brown eyes,wearing pink,is Lori's. 

The brunette doll with blue eyes was Norma's.

   Lori decided to get the blonde with brown eyes, because her mom wanted a brunette baby with blue eyes.
Norma didn't drive, and had been wanting Lori to  drive her to Belpre to adopt a doll for quite a while. The 'adoption' was complete with all the ceremony. Norma had her picture taken in the 'nursery' with her new baby.
  There had been reasons Lori hadn't been able to take Norma before, but they finally managed to make the trip. That was on September 7,2001. The next day,Norma and Bruce, Lori's dad, took a trip to visit relatives . It was only about an hour and a half trip. On the way home Bruce suffered a heart attack. He actually died, and the car crashed into a telephone pole.The jolt restarted his heart, bringing Bruce back to life. Norma, however, passed away in the accident.
  Norma's death managed to save two other lives. Because of her death on Saturday,September 8th,her granddaughter's husband didn't make a business trip he was supposed to go on. His carpool partner also didn't go, because she had no ride. The business trip was to an office in the Twin Towers on September 11th.
  I always tell Lori that she will always be glad she took Norma to Belpre that day, and made her so happy. She will always know that she did that for her mother. It was a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but it was the last thing they did together,and she has pictures of her mother with her 'baby' and a big smile on her face.
  Those are today's dolls. See you tomorrow.