Doll-A-Day 2017 #88:Prettie Girls Lena

  This post is running late, and hopefully I'll be able to do today's post too. We'll see. If you've been reading the blog you'll know that I've been having internet problems lately. That's a little better now, but it's still going out occasionally. Now there's  problem loading pictures. It's been taking forever. That's what stopped this post very late last night, when I couldn't wait any longer. So I'm trying again today. There won't be any picture heavy posts until this is cleared up, but at least I can keep on schedual. Once I commit to something I hate to give up. So here's yesterday's post:

It was a sunny, but slightly chilly day today,but at least it was no longer raining. So here's my last birthday doll. She's Prettie Girls Lena.

She was a recent Walmart find, marked down to $2.50! (But Ken made me wait until my birthday to open her!)

'Prettie' comes from their motto, 'Positive, Respectful, Enthusiastic, Truthful, Talented, Inspiring, Excellent'.

Once the tape was peeled her box lid was opened. But then I was faced with this:

The inner flaps were taped to the box liner!

 Is this really necessary?! What a pain.

There are 6 dolls in the line.

The back of her box...

No mention of Tonner, although they are Tonner.

She was  attached to her backing with all this:

Although the white squares on the upper left are not holding her. They're holding these:

Ivy commented on the irony of the word 'pretty' being misspelled when she's saying the reason she's 'prettie' is that she's smart.

She comes with a purse and an extra sweater.

There was also this poster in the back of her box.

She has a cute plaid outfit.

It's actually two pieces,a shirt and skirt.

The tulle underskirt is part of the skirt.

The top can be removed and replaced by the sweater.

But she just slipped it on over her shirt. 

Her slip on shoes are actually a lot more red than the orangy red in her clothes.

The Tween Scene Prettie Girls are 16" tall.

They use the body from Tonner's earlier Little Miss Matched dolls, (You can see my posts on my Little Miss Matched dolls HERE and HERE.),who borrowed their bodies from Tonner's Maudlynne  Macabre. (You can see my post on Maudlynne HERE.)

 With jointing at the neck, shoulders,elbows,waist,hips, and knees, they are very posable.

The Prettie Girls line started out with a line of 11 1/2" fashion dolls. There were also the Prettie Girls NYC and the Prettie Girls Dream Babies. All of these lines were sold by Tonner. The Tween Scene Prettie Girls were sold at regular stores.

Even though the Prettie Girls use the Maudlyn and Little Miss Matched body, I don't think they pose nearly as well.

Lena's knee joints are alot more loose than theirs,making her standing poses harder to maintain.

Her knees kept bending.

Her plastic seems to be a lower quality too. She has white stress type marks at her knee joints straight out of the box.

Her face is a lot more serious than Little Miss Matched.

Her hair is fairly silky and fun to brush.

I like Lena,but I think I like the silly faces of Little Miss Matched better.

See what doll I'll come up with tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 301: Prom Patience

  If you read yesterday's post, you'll know I've been wanting a Patience doll, and that before I finished my Christmas List post with her on it, I managed to get a Patience. The mystery was which Patience I got. Well, here she is.

She's Prom Patience.

She originally looked like this.

Prom Patience is a limited edition of 350. She has "mink brown hair", (Looks black to me.), and blue eyes.Since her hair was meant to be in an up-do, it's not the same length all over. That's not a bad thing though. When her hair is in double ponytails, like the first picture, the short bit that was her topknot covers the back of her head nice and evenly, since she wasn't meant to have her hair parted down the back.
  I was pleasantly surprised by her hair. When I looked at a couple of Patience dolls belonging to some ladies at the recent doll show, I was told that they had both replaced Patience's wig because the hair on Patience dolls was so awful.("Just not very comb-able" was what they said, I think.) For one thing, Prom Patience is rooted, not wigged. (Maybe they meant they just replaced her hair with a wig.) For another thing, her hair is silky and smooth, and doesn't tangle easily, even if it is slightly thin. Whenever I comb it the comb glides through, and all her waves are still there. It's also the type that will never get crispy and matted.
  Another really fun thing about Patience is her 'flirty eyes'. Her eyes roll from side to side when she's moved.

She has 'real' lashes, but her eyes don't close.

This sideways thing is really getting on my nerves.

Sometimes they don't roll exactly right.

Whoops!

Sorry about this!

I bought her on line. She was in her original box and shipper box, but she was nude and her hair was down.That was ok with me, because I didn't like her in the big prom dress and tiara. It didn't seem to suit her.Since she was naked she had to have something to hang around in, so she's been lounging around in this LittleMissMatched outfit.The shirt fits perfectly. The jacket's sleeves are just a hair short, and the socks fit all snug and look really cozy. The pants, however, are quite short on her, and the shoes are way too big.
She also tried this Christmas sweater, which is actually an ornament.

I found it at Meijer recently and thought it would make a great doll sweater.

 Once home I discovered that it was sewn AND glued to the hanger. It was a trial getting it off the hanger without cutting or tearing the yarn and causing the whole thing to unravel. I'm still not sure it won't! And then getting it on Patience was also quite a job. She liked it, (The sleeves are a little short.),but she said it wasn't worth the squeeze it took.

"If I ever get this thing off I'm not putting it back on."

We both knew this outfit was only temporary, until I could find her something else to wear. I was going through some stuff we got at an auction recently and I found a couple of old 12" Effanbee dolls. Their clothes looked like they might fit, so I tried them on Patience.The blue of Little Miss Muffet's dress looks good with her eyes.

It's a hair short though.It also has a pinafore.

Patience has 14 points of articulation. She's jointed at the neck, shoulders,wrists, elbows, hips,knees, and ankles.She also has a joint in her upper body that allows her to tilt sideways.

The Effanbee socks are too big though,

Patience has small, detailed feet.

She's jointed at the ankles, but there's not much poseability there.

The only way the shoes come close to fitting is with the socks on and they are still too big.

We'll have to do a bit of looking for shoes, or maybe make some. I've been wanting to try that.
 In the end she stole the thigh high socks from a generic porcelain doll.

"These socks have been washed, right?"

The Miss Muffet outfit has a mob cap too, but she's not too sure it suits her.

 Patience was lonely, so Maudlynne Macabre came out to hang out with her. They look pretty good together. Maudlynne looks like her older sister...sort of.

Since Maudlynne is Tonner and Patience is Wilde Imagination, they are related.

Maudlynne is supposed to be 10 years old. How old does that make Patience? (She was going to the prom, after all...)

Patience is 14" tall, much smaller than I originally imagined she'd be from pictures. If her head were sized to fit her body she'd be about 12" tall.

After that one she tried on this Effanbee Little Girl With a Curl dress.

It's all one piece, even though it looks like two. There are bloomers with it too, but Patience decided to forgo those.

"I don't like the way you made that sound. I just don't like long underwear."

Maudlynne was looking so depressed that I rounded up a new dress for her too.

I stole it off a Pauline Bjonness-Jacobsen doll.

Despite the dark hair, I'm getting an 'Alice and her sister on the riverbank' thing here.

I think it looks really good on her. It suits her personality.

The blue from the dress ran on to the white collar when I washed it though.

I'll use some Color Run Remover on it. I'll save that job for my Stain Devils review. You'll be amazed.

I love Patience's articulation, although it would be nice if her ankles actually got some use out of being jointed. The movement is almost non-existant there.

 I love her crazy, rolling eyes.

I like the feel of her silky hair, and the fact that, so far, even I can't mess it up.

I might still prefer a red haired Patience, but if I never get one, (which I probably won't...Say. Didn't I say that about Patience in general?), I am enjoying this beautiful girl. 
  See you tomorrow for another doll.