Doll-A-Day 2023 # 219: Rosebud Goldstar Rose

   Today's doll is a Rosebud Baby named Gold Star Rose.

The Rosebud dolls were made by Mattel, and the sculpts were later used for the Heart Family babies and the Teacher Barbie kids.

 

A 'beautifully elegant' baby.

They were sold in 1974.

  The back of her box pictures the six original Rosebud dolls. They are all named after real roses.

I previously posted about the Pink Heather Rose doll, and my research then showed that there were seven dolls in the original Rosebud line, but the back of the box only shows six. There were also three later Rosebud dolls that were just given regular names.

 

  I think this one is prettier than Pink Heather Rose.

  She's so cute. She has a sort of Baby Beans type face. Her dress has a long ribbon on the front that was the bane of my existence while I was trying to take her pictures.

  

  The ribbon had been folded upward in the box, and it kept trying to return that way every time I let go of it!

There it goes!

Got it!

just in the nick of time!

  The bodice of her dress has an embroidered rose applique, and a velvet bodice.

Holding the ribbon down for this one! 

  These little dolls are about 4 and a half inches tall, and way too huge to be babies for Barbie sized dolls. Toddlers maybe, but they have curved chubby baby legs, so they can't stand.

See?

  There goes that ribbon again. You can see how curved her legs are here.

  Her dress has a built in slip too.

  But the thing that really stands out about this doll is her cute cute, and her brown eyes.

  That's today's doll. See you tomorrow.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #280:Shrunken Saturday: Pink Heather Rose

  If you read my sob story the other day about how the yard waste guys ignored my stuff the week before last, you'll be glad to hear that they picked it up on Friday! Yay!  Now my cans are empty again and I can clear up all the leaves and stuff I left by the curb. Of course, if that was the last pickup of the year I'd be better off   leaving them by the curb. The trouble is, you never know that until it's too late.
  Anyway, I had  a nice time this evening. Emma and I went to a family weenie roast. Everybody was in a good mood and we had a good time talking.We were supposed to bring something to add to the food. I finally got around to trying out the famous (in my house anyway!) 'Peanut Butter Pie Sale' recipe. It turned out pretty good and everybody seemed to like it. (If you want to try it I actually posted the recipe,and how it got it's name, HERE.) Afterward I went back to Emma's and we sat around and talked for a couple of hours, just the two of us, which was something we don't get to do very often. So all around it was a good day. (Plus I got a hose reel on wheels for free today!)
  So, on to today's doll. It's Shrunken Saturday, when we focus on miniature dolls, usually dollhouse (or 1/12) scale. The doll we're looking today isn't exactly dollhouse scale, unless you want to have it be the main dollhouse resident. She might be a little young to be the head of the house though.

She's a Rosebud Baby.

Her name is Pink Heather Rose.

I found her at the recent flea market.

She was made by Mattel in 1977.

She came with a cradle,but she didn't have it with her when I bought her.

She's 4 1/2" tall.
 

There were 10 Rosebud Baby's in all. The first seven were named after types of miniature roses,while the remaining 3 had regular names.

The Rosebud Baby sculpt was reused in 1985 to make the somewhat less attractive Heart Family babies.

 Later it was also used for the Teacher Barbie kids, and the European Barbie babies. I think the dolls got progressively worse looking. Those Barbie school kids were not very cute. Not to mention, those kids made some pretty huge babies for the Heart Family and Barbie. They were a bit overwhelming. They looked like The Toddlers That Ate Detroit.

You can see what this kid looked like in her box and read some information on the dolls at the Li'l Friends of Kelly page HERE.
Come back tomorrow for another doll.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #64: Teacher Barbie Kids

  Today's dolls are 2.These are the kids from the 1995 Teacher Barbie set.

These are their original outfits.

As far as I know though, these dolls also came with other combinations of hair colours.There was also an African American set.

They are 4 1/2" tall.

With that hair she's even bigger than Tommy and Kelly!

The same sculpts were used for the 1978 Mattel Rosebud babies, and the Heart Family kids.
I always thought these dolls weren't scaled right for Barbie.

Or in this case, Midge.And they have been babies and kids old enough for school. I always thought they were too big for babies, but they are awfully short to be school kids.And with their curved baby legs, they don't stand very well.

Their heads are as big as the adults heads,and too big for their bodies.

Their legs are bigger than midge's arm! (Mind you, Midge has some skinny arms.)

I think 'toddler' might have hit it about right.

Here's a size comparison:current Chelsea friend,older Kelly friend,Teacher Barbie kid,Happy Family Nikki,Barbie sister Krissy,1973 marked Mattel baby,China marked Barbie baby,Happy Family newborn baby

  See you tomorrow for another doll.