Doll-A-Day 2017 #328:The Witch (From Snow White)

  Ok. I'm playing catch up again. I had this post almost ready to go, when my battery died. It was really late,so I thought,forget it. I'll post it tomorrow! So here it is.

 Well, the girls and I went to see Squeeze tonight.

They still sound great. They did some songs from the new album and plenty of great old songs. Emma and I went to see Glenn Tilbrook solo a couple of years ago,but this was the first time I had seen Squeeze since 1987. (Of course, most of the band was different then, but then,to make it Squeeze mainly requires the presence of Glenn and Chris Difford,and they were both there in '87 and tonight. So that counts.)
  Today's doll is this beauty.

She's just called 'The Witch on her original box.

And she would have looked like this in her box.

She's 'The Witch' from "Snow White".

She was made by Bikin in 1988.

She's obviously a cheap doll, but done pretty well. Look at her knobbly knuckles, just like in the movie.

She looks kind of strange because she has a pale,witchy head, on a normal,pink coloured fashion doll body.

Check out that nose wart.

She has tiny little fashion doll feet with some black witch shoes.

Don't ask me what the hunk of extra plastic on the back is. Maybe she's wearing spurs.

She actually has a polyester dress on under that cloak.

I don't think she came with a basket, from looking at the boxed doll picture,but someone apparently decided she needed one. (Good idea actually.)

Although they should have tied it on the other side of her hand.

 

There were other dolls in this series of course,including Snow White,the Evil Queen, and the 7 Dwarves, if I remember correctly.

Emma bought this one somewhere,at a yard sale probably. But I remember these dolls quite well. When Emma was tiny,(She was born in 1991.) there were still plenty of them sitting around in Toys R Us. Those were the days. the stores weren't in such a hurry to clearance things and get rid of them. Things lingered around for ages and there was always the chance you'd find something older and interesting. These days it's 'sell that thing or get it out of here'.

See you tomorrow for Shrunken Saturday.

Doll-A-Day 2017 #277: Moxie Girlz Merin as Snow White

  I have been trying to keep up with my yard. So that I'm prepared for when the leaf sucker truck comes by,I have been raking leaves a little at a time, and daily clearing the yard of the walnuts and the little switchy twigs that fall off the walnut trees. (It's also easier on my bad shoulder to do it a bit at a time, rather than one marathon raking session.) I filled several cans with leaves and stuff, but I didn't dare fill my trash cans, in case the yard waste guys didn't take them last week...and of course they didn't! 

Who knows how long I could be stuck with this? This is exactly why I didn't fill the other cans. I need some empty ones for trash!

I had to leave the rest of the leaves and stuff down by the curb,and if the guys don't come any more this year I'm going to have to dump my cans out by the curb too.

It may not look like it, but there's a corner just to the right of the bottom corner of the picture.

 If you have been reading the last few years you might know I have a bitter feud going with the leaf sucker truck. Half the time I rake all my leaves into the tree line like I am supposed to, and then they never come by to get them. Then the leaves lay there all winter and kill all the grass in the tree line and make the ground so lumpy I get a hernia trying to mow it. I have avoided that this year by sweeping them all against the curb at the side, rather than down to the tree line. If I get an early warning, I'll go and rake them down front. If not,hopefully they are close enough to the corner that they will still take them.
  I have gotten a pretty good crop of walnuts this year, and they are a decent size. They smell so good too. I have been drying them out in Jerome's (our bunny) old cage.

I've added several buckets worth since I took this picture on Saturday. I shuffle them around every day so they get evenly dried,and I have taken out some dried ones already.

They get plenty of air and sun, but the squirrels can't steal them. They're black walnuts,which you can't buy in the stores. They're much better than the English walnuts they sell. My mom used to go walnut and hickory nut hunting every year,and she made several things with both kinds of nuts. I like to put them in salads too.
  Other than yard work,there's also today's doll. She's this girl.

She's obviously a Moxie Girl...

... and obviously Snow White.

She's from the Moxie Girlz ine of Fairy Tale characters from 2010.

I was lucky to find her with her clothes...
 

... and hair band...

... and even more lucky to find a Moxie Girl with shoes. 

 

Like Bratz,(Who are made by the same company,MGA.),the shoes are the feet,so if the shoes are missing, so are the feet. I hate that! What a stupid design!

The dolls are pretty though.

I have quite a few Moxie Girlz. You may have seen some of them HERE,HERE,HERE,HERE,and HERE. I guess the reason I have used so many for posts is because there are alot of them here. When in doubt,(or pressed for time!),grab a Moxie Girlz doll! Sorry about that. I'll try not to use them again!

Tomorrow we'll look at another doll.

Doll-A-Day 79: More Rapunzels,Updates and Comparisons.

  I'm glad to report that my dad is doing better and I feel alot better after seeing him yesterday.He's still in the hospital but is supposed to be going back to the nursing home tomorrow. (For the record, I feel guilty that my dad has to live in a nursing home, but he has dementia. We kept him at home with us until his dementia got so bad that he starting needing around the clock guarding,etc.. It didn't allow the rest of the family to be together or do anything else. Didn't stop me from feeling guilty though.) If you don't know what dementia is,it's in the same family as Alzheimers, but...crazier. He has aural and visual hallucinations and gets confused.
   That's enough for your medical lesson.  
  I was supposed to do a post on my last Disney Store purchase today, but I'm saving that for tomorrow, for reasons that will become apparent then. I thought today I would cover a few things I forgot to include this week.(I've been quite flustered, as you can imagine. I considered not posting at all, but it kept me from curling up in a ball and throwing up.) So here are a couple of other dolls, and a few afterthoughts, plus I have updated the Snow White post to include some thoughts I forgot to think at the time...
 Today's doll is going to be two dolls: these two Tangled Rapunzels I got at a nearby Goodwill one night a while back.Here they are with the Rapunzel I reviewed earlier this week.

  I was going to show them in comparison to the short haired Rapunzel I featured earlier this week, but I forgot, so here they are now.

Short haired girl seems to have a rounder face. They all have the freckles.

Does anybody know which Rapunzel's these are?

The one with the long hair has jointed everything. The one who has had a hair cut has jointed arms, but the same soft bendy knee legs as short haired Rapunzel and Snow White.She also has those metallic hairs amongst her regular blonde hair.

"Thanks girls, but can you do anything with this one hair?" Jointed leg girl on the left is weak at the knees and can't stay standing up straight very long. That's why she looks so short here.Hair cut girl is cheating by standing on her tip toes. She knows the other two can't do that!

And an after thought on Snow White: Snow White seems so tiny compared to Gothel and Rapunzel, until you get them together. For comparison, here they are together.She definitely has a less cartoonish appearance.

See you tomorrow for that other Disney Store doll.

Doll-A-Day 78: Review Week: Disney Store Snow White

  Today's Snow White doll finishes up my articulated doll purchases from The Disney Store.

I couldn't resist her cute little face.

 Same situation with the box as the last two. Luckily she had a lot less stuff pinning her down than Gothel or Rapunzel. A twisty wire on her feet, a few tiny plastic thingies in her cape, and a couple in her head.

 

 She was wearing tissue paper pants.(And painted on undies.)

She's jointed at the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips,and has the same bendy knees as the Rapunzel I reviewed a couple of days ago.Maybe I should explain those legs. They aren't bendy, as in, just having wires in them like a Tutti or Gumby. They have a knee joint, similar to a Barbie knee, but are a much softer rubbery leg, and the bend is more....uh, bendy than a Barbie knee.

The outfit is a bit too shiny and sparkly for my tastes. I'd like it to be more like the movie dress, in cotton or something. I also always have a problem with the way they do those red bits on the sleeves. Those are supposed to be cut outs with the red bit underneath showing through. I realize that would put the price up and also isn't the best idea for a lasting costume for a kids play doll, so I'm going to let that one pass this time!

This is the first Snow White doll I have bought for myself.

I like that they did the stand up collar this time, and it's actually pretty good.

Emma has one she got as a kid. Ivy was into Snow White for a while when she was very small, but she never had a Snow White doll. When I bought this one Ivy's response was, "But you don't like Snow White." I said, I don't dislike Snow White. I don't not like Snow White. (I mean, I don't specifically NOT like her. That's different from DIS liking her, or just ignoring her altogether.)

She has cute little rubber slip on flat shoes.

Actually, I love the animation in the movie. I think it's beautiful. I could never figure out why Snow White did all that stuff her stepmother made her do though. She was the Princess. Tell Step Mother to get lost.

Such a pretty face, and she's another short haired doll. I love her big brown eyes, and they painted the shape of her little mouth so nicely.

So, Snow was a little wishy washy, but sweet people can be that way. (I don't have that problem.)
 Tomorrow we'll check out my last doll from this trip to the Disney Store.