Doll-A-Day 72: Tammy in Puddle Jumpers

  Ok. It's still cold here.Ice on the ground. I'm still freezing and I'm getting tired of it.
  Today's Tammy is another auburn haired girl.

Tammy's going for a walk. She's ready for the weather in her coat and scarf. 

  She's wearing her Puddle Jumpers rain coat and scarf. How are you supposed to tie that scarf?!

I thought it was raining...

 She's supposed to have white galoshes.I wish I had them. They're a molded version of the kind my teachers wore when I was a kid, with the elastic loop that hooked over a button on the side.

Seems clear out...

Tennis Tammy: What are you doing in that coat?! It's 75 degrees out here!

Well now she feels dumb. But with this weather, how can you ever be sure what it's going to be like out?!

She takes her scarf off, but she's still a little wary. Was that a drop of rain?

This uncertainty is a little embarrassing.

Is anybody looking?

Oh whatever! I'm out of here.

I'm keeping the coat on though!

  She has great dark auburn coloured hair. I think it's slightly darker, but shorter than yesterday's doll. I prefer this colour to Tennis Tammy's, even though Tennis has got the same colour hair as the Tammy I had as a kid. 
The purse I used in the Tammy in Travel Along post turns out to be a Tammy purse after all. It goes to Puddle Jumpers and was also sold in an accessory pack.Well, too late now.
Tomorrow we'll end Tammy Week. See you then.

Doll-A-Day 71: Tammy in Plaid Jumper

Yesterday; lovely, warm day. I got too hot working outside in a long sleeved shirt with the sleeves pushed up. Kids playing outside, falling off scooters, falling off bicycles. (The things you see just driving home.) Today, ARCTIC BLASTS! Snow! Giant swirling flakes covering the ground!Wind blowing trees sideways!And yet, there is no global warming. Oh yeah, and that Holocaust thing never happened either...

  But let's ignore all that!Today's Tammy is wearing her plaid jumper dress. It could do with a belt or something.

I'm sure she should be wearing dress shoes with this dress, but as usual, my dolls are short on shoes.

She's freezing me to death, just looking at her. 

She has a beautiful shade of dark auburn hair.

I love her bright red lips too.

They over did the blush a bit. They sprayed her ear too! Her left ear lobe looks like she's wearing a red earring.

  This is the inside of Tammy's Ideal House again.

Tammy's an awkward sitter.

"I am not!"

  Tomorrow we'll see another Tammy, and maybe it will be warmer! (Yeah, right!)

Doll-A-Day 70: Tammy in Travel Along

  I'll be doing a regular post today too, but our doll for today is an auburn Tammy doll.

  She's wearing an outfit called Travel Along.

Oh drat! I'm missing a button!

It's supposed to have a chain belt, and I'm sure this is the wrong purse.

Oh, no one will notice...

 In fact, I'm not sure this is a Tammy purse. It's shaped and made like a Tammy purse, but I think Tammy purses have chain straps. Any identification help is appreciated. **Update: This is the purse to Tammy's Puddle Jumpers fashion.**

This is the inside of  'Tammy's Ideal House', which I showed the outside of yesterday.Apparently none of the other family members have a room in this house. Come to think of it, there's nothing but Tammy's room. It should have been called 'Tammy's Ideal Room'. She has a lot of floor space. I think the house came with a juke box, a soda fountain, and a ping pong table. It was sort of like a 'rec room' with a vanity and day bed.

  Tomorrow is another Tammy Day.(Aren't they all? Well, mine are anyway.)

Nice people, good stuff, and a crazy lady

  People can be really nice. Running into people like the crazy crabby lady I met up with last week can make you forget that. She snapped at me, "I can't take that! I don't have change!" when I tried to pay her for my $4.45 with a $20 bill. She really wouldn't give me change, even though her garage sale was open and lots of people were shopping it. I made arrangements for Ken to come pick my stuff up and pay her later in the day. I really didn't want to trust that he would do it though, since Ken has a problem with getting around to stuff, and there was something I was excited to have found for Emma in the goodies. (Forget it Emma. No spoilers. Wait until Christmas.) As I was leaving, a lady sidled up to me and said," I don't know how she can not have change. She's been running this sale for three days. She has change." I was sort of stunned. I asked a young guy sitting in a chair nearby and texting on his phone if he had change. He turned out to be the lady's son or grandson, I think. He said she would give me change and was surprised when I said she told me she didn't have any. He proceeded to tell the lady she needed to give me change. She freaked out, claiming she couldn't bring out her money until they were set up. "We are set up." he told her, and made her go inside with him to get the money, muttering about "crazy obsessive compulsive woman". I felt a bit awkward.We could hear them shouting at each other inside the house. When they came out I paid, got my stuff and left, with him muttering about having to 'put up with this crazy obsessive compulsive lady ALL day!'.
  But I lost my point. I have run into so many nice people. Maybe that's why she was such a shock to me. This past weekend I arranged another barter. Some nice people let me pick up some of their hickory nuts, and even helped me do it. I'm taking them some of my garlic. (It multiplies like rabbits in my yard.) Another nice lady gave me some tomatoes from her garden when I offered to buy some.It was a nice, friendly weekend. And I got some cool stuff. I found this:

It's Tammy"s Ideal House! And I always thought that was a huge Victorian mansion...

  It's missing all the furniture and stuff from inside, but it's still pretty neat.

And I've never seen one in person before. The lady selling it explained that she had had a lot of people ask her about it, and she'd had to "explain that Tammy was Ideal's answer to Barbie" . Poor Tammy. Nobody remembers her any more!

The back of Tammy's house.

  I also found  a couple pieces of vintage Barbie and Francie clothes,including Francie's Dreamy Duo robe,and a boat load of vintage toys and good stuff.   It seems like some weeks everybody puts out their old things.
  I also got some beautiful mint records for 20 cents each,and something I have wanted for years: a set of Friendly Village dishes, for only $30!
  We're still having yard sales because at the beginning of the summer it rained for nearly three weeks. Everybody is still trying to catch up. I need to be careful spending though, because Thursday is the big Barbie auction. That should be fun, but frustrating. I collect on a budget, so the auction often is out of my price range. Luckily I can deal with fixer upper dolls. I don't insist on mint, because I can't afford to. But I've learned to improve my finds. I've even had comments on how nice my dolls' hair is.(Are?)
  Oh, and good deeds can sometimes be rewarded. A couple of weeks ago I met Donna, whose boyfriend undercharged me. If you read this blog you remember I was driving home when I realized I needed to go back to her house to pay her another $20 and take her a cake recipe. On the way to Donna's to do that Tuesday I found this sat out by someone's driveway with a sign that said 'Free Take'.

  It's bigger than it looked from the car. I may donate it to Goodwill because it's way too big for the space I (don't) have. While we were at Donna's she was having trouble with her computer, which Ken helped her with, and she gifted Ivy with a waffle maker. See what I mean? People can be so nice.