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Across the Fence:  who else collects dolls?  |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
 Posted - May 04 2007 : 6:30:18 PM
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tell us about your collection! xo
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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Mikki
True Blue Farmgirl
1510 Posts
Mikki
Austin
Indiana
USA
1510 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2007 : 7:01:35 PM
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I've never given in and said I "collect" dolls, lol. But I have a few, not very many. But I love the old primitive type dolls. Thats one reason I love my Amish dolls so much. And I have a couple my mom made. I also love the primitive type bunnies and things like that. I have one I made 20 years ago, and I made junebug one just like it for easter swap, or some sort of swap, I can't remember yessss I do believe it was easter. When I get time I'll try to take pictures and put on my blog. But it may be awhile before I get to do that. But, I'm really not a collector, if I see one I like I do try to bring her or him home with me though, lol. Maybe I'm in denial Frannie!
~~Blessings, Mikki Jo
www.mikkijo.etsy.com
http://burningmeadowsprings.blogspot.com/
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Shirley
True Blue Farmgirl
734 Posts
Shirley
Olympia
Wa
USA
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Posted - May 05 2007 : 12:30:25 AM
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I dont call mysaelf a "collector " either, but I sure have alot of them around here.
I have 2 from Alaska that are carved from antler and then has a real seal skin eskimo doll over it, they used to us them for baby teething. maybe they still do?
Also have some porcielyn(sp)Native Alaskan doll, I have witchy kinda needle felted dolls, faries,ragy ann and andy, halloween pumpkin head dolls,an all handmade Indian doll sitting at a Navajo loom weaving a rug ,a japanese doll that my father brought me back from Japan in the war very many years ago, and more. I guess I am sort of a collector, but not just common dolls. as you can see. I have some primitives that I made from your pattern, and some others that I have gotten over the years.
I guess I like avariety of different kinds.
so it looks like I am a collector after all LOL
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a rose
True Blue Farmgirl
443 Posts
Linda
Waterford
NY
USA
443 Posts |
Posted - May 05 2007 : 04:47:25 AM
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I have several dolls. Most are packed away. I have two porceline Amish dolls right from the Amish country in PA. They are mother "Sarah" and daughter "Rebecca". Several of my dolls are Dansbury. I hope to have one of the real life one of a kind dolls. I keep hinting so far no one is listening. My daughter Lisa "now deceased" started my collection many years ago.
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City Chick
True Blue Farmgirl
1402 Posts
Deb
Chattanooga
TN
USA
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Posted - May 05 2007 : 05:06:20 AM
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I have a childhood collection that is packed away in boxes in the basement. I have 2 girls who would love to get their hands on them and play with them. They're Madame Alexander dolls - the fairy tale collection.
One day, they'll come out of hiding.....
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The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,--
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
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mima
True Blue Farmgirl
1573 Posts
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Posted - May 05 2007 : 06:52:18 AM
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| When my girls were little ,I got them some American girl dolls! So cute! But I think I enjoyed them more then they did! LOL! Now they are packed away waiting for my grandaughters to be old enough to play with them! ( and "mima" gets to play too!) |
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JudyBlueEyes
True Blue Farmgirl
657 Posts
Judith
Spokane
Washington
USA
657 Posts |
Posted - May 05 2007 : 7:33:15 PM
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Oh, my! I love dolls and have lots of them. All different kinds. I have two Franklin Mint dolls - one is Princess Diana, wearing the blue velvet gown she wore to the Reagan White House and dance with John Travolta in...I love John Travolta and Di. Then I have The Queen of Hearts. I had several more, but I gave them away when I moved and downsized. My sister has Rapunzel-she always loved her so I gave her the doll when I moved. Then I have a Danbury Mint of a little girl, and another Franklin Mint angel - looks like a little girl. I have a Japanese doll my dad got me when he was stationed in Okinawa in the late 1950s. I have a man & woman doll from the Philippines that one of my former bosses got for me. I have 4 dolls with fancy crocheted dresses (the kind you can buy the pattern at Michael's) - I call them The Little Women. Three of them I got at a church auction and the fourth I found at a rummage sale...she was in pretty bad shape, but her dress washed up beautifully and with a new wig, she is just gorgeous. I have a cloth doll from Russia that I got at an estate sale, a cloth doll my friend made (she made them for all her many family members one Christmas and when I whined, she made me one *grin*). I have a "wall doll" from Alaska - I won her at a raffle at my doll club in San Diego. Her name is Klondike Kate Rockwell and she was a real Alaska character - died in 1957. I have a couple little Scottish dolls that I found at thrift stores, one girl and two boys. I have "Hattie O'Connell" who is a Red Hat lady with a purple skirt and blouse and all the accoutrements from the poem that I got in a shop in Palm Desert some years ago, before the Red Hat Societies were hugely popular like they are now. She also has red hair and is very sassy! Then I have Sally Mander from Tina Michelle in the Doll Swap, and Sewphie June and Sewphie Jane who I adopted from Frannie. I have a little girl doll holding a teddy bear that my friends gave me...she is porcelain face & hands and in a blue plaid dress. I also (how could I forget!) have Suzanne who I rescued from a rummage sale and is a full-size (well about 10-12 month) baby doll and she is wearing my Christening Dress. Sometimes she wears some of my niece's baby clothes. My younger niece loved to play with her and all her clothes when she was small but she is 15 now...Then there is my Rice Paddy baby, Grace, who I got at Christmas some years ago (like a Cabbage Patch, only I adopted her from Hong Kong). And I do have a Cabbage Patch, Roger Dodger who wears an LA Dodger uniform, from when they won the 1988 World Series. And a young boy from Mexico. And I am adopting two more of Frannie's chillun from the orphanage. I think that's all - don't let's get started on the stuffies and teddies...Love my babies!
The Rooster crows, but the Hen lays the egg. ~ Texas Proverb |
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mom2knk
True Blue Farmgirl
321 Posts
Blanche
So Cal
321 Posts |
Posted - May 05 2007 : 9:18:37 PM
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| When my dd was born in 1987 my Dad decided he wanted to start buying/collecting dolls for her. What started out as just a few dolls turned into a lot of dolls! She has about 150 porcelain dolls, mostly from Aston Drake and Knowles but there are several other manufacturers that he bought from. She has every kind you can imagine. We don't have room for all of them and to be honest she isn't very interested in them right now. They are all carefully packed away and in storage. |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts |
Posted - May 06 2007 : 5:31:20 PM
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I collect dolls and teddy bears. But I have a mixture. I do like some fancy porcelain dolls with beautiful faces and lovely clothes. But I also love dolls that are simple and play dolls that I know were a doll that would have or was played with at some point in time. I have a darling "fancy" doll in my kitchen and another one from Austria. I have almost the whole set of Strawberry Shortcake dolls and pets from late 70's to mid 80's. I have the "My Friend" dolls from the mid to late 70's. I have Holly Hobbie (My childhood favorite!!) both rag and vinyl. I treasure a rag doll made by the Laura Ingalls Wilder historical group that is supposed to be one like what Laura had in her stories that I got when I visited the homestead in DeSmet SD. I have cloth dolls and Gotz and Corolle dolls. I have an adorable one that was done by Eden LLC she is a "rag" doll but so nicely done and so cute!! Has an old timey feel to her even though she is brand new! Also, I have Kokeshi dolls that were made by country fathers for their daughters out of wood to play with here in Japan and when American GI's bought them to send home, they became popular and now come in all sorts of styles and types but still all out of wood. One of mine is an antique and was played with years ago by some little girl. She is old and not in perfect condition but I love her! I love dolls that speak to me of happy times and childhood dreams and sweet tea parties and love, giggles and bubbles, mud pies and leaves, and all that little girls combine to be little mommies long before they are!
I am loving reading about everyone else's collections ( or whatever you call them!  ) And I loved Princess Di...how neat that you have dolls like her!
Hugz to All!
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
Edited by - Buttercup on May 06 2007 5:34:13 PM |
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