Dolly plays with dollys

Lori is hosting a Dolly Day
Everyone is invited to show their dollys!
I am thrilled to be included in this show and tell!

For as long as I can remember I have played with dolls.
I made my own clothes for all of my barbies and made their furniture from fabric covered boxs and things I found around the house!
We had very little money so I had to get creative!
Mum wasn't a saver so I don't have any of my childhood dolls. Sad!!!!
I remember my favorite doll was a Chrissy doll!
She had red hair that you could make long or short by turning a dial on her back!
Thanks to ebay I can now find the dolls I remember playing with as a young girl...
and buy some that cry out to my heart!
My dear sweet hubby bought me this vintage wicker doll buggy... don't you love it!

This sweet doll was made by me back in 1987.....
her name is Bunny!
I made her for our daughter Samantha!
Sam was a thumb sucker so when I saw bunny I knew I had to make her!

Isn't she precious?

I know you have seen this beauty before!
I received her from my sweet talented friend Mica @ Garb-oodle soup!
She lives in my kitchen among my other cherry goodies!

This naked cutie was a gift from the super sweet Miss Deena!
Thank you Deena... I love my naked beauty!

I bought this doll at a yard sale, because I felt sorry for her!
When I saw her I thought... she is not very pretty, no one will buy her!
You see she is not painted very well, { whom ever painted her had a shakey hand} she has missing fingers on one hand and a chipped shoe!
I had to bring her home with me!
I was going to repaint her but then I thought she was created with lots of love, maybe by a little old lady, someones gramma, or maybe a child!
I have a tendency to be attracted to the "not so pretty dollys"!
I think they are the ones that need extra love!

Sleeping beauty was the very first porcelain doll that I made!
She is just a plain jane! No shadeing or tinting.... just painted lips and eye brows!
She wears our daughter Sams' first christmas dress and sleeps in my vintage high chair!

She fell asleep drinking tea!
I used to let the kids play with her {she is a good size to dress and undress}
but now she has a broken foot and her eye lash is coming loose so she is a just look at me dolly!

This bye lo doll came from a church sale!
I remember seeing her sweet lil face and falling in love!

Who could pass up this face?

Hubbys' aunt tried her hand at making porcelain dolls...
We went to her yard sale and this sweet doll was in the trash can!
I asked why and she said she tried to wash her face and washed the paint right off!
I asked her if I could take her and give her a good home!
She thought I was crazy but I didn't think she deserved to go to the landfill!
I plan to repaint her face {someday}

Isn't she sweet?

This pretty in pink dolly came from Amy @ four sisters in a cottage!
I call her little bo peep!
She looks like little bo peep to me!

Of course I had to show you my pride and joy!!!!
Meet Miss Cherry Annie!

Cherry Annie is the queen in my cherry kitchen!
I have always wanted a raggedy ann doll.... but never bought one!
A few years ago I saw a handmade raggedy ann on ebay and asked the seller if she could make me one with a cherry dress!
This is what she sent me!
Cherry Annie sits on a pink ice cream parlor chair that came from grammas house!

I do have more dollys but they are packed away since my daughter temporarily took over my guest room and packed alot of my pretties away to make room for her things!

Thank you Lori.... this was fun sharing some of my dollys with all of you!
Go to Loris blog to see a list of all the other bloggers showing their dollys!

Be sure to stop by my etsy boutique to see whats new!!!