#holy grail doll

[fashiondolloftheday]

today's fashion doll is: Neo Blythe Tommy February 6 (2005)

[kensykensington]

ONE OF MY HOLY GRAILS IS FINALLY HERE!! I love love love her !! I feel so happy I can’t stop looking at her ! She’s my everything! The princess line is my favorite !! And hopefully one day I get all of them but I’m so satisfied with my Yasmin !! The seller was really kind too !

[timetravelingcourtney]

Here is the whole haul from my holy grail adventure and it’s interesting!

First off, Kirsten has a white body and her book does not say “book one”.

Second, all the boxes are plain dark berry™️ and though they have the American Girls Collection tissue they have no stickers on the boxes.

Third, nothing, and I mean not one thing, has a Pleasant Co sticker on it.

Where am I? Oh, fourth, the Santa Lucia outfit is a heavier weight muslin, not the soft fabric I’ve seen before and the candles are wood. The gown is tagged “made in china”.

Lastly, both the Santa Lucia Outfit and the summer outfit have several strips of Velcro instead of one long strip.

The woman I purchased the set from is elderly and purchased it for herself at some point.

So the question is, when do we think this was purchased?

[chicafinal]

she's heree!!! she's adorableeee

[stitchybutton]

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[amartofagos]

Just have to make another post about her because OH MY GOD I NEVER THOUGHT ID OWN HER WITH THE SCALPING GOIN ON AND I FEEL LIKE A TRILLION BUCKS RN

WITH SCREENSHOT CAUSE OH MY FUCKING GOD IM SO EXCITED ITS MY 21ST BDAY AND I GET JEWEL AAAAAA

[gothtarrare]

My Bleeding Edge Goths are here!!!

[lovedrac]

So if any y’all haven’t caught on, I am brand new to the world of doll-collecting and the hobby.

Like, brand-spanking new, and loving it.

But is anyone else brand new to the hobby and wildly oscillating between new doll interests and hyperfixations??? It’s like you can’t get enough, it’s a literal fever? 😂😭

I was so obsessed with American Girl for WEEKS; now I’m finding myself really into VOLKS/Dollfie Dream and a bit of BJD (I’m really holding back though, as BJD is a wildly expensive hobby. I’m gonna stick with my fashion and play line as much as possible).

Most doll-related things I can get my little hands on, I’ve found the hyperfixation devours it whole and my heart is 110% into it. 💞

I just love dolls so much!!!! 💖💕💖💕💖

[savannah-doll-house]

The newest doll to Savannah Doll House & my first birthday gift to myself finally came home! After a week in my neighbor’s garage (because I was camping), she has been liberated from her box!

MEET KANANI!!!!

This sweet girl have been my HOLY GRAIL since I started collecting again almost 2 years ago. I cannot believe I finally have her! & I am only one outfit and some accessories away from having her whole collection as well! I am one happy camper!

[dawlsrkute]

SHE CAME KDNDJDJDJRJJRJRRJR. MY GRAIL DOLL LINE

[fashiondolloftheday]

Anna sui has done a few doll collaborations! She has a Blythe, Licca, Barbie’s, and an original doll by Takara

today's fashion doll is: Anna Sui Boho Barbie (2006)

[kensykensington]

I MIGHt get one of my holy grail dolls…

[xxcherrycherixx]

Guys i might have done something impulsive again

Im legit shaking and that has never happened to me before

[doll-collecting-aerialist]

NEW HOLY GRAIL ALERT

Please help me find this doll with her meet. I will literally sacrifice a child for her.

This is Annabelle, a Miss Corolle doll, and came out in the late 2000s to early 2010s. The overarching brand is Corolle, and she is about the size of an American Girl.

I had her when I was little, but she was well loved and did not stand the test of time. I’d love to get her meet outfit in full again (I only have her tights and shirt).

I can barely find any information about her because of that other doll named Annabelle who we shall not name sabotaging my searches.

(I need her)

[trollprincess]

Let me explain to you all why this is the greatest fucking day of my life.

First, I’ll explain what that doll is, for anyone too young to know what it is. That is a Cabbage Patch Doll. It’s not like a regular baby Cabbage Patch Doll, it’s some special sort of Cabbage Patch Doll that really doesn’t matter. What matters is who had it all this time. Cabbage Patch Dolls were *incredibly* popular around 1983-1986 or so, to the point where if you go on YT and search for them, you can very easily find news footage of adults going bugfuck in stores trying to get one of these for their kids.

The important thing is not what it is, or even what type it is. It’s WHO had it.

So I was about six or seven when these got big. I had a cousin Erica a year younger, and another cousin Danielle a year younger than that. And naturally we ALL wanted Cabbage Patch Dolls. At the very least, I know I eventually got one. And I did what every kid did with theirs. I loved it into the fucking ground. I played with it, I got it dirty, my grandma made it little outfits. I’m sure my cousins got theirs as well, since our grandma spoiled us all and they were only children, so either our grandma or their parents more than likely got them one.

BUT.

Aunt Phyllis was our great-aunt. She wasn’t married, she had no kids, so we were used to Aunt Phyllis giving us whatever we wanted. And we weren’t bad kids or greedy kids, we didn’t ask for anything extravagant. Aunt Phyllis took us for car rides and played old novelty songs like “The Streak” and “My Ding-a-Ling” and bought us ice cream. She was fun.

But she has always been one of those people who gets caught up in “this collectible will be worth something someday.” Beanie Babies, DVDs, etc. She didn’t have a lot of money, but she’d always find some to spend on those sorts of things. At one point in recent years, she had several iPads because she would buy the newest version but keep the old one, and then use one for email and another for Facebook and another for games and another for Kindle.

Anyway, when you’re six, you don’t understand “this collectible will be worth something in the future.” You understand Aunt Phyllis loves you, and always gets you stuff, and never says no.

So one day I go over to her house for a sleepover (we would stay in the twin beds in her room and we’d watch “Misfits of Science”) and I see THEM. *Six* Cabbage Patch Dolls. SIX. Two newborns and four regular Cabbage Patch Dolls, all set up and displayed on a table at the top of the stairs. (In front of a large window where they’d get a lot of sun and fade and depreciate, but I didn’t even think about that until years later.) Six Cabbage Patch Dolls, at a time when so many people could hardly get ONE.

I looked up at my great-aunt who gave me anything and asked in awe, “Can I have one?”

And my aunt looked back and said, “No.”

She also told me I couldn’t touch them. In fact, none of us could touch them. We were just supposed to ignore them. And I mean … I was six. Erica was five, Danielle was four. Are you serious? I can’t even look at them?

And, like, part of it was they sold these things as babies. They were *real*. They came with birth certificates and everything. So leaving them sitting there in the box all alone with no one to play with them … it made me sad. It made me sad for YEARS. I would occasionally be reminded of Cabbage Patch Dolls, and every time I did I thought of those lonely dolls sitting in Aunt Phyllis’s house and I’d get sad.

I’m sure eventually she gave them away or sold them or something, but having one of *Aunt Phyllis’s* dolls was the dream. I do think part of it was so rarely being told no as a kid, but also that taunt of “you can’t touch them or have them or look at them, they’re just THERE.” That was the holy grail of my childhood.

Cut to now, forty years later. I am a grown-ass woman. My Aunt Phyllis is in her eighties and has been having some health issues, so my parents and cousins are helping her move into senior living apartments in town. This means cleaning out her house, which understandably has a mountain of stuff in it. (It’s not on “Hoarders” levels, but it’s cluttered.)

My mom texts me and says, “Your aunt can’t take a lot of this stuff with her when she moves. Is there anything you’d like?” I said there are two things I’d be open to taking - books (another thing my aunt used to collect), and a Cabbage Patch Doll, if she had any of them left.

Last week, my mom goes, “Come up the house, I have something for you.”

AND THERE SHE WAS.

She is out of the box. I’m not putting her back in. She’s been in a closet for *forty years*. I am going to take this doll and love it until it *falls the fuck apart*. I’m going to get it dirty. I’m going to let the dog play with it. I’m going to make up for four decades of this poor thing not having a little girl to love it by being the big girl who loves it.

And I’m changing her name to something awesome. Like Carrie Fucking Fisher.

[shrineofdolls]

doll rant: hair

I've noticed that takara dolls from the late 60s to early 90s have a sort of stickiness to their hair. washing the hair removes most of the tackiness, but it never quite goes away. i wonder if during production a styling product was used to keep their hairstyles in place? or maybe its just a sign the plastic is deteriorating...