I just love her so much and I want to see pictures of her. If you own her, especially the later one with the newer style of bangs, please reblog and share pictures of her.
Hi, I asked a good while back about advice for selling my doll, and you kindly linked me to your guide. I did some digging, and as far as I can tell, my doll is an almost-new-in-box JLY #7 in the "I like your style" outfit. (never played with, box has some shelf damage.) Would you have any idea what a fair price for her would be, or a follower who would?
Hello again! I can definitely give you an answer. I'll start with the long answer but you can skip to the end if you just want my recommended price point (づ。◕‿‿◕。)づ
So in most cases, JLY dolls that sell for higher prices on the secondhand market tend to be dolls that are rare or have unique and unusual features. JLY 7 is not one of them, and hasn't ever been in very high demand. She was available for about 15 years, but I don't often see her being owned by adult collectors. She tends to be more popular with kids looking for a doll that looks like them. Your doll also has a slight disadvantage being relatively new in AG history, as opposed to 90's Pleasant Company dolls who are more sought out by nostalgic collectors and sell for super high prices, especially when they're in mint condition in their original box. All of that could change in a few years when people who grew up in the mid-2000's get nostalgic for toys they had in childhood as well as wealthy enough to chase down their long-lost dream dolls, and as it becomes harder and harder to find dolls that don't have colored hair or painted eyelashes.
However! Right now, your doll does have the advantage of being in like-new condition with the original box! That does raise her value immensely to people who are looking for new and nearly new retired dolls in their original boxes. Some collectors really are serious about owning retired dolls that they can keep in the original box. She also has the advantage of being retired for thirteen years, as well as being less popular during her availability, therefore making her harder to find.
(A reference for people unfamiliar with #7 or the meet outfit:)
I looked at the prices that other #7's in worse shape than yours are selling at, and they're definitely higher than I expected, and higher than they were at this time last year. Prices for retired JLY are so unpredictable right now since the Truly Me rehaul last September. People who are wanting new additions to their collections who still have that classic AG doll look are getting desperate and have no choice but to buy secondhand. So right now there's a huge variation in demand and price, which I honestly have never seen before.
What I would recommend is to take advantage of her good condition and her rarity. Put her up for auction on eBay and start the bidding at $99. If that's too high for potential buyers, nobody will bid, and so you'll know you should knock the price down a little. Lower it by $5 and relist until you get some bids. But I think it's pretty likely that she'll be bid on well beyond $99!
Random (Semi Serious/Adult? Idk) Truly Me Headcanons GO!
1. JLY 8 (auburn hair green eyes bangs, classic) plays a large brass instrument, maybe French Horn. She’s a little weird and doesn’t have a fashion sense, so she wears those classic weird girl black fabric rubber sole clog shoes. She writes fanfiction. She probably grows up to be an English teacher.
2. JLY 21 (pigtails and pin curls, green eyes) is a horse girl and wants to be a dressage teacher. She’s very businesslike and serious, and she intimidates people. But she’s not mean- though sometimes it feels hard to please her.
3. JLY 45 (straight black hair, bangs, dark tone addy mold) has a sardonic and elevated sense of humor she keeps throughout her life. I’m thinking of a specific kind of “too cool for you” internet character, but in a good way. She listens to Lana and was popular on tumblr, but now she’s extremely self aware.
4. JLY 58 (curls, afro, addy mold) is incredibly shy and quite nervous, she’s unsure of herself. She can also be a little too trusting, yet at the same time a hard shell to crack. She doesn’t like to talk about her emotions, but she has a lot of them.
5. JLY 62 (sonali mold, medium tone, mid length dark brown hair w side part) has been under academic pressure since like, day one, and she did well with it- she’s a lawyer now working like crazy, but she never really had a moment to explore herself, so sometimes she seems almost artificially constructed. You can’t figure out who she is on her own time.
6. JLY 83 (tight blonde curls, light josefina mold, brown eyes) is a perfectionist, and group projects with her stress you out. She delegates responsibility well, but everything has to be done according to her specifications, and you’re not sure you’re up to the task.
7. JLY 56 (Lanie lookalike) does some kind of weird sport like shotput or long jumping, something within the field part of track and field. She’s good at it, too. She’s always cheerful and energetic. She’s very predictable and maybe a little basic- you could guess her Starbucks order from looking at her.
8. JLY 25 (classic mold with dark eyes, dark hair) immigrated from somewhere in the Caucasus and ending up fitting well into American culture, becoming a fashion forward, culture conscious young adult. She kept her accent, though, and you can tell she doesn’t try too hard to Americanize- she likes being a little different and enjoys different perspectives. She always has her nails done.
9. JLY 18 (Addy mold textured hair with bangs) She cut those bangs herself and doesn’t know why, because she’s been growing her hair out since forever.
10. JLY 53 (light josefina mold, blond shoulder length hair, brown eyes) is blind and has been since birth. She’s majoring in some form of art, maybe ceramics, and she’s really into creative design of everyday items- mugs with thumbprint holds, shelves that fold out of walls, custom plates with chip and dip holders.
Originally called the Japanese Village, this was an exhibit at the California Midwinter International Exposition in San Francisco, held from January 27-Jly 5, 1894. The original village was designed by by Australian born businessman George T. Marsh, who spent four years in Japan working in international trade before arriving in San Francisco in the late 1870s. Marsh built a summer home for himself and his family on Mount Tamalpais in the early 1890s, then followed this up with the construction of the buildings and structures for the Japanese Village at the MIE 1894 fair. (Likely the fair included the village in an homage to one of the more striking exhibits at the World's Columbia Exposition in Chicago a year prior, the $650,000 Japanese exhibition put up by the Meiji government.)
After the MIE fair ended in July 1894, the park grounds became Golden Gate Park. The village was allowed to remain, and the park superintendent came to an agreement to allow the gardener in charge of the exhibit, Makoto Hagiwara, to become a live-in caretaker for the garden and expand it from its original one-acre ground into a five-acre landscape. garden. The Hagiwaras lived in this garden, caring for it and making it open to the public, for nearly fifty years, until the internment of ethnically Japanese citizens during World War Two forced the family to leave.
Louis has been on repeat in my playlists for weeks now lol. Not only fitf, I have heard JLY 5 times this weeks in my playlist, which is 23 hours long...
One of the more mild regrets of my life is that only once have I lived somewhere, as an adult, where I got to be the one handing out treats on Halloween. Every other year has been spent in either apartment buildings or rural areas with more bears than streetlights, where people just...don't go out trick-or-treating with their kids.
This photoshoot with my dolls is the closest I can get, so enjoy the cute pictures.
I’m vibing with the leaks, but there is a bit of an issue when it comes to colourism. Honestly, I feel like this could have been rectified if they brought back more of the old dolls (especially considering one of those “new” dolls looks like #33).
(And obviously making more new dolls with dark features, but I don’t feel like opening up photoshop right now. Maybe another post with those theoretical dolls?)
JLY #5
JLY #5 is such a unique doll in the Truly Me line!! If they brought her back, I feel like she’d be pretty popular. Even if they tweaked her and gave her a Joss or MG mold? Anyway, #5 is super underrated and I love her.
JLY #26
You know I had to put #26 on this list. She’s iconic, and would fit right in with the revamp!!
JLY #40
AG has been focusing a lot on hair play in recent years, and that’s fine, but what about the girls who hate hair play? Julie’s hair made me want to cry, and I preferred to play with Ivy and Kit.
JLY #47
WHEN AND WHY DID THEY RETIRE HER?? She’s adorable and looks like a lot of girls!! I see her so much on the second hand market.
JLY #57
All my comments about hair play still stand for #57. I’d tweak her to get rid of those weird bangs though, they kind of look like some kid cut her hair.
JLY #58
Another doll they should have NEVER retired. She is angelic, she is beautiful, she is kind. She one of my faves.
JLY #66
There’s not a lot of cool toned medium skin tones in the new line, and #66 would fill that void!!
JLY #67
This stock photo doesn’t do her justice!! She is beauty, she is grace, she should be in your face (and not retired).
JLY #80
She just barely missed the cutoff for Truly Mes still available after the new release, and I’m mad.
JLY #53
Is she a discount Julie? Maybe. But maybe you’re just a hater.
@louisprojects 24 Days to Lou’s Bday Day 5: Free Form; pre Walls era Songs 🎼
Here’s to hoping that Louis will perform some of these singles on tour! 🤞🏽 He can add edgier rock music to them like he did for JHO, but please please please give us some JLY & Miss You on tour Lou! Pretty please with a 🍒 on top ♥️
Addy, Evette, Bree, and Melody are celebrating Kwanzaa. Putting Evette next to my other biracial doll (Bree is a custom JLY 26) really highlights how much AG tried to make her look “white.” She is wearing the Snowflake Jumper outfit from 1997. Bree is wearing the new Kwanzaa outfit and Melody and Addy are wearing their respective Christmas dresses. Addy’s is a reproduction that I recently finished sewing myself!
Claudia is wearing Maryellen’s Christmas dress and crinoline. Her twin brother Eiji is wearing the Festive Formal Outfit from last year.
Sarah is wearing a dress from the craft fair that runs alongside the benefit sale in Madison, WI. I honestly enjoy the craft fair just as much as the benefit sale (maybe even more)—I love seeing what everyone has crafted for the dolls.
Luciana and Mary Kate are wearing the AG holiday outfits from 2002 and 2003. Mary Kate’s was from the last year I asked for doll clothes for Christmas before I started collecting again as an adult. I was in high school at that point and worried that I was “supposed to be” beyond playing with dolls. I’m glad to be collecting again, but it’s also fine to take a break from things—your dolls will always be waiting for you if you want to bring them out again!
Nellie, Kirsten, and Samantha are all wearing the dresses from their collection. I made Kirsten’s Saint Lucia wreath because it’s impossible to find for a decent price these days. I’ll have to do a separate post explaining how I made it! This is also the first time in years that Samantha has a hair ribbon to match her dress! I lost the original years ago (child me was terrible about keeping track of small accessories) but I realized you can buy a whole roll of ribbon for around $5 at the craft store. I used one of her ribbons that I do have to measure the right length. I cut the ends to make a triangle and sealed it by running a lighter across the very end for just a second (kids, please ask an adult to help you with that part!). I want to make a ribbon for Nellie, too. We’ll have to see what I can find at the craft store.
Now that I have all her accessories finished we’re going to do an introductory post for my first doll OC, Alma Townsend!
Alma is a nine year old Mormon pioneer girl from 1857 Salt Lake City. She was born shortly after her parents joined the Church, and they didn’t leave for Utah until she was about 7. She lives with her parents and siblings, older brother Issac, 17, twin older sisters Hannah and Rachel, 15, a younger brother Nephi, 5, and a baby sister Sariah.
Alma is autistic, with special interests in both flowers and embroidery. She especially likes to embroidery flowers, and often uses the feel of embroidered fabric as a stim, which is why she usually carries a handkerchief that she embroidered herself. She greatly enjoys playing string games like cats cradle or jacobs ladder, and loves to play hopscotch as well, although she often plays by herself simply because she doesn’t mind doing things by herself.
Her meet accessories include a bonnet, a Book of Mormon, a length of string she wears as a necklace, as well as handkerchief she embroidered herself.
Her meet dress was an outfit I got for my birthday from a friend probably ten years ago, her boots are from Etsy, and all her accessories are made by me. Alma herself is a JLY 22.
When Reyna Pestski watches her sister, Olivia, end up in a grape juice commercial when Reyna was 5, she was in absolute awe of how amazing it was to watch the director bring the entire commercial together with cast and crew! Since then, Reyna has vowed she wants to be a director.
When Reyna’s sister moves out for Broadway, her sister’s career is flopping in the big city pretty hard. With Reyna’s father valuing hard work he learned as a native from Russian, he’s turned to become against Reyna’s dreams of being a Hollywood director and wants her to become a lawyer like her mother. While her mother supports it as a hobby, but wants Reyna to think practically by showing that her sister isn’t exactly having the best time fulfilling her dream.
Can Reyna beat her parents expectations and prove she has what it takes for the lights, cameras and action?