My New Favorite Things!

I wanted to show you some new diorama items I recently purchased from thrift stores and flea markets and what I got from the International Black Doll Show and Sale!


So here we go… I told you I got the gardening set from the Black Doll Show.

My gardener will be Angelina!

Outfit and hat.

 I love the little tools!

Someone recently gave me some Barbie size tools too.

They are a little off scale wise but certain dolls aren't as picky as others!


Next I got this rug at my favorite thrift store.

Xia is our model today. She is dressed in a Miya inspired outfit. Doesn’t she look cute!
I was looking for something like this for someone especial! The rug will go to Chief Running Bear for his home.

Also going to his home is this desk! If you read dbg’s post of Black Doll Collecting on the International Black Doll Show and Sale, you will remember Linda Hayes saying she had a desk at the show. Yes, that right! The early bird gets the worm… or the desk! This is the desk she had for sale! I will give it a hit with some Old English and maybe add some feet to it before sending it to him.

I also purchased from Ms. Hayes is this Power Team guy. It’s funny, I was going to purchase this guy on the Dollpage but the seller already had a sale for him. So now I have him anyway. No name for him or anything yet.

Close-up!

I also from Ms. Hayes is Halle Berry! I immediately rebody her! She is on an AA Fashionista body. She had some pretty strange eyelashes too! So I gave them a trim. I do think she a beauty!  Sometimes she looks like Halle Berry and other times she looks like Nicole Ari Parker.  Haven’t figure a her name either but it will come.

Close-up!

I got these cassette holders from the dollar store.

The will make great chairs for my folks to sit in! When I read Vanessa’s post on Wedding Reception Crisis Averted, chairs were mentioned as a possible issue! I learned from her to pick up chairs when you see them.

I found this sofa which you have seen with Sydney

(Thrift store)
I got these!  This is my original.  It is a candle holder. They show up a lot at my favorite thrift store.  At first I paid then no attention.  Now I look in that section first!

This is my first one!

It had a piece like this in it.

I removed it.

Now I have two!

(Thrift store) I will do the same with these.

(Flea market) two more of these. I already had two

(Thrift store)


and two more of these also to add to my chair collection. Can you have too many chairs?

I purchased this picnic table for my park.

This table and three more came from Style In Scale. Thanks Jennifer! Words don’t do these tables justice! I plan to follow her direction on cleaning. I learned something in the process of purchasing the tables. It cost more to send something from Canada to the US than it cost to send from the US to Canada. That was something I didn’t know.

This table is from my favorite thrift store.

Some lamps from the dollar store. They had these in a few colors….I may need more.

I got an Etch A Sketch…

these, which reminds me of the game Connect Four

 and my extra Foosball table.

I also received some pizza  and breakfast from Vanessa of Van's Doll Treasures!

Xia: Maybe just one slice?

I need to get another of these! Hey Van, What else  ya got?

A little something for Fiona!

I also got a few things for my wee ones!

A car and

Trucks!

Ok! I couldn't pass this up for 5.00!

Now my horses have a home!

Yes, it need some work... will I get to it....maybe!
Yes, I went a little hog wild for a minute!



I’ll show you more dolls later.

Thanks For Looking!

23rd International Black Doll Show and Sale!

Saturday May 26, 2012 KiKi and I went to the Phila. International Doll Show! Here is KiKi waiting for me to get ready. She is sitting in the upstairs hallway and talking to Ghanaian Barbie.

I have never been to a doll show before. What about you?

No me neither. I just live her in the hall.

No me neither. I just live her in the hall.

We were both going to see what was for sale, meet other fashion doll collectors and hopefully meet some other blogger from the area. The last two things didn’t happen. Hey, if you were at the show, let me know! We took the Broad Street Subway from Fernrock. Parking is center city is a nightmare! KiKi has never taken the sub.

KiKi at the sign in table waiting for show to open.

We arrived before they opened like any good collector. We waited with the others who were hoping to get  in early.  We wanted to be the first to purchase.  Last year I got there right after they opened.  I just missed the Diana Ross Barbie!

Ms. Hayes was there!  She was so busy showing and selling dolls that she was a blur.  My photography didn’t help either!

She has some collector dolls for sale like:  Byron Lars dolls...

This Mackie doll...

 She also had a large variety of other Barbie, fashion, celebrity dolls and action figures. She had this action figure there!  This is the first time I have seen him!

He has several pionts of articulation.

Close up!

She was discounting her items to move!  I purchase a few things.  She was aslo discount her thing that were puchased for the children who attended the show.  She want to help start the next generation of doll collectors!  That was important for her!

There were a few others selling Barbie and 1/6 scale things like this vendor

There were some dolls and some outfits. 

I purchased this outfit.

 I wanted this one but didn't get it.

 

This Tatiana has a better size head than Mattel's version does.

This vender was very nice but I can't find her card with her name!

More boths and vendors!

This doll was cute!

MJ was there too!

Hey Muff, close your eyes here! 

This seller has doll that look like real live babies. They are made of silicon and feel and jiggle like a living baby. The eyes are the best for looking human. I saw someone holding one. You really had to look hard to tell it wasn’t a really baby. So, you either love these dolls or they creep you out. I don't think I would buy them but they were interesting.

I just love her!

Too cute!

This doll looked like she was asking for something!

The perfect baby--cute and no requirements!

She looks so real in person

class

One class for chidren

While waiting there I ran across this article on Eunice Johnson-Co-founder of Ebony Magazine.  I didn’t know she had passed.  I was temped to take it with me because it was there to be cut up but didn’t.  I was nice to read.

So, On The Real!

I like the real deal on any situation; so I am giving you my opinion on the show. It didn’t seem international (I could be wrong) and it was more of a sale than a show! There weren't as many classes as I remembered there being in the past. Not as much education as the past either but I wasn’t there for that anyway. There weren’t as many doll vendors as I have seen prior either. So for me, it wasn’t as good as I remembered when I purchase my Shani dolls. One visitor said to me that she could remember when the show took up a larger space at the Convention Center than it did this year. I guess that is a sign of our economy.

It has moved back to the Convention Center this year. Last year it was held on Temple University Campus. To me it seemed larger there but it wasn’t as well lit as the Convention Center.

There were maybe 3 or 4 vendors with 1/6 dolls or items along with their other things. No strictly1/6 venders. No FR dolls there! It was more of a sales event of handmade dolls than fashion dolls. That was why I hadn’t come in several years before last year. It took me less than 30 minutes to look around and see what I wanted. Most had everything that they had out. A few let me look at what they had as backups. What did I purchase? That’s for a future post!

The show could have benefited from more people like Chynadolls there and limbe dolls there. Not sure if they would have made a profit. I wonder if other doll shows are the same. Please let me know. This kind of pushes my need for a local doll club. So I will try to schedule a meeting in September.