A New Guy And A New Beast

A New Beast! He is very cute!

The new Beast doll showed up and Toys R Us. He
is the third release of a beast doll. The first Beast was

in 1991.

The second was in 2005. He was called Royal Style

Beast. I guess he was an upscale beast( a lot like some

of the guys I use to date :) .

I wanted to get one but for some reason

I never did. It had the same face mold

but a different paint of the features.

The eyes did have the same cartoon look to them.

The hair color was a brown/red.

The beast costume was a little different too. There was no

beast pants and the hair of the beast was straight.

I guess the beast got a relaxer.

This doll looks very differnt from the old Beast Doll.

He has painted on hair that is a red and not a blonde.

He has a more royal and distant look to his face.

He is not the smiling beast of the past.The beast

costume is different too! The older costume

had beast head and jacket tha was furry with furry

feet and tail pants. This doll only has a beast head and

Jacket.

He doesn't have the backward facing

arms that a lot of collectors don't seem

to like. His are is jointed. But.....

his legs don't bend...Ug!

In Mid Air!

In Mid Air

Since she is so poseable I decide to take a shot of her in mid air. He she is jumping. It is the type of shot that they get the models to do on America's Next Top Model in their photo shots. Thinking of how to do this was fun. I never really try creative picture taking. I have her posed with the aid of nylon thread. I only wished I new how to remove the shadow of the thread. I tried a black background the next time but you can still see the thread. I don't have a tripod and now I can see the benefit of having one. I was hard to hold the string and take the picture too! Please pardon is the shots are sharp enough.

Oh! Although I really like the name Seleena for her. She is telling me that she is a Deena. What do you think?

My New Doll!

My New Doll!!

I really do like most of the mod era dolls. I have a few of the AA dolls: Francie, Julia, Live action Christie, and Brad. Now I am adding what I guess you would call a repro to the list. Pop Life Christie.

So, can you call it a repro if they never did this face mold in an AA doll before? I don't know. I saw this doll in the catalog when she was first released. I knew I didn't have this face but I was not sure that I was going to by her. Sometime it is hard to get a really good look at the face from a book or the web. I have not seen her in any store. I saw a layout done in Haute Doll of her. Wow! I knew I had to have her. Luckily a doll became available on eBay. I bought her nude. I didn't need the outfit and just one chair, so nude was good for me.

Her lips are that neutral pink color of many of the AA dolls of that era. They didn't do many red lips on black dolls then. Her eye shadow is pink to but not as neutral as the dolls of the era. It is more dramatic and she has long eyelashes that are curled closer to the lid that dolls of the era. She has separated out stretched fingers a nice manicure. She has articulated wrists. Her body is taller and slim like Model Muse with pivotal body segments like Fashionista or like an Alvin Ailey Barbie without the extremely arched feet. What does this mean clothing wise.... many possibilities but I think, no gloves!


Here she is!



Deena as a new model signed to the Devereux agency, will need a portfolio Dominique (Julia), Francie (Francie) and Christie have pulled some clothes for her photo shoot.

See the shoot!

Antique Adventures! Antique Store Finds! Items from the bag

Antique Adventures!

Items from the bag!

You never know where you will find doll items. I went into an antique store just to have a look around. The owner watched me as I walked around. I stopped in front of a shelf he had with Barbies on it.

He said "they are antiques". I held back my chuckle. He had a Ken as Redd Butler, Audrey Hepburn Barbie, and a two 80's Christmas Barbies. Not exactly antiques. Collectiable yes antiques... I don't thinks so but I just said "Oooh." He said "I give you a real good price for them. " "Oh no, I was just thinking about getting some doll things for my niece to play with. I would let her play with antiques". I'm stil holding back the chuckle.

Alright, so I use my niece as an excuse when I am shopping for doll stuff. Older people who buy barbies are thought of as strange or collectors. People expect collectors to pay more for stuff. I'm a girl that likes a bargin. Oh by the way......my niece is now 23 but no one asks how old she is.

He said "I have a bag of barbie clothes I sell to you for $5.00." Now that is interesting. "Let see the bag." I took a few items out and could see from them it was worth the five dollars. I am trying to look calm. I said " wellllll, Ok!

When I got the bag home there were some really nice items in the bag. At the bottom of the bag there were a few things with stains (that I am hoping to get out), shoes, some with matches some without and a Barbie curling iron. All in all, not a bad haul.

I will photograph the items and post them.

Here is one of the gowns. There were a few gowns in the bag.

My rebodied Nichelle on the Barbie Basics # 10 body will serve as our model.

Gown one!

Green Spot On Brown Dolls

Green Spot On Brown/Black Barbie Dolls




















I have had a few AA doll get green spot on them. The first time it happen it was my fault. I put medal earrings on my vintage Julia. Vintage dolls, to me, seem especially vulnerable to green spot, green ear problems. I don't know if it happens to other AA dolls other than Mattel.

I went to the web for answers. The biggest suggestion was acne cream products that contain benzoyl peroxide 10%. It bleaches the green out. This works well on Caucasian dolls. The green comes out totally or almost totally. On AA/Black dolls it bleaches out the green some what but it bleaches out the complexion out too. You are left with a faded brown area with a green tinge to it.




















The green spot on the ear of my Vintage Julia was unacceptable to me so I purchased another one. I also purchased a Repo Julia. I am hoping I won't have this problem with the Repo because I do like having jewelry on her. I will not leave them in any length of time. I don't want to tempt fate. I have taken the advice of Niels Dolls Room and will store my dolls nude.

My Home Coming AA Skipper got green spot on her legs. I tried the cream to see if it would work better on the body than the face but the results were the same. I recently purchased an new skipper. I don't know what caused the green spot on the Skippers legs. I don't know if it was something I did, or how I stored here, so I will keep a good eye on her.


If any one else has had this problem and can give me some good suggestions, I would love to hear it!

When you are not looking for it... You find it!

When you are not looking for it... You find it!

Isn't funny that when you are looking for

something you never find it. When you stop

looking it shows up! For two years I had been

looking for a park bench for my dolls. I could

find one anywhere. When I looked on eBay

they wanted more than I was will to spend

I saw website where people said they found

them in thrift store but I couldn't find one there.

Then six months ago I find a bench in the thrift

store. It wasn't exactly what I wanted

( it was a rocker) but it would do!

Then a month ago I found another bench.

It was a little closer to what I wanted.

Then the other day I run into a store to get out

of the rain, what do I find? You got it! The perfect

park bench and they had a few of them for cheap!

Now a have a few different park benches.

Now I need to use them all!

My new bench!

Skipper, Mari and head swapped Chad on Steven body

Sit on the bench after school. They really should be studying!

A Find at Ross

Visit to Ross!
I went over to Ross the other day because
I need an outfit for a meeting. I saw this on
the shelve. It was $6.99. I don't know it that
was a good price or not. I liked her wig, the
way you can make new outfits out pieces of fabric,
and that she looked the the mannequins you
see in department stores. I thought she would
be a good addition to my clothing shop when
I set it up. Her name is Lucia.

Out of the box with Desiree for scale.

She does have rather large feet.













Scale comparison

Julia always wanted to be a Blondie! FYI...this was

not an easy fit. Wig is small for most doll's heads.

Sorry, nude mannequin photos!

Fabric is draped and push into slot in

the back of the body to hold in into place.