Saturday Bath: Hobby Holly, Corolle and Rapunzel Dolls

It's Saturday and I am at the dining table, just finished my lunch of pizza and pineapple juice.

I spent a couple of hours cleaning and bathing 5 of my newly-adopted dollies: Corolle mino toddler, Mattel baby, toddler Rapunzel, vintage Holly Hobbie and the Mattel Holly Hobbie.

Then spent another couple of hours washing the dolls' clothes and mine.

Now I'm munching on chocolates. Tired and sleepy. Waiting for the dolls' hair to dry. Brush Rapunzel's long hair every now and then.

Perhaps in few minutes I'd be napping.

In the meantime, here are snapshots of my

earlier tasks.

New Preloved Girls: Our Generation by Battat and Mini Clodrey Dolls

...and I just ordered a couple of 2nd hand dolls online. I think I have to stop immediately!

1 is an Our Generation girl who needs extreme care because of ink marks all over including her hair, and a vintage 9" Clodrey doll who also needs an overhaul. They also need to have new set of clothes.

With the little time I have for my hobby, I will soon be swamped with 2nd-hand dolls that aren't ready to be displayed yet. Hence, they will continue to be piled and the next thing I know, I am overwhelmed again! Although I think I am challenged by these girls that makes the process exciting.

I also need to look after my budget as the doll-collecting hobby, whether new or preloved, definitely drains the pocket.

Hopefully these 2 will be my last preloved purchases... at least for the month of February-March 2018. I shall turn off my notifications...

So here are the 2 new girls that I am expecting:

 

Baby Dolls Galore!

I have incoming dolls again that I ordered online. Mostly baby dolls (Mattel, Corolle and Madame Alexander). I love watchig thrift store doll shopping in YouTube and this is similar to that activity since these are also 2nd hand toys. The difference is that the dolls are now pricier because of the middle man, and shipping adds on the cost as well. The fun of walking around overwhelmed with so many options is also not in the equation.

I am certainly glad, though, for finding these dolls as I won't easily get them anymore. I will just have to make use of what I can get to try restoring them. I still wish that I have the talent to restore dolls.

They are being shipped as of this writing and expected to arrive tomorrow, Feb. 8th:

In addition to the baby dolls, there is also a toddler Corolle doll, which I still have to identify when received: 

 I also do have a new-found doll, which I assume to be Holly Hobbie:

Apparently, Mattel produced a modern Holly Hobbie, which I was also able to find through our local ebay. I will show you in a separate blog entry.

So that's it for now guys! I am excited for their arrival. Will update you the soonest!

Shopkins Season 7

After an out of town activity yesterday, Feb 4, we went to the mall for our usual toy-hunting. There wasn't much delivery for this week so I wasn't able to buy dolls.

However, my 8-year old niece have been requesting us for Shopkins, which I am not too excited about because they are so small and so easy to be misplaced. She actually had about 50+ pieces that we got her for Christmas then, but now down to less than 10 pcs.

Finally she was able to convince us yesterday and promised that she'd be more careful this time and would make sure they don't get lost.

Here are the ones she got:

Friday Thoughts

It's Friday. A very slow Friday. I am at the office, but my mind is wandering. Somewhat excited for the 2 days of weekend that are filled already  with activities:

*Saturday to meet a childhood friend and of course to bathe my newly-arrived 2nd hand dolls.

*Sunday to go out of town to attend an activity and do a tour of the place at the same time.

Toys and travel are 2 of my most favorite things in life.

Last night I already opened the box of toys I bought from Facebook. It was late already at around 11pm and initially wanted to open them this weekend, but I have thought that being enclosed in a tight box isn't fun and they might get deformed or something.

As to end this work week, here are the dolls when they arrived to me. Sorry for the photo quality as it's a screenshot of the box opening video I made.

Princess & Me Dolls by Jakks Pacific

One of my latest purchases from Shopee, which I am pleased about are four Princess & Me dolls by Jakks Pacific.

I have always been curious about them since I saw them in YouTube, but I think they were never made available in the Philippine market. So my curiousity just remained as it is.

Until I saw the post online and immediately caught my interest. I started negotiating with the seller and she's agreed to give discounts plus free shipping. And so the sale happened. Next thing I knew is that the girls were already delivered. It took another day before I was able to open then as I wanted to document mu box opening through the form of video, which I will be posting in my YouTube channel soon.

They smelled like they came from storage, similar to what you'd smell in thrift shops so I had to give them long baths and good scrubbing. I shampooed and conditoned their hair too.

As of this time, I only have completed Rapunzel, while the rest I have only fixed the hair but continue to be naked. I shall include them in my 'Doll Rescue Project'.

In the meantime, here are their photos, including the before and after of Rapunzel.

Here are the seller's photos of them:

Here are photos when I received them: 

Now here is the upgraded version of Rapunzel. Not everyone may agree, but she's turned into an ordinary school girl upon putting on a set of Tolly Tots fashion.

I like how she turned out:

Thanks for dropping by guys!

Overwhelmed

Eversince I started my 'attic project', I have been overwhelmed by the toys I have acquired over the years. I have lately realized how huge and diverse my collection is and that they immediately need urgent attention to be organized. Organizing them is quite a challenge given the little time I can allot for them. I only have 1 whole day each weekend and about an hour in the evening when I get home from work.

The activity is a heart-pounding one as I unravel treasures I didn't realize that I've had all along. Really exciting!

It is a heartbreaking process at the same time, having to discover toys, especially dolls that got damaged due to prolonged storage.

Right now all I can do is to stay positive and hopeful that I will be able to organize, identify and keep track each and every one of them and be able to provide a proper storage or display area for them.

The attic is still a mess, but slowly gaining space.