I’m a May child, still few days to go to my birthday, but I already received my gifts

My husband bought me 2 June Pullip (the small ones) from the Alice in Wonderland collection, they are so adorable, still debating whether I should debox them or not, but most probably I will do:

Yesterday I got Jabob from my sister-in-law and he’s definitely going to be deboxed, the girls can’t wait!!!

and this is one of the gifts I bought myself

she’s a fierce beauty!

So…what happens when you put together the beginning of the flea-market season, holidays and my upcoming birthday? Dolls of course!!!

Here are the first finds of the seasons, all in need of some cleaning and loving care. Al together the stuff below came up to around 40 euros, a bit less actually. Not extremely cheap but still ok:

I have no idea who the two beauties below are, but I love them. The small dolls is marked Mattel, clearly from the ’80 and in need of rescue

then a gorgeous red-haired Petra:

another Superstar face from the seventies:

and some miscellaneous:

I think the gifts deserve a new post

Not sure if any of you still hasn’t seen the last incarnation of our favourite doll, but if you didn’t check it here, just amazing!

On the flickr stream of the artist you can even find a tutorial on how some of the Alender McQueen inspired shoes were made.

So…my sister-in-law found them!!! I’m so excited. I’m normally very happy when I meet with her, we have always a nice time together but I’m never been so keen on meeting with her as now since when it happens she will deliver the dolls to me .

You can see both on my flickr account and her german blog the pictures she took of the dolls in the box. Also she posted few pictures of the Artsy Fashionistas on her flickr account. They look gorgeous!!!

Thanks again Ursula!

I don’t know if it is me only noticing it now for the first time but wherever I look I keep seeing dolls and fashion brands together. I love dolls and clothes so I’m pretty happy about this ongoing trend but I wonder if it is indeed happening only this year or if it was the case also before and I didn’t see it.

Here below you can see the Alexander McQueen new advertisement campaign with Blythe

Here a quick peek at the Exhibition “Barbie & Ken by Karl Lagerfeld” hosted by Colette in Paris. By the way check the Barbie merchandising, some of the T-shirts are just fabulous.

What about the Lanvin porcelain dolls featuring clothes from the spring 2009 collection? I love them, pity they are too pricey for my pocket

And have you seen the Fafinette dolls by MAC? I actually would love to have the make-up as well just for the gorgeous packaging! But of course no sign of it in Germany

I managed though to get hold in Italy of some Harajuku Lovers perfumes (the coffret containing the 5 solid perfumes) and a lingerie set by Yamamay issued as a special for San Valentine and “inspired” by Barbie, absolutely cute! So cute I will most probably never wear it

Today is finally friday (ok, I will work on Sunday but I try to forget it for the moment) and it was pay-day so during my lunch break I went around shops looking for dolls

I had almost given up hope to find something nice and cheap when in the last shop I entered I saw new FF dolls, uauhhh!!! They are awesome and just 10 euros each so I grabbed a Barbie (I love pink hair) and Teresa since she was the only one they had, but I think I will go back for more:-)

Here they are , in all their splendour:

Actually Teresa’s outfit is really purple and not blueish like in the picture but this is the best I could get with artificial light. Here they are out of the box:

The hair on Barbie are uneven, like usually, but still much better than on some Collectible dolls:

They have beautiful faces, no so broad like in some of the last Mattel playline dolls:

and I love their clothes, purple is my favourite colour and I like the combination of black and pink:

What else to say? I definitely need to go back and get more of them

Since I didn’t update my blog in the first 2 weeks of September there was no report on my Flea-market finds. Unfortunately the autumn is catching up on us and most probably these were the last ones we visited for this year, even if I hope not

Here is what I’ve got recently, a nice small lot of Barbies from the seventies and outfits:

I think the Barbie in the yellow dress is an original Superstar and she’ still wearing her original jewellery. I really like the Ken dolls, the one with brown hair is basically mint. This lot will be kept, properly pimped up and displayed

Last week I found then a nice lot from the ’80:

and an Elvis Presley Mattel doll. I’m not particularly fascinated by the character or the figure but I really liked the uniform and I thought 10 euros was an acceptable price for it:

So, that’s all for the moment, let’s cross fingers we still have a couple of good flea-markets weekends in front of us

I  finally started to put together the antiquarian shop and I realized I need much more props, I want it to be really jam packed like a real shop, here anyway is a first peak into it:

I realized now I didn’t write any new post for 2 weeks!!! Uauhhh!!! But life here has been pretty busy recently and I had no time. The main problem is that I’ve got lots of new dollies and clothes I would like to take nice pictures of but I come home too late, the sun is already setting down by the time I’m back and the last two weekends have been packed.

I’ve received in meantime my Juku Couture dolls from US, my nice Teen Trends dolls from a very nice seller on ebay and gorgeous outfits for them We visited quickly a flea market last Sunday and got few great Barbies from the ’70. I really hope to have time the upcoming weekend to play with all of them and take pictures. I need some quality time with my girls!!!

So…all of this to say…I’m not getting lazy, just too busy

Still enjoying my days off and today I decided  to sort my dolls clothes out. My own wardrobe would need  a bit of tidying up as well, but taking care of the small clothes is much more fun and while doing it I get to play!

Here is how my lounge-room looked one hour ago:

We’ve got the small chests of drawers from IKEA last saturday and my hubby built them up for me

I had a great clean-out and put a huge lot of clothes on ebay. I also redressed a couple of girls I’ve got at the flea-market and put them on ebay as well.

They look so great washed, redressed and all groomed up that I was tempted to keep them but I really would like avoiding for the moment to add more barbies to my collection. Here they are:

I really love barbies from the ’70 and ’80 and compared to the skinny ones they sell now in the shops, the ones from this period look even plumpy