The Ladies on the Shelf

The girlies who don't get brought down much (:

This is Fay. "Fay" is Hawaiian for "Fairy". Yes. I was feeling very creative that day. She's actually a very small fairy doll that sits on my bookshelf with her little feet hanging over. She also has a string on her head so I could also actually hang her on the wall... but she likes her spot on the shelf just fine. (:

This is a shelf above the window. First off we have Belle, a holiday doll from this Disney store, I believe from 1997. I got her off of eBay when I decided it was high time I got myself a Disney Princess doll. (: I've been debating lately if I should take her out of her box or not. I'm really not convinced she'll ever be worth so much that I'll regret it, and dolls are so much more fun out of their box. Maybe I'll just buy another one and then have it both ways. ;) She is so pretty though! So much prettier than most other Disney Princess dolls right now.

Next to Belle we have is my 1998 Happy Holidays Barbie.

Here in the middle of the shelf is a doll my mother gave me. I'm really not sure where she's from and I've actually never gave her a name (poor dear). She's porcelain, and her blonde hair and blue dress has always reminded me of Kirsten from the American Girls Collection.

Beside her, Barbie as Rapunzel in a Rapunzel dress from 1999. I'm not certain the doll and dress came together -  but I had more than one, and when I got rid of my Barbies I only picked a few to keep, and therefore picked my favorite Rapunzel (one of my favorite stories growing up) and favorite Rapunzel dress.

Next to Rapunzel is porcelain Christmas doll, Holly. I found her in an antique store and know as much about her origin as I do about my other porcelain doll.

Finally, we have a 2000 Barbie.

Fairest of Them All

You may be aware that right now, the Disney Store has a designer Disney Princess thing going on right now. They took the ten Disney Princesses (here meaning nine, plus Mulan, who isn't REALLY a princess) and designed them to look 50s old hollywood glamour - which is right up my ally.

They've released several things featuring art work of the ten princesses (Belle, Snow White, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Tiana, Mulan, Pocahontas, and Jasmine). Notebooks, notecards, coffee mugs, nail polish, a cute little clutch, you get the idea. They're also releasing the dolls, every Monday for two and a half months. However, they don't let you know the order in which they're being released. (I had a theory, but doll #3 completely threw it off.) At first I didn't mind. We have a Disney store in one of our malls, and they always have the doll in store on Monday... and it just so happens I have guitar lessons every Tuesday right across from that very mall. I figured, no big deal, I'll check out the website every Monday, and when Snow White comes out, I'll go get her after guitar lessons. Good? Good. Except now she still isn't out, and we're going on a trip soon - and I don't think I'll be able to get her if she comes out the Monday we're gone. They're selling out REALLY fast online, and now it's been long enough for everyone to catch on.

A Doll's Life

Heya. I'm Alice. I'm 17, and a Senior in highschool. Supposedly supposed to be exciting... not really, actually. Oh well.

Anyway.

Like nearly every other girl, I enjoyed playing with dolls when I was little, and I most certainly didn't want to outgrow them. I dragged out playing with them longer than most girls. But we needn't get into that. Now that I'm 17, through my awkward "I'm too cool to play with dolls" middle school age (okay... that was only the latter of my middle school years, to be honest), and now understand it's actually socially acceptable to collect dolls. WOAH. Middle school mind blown.

Unfortunately, we move. And when we moved from Hawaii to Texas, we went over our weight allowance (we're a military family, and the military only pays for so much weight when we move... when we go over, we have to pay for it). Which meant when we moved again to Virginia less than a year later, my mom was in a frantic phase to get rid of ANYTHING we didn't need. Which, sadly for my little 13-year-old self, meant me being a big girl and throwing out many things I wish I still had (including a Toy Story Jessie doll - heart = broken).

SO. This is just a blog of doll things... updates on their little lives. I'll introduce them to you over time. (:

Alice