Tuesday Morning here must have hit the Ai Ball Jointed Doll jackpot. There were six different Ai BJD's here for $29.99 each. I've never seen that many in one store before. I took pictures of each one in the store so I could share which ones they have. They were all so cute, that I couldn't decide which one I liked best. Here are the pictures that I took in the store.
Lupinus is a precious little sleeping girl with closed eyes, a sweet brown bob, a beautiful floral dress, and a cute bear hat. She also comes with her own teddy bear and basket bed with bedding that matches her dress.
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| Lupinus |
Lemon is decked out in bright yellow, green and white. She has long blonde curly hair, green eyes, and even a lemon shaped hat.
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| Lemon |
Leptospermum has wild blond hair, blue and black striped pants, and a matching funny shaped hat with two points.
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| Leptospermum |
Lagrus has straight blond hair and blue eyes. She is wearing a pink and white dress and she has a matching coat and hat with bunny ears.
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| Lagrus |
Aster has beautiful long auburn sausage curls. She wears a green dress adorned with white lace and she comes with her own white teddy bear.
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| Aster |
Nerine has blond curly hair and blue eyes. She is wearing a print and polka dot dress adorned with lace. She has a lacy bonnet and her own brown teddy bear.
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| Nerine |
I think Nerine has the prettiest smiling mouth that I have seen on an Ai doll yet. Just look at her sweet happy face.
Tuesday Morning also had two Little Pullip dolls in stock for $9.99 each. They were Silver Ranger and Police Jack.
I searched every nook and cranny of all of the local antique stores. I found this sweet little girl at one of the antique stores. She was so cute that I had to bring her home.
She is a Kathe Kruse doll with her original hang tag. She has a cloth body with a wire armature which makes her posable. She was made in Germany, but I haven't been able to find out exactly how old she is yet. She is wearing her original dress, hat, and tights.
The same antique store had a jar filled with tiny wicker baskets for $6. I love finding miniatures, and there are just so many possibilites with these tiny baskets. There turned out to be 24 baskets in the jar.
I picked up a little classified ad paper at one of the antique stores, and inside, I found an ad for someone selling some old dolls. I called the number, and spoke to a nice lady who was selling her mom's doll collection. Her mom, who was a long time doll collector, passed away last year. I decided to go take a look at her dolls, and I'm happy to share that I purchased my first composition doll from her.
I just fell in love with her open smiling mouth with four teeth. She has sleep eyes and a human hair wig. She appears to be wearing her original dress and bonnet.
I also purchased 41 issues of Antique Doll Collector magazine from her.
There are various issues from 2004-2011. I'm really excited to get these since I've been wanting to learn more about antique dolls.
I've been looking at antique bisque Kewpie dolls for a while now, even though I don't have one yet. My daughters think they are adorable too. We've been to a lot of antique stores this summer, and a couple weeks ago, my 8 year old said she just wants to find a Kewpie doll. I told her that they were made of bisque and were very fragile though, and she changed the statement to "I just want to find a vinyl Kewpie doll". Guess what the lady also had in her collection... a vinyl Kewpie doll. So I had to buy her for my daughter.
I also bought these little Madame Alexander dolls for my daughters. Little Red Riding Hood is just adorable.
Hitty Etta came along on the trip with me since she is a travel doll. Here she is by the window in the hotel.
She traveled in my purse wrapped in this adorable little Hitty applique quilt from eBay.
It's been a wonderful trip, and we will be heading home later today. I hope you enjoyed hearing about our adventures.
Have a wonderful weekend!!!
