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This blog returns briefly from the mists of nothingness to say that vintage dawn doll bodies and the smaller LPS heads work perfectly together and are the easiest & most successful rebody I’ve ever found!

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My first Breyer horses as an adult, and a rewigged-by-prev-owner Karito Kids doll! Aren’t they all so pretty?

The wig will need a brushing, of course—this is straight-out-of-the-mail hair, lol

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Not dolls I know but uhhhhhh did I mention I got some GOOD thrift scores over the past couple of days

Reddit says the jawbone might be walrus???? Holy shiiiiiiiit

I gotta say, I would be a lot more surprised to find a fairy jawbone than a walrus jawbone at the thrift store, but even a walrus jawbone is a pretty damn spectacular find

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Have I posted a pic of my MH shelf here yet? If not, here it is—I have quite a few more in storage and scattered around, but this is my primary display group. Do you spot the bratzillaz? :3

Excuse the messy hair. Taming doll hair is not one of my skills.

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Finally figured out how to make a Mistoffelees design I’m happy with! Apparently the key ingredient to making him feel like Misto instead of just a random black cat—-sparkles ✨💖

He joins the Cats the Musical customs gang! Next up (and the only other cat I currently have plans for)—Tugger, of course.

That’s Macavity and Victoria next to him :3

They are all customized Fabulous Felines, one of my favorite obscure 80s toy lines. I have the full original set (minus that darn possibly-nonexistent playset), and am slowly working on accumulating extras when I find them at good prices for this Cats customs project.

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Oh, and this is what the original Fabulous Felines line looks like, if anyone’s curious!

Ngl, I’ve held off on posting them for a while because they’re uncommon enough that I was worried if they became any less-obscure, they’d be a lot harder for me to get—but now that I have as many of them as I’m planning on getting for now, I can gush about them openly! They’re so cute and I adore them. Their cards are full of funny lines (Meeskite, the mouse, is “today’s modern street-smart punkyness” and her favorite movie is “Tom and Jerry go Punk”), and confusing bits (Remington, the dark brown one, is canonically a Republican????). Their quality is middling. There’s contradictory information about them online and very little real information about their production and distribution. (GhostoftheDoll has the most info of any site).

And I love them with my whole heart 😄

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Finally figured out how to make a Mistoffelees design I’m happy with! Apparently the key ingredient to making him feel like Misto instead of just a random black cat—-sparkles ✨💖

He joins the Cats the Musical customs gang! Next up (and the only other cat I currently have plans for)—Tugger, of course.

That’s Macavity and Victoria next to him :3

They are all customized Fabulous Felines, one of my favorite obscure 80s toy lines. I have the full original set (minus that darn possibly-nonexistent playset), and am slowly working on accumulating extras when I find them at good prices for this Cats customs project.

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Friends, romans, countrymen, fellow doll collectors.

I’ve been thrifting and regularly shopping on Mercari and eBay for quite some time. I’ve found a lot of great deals. I’ve bought a lot of things that make me very happy for great prices.

This? This takes the cake.

I mean, you can already see why I’m excited. She’s still in her box, and although there’s light wear, she’s in pretty darn good condition.

But just wait.

….THIS is what she usually sells for. And you may notice that that’s not even the same version, the sold listings are for the American version. The one I have is the Canadian version, which I can find absolutely zero listings for, but international variants usually sell for more, sometimes significantly more, than their American counterparts.

(And it’s not just that she comes with a different box—you can see the colors of her gymnast bar are reversed!)

My fellow doll collectors.

The price I got her for? $14.

Excuse me while I go hyperventilate and cry happy tears and make squealing sounds at ungodly high frequencies for a while.

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Can’t believe I’ve gone from being someone who had never owned a propeller cap to finding not one but two at thrifts in the course of a couple weeks….never give up on your dreams….

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More dolls that I got recently but haven’t shown here!

I’ve never particularly collected Madame Alexander, but I recently discovered that they’ve made some charmingly weird dolls. I got these for a good deal from a very sweet seller on Mercari.

Here are some of the other weird dolls I’ve found so far:

They’re so fun! I hope I can find them in the wild someday. If anyone knows of more Madame Alexander dolls like these, please let me know!

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My first of the 28” voltageous ghoulfriend dolls!

(I think that’s what they’re called, right? I’m too lazy to google rn)

I already own a 28” Skelita, who I love, so I was glad to see that this one is very similar! She even has the eye-color-switching mechanism, too. It’s such a fun gimmick!

The nonbending knees with fake knee joints is such a funny choice. I don’t love it, but I suppose it’s to avoid damaging the doll by stressing those joints. Why even bother sculpting the fake joints, though??

She also has a very visible scalp line. I’m not sure why.

But overall, she’s gorgeous!! Sorry…gore-geous! This is Monster High, after all.

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Aaand I now have more dolls….

I didn’t even WANT any of them except the baby doll, I inquired about their prices and the lady at the counter just started ringing them up and they were too busy and I felt too bad to tell her I didn’t actually want them for those prices….

Ah well. They’re cute, at least. They’re all from the mid 90s, and were part of a huge selection of mostly Madame Alexander dolls there. The big Effanbee is a mid-90s reproduction of a 40s doll.

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Another pony lot arrived today! This will be the last til at least my next paycheck, though 😅

They will take longer to go through than the last lot, they don’t have the flaws of the last lot like missing tails, but they have a lot more play wear. So brushing them out and wiping them down will take some time.

Like last time, I’ll reblog more as I go through them, mostly so I can keep track of all their names for future reference!

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Moonstone and Butterscotch! It turns out these 2 are modern repros, not originals. I didn’t realize that when buying them, but I don’t mind, they’re actually quite convincing repros! Moonstone is from 2017 and Butterscotch is from 2007.

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Banjo Blue and Tropical Surprise. I think those specks on Banjo will come out with a bit more scrubbing, I’m just limited in my mobility by the small puppy perched on my lap during this haha.

Banjo Blue is charming, I wasn’t familiar with her. Tropical Surprise is one that’s always caught my eye, and she seems to pop up in lots often—or perhaps it just seems that way because she has such an eye-catching color scheme. I really like her!

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Scootaloo and Kiwi Tart. Kiwi Tart seems to be the only one with a hair cut, I’ll have to even the ends up but I think the short cut rather suits her anyway!

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Rainbow Swirl and Wysteria. Wysteria had such gorgeous curls but they were badly tangled and had to be brushed out, and now her hair looks so messy….I need to recurl it, I think. She’s such a lovely pony. G3 was the MLP line in stores when I was growing up, and Wysteria was one of the ones I dreamed about but never got. And now I have her! And such a pretty version, too. The cutie mark looks beautiful like this.

Rainbow Swirl’s pose is great. I wonder why they only used it for one pony?

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I almost forgot to finish this up! Coconut Cream and G3.5 Rainbow Dash.

It’s funny, there are a lot of things that I don’t really like when they’re new but like once they’re older. Pure silliness on my part, of course. But G3.5 is one of those. I’d hate these if they came out today, but since they’re defunct, I think they’re kinda charming.

Aren’t people silly? Myself especially 😂

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Another pony lot arrived today! This will be the last til at least my next paycheck, though 😅

They will take longer to go through than the last lot, they don’t have the flaws of the last lot like missing tails, but they have a lot more play wear. So brushing them out and wiping them down will take some time.

Like last time, I’ll reblog more as I go through them, mostly so I can keep track of all their names for future reference!

[ahousefullofdolls]

Moonstone and Butterscotch! It turns out these 2 are modern repros, not originals. I didn’t realize that when buying them, but I don’t mind, they’re actually quite convincing repros! Moonstone is from 2017 and Butterscotch is from 2007.

[ahousefullofdolls]

Banjo Blue and Tropical Surprise. I think those specks on Banjo will come out with a bit more scrubbing, I’m just limited in my mobility by the small puppy perched on my lap during this haha.

Banjo Blue is charming, I wasn’t familiar with her. Tropical Surprise is one that’s always caught my eye, and she seems to pop up in lots often—or perhaps it just seems that way because she has such an eye-catching color scheme. I really like her!

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Scootaloo and Kiwi Tart. Kiwi Tart seems to be the only one with a hair cut, I’ll have to even the ends up but I think the short cut rather suits her anyway!

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Rainbow Swirl and Wysteria. Wysteria had such gorgeous curls but they were badly tangled and had to be brushed out, and now her hair looks so messy….I need to recurl it, I think. She’s such a lovely pony. G3 was the MLP line in stores when I was growing up, and Wysteria was one of the ones I dreamed about but never got. And now I have her! And such a pretty version, too. The cutie mark looks beautiful like this.

Rainbow Swirl’s pose is great. I wonder why they only used it for one pony?

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Another pony lot arrived today! This will be the last til at least my next paycheck, though 😅

They will take longer to go through than the last lot, they don’t have the flaws of the last lot like missing tails, but they have a lot more play wear. So brushing them out and wiping them down will take some time.

Like last time, I’ll reblog more as I go through them, mostly so I can keep track of all their names for future reference!

[ahousefullofdolls]

Moonstone and Butterscotch! It turns out these 2 are modern repros, not originals. I didn’t realize that when buying them, but I don’t mind, they’re actually quite convincing repros! Moonstone is from 2017 and Butterscotch is from 2007.

[ahousefullofdolls]

Banjo Blue and Tropical Surprise. I think those specks on Banjo will come out with a bit more scrubbing, I’m just limited in my mobility by the small puppy perched on my lap during this haha.

Banjo Blue is charming, I wasn’t familiar with her. Tropical Surprise is one that’s always caught my eye, and she seems to pop up in lots often—or perhaps it just seems that way because she has such an eye-catching color scheme. I really like her!

[ahousefullofdolls]

Scootaloo and Kiwi Tart. Kiwi Tart seems to be the only one with a hair cut, I’ll have to even the ends up but I think the short cut rather suits her anyway!

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Another pony lot arrived today! This will be the last til at least my next paycheck, though 😅

They will take longer to go through than the last lot, they don’t have the flaws of the last lot like missing tails, but they have a lot more play wear. So brushing them out and wiping them down will take some time.

Like last time, I’ll reblog more as I go through them, mostly so I can keep track of all their names for future reference!

[ahousefullofdolls]

Moonstone and Butterscotch! It turns out these 2 are modern repros, not originals. I didn’t realize that when buying them, but I don’t mind, they’re actually quite convincing repros! Moonstone is from 2017 and Butterscotch is from 2007.

[ahousefullofdolls]

Banjo Blue and Tropical Surprise. I think those specks on Banjo will come out with a bit more scrubbing, I’m just limited in my mobility by the small puppy perched on my lap during this haha.

Banjo Blue is charming, I wasn’t familiar with her. Tropical Surprise is one that’s always caught my eye, and she seems to pop up in lots often—or perhaps it just seems that way because she has such an eye-catching color scheme. I really like her!

[ahousefullofdolls]

Another pony lot arrived today! This will be the last til at least my next paycheck, though 😅

They will take longer to go through than the last lot, they don’t have the flaws of the last lot like missing tails, but they have a lot more play wear. So brushing them out and wiping them down will take some time.

Like last time, I’ll reblog more as I go through them, mostly so I can keep track of all their names for future reference!

[ahousefullofdolls]

Moonstone and Butterscotch! It turns out these 2 are modern repros, not originals. I didn’t realize that when buying them, but I don’t mind, they’re actually quite convincing repros! Moonstone is from 2017 and Butterscotch is from 2007.

[ahousefullofdolls]

Another pony lot arrived today! This will be the last til at least my next paycheck, though 😅

They will take longer to go through than the last lot, they don’t have the flaws of the last lot like missing tails, but they have a lot more play wear. So brushing them out and wiping them down will take some time.

Like last time, I’ll reblog more as I go through them, mostly so I can keep track of all their names for future reference!