Christmas toys!

My Madame Alexander dolls- the Holy Family. It was part of a large, elaborate Nativity set from 1997, but I only got around to buying these.



I have more Alexander Christmas dolls.

My big collection of Christmas Beanie Babies, Simpsons, and Boyds Bears. There's a Madeline doll in there, as well as a Christmas Dogbert from Dilbert!



My annual Jingle Beanie tree:



I stuck a Boyd's tree topper angel bear on top.

I have other Christmas toys that I haven't put out yet.

And farewell to the Bratz, too!

Story here:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/04/news/companies/bratz_dolls.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008120406

Mattel won their copyright infringement case. As soon as the holidays are over, all Bratz dolls will be removed from store shelves.

I always thought the dolls were sort of funny. I have a couple in my collection. I think I'll go out and buy a few more (while I still can) and hold on to them...

Farwell to a friend.

Samantha and Nellie from the American Girls are being retired this year. :(

http://americangirlstories.typepad.com/american_girl_stories/2008/09/test.html

I was really too old for dolls when Samantha, the very first AG, came out in 1986. I collected dolls, but at 15 I was more interested in clothes and make-up...so I passed on getting one. It wasn't until eleven years later and I was an adult that I went ahead and bought one for myself. She was just the first- I now have all of the historical dolls except for Kaya, Molly's friend Emily, Kit's friend Ruth, and Julie's friend Ivy (though I'd like her for Christmas!). I've lost track of all the clothes and accessories I've picked up over the last decade!

I always thought that Samantha was the most popular of all the dolls. I'm really surprised that her collection is being retired.

*is embarassed*

I'd love to have one of these:

http://www.mytwinn.com/index.html?lid=LogoHomeHdr&lpos=header

I could have one made to look somewhat like I did at four or so. It would be a very cute doll. Maybe I'll ask my mom for one for Christmas...she'd pick the right picture for them to use!

Aww, looks just like him, right down to the ears!

Cute little finger puppet of Barack Obama. Sorry, McCain not available...yet.

Poor Wee Patsy!

I was cleaning my doll shelves yesterday, and look what happened...



:( Poor thing! The little rubber band holding the arms on dried up and snapped. It should be easy to fix, if I can find a band the right size. I have several Wee Patsy dolls- I'm going to have to be very careful with them!

Election toys!

Paper dolls! Each has an election night scorecard.







Guess which one I already own. :p *see my 7/5/08 entry!*

There are magnetic dress-up dolls of the candidates out there, too!

shameless plug- I actually sell these in my shop! ;)