Fashion Dolls 101

The little Tiny Treasures Woodland Fairytale Miniatures gnomes decided they were tired of living under a potted plant and moved outside to live among the toadstools.  These mushrooms popped up overnight and were just too cute a setting to ignore. The colorful gnomes make an enchanted village among the toadstools.  Related: Tiny Treasure Woodland Fairytale Miniatures Fun for Indoor Gardens http://fashion-dolls-101.blogspot.com/2018/07/tiny-treasures-woodland-fairytale.html?m=1

Michaels has been carrying some cute little miniature figures with a forest theme that are perfect for using with your indoor plants or alone in their own little woodland setting. Today the little figures were half price so I snapped up a few. My tiny gnomes were placed in a large pot which houses my dracaena for a little indoor fun. I added an intersection flat rock with a fossil I found in my yard and then thought to add an artificial flower sprig. I may add a few other odds and ends as my fairyland grows. I am not sure how well the little figures will hold up after countless waterings and listings and I avoided the cute little buildings with thatch or miss on them for that reason. In the meantime, I will enjoy the color and whimsy these little fairyland miniatures add to my indoor garden. Also see Funko Minis Includes New Mini Barbie’s http://fashion-dolls-101.blogspot.com/2018/06/funko-minis-includes-new-mini-barbie.html?m=1 Ask me how you can doll yourself

Nutcracker Barbie, Black Widow Fan Girls, Moxie Teenz Melrose, Jackie Evancho Madame Alexander’s Marvel Fan Girls are alike in size and appearance to Moxie Teenz and similar dolls like Jackie Evancho and other 13 1/2” - 14” fashion dolls. With similar builds, they can swap many outfits out. In this first photo both the Fan Girl and Barbie Nutcracker dolls are wearing the same Moxie Teenz Top. However, there are still some differences. The Madame Alexander Fan Girls are slimmer than Moxie Teenz and the other dolls. They can easily wear many Barbie clothes. The Black Widow Fan Girls Doll in the photo is wearing a red pleather Barbie skirt. How the Dolls Stack Up The Fan Girls Dolls have very slender necks that are not in proportion to their heads but their larger heads help them display well with the Moxie Teenz. They have skinnier arms than the other dolls. The Fan Girls are missing the twist torso and bendable ankles of the Moxie Teenz but are very poseable due to other ball

Recently a new doll joined the Barbie friends and family collection— an apparently unnamed boy doll. First appearing with the Chelsea Club series, the cute little boy has also turned up in the new Barbie Camping Fun series of dolls with a cute fishing pole. The Barbie site at Mattel caries a picture of the original Club Chelsea boy doll, and I found the little African American male doll at Walmart.com.  All of them are cute but I think I like the little black-haired guy with the camera on his striped t-shirt that came with the Club Chelsea line the best.  What do you think of Chelsea’s new guy friend? Let me know in the comments below and if you know his name or want to share your suggestion, let us know! Ask me how you can doll yourself up with amazing clinical skincare products and start your way to clearer, healthier skin today! Join me on  Facebook  or email skin_and_health@yahoo.com  for more info! I would love to help you have the best skin of your life!!

Moxie Teenz, Fan Girls & other 14" friends The Moxie Teenz are known for their big eyes with rooted lashes and their moveable limbs as well as their 14" inch size. How nice it has been for them to make occasional friends along the way that share some of their attributes! In honor of the approaching 4th of July holiday, the Teenz invited their newest friends, the Madame Alexander Fan Girls, and some other friends to a July 4th party to celebrate our nation's birth, patriotism and friendship. Captain America Fan Girls doll The Moxie Teenz girls and Gavin have put on their favorite red, white and blue outfits for the party, along with two Jackie Evancho dolls (one with a Liv head) . Barbie wears a simple summer peasant skirt and top, while the Captain America Fan Girl has arrived in her original outfit. Her friend Black Widow has taken off her black gown to wear a 4th of July skirt and a top she probably borrowed from Ken or a Backstreet Boy or other boy do

With Geoffrey the Giraffe at the Bellevue TRU in 2015 It has been all over the news, so I am sure this post is not breaking news to anyone. However, I could not let the Toys R Us (TRU) chain shut its doors forever without a small homage of my own. See update at end of post about the possibility of some TRU stores reopening! Toys R Us was established on June 1957, in Washington, D.C. I have fond memories of going into the huge toy store as a little girl when we lived in D.C. There was nothing else like it. Later as Toys R Us moved across the country we finally got one in Nashville and a few years later, a store opened in Bellevue, TN, where I became a frequent guest. A writer for several fashion doll magazines including Barbie Bazaar and Millers Fashion Doll Magazine, I was often in the store taking photos of new dolls and buying them for more formal photo shoots for my articles. After print media doll magazines closed their doors, I still wrote doll articles for Examiner,

Sadly, the Toys R Us chain of big-box toy stores is closing across the nation. The only perk in this sorry chain of events is the fact that toys and dolls are 50 - 70 % off in the few stores that are still in the process of closing. This means the handful of Minecraft toys that are left are now 60% or more off the original price. So head in today to say goodby to a pop culture retail icon as it closes its doors, and rescue a Minecraft Sheep, Ghast or a Creeper while you are there. Related:  Winter Fun with Minecraft Figures Minecraft Dolls & Action Figures Minecraft Secrets:Totally Awesome Builds Book Review   Minecraft PvP Servers group on Facebook Ask me how you can doll yourself up with amazing clinical skincare products and start your way to clearer, healthier skin today! Join me on  Facebook  or email skin_and_health@yahoo.com  for more info! I would love to help you have the best skin of your life!!

Madame Alexander Marvel Captain America Fan Girls Doll. Shield not included. The Madame Alexander Marvel Captain America Fan Girls Review is part III in a series about a new line of 14" dolls from the MA doll company. Hooray for the Red, White and Blue! The Madame Alexander Marvel Captain America Fan Girls doll is quite a patriotic beauty. 4th of July and Flag Day come to mind immediately when looking at her, so while she is a tribute to Captain America, the doll will be great for seasonal patriotic display. Dressed in red, white and blue, she is as American as Mom's apple pie with a cropped blue top sewn over a white t-shirt, nice blue leggings, and her red and white striped skirt. The skirt features two layers. One is a bubble skirt with a floors-length layer underneath that is open in the front to show off her ugly World War II-esque lace up Army boots. Captain America Fan Girls and her Army boots  "Your mother wears Army Boots" was an insult in

Madame Alexander Fan Girls Black Widow & Captain America One of the more recent additions to the doll collecting world is a relatively new collection from the prestigious Madame Alexander doll company. As mentioned in Part one of this series on the Fan Girls Dolls , the new MA dolls pay tribute to some of Marvel Comics most beloved heroes. In Part II and III, we will take a closer look at two of the dolls: the Black Widow and Captain America Fan Girls. Black Widow Fan Girl Review The Black Widow Fan Girls doll would be a great witch for Halloween with her stark black gown with its dramatic collar and spider-themed hat. Her red hair looked pretty enough, but it was tied onto the doll's dress. In fact, all these dolls suffer from being severely tied to their plastic cases with arms, legs, clothing and shoes all tied overly securely to the boxes, so much so that they are difficult and time consuming to remove. Black Widow Fan Girls doll from Madame Alexander Once r

Part 1 of a 3-part series Fan Girl dolls from Madame Alexander  Madame Alexander has issued an interesting collection of dolls paying homage to various characters from Marvel comics. The 14 inch fashion dolls are dressed in eclectic designs that emulate garments worn by Marvel characters. In all honesty, the costumes are not that appealing and the shoes and boots I personally inspected were downright ugly. The dolls themselves, with the exception of the sad little Spider Man Fan Girl, with her horrific bangs and two-toned hair, are well made and quite pretty. Ball jointed with graceful hands and with their large eyes with rooted lashes, there is a lot of appeal in the Fan Girl dolls from Madame Alexander, if only their clothes had been nicer. In the rest of this series, I will review the Black Widow and Captain America Fan Girl Dolls and compare the Madame Alexander Fan Girls to my favorite 14 inch dolls, the Moxie Teenz. Ask me how you can doll yourself up with amazing cl

Cloth dolls at the Tennessee Ren Fest At this year's Tennessee Ren Fest there were some cute little cloth dolls for sale. Dressed in renaissance gowns, the dolls were trimmed with bits of lace and ribbon. Dolls are not always found at a Renaissance Festival so these were a particularly nice find. A tapestry with a dog dressed as Queen Elizabeth Costumes are always plentiful as are various other arts and crafts. For collectors of the cute and unusual, there were even tapestries from Europe of dogs in historic poses. Scenes from the 2018 Tennessee Renaissance Festival Ren Faires are colorful and imaginative and a fun way to spend the day. If your city hosts a renaissance festival, try to catch it. There you will make your own colorful finds! Related: 33rd Annual Tennessee Ren Fest a Hit    Ask me how you can doll yourself up with amazing clinical skincare products and start your way to clearer, healthier skin today! Join me on  Facebook  or email skin_and_he

Barbie Minis -- Good Things Do Come in Small Packages! Barbie Minis by Funko Funko Minis includes numerous iconic television and pop culture icons like"The Walking Dead" and other action figures. Now they have issues a collection of 16mini Barbie figures that included well-known Barbies from 1959 through 1995. These little cuties are hidden in packaging that does not reveal which doll is in each box. That's a mystery that can only be revealed by buying a box and unwrapping the tiny figure inside. Closeup of Barbie Minis by Funko Each box of the tiny figures is $5.99 at Walgreens, maybe less other places. For  die-hard Barbie doll collectors and little girls who love dolls, the Funko Barbie minis make a cute offering for any girl's collection, no matter her age. Ask me how you can doll yourself up with amazing clinical skincare products and start your way to clearer, healthier skin today! Join me on  Facebook  or email skin_and_health@yahoo.com  for m

Barbie's little sister, Chelsea Barbie's little sister Chelsea has come into her own with a collection of pets, club playhouse, and colorful hair that makes her super cute to collect! The diminutive doll is incredibly cute in all the colors of the rainbow in the Dreamtopia collection and with her friends, pony and playhouse in the Chelsea Club collection. She's so cute, I wanted to add them all to my collection. Ask me how you can doll yourself up with amazing clinical skincare products and start your way to clearer, healthier skin today! Join me on  Facebook  or email skin_and_health@yahoo.com  for more info! I would love to help you have the best skin of your life!!

Brighton Fashion Passport Umbrella ☔️ 🌂  A fan of Brighton Jewelry, I signed up for their list some time ago. I like their whimsical, artistic designs in Jewelry and have added a few pieces to my collection over the years. This week my eye was caught by this colorful Fashion Passport  umbrella. It’s not quite my style, yet my eye was drawn back to it, and I realized—the patterns looks like fashion dolls! This eye-catching design would make a great accessory for doll collectors and for a short time, it’s a free gift with a purchase of $100 or more. You can thank me later! Here I’m sampling some of the goodies at Brighton Jewelry. Who says “less is more???” :-) Ask me how you can doll yourself up with amazing clinical skincare products and start your way to clearer, healthier skin today! Join me on  Facebook  or email  skin_and_health@yahoo.com  for more info! I would love to help you have the best skin of your life!!

A recent business presentation brought me to the Embassey Suites Hotel in the Cool Springs area of Nashville/ Franklin. After the exciting RF business opportunity meeting led by several local million-dollar earners,  (which was somewhat interrupted by loud music from the meeting in the room next door),  I was too wound up to simply drive home, so I unwound by exploring the lobby area. There I came across a display of the award-winning Luciana doll from American Girl. The display included the book that accompanies the doll about Luciana as well as a small but colorful poster advertising American Girl birthday parties at the Embassy Suites hotel. Have your next Birthday Party at the Embassy Suites, American Girl Style! According to the poster, girls are invited to invite 3 of their BFFs to a Birthday Party at the Embassy Suites American Girl Style and take home American Girl gifts. Embassy Suites are known for comfortable lodging for guests and good accommoda

Mincraft figures make for fun winter dioramas. I chose the colorful 3" Minecraft figures for these two shots. The first diorama was done for the Minecraft Tribes page on Facebook and was made using a small indoor herb garden and miniature Christmas trees. Alex holds a redstone flare since she doesn't have a Christmas candle while Steve holds a sword to ward off the Creeper and Slime mobs who have invited themselves to the Christmas party. The second scene was obviously shot in the snow to capture the snowy biome experience. Alex guards the TNT and a Villager works at his anvil in front of Steve's winter pagoda while the Creeper and the Slime plan mischief around the corner. If you have a fun Minecraft Diorama photo, feel free to share it at the Minecraft PvP Servers group on Facebook . Ask me how you can doll yourself up with amazing clinical skincare products and start your way to clearer, healthier skin today! Join me on  Facebook  or email  skin_and_heal