The Gal That Started It All

 I thought I'd introduce you to the gal that started it all.  This is the Vogue Ginny Doll that I got for Christmas 1954.  My mother had a professional photographer come to the house every year at Christmas time.  My sister and I also had birthdays (December 23 and December 29) so sometimes he came on our birthdays too.  Here is my 1954 PLW Ginny today:

I always tell people that she's worthless to a serious collector but priceless to me.  Over the years her eyebrows and lashes have faded and she's been cut open and repaired.  She was always a redhead but originally had a flip style hairdo.  As a child I cut her hair.  I found a faded doll on eBay and bought her so she could be a wig donor.  Now my Ginny has braids.  I kept her original bangs because they were long and the color matched the new wig perfectly.  She was dressed in this Whiz Kids outfit #71 that Christmas.  My sister received a blond doll in this outfit and I received the redhead.

This is a picture of me from Christmas 1954.  The Ginny doll in the carriage is actually my sister's doll.  The photographer just grabbed a few dolls for the picture and my little redhead didn't make the cut.

I hated posing for the Christmas pictures but now I'm glad I have them.  I'm glad I still have Ginny too!  Over the last 20 years I've accumulated a lot of doll friends for her but she'll always be my favorite.  Betty

Pandemic Entertainment

 During the early days of the pandemic I tried to get some things done that I had been putting off.  At the time I didn't think the pandemic would go on for so long and I was enthusiastic about working on some long delayed projects.  

I found a couple of wigless dolls in the back of the closet and decided to finally make them some wigs.  Years before I had bought some lambskin from a seller on eBay who also provided me with a wig pattern and directions.  I still had some left so I got to work and "saved" these poor little painted lash strung Ginnys.

Here's a couple of before pictures.  You can see the lambskin and the pattern I used.  I sewed them by hand and then glued them on their heads.

These are the two dolls with their new wigs:

They look so much happier now.  They didn't like living in the back of that dark closet.  Betty

FOR SALE!!!

 I've been hoping to see the Vogue Doll Company resume production but as time went by I felt the chances of that happening were slim to none.  However, the website stayed online and that gave me some hope.  However, now when you go there it tells you that the Vogue Doll Company is for sale.

http://www.voguedolls.com/

I'm hoping someone buys the company and resumes production of the reproduction Vogue Jills and Ginnys that we've come to love.  Betty

Boys Will Be Boys

 I was glad when the Vogue Doll Company came out with the reproduction boy dolls.   Being a Houston Texans fan I decided one of my blond boys would be JJ Watt as a child.  I know he wasn't a Houston Texans fan back then because they didn't even exist until 2002.  That's OK because it's my imagination and if I want him to be a Houston Texans fan so be it.  I made little JJ's outfit. The other boy is wearing a Vogue outfit.

When my youngest son was little he enjoyed playing with Masters of the Universe toys.  Talk about coincidences...my boy dolls like to play with them too!  I was thrilled when I found some in 1:6 scale.  Betty

 

It will take time...

 Some years back I had a blog on blogger.  It wasn't difficult to use.  I'd still be using that blog if I could but I can no longer post there.  Maybe it was inactive for too long?  Anyway, I decided to start a new blog but it's going to take a while to figure out how everything works now.  It's definitely changed over the years.  For some reason an enlarged photo from my last post appears at the bottom of my blog.  I have no idea why.  Did I unknowingly put it there?  Hopefully in time I'll get this newer version of blogger figured out.  Betty

Playing With PlayDoh

My doll friend Sharon made PlayDoh for my dolls!  Sitting around the table from the left is a Madame Alexander doll, a vintage Vogue Ginny, a reproduction Vogue boy doll, and a Madame Alexander boy doll.

 

The table, chairs, bunk beds, and the rocking chair are vintage and from the 1950's.  I sometimes see this furniture on eBay and the sellers will say it's from the 1960's.  I guess that's possible but I had a table set and bunk beds like these in the 1950's.  It's made of a soft type of plastic.  The yellow shelf in the background was unfinished when I bought it at either Michael's or Hobby Lobby some years back.
 

Welcome

 Welcome to my new blog.  GinnyFaith and I plan on posting information on vintage dolls, photos, scenes, etc.  I hope you will join us as we attempt to figure out how blogger works.  I'll be back soon.  Wish me luck...Betty