Doll Parts are More than Parts!

Dolls from an Estate ; some now in my collection

I have to thank my friend Michelle, who rescued a box of vintage magic skin and composition babies for me. They came in pieces, poor Patsy and Ideal Tickle Toes, and a little Alexander baby, all naked and forlorn.  Their eyes were cloudy, the magic skin, well "cooked" brown ad Michelle put it.  They came home, and through the miracle of surgical tape and windex gently applied, they began to take shape.  We still need an arm or leg here, but everyone is dressed, and Patsy stands next to an aritst rendition of Circle Dot Bru and near an antique Chiense dolls.  Our magic skin boy proudly wears a baby Cubs outfit, and a lovely little girl from Ideal with a hardplastic hed wears diapaers, a lacy dress, and little hiwte shoes.  Lavender doll sunglasses hide her cloudy eyes.  The other babies where vintage clothes, and the little Alexander has her won batiste christening dress and bonnet. Doll collecting brings out, yet again, the best in friendship and dolls.  Doll parts, far from being creepy, are the stanzas we use to create poems of rescued and refurbished dolls.