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| Look upon me, mortals, and despair! |
This articulated Stacie from the 1990s was a thrift store find around Christmas 2014, when my parents and I went on a tour of all major thrift stores in East Bay, and it was epic. I'd been wanting an articulated Stacie at that time, and it was Dad who found her. I sewed her dress for Easter 2015.
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| Kelly's head is almost bigger than mine! |
While I found a Whitney of my own later, this one is from Mom's collection because she was in better shape. (She's tagged for Miranda, because that's the name I gave my redhead at the time.)
Kelly is also from Mom's collection. Kelly was going to leave us, but then I started getting more into 4" dolls and decided that one Kelly was not excessive.
While Stacie has worn the same dress for 8 years, my krowd of Kid Kore Katies is growing at ridiculous rates.
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| Katie's are like potato chips. |
Here are the articulated gals with the first of the Katies, the Katie that was the camel's nose under the tent. I'm up to four Katies and honestly a lot more excited about 1990s clones these days. If I move on from Stacies, I'd have an opening for a redheaded Katie to go with redheaded Kelsey, as well as for a Creata Today's Girl adolescent.
If I find a redheaded Katie, a Kid Kore Carla, a Creata Today's Girl middle schooler, or a Stacie clone I haven't heard of on today's antiquing/thrifting trip to the southern San Joaquin Valley, I'm taking that as a sign that Stacie and Whitney are ready to move on to someone who is excited about them. They may move on anyway, but that would force my hand.
