Hi Karla, What you need is my budget and my hubby. Either that or I need yours! LOL I ordered two of the basics, and one of the Fashion Royalty. I splurged when I got both weekender sets, but I am not sure if hubby has seen the bill yet. LOL I have also asked Suzanne to preorder me one of the black poofy dresses ( forget the name) and that is it for now. I can only afford ONE of anything, and never all of a line. I have a rule with my budget, that I either LOVE it or don't buy it. When I have ordered anything else, I usually regret it. I went against the grain and ordered some Charices when there was nothing else, and I just don't like them, and there they lay in a box gathering dust. At least they were baggies and cheap. As far as space goes, I always debox ( well almost, I left the Startrek set in the box because I like the display, and the Polish doll of the world as that is hubbys background) The dolls hanging around in boxes just haven't been taken out yet, and there are only a couple of those. They take up a lot less space. I don't have all my dolls out at any one time. My vintage mod girls that were my childhood dolls all are still in cases as they are beautiful and unfaded and I want to keep them that way. I do take them out and play with them. I have a bunch of play girls that come and go with the seasons and what they want to wear. My worst problem is my OOAK girls. I have a whole line up on a shelf of those, and I may need to put up another shelf for those. I can't bear to leave any of those in boxes as most all of them were swaps, and I treasure all the time that went into each one. I must admit there is a big plastic tub and I mean big, full of "nekid" ladies all waiting for makeovers. Probably over a 100 dolls there. I can't seam to resist those thrift store things. I did get 3 more on clearance this weekend at KB they had a couple of corduroy cools and a bath time one for $3.00 each. Mackie faces with the old body. Can't resist. The only other thing is that the girls are not allowed in the rest of the house. There is an exception at Christmas cause hubby kinda likes those displays ( well, maybe not the pink Barbie tree!). Since they all have to stay in my doll room, I am limited there too. Hubby would throw me out if he had to wade through the dolls to get to the TV. ( especially the TV, LOL) So you see, just let my hubby at you, and you would be all fixed. That was no help at all was it?
Kathy M. Frivolities Antiques Ft. Collins, CO
Hi Kathy,
Thank you for your response on being having a space problem with dolls, I sat here LOL all to myself. I don't think I would have trouble with only having my dolls in one room. I have dolls in every room of my house except the bathroom and I must admit that I bought a mint green lingerie outfit for Barbie to match my bathroom but haven't gotten her set up yet, LOL.
Your hubby would never be able to have all those dolls around I am sure. When you said that you only buy what you love, that is really a good "standard" to go by when collecting. My problem is I love about 60% of what I see, LOL.
Well, this week coming up my husband is taking a vacation so we can move my rooms around downstairs so that I can put up more shelves and take over the whole family room. I was stacking and clearing room to start that project - you just don't realize how many dolls you have. I have well over 1,000 and as Randall said sometimes it gets overloading but I still have orders coming from Suzanne.
These darn dolls, you can't live with them and you can't live without them, LOL.
Take care, Karla ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mroczko" mroczko@verinet.com To: candichat@dolls.de Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 8:36 AM Subject: Re: new dolls
Hi Karla, What you need is my budget and my hubby. Either that or I need yours! LOL I ordered two of the basics, and one of the Fashion Royalty. I splurged when I got both weekender sets, but I am not sure if hubby has seen the bill yet. LOL I have also asked Suzanne to preorder me one of the black poofy dresses ( forget the name) and that is it for now. I can only afford ONE of anything, and never all of a line. I have a rule with my budget, that I either LOVE it or don't buy it. When I have ordered anything else, I usually regret it. I went against the grain and ordered some Charices when there was nothing else, and I just don't like them, and there they lay in a box gathering dust. At least they were baggies and
cheap.
As far as space goes, I always debox ( well almost, I left the
Startrek
set in the box because I like the display, and the Polish doll of the
world
as that is hubbys background) The dolls hanging around in boxes just haven't been taken out yet, and there are only a couple of those. They take up a lot less space. I don't have all my dolls out at any one time. My vintage mod girls that were my childhood dolls all are still in cases
as
they are beautiful and unfaded and I want to keep them that way. I do
take
them out and play with them. I have a bunch of play girls that come and
go
with the seasons and what they want to wear. My worst problem is my OOAK girls. I have a whole line up on a shelf of those, and I may need to put up another shelf for those. I can't bear to leave any of those in boxes
as
most all of them were swaps, and I treasure all the time that went into each one. I must admit there is a big plastic tub and I mean big, full of
"nekid"
ladies all waiting for makeovers. Probably over a 100 dolls there. I can't seam to resist those thrift store things. I did get 3 more on clearance this weekend at KB they had a couple of corduroy cools and a
bath
time one for $3.00 each. Mackie faces with the old body. Can't resist. The only other thing is that the girls are not allowed in the rest of the house. There is an exception at Christmas cause hubby kinda likes those displays ( well, maybe not the pink Barbie tree!). Since they all have to stay in my doll room, I am limited there too. Hubby would throw
me
out if he had to wade through the dolls to get to the TV. ( especially the TV, LOL) So you see, just let my hubby at you, and you would be all fixed. That was no help at all was it?
Kathy M. Frivolities Antiques Ft. Collins, CO
HI Karla, I would love to visit your house and play with all your girls. I really enjoy viewing others collections. Maybe you can take some pics after the room is finished? Even if you just take regular pics, you can have them put on a disc and post them, or I would be glad to post them for you. Would love to see anyones doll rooms etc, and I would be glad to post pics for anyone.
Kathy M.
At 10:46 PM 2/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Kathy,
Thank you for your response on being having a space problem with dolls, I sat here LOL all to myself. I don't think I would have trouble with only having my dolls in one room. I have dolls in every room of my house except the bathroom and I must admit that I bought a mint green lingerie outfit for Barbie to match my bathroom but haven't gotten her set up yet, LOL.
Your hubby would never be able to have all those dolls around I am sure. When you said that you only buy what you love, that is really a good "standard" to go by when collecting. My problem is I love about 60% of what I see, LOL.
Well, this week coming up my husband is taking a vacation so we can move my rooms around downstairs so that I can put up more shelves and take over the whole family room. I was stacking and clearing room to start that project - you just don't realize how many dolls you have. I have well over 1,000 and as Randall said sometimes it gets overloading but I still have orders coming from Suzanne.
These darn dolls, you can't live with them and you can't live without them, LOL.
Take care, Karla ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mroczko" mroczko@verinet.com To: candichat@dolls.de Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 8:36 AM Subject: Re: new dolls
Hi Karla, What you need is my budget and my hubby. Either that or I need yours! LOL I ordered two of the basics, and one of the Fashion Royalty. I splurged when I got both weekender sets, but I am not sure if hubby has seen the bill yet. LOL I have also asked Suzanne to preorder me one of the black poofy dresses ( forget the name) and that is it for now. I can only afford ONE of anything, and never all of a line. I have a rule with my budget, that I either LOVE it or don't buy it. When I have ordered anything else, I usually regret it. I went against the grain and ordered some Charices when there was nothing else, and I just don't like them, and there they lay in a box gathering dust. At least they were baggies and
cheap.
As far as space goes, I always debox ( well almost, I left theStartrek
set in the box because I like the display, and the Polish doll of the
world
as that is hubbys background) The dolls hanging around in boxes just haven't been taken out yet, and there are only a couple of those. They take up a lot less space. I don't have all my dolls out at any one time. My vintage mod girls that were my childhood dolls all are still in cases
as
they are beautiful and unfaded and I want to keep them that way. I do
take
them out and play with them. I have a bunch of play girls that come and
go
with the seasons and what they want to wear. My worst problem is my OOAK girls. I have a whole line up on a shelf of those, and I may need to put up another shelf for those. I can't bear to leave any of those in boxes
as
most all of them were swaps, and I treasure all the time that went into each one. I must admit there is a big plastic tub and I mean big, full of
"nekid"
ladies all waiting for makeovers. Probably over a 100 dolls there. I can't seam to resist those thrift store things. I did get 3 more on clearance this weekend at KB they had a couple of corduroy cools and a
bath
time one for $3.00 each. Mackie faces with the old body. Can't resist. The only other thing is that the girls are not allowed in the rest of the house. There is an exception at Christmas cause hubby kinda likes those displays ( well, maybe not the pink Barbie tree!). Since they all have to stay in my doll room, I am limited there too. Hubby would throw
me
out if he had to wade through the dolls to get to the TV. ( especially the TV, LOL) So you see, just let my hubby at you, and you would be all fixed. That was no help at all was it?
Kathy M. Frivolities Antiques Ft. Collins, CO
Frivolities Antiques Ft. Collins, CO
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