Hi everyone,
Today you are in for another treat… This time from Sissy. She went to the Modern Dolls Collector’s Convention in Savannah, Georgia, and sent pictures for me to share! This is just DAY ONE for her pictures… she sent me more, so I’ll show them tomorrow!
Oh, wouldn’t we ALL have loved to be there??? Yes, please! Sissy will tell you about the pictures below.
Thursday night my friend, Kaye, and I had a special dinner with the MDCC Board because we were the ones handling the large boxes sent to our homes by members and the board, so they didn’t have to carry them on planes. The board arrived before the convention and picked them up to take to Savannah to the hotel.
Here are two cute dolls at the dinner, dressed like Girl Scouts, because the Girl Scouts were started in Savannah.
The next day was the Welcome Lunch for us all. Each table had a lovely tiny Tonner doll that could be bought. These dolls were donated
by one of the board members from her collection. Here are the photos of them. I didn’t try to buy one.
There is always a competition for anyone who wishes to enter. I didn’t this year, too busy. Here are a few of the entries.
They put up large pictures for us to use to take photos of our dolls. Here is my Meadow doll, Angie, enjoying the photos.
Wasn’t that fun? Don’t you wish all us Sofa Sisters could have gone in a big bus and sat on a big sofa when we got tired of looking at all the dolls? :o) Thanks so much for going and taking these fun pictures of the Convention for us, Sissy!
See everyone tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
Oh, what wonderful pictures! Thanks so much for sharing them, Sissy, and for posting them, Jeanne.
I didn’t realize Girl Scouts started in Savannah; it’s nice that they paid tribute to that.
Oh, those Tonner girls are so pretty! My favorite, I think, is the one in the black dress with the white picture hat. Or the one in the pink dress with ribbon trim on the skirt. Hard to decide!
Thanks for sharing pictures of the competition entries, too. Love the Jabberwock one! Also the following one, which seems to also be an Alice in Wonderland theme.
I’m sure your Angie enjoyed posing in front of those backdrops. Did she take tea with any of her friends there? That table and chairs in the first of those pictures would be perfect for a little tea party!
Elizabeth, thanks for explaining what you did to adapt the patterns for RRFF dolls. That should be helpful for many of us who enjoy sewing for those dolls. I took another look at the rickrack trim on Frieda’s dress, and you’re right, I don’t know that I’ve seen that particular variation before. I do have several packages of vintage rickrack, though, so I guess I’ll need to check thru what I have, and see if I have something similar.
I had a great time Saturday, judging the 4-H sewing On the Spot contest. The kids bring their machines and other tools, but all materials, etc., have to come from the bins which we have there in the 4-H barn. This year I had three in the contest. One is quite a new sewer, and has only had a small amount of lessons, but she picks things up quickly. I showed her how to use the rotary cutter, for example, and she did very well with it, and I only had to remind her once about keeping her fingers well back from the edge of the ruler! She made a good-sized book pillow (that is, a pillow with a pocket big enough to hold a book). Another girl made a lined tote bag with boxed corners, and the third, who has been sewing the longest of the three, had the idea to make a pull-on blouse out of a circle of fabric! It was really a fun day.
Oh gosh, you did have a great time Saturday! Lucky you to be with 4-H youngsters challenging their skills! I would have loved being there too.
dolls dolls dolls, all of them are so sweet. I love the Girl Scouts!
Thank you so much for sharing these terrific photos, Sissy.
I especially love the one with your Angie enjoying the ice cream shop, and the Bunny scene is also imaginative, well done.
The Tonner dolls are beautiful!
Happy Tuesday everyone
Well, that certainly made me hop to it. Have to get going early this morning as I have the dentist today. Just a cleaning. 🙂
How great to see the photos Sissy shared with us. Definitely made me feel like I too had attended the convention. Angie’s photo shoot was so cute. 🙂 Jeanne’s idea of attending the convention got me thinking. Now, next year, the convention is in Indianapolis, so here’s the plan. We all fly into the St. Louis airport. Meet up and board our tour bus. Then, we swing over to southern Illinois. and pick up Jeanne, in Carbondale. Maybe George, too, if he wants to join any of the other men folk that may be along for the ride. Then, we take the half day drive over to Indiana, swinging through the area where my relatives settled in the early 1800’s. 🙂 Then it’s convention time. We’ll check into the hotel and let the fun begin. We’ll get pics of all of us on that big sofa that Jeanne mentioned and then enter all of our dolls in a giant display. Now, that would be great fun. When the convention is over, the group can continue on the bus or head home from the airport there. As the bus drives back towards Illinois, I’m sure that we can stop at many antique/thrift stores and add to our growing pile of purchases. By the time we are back in Carbondale, I’m sure that we would need a stop at Panera to refuel. Then, back to Missouri, where the tour ends after several more stops along the river at more antique stores. As we swing by Linda’s house to drop her off before heading to the airport, we can catch a glance of her lovely garden. Okay, let’s add some more pizazz to this trip. Please feel welcome to add in any more stops. 🙂
Oh how I wish. Not much I can add though. I think you covered everything I’m aware of. But there is one thing I’ve wanted to do since Jeanne posted some pictures a long time ago. I can’t even remember exactly what it was. Was it an ice cream parlor? I just remember all these tube-like things going up to the ceiling. It stuck in my mind and I would love to visit that if it’s still there.
Oh, I remember that ice cream place too. I wonder if it is still there?
We’ll have to ask Jeanne.
Oh, Joy, that does sound wonderful! And as long as I’m that far east, I’ll have to go to Joplin, MO, to see two of my grandchildren, and also, of course, Michigan to see my best friend and some of my cousins!
Thanks so much Sissy for all your wonderful pictures. Thanks to Jeanne for posting them for our enjoyment. I love the Tonner dolls. I think I would have had to buy one, but I sure would have had trouble deciding which. It sounds like you had an amazing time. I love the pictures of your Angie enjoying herself at the convention. Love the pictures of the competition entries. All the Girl Scout uniforms look so authentic.
I loved being in Girl Scouts and couldn’t wait for my daughter to be involved. But the troop here was a waste of time so she stopped going. When I was in Scouts a couple mothers ran the troop and we did arts and crafts and service projects and had formal meetings that ended with us singing “Taps”. I was not a leader of my daughter’s troop but went to the meeting with her one evening. It was very disappointing. It looked like a mother’s social group rather than a Girl Scout troop meeting. There were several mothers there and they sat around chatting while the girls were running around and doing nothing constructive. When I mentioned this it was met with derision, so I changed my mind about offering my services. There was no other troop available to us but I wish I had put her in 4-H instead. I think by the time I saw their wonderful projects at the County Fair and thought to do it, she was so committed to her dancing and dance competition that she wasn’t interested.
We are supposed to get a front this week but it will barely reach us. It looks like Dallas will be ten degrees cooler than us. Sure wish my sofa sisters north of me could add a little push to this front so it goes through us rather than stop just short. But it is supposed to provide some rain and that should cool us off a little – for a short while. But it is almost the first of September so there is hope for cooler temps in the future. Not necessarily the near future.
Well, I am glad y’all like the photos! Wait until you see tomorrows! There are dolls people are buying that I would never want, and some I do like.
Charlotte, how I wish we had such a nice 4-H as yours. All we did was make marmalade!. I don’t remember another thing.
Joy, I am ready for your trip! It sounds so great. Let me know when we start!
We would be the bells of the convention!!
Ha ha! I just thought of something. We will all need matching T-shirts with our logo. “The Sofa Sisters,” or Jeanne’s Girls or something much more original. 🙂
Dear Joy, I love that idea! Whoever is the graphics person on the Sofa could design something. That leaves me out, of course (smile).
Dear Sissy, wow, what great photos. I know I was drooling just looking at them! Thanks for sharing your adventure with us.
What fun photos, Sissy. Thanks for sharing them. My favorite is the little fairy standing under the circle of flowers. It looks like your Angie had a great time.
I’m late today, since the weather was just beautiful, so we made a trek to the Mo. Botanical Gardens. I do not understand how they get the flowers to look so beautiful in the heat we have had this summer!
Oh, Sissy, how I love the Girl Scout outfits and the GS cookie scene! I vaguely remember learning that Juliet Lowe started the GS in Savannah. I believe there was a GS cookie named the Savannah Smiles, which were my favorite, beside the Thin Mints. The outfits are perfect!
My favoirte is the little fairy picture with all the flowers and the fairy garden around her. What talent to set that one up! Also the dolls in the red and black formals are so pretty, even though I am not a fan of adult dolls.
Oh Joy, your trip sounds fun! However, my so called “lovely” garden isn’t so lovely right now. We had some visitors the other night that were hungry and ate all my impatiens! Deer are really getting to be a problem now, but I thought I was safe for the time, since I had not problems with the daylilies.. Turns out, I wasn’t!
Looking forward to tomorrow’s pictures! Thank you Sissy for sending and Jeanne for showing!
So sorry about your hungry deer, Linda. I had to give up on my day lilies years ago, they ate all of them. I use the spray called “Deer Out” now and have saved my hydrangeas.
So glad you are enjoying the photos.
Oh, sorry about the deer. Out in front of our other house, we basically have no landscaping. Sad, but the deer eat all of the nice plants and leave behind things like juniper and some native ugly shrubs. Here, they ate the flowering buds off of my Agapanthus. So, no blooms at all. But, they leave the rest of the shrubs alone. Have to feed their darling little fawns of which we have seen quite a few lately.
Thank you for sharing the convention photos! Loved the photos and seeing the Tonner dolls for sale! Interesting fact about the girl Scouts starting in Savannah…made me think of Camp Fire Girls when I was a child.
My Mother was a Bluebird Leader when I was young…Bluebirds were the younger girls before becoming a Camp Fire Girl! we had a big dining room and a huge dining table where we had our meetings and where my Mother taught us all so many crafty things to make….with a new project at nearly every meeting. I remember making “Hankie boxes” from postcards that had holes punched into some of the edges and then the cards were strung together with yarn, forming a little house with a roof that lifted up so you could store your hankies in the box! (Postcards were plentiful back then and so were hankies!) We made “Button-bouquet boards” for a Mother’s Day gift. My dad had cut 1/4 inch lumber into small boards…6 in. x 9 in. and rounded the corners and sanded them ahead of time. The Bluebirds painted the edges of the boards and glued a pretty wallpaper sample to the front of the board…then we glued on several, assorted buttons for flowers and something was added for a cluster of stems, and then a ribbon bow was attached to the stem cluster.
My Mother also arranged many field trips for our group…we had a walk-thru of the local Kreamo Bakery where they made bread, and a tour of the Bonnie Doon’s Ice Cream Company where they made their ice cream. And I remember we all went to the Science and Industry Museum in Chicago! All good memories!
And I just remembered the Play skits-performance my mother put together, involving each Bluebird girl lip syncing to popular songs of that time (played on a record player!), complete with costumes and large painted cardboards props! We had typed programs my mother had prepared to give to family and friends, popcorn was served, and Mother had rented folding chairs, which were arranged in rows on our double driveway, as the skits were performed in both doorways of our garage, complete with curtains which my brother was in charge of opening and closing on cue! I wish I could send a thank you to my Mother in heaven for such fond memories!
Guess I went off on a tangent regarding memories of my Bluebird years! I was a Bluebird leader for one year when I had just two daughters at that time, but children of the 70’s were not being raised as children from the 50’s, and as I often see today….sometimes there is little appreciation or manners displayed in some of today’s children. Even my daughters today say that their upbringing was quite different from todays kids, and they say they are actually glad they didn’t have cellphones and such as kids do today. It is a different generation.
Elizabeth, I too was a Blue Bird and Campfire Girl. 🙂 In fact, I still have my CampFire book and vest with all of the beads that I earned. Oh memories. 🙂
Oh my goodness, Joy! I still have my Camp Fire Girl vest too, with the beads attached!
I remember in Girl Scouts making a chicken pin cushion. Our Troop used to take some fun trips too. Ice skating on a lake in the winter and in the spring we went to NYC and saw the United Nations, Statue of Liberty, Radio City Music Hall with the Rockettes and the movie that time was “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” with Doris Day. It was an amazing trip.
Elisabeth, you are so right! Your Blue Birds and especially your mom sound wonderful, such great memories!
I grew up with family friends in our neighborhood, my mom had fun with us trying to make paper dolls, another mom read to us all sitting on her porch in the summer. She even tried to teach us some french because she grew up in New Orleans. Others took us to the beach to swim or made doll clothes for our dolls. We had such a great growing up.
Your memories of Blue Birds had me remembering my first year of teaching! I had Campfire girls in my class, and since they were you very, they were Blue Birds. They looked so cute in their blue skirts, white blouses and red scarves around their neck.
In my day, (late 40’s) I was a Brownie and for our mothers for Mother’s Day, we made baskets for them to take clothes out to dry after they came out of the wash machine. We used bushel baskets and decorated them with oil cloth and painted the outside. We thought they were just the most wonderful gifts they could receive! Imagine today’s girls giving their mothers wash baskets for a gift!🤣 Times have changed!
As far as deer eating my flowers, I did spray Liquid Fence on the day lilies, and the deer stayed away. I didn’t think they would come for the impatiens, so I didn’t spray those. 😢