A walk down memory lane

 I've been on Ebay looking for shoes for my dolls.  Everything is so expensive right now.  Sheesh!  $16.00 for one pair of ankle boots and they're made in China.  But nobody else is even making shoes for my gals.  The ones I do have are starting to fall apart.  My plan a couple of days ago was to buy a doll that I sold many years ago because I was buying larger sized dolls.  I went from 12.5" to 10" to 16", 17" and 19" dolls.  So, just so I can remember those happy and relaxed days, here's some pictures of the dolls when I was first introduced to the bigger dolls.

Lara Croft - Legend doll, 17" with the Dee Ann Denton athletic body.  She was the doll that started it all!

The one on the right was the first doll Lara.  The one on the left is the second doll, Lana.

This one is Full Throttle Lara Croft.  I got her in this ensemble.

Then I decided to get my 1st Lara Croft a boyfriend, so I got Will Turner from the Pirates of the Caribbean.  Aka Orlando Bloom.

When I took him out the box - I fell in love! (LOL!)  He has long, thick hair and is GORGEOUS with that little goatee on his HANDSOME face.  (Okay, I'm calm now.)  After he saw Lara, it was love at first sight!  They've been inseparable ever since.  (Side note:  if you look up Orlando Bloom, this doll looks EXACTLY like him 3/11/22)

The dolls on the left are the second dolls that I acquired.  This is the original Lara Croft doll.  She has the reddish brown hair color (as in the video game), but she came here 2nd so I had to change her name. She's Lana Croft and Lara's twin cousin.  Her guy is from Tonner's King of Hearts Collection, I renamed him Jeremy.

Here are the cousins' just hanging out with each other!

Here they're hanging out with the other dolls that I acquired! 

I found some pictures of Lara redressed and ready to party!

After these dolls, I really became enamored with more bigger dolls, and I found these gals...

This is the Cami doll, 16".  I got her for my birthday.  She was my "after Cancer" doll. I meant dolls. 

 Here's Jon.

This is a dressed doll.  When I got both of them, they were wearing camisoles with matching panties and high heeled shoes.  Unfortunately, those earlier pictures are in a photo album that I have at work.  If I remember tomorrow, I'll take pictures of her photo shoot and load them here when I get home.  She was renamed Nadirah.  

Let me tell you something, all these dolls were created by Robert Tonner!  I was so late in collecting these dolls, but when I did - look what happened!

So, I wanted some teenage dolls to be their friends, because I figured they were in the same age group. That's when I found Ellowyne Wilde.

Invisible Ink aka Indirah

Essential Ellowyne Brunette aka Eleanor

Tiny Expectations aka Tine'a

Introducing Lizette Dionne, the first AA friend of Ellowyne Wilde.  This was the teaser shot.

Here she is after I redressed her.

This is the 2nd Lizette.  Basic doll. (Really?)  No, she's the first of many other dolls to come.  This doll is a wigged doll.  Yep, that's right.  She's wearing a wig!  And there are so many of those, just you wait and see!

Basic Lizette aka Angel.  And wearing a new wig!

The second wig

This gal is my 2nd wigged doll

I renamed her Monique.

 

Essential Amber Brunette aka spoiled rotten!!

Amber:  I am not SPOILED ROTTEN!! I'm just better!

Me:  Who are you yelling at little girl?

Amber:  Sorry.  But I'm not spoiled rotten.  I just AM!

Me:  I don't even want to know what that means. Lol!

Indirah

This gal was Baroque N Dreams - get it?  Broken Dreams! I redressed her and renamed her Brittany.  She's no longer here.  She lives with a new person (someone who is not a doll collector!)

I have so many stories to tell about these dolls.  I just don't have enough time.  So I'm going to put all their pictures here (so I don't lose them) and come back later to finish up this post.  Hmm, maybe I'll just do a Part II page.  Yeah, that's what I'll do.  

 

Later,

STAY BLESSED!