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Lady Lovelylocks

I was looking through a box of dolls in an antique store in Jefferson when I found this tiny doll, wearing only a pair of handmade jeans, with a familiar rainbow streak in her hair.

I have been looking for this doll for a long time. I was calm, but I started rummaging faster, hoping to find her dress. Did find it. I was so excited.

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Her hair was a wreck and her face was dirty. She had been in a box of wretched bargain dolls and required some fixing up. Glorious with triumph, we went to the drug store down the street. Nathan got a soda and a toothbrush; I got a fine-toothed comb for Lady Lovelylocks. We went back to the hotel room and I spent hours savoringly fixing her up.

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Her hair is so incredibly soft. There is only one other doll I remember with hair this pillowy, and that is Barbie of the Sensations. (She is on my list!)

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I had it tied down in the pictures, but have since unbound it, and it looks wonderful, has acquired a little natural curl but no frizz.

One of her Pixietail "handlebars" was cracked and falling apart, so I trimmed it off.

She needs Pixietails and shoes.

Comments

yuis said…
How sweet that you found her! Oh, how wonderful for you. What a thrill to be able to clean her up and refurbish her back to new. She is really cute... what are "pixietails?" -- Miss Gladys
April 26, 2010 at 9:24 PM
Amanda said…
Thanks! I was so excited. Pixietails are little plastic colored animals with tails with colored hair; i.e. bunnies or birds with blue or pink hair. They come as clips that you pin in her hair and on her dress. She has Maiden friends that come with their own pixie tails too...
May 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM
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